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raw ma·te·ri·als

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  1. raw materials

    A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products. As feedstock, the term connotes these materials are bottleneck assets and are required to produce other products. The term raw material denotes materials in unprocessed or minimally processed states; e.g., raw latex, crude oil, cotton, coal, raw biomass, iron ore, air, logs, water, or "any product of agriculture, forestry, fishing or mineral in its natural form or which has undergone the transformation required to prepare it for international marketing in substantial volumes". The term secondary raw material denotes waste material which has been recycled and injected back into use as productive material.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of raw materials in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of raw materials in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of raw materials in a Sentence

  1. Elena Arzak:

    Chefs here are very proud of their origins and have a lot to show the world, the transformation that is happening now and the raw materials they have is very exciting. Even if I don't know the ingredients and flavours, when I try them, I like them.

  2. Gary Bissig:

    We started to make them as fast as we could, but it wasn't enough, these factories can't grow to twice their normal size. All they can do is add more people and try to get more raw materials and supplies, and they're doing the best they can.

  3. Chief Executive Antoine Frerot:

    The waste streams of developed countries are a real mine for raw materials, and even if we do not become a mining company, our recycling activities increasingly compete with the mining industry.

  4. Andrei Kozyrev:

    [Russia] cannot produce their own world-class automobile … have you seen anywhere, anything produced in Russia on the shelf or in sale? look at Switzerland, and they have fantastic ski resorts and they produce all sorts of high-tech electronics and other things, while Russia on the world market you can find only weaponry or the raw materials.

  5. John Babcock:

    Anybody in the world who says we don't have any supply chain issues right now isn't telling the truth, labor in all industries is a challenge, transportation and freight is a challenge, securing raw materials is a challenge.


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