لماذا يهم في مجال المواد
Construction is the tonnage baseline everything else is measured against. It is also where alloying elements do their quietest work: a few hundred grams of niobium per tonne of steel lets a bridge be built with less of it.
مم هو مصنوع
جميع المواد →| المادة | ما الذي يؤديه هنا | الأهمية |
|---|---|---|
| Cement | Concrete | تعريف |
| Construction Sand & Gravel | Aggregate in concrete and asphalt | تعريف |
| Copper حرج | Wiring and plumbing | تعريف |
| Iron & Steel | Structure, rebar and rail | تعريف |
| Iron Ore | Steel | تعريف |
| Manganese حرج | In every tonne of steel | تعريف |
| Metallurgical Coal | Blast-furnace reduction | تعريف |
| Zinc حرج | Galvanising | تعريف |
| Aluminium حرج | Facades, windows and structure | مهم |
| Crude Oil | Asphalt and plastics | مهم |
| Gypsum | Plasterboard | مهم |
| Lime | Steel refining and soil stabilisation | مهم |
| Niobium حرج | High-strength low-alloy steel | مهم |
| Vanadium حرج | Rebar strengthening | مهم |
Cement
Powdered limestone and clay cooked at 1,450 C, which sets hard when mixed with water — the glue that holds concrete…
Construction Sand & Gravel
The most-mined material on Earth by weight, and the one nobody thinks of as mining.
Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Iron & Steel
Iron with a little carbon in it, and the most-produced manufactured material on the planet.
Iron Ore
Rust-coloured rock that is roughly one-third to two-thirds iron, and the single largest tonnage the mining industry…
Manganese
A brittle grey metal that steel cannot be made without, and that is now being used to stretch scarce nickel and…
