raw material

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They also further damaged its enrichment program, taking out a site for making yellowcake—the raw material that can be turned into enriched uranium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

It mines bauxite, the raw material for aluminum, refines it into alumina powder, and operates smelters that turn alumina to finished aluminum.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

This gas acts as the raw material for building new stars.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

“We think that raw material issues are likely to cause some earnings growth uncertainties,” Zekauskas wrote in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

It is the raw material out of which the industrial food chain makes beef or chicken or high-fructose corn syrup or maltodextrin.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan