the raw
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“We want to look at the full life cycle … not only thinking from the cradle to the grave, but from the point where the raw materials are extracted at the beginning,” Stanton says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Cold gas serves as the raw fuel needed to create new stars.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Finding the raw materials is generally not hard, but separating them from other materials they’re bonded to is, and it’s that process that China largely dominates.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
They can build out the raw space themselves or hire Vivos’s contractors.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
A new impetus for the project had emerged: fears of a shortage of uranium ore, the raw material for the production of plutonium bomb cores.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
