e-realmz said:
Exactly! Now can someone answer my questions please?
Uhm... to list all the things that go into almost any modern day appliance or technology would probably take an hour simply to list everything and probably months to find all the information needed to compile that list.
When you say somethings made out of "plastic" or "metal", it's like saying that you eat "fruit". Well there's many many different kinds of fruits. I could be eating an orange, a plum, an apple, a cherry, etc etc. The list goes on and on. If you say somethings made out of "metal"... well just look at the periodic table. There's a place to start; copper, aluminum, gold, silver. Then think of alloys, different metals mixed with each other! Then of course, there's metals that are treated with different chemicals that are just tremendous cocktails of other chemicals, etc etc.
Take this remote control i have in my hand...
it has plastic... there's probably a fair number of materials that went into actually making the plastic. Let's see, here's some batteries. Now since batteries don't just grow wild, we would need to break that down. How many substances went into the battery acid? How many substances went into each of those substances that went into the battery acid? Of course there's different types of metals and alloys in there, probably dozens. This spring inside the battery compartment may be the only thing made out of any pure metal. Once i open up this remote control, I'm going to be staring at the combined form of hundreds of different resources. It's really nothing you'll ever be able to find out unless you do it yourself and take the months of research to find out.
