What are electrical transformers made of?
Electrical transformers take sheet steel, copper wire and steel directly. Trace them back and you pass 17 made things on the way to 14 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 14 raw materials
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Air through sheet steel, zinc
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Water through copper wire, copper
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Sulfur through sheet steel, zinc, sulfuric acid
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through steel, steel scrap, propane