Talk:Raw material

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 January 2019 and 10 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Alan Zimmer, Ccb8r8. Peer reviewers: Dyck9, Mjsv23.

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New Information[edit]

Added a new section on ceramic raw materials and how they were important to how we use materials today.Ccb8r8 (talk) 22:06, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clarified Third section[edit]

I rewrote the third section on raw metallic materials to clarify it and added some links to other wikipedia articles about a couple of the processes. Alan Zimmer (talk) 21:57, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Information[edit]

I just added the second paragraph sentence about iron "One metallic raw material that is commonly found across the world is iron, and when combined with nickel, this material makes up over 35% of the material in the Earth's inner and outer core."Ccb8r8 (talk) 21:31, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Much needed reorganization[edit]

Added a lot more organized sub-headings that show what is the topic at hand and to improve the flow of the article overall. Ccb8r8 (talk) 16:44, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion of the obvious[edit]

Are raw materials really just building materials? Seems to be they are used in manufacturing many things, not just buildings. II | (t - c) 04:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are right, raw material can be textiles, leather, rubber, plastic etc. Another problem I see is the image used here. It is distracting, as it refers more to deforestation than to the concept of raw material itself. An image of the use of rubber or other raw material to create/produce something would be much more elucidating, I believe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.113.166 (talk) 21:57, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resource Curse / Dutch Disease[edit]

This page conflates the "resource curse" and Dutch Disease, which are two different things. One could argue that Dutch Disease is a component of the resource curse, but the two are not equivalent. This needs tidying up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.21.89.47 (talk) 18:18, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]