raw material

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Fuel and raw material shortages, chronic underinvestment and nationalisations have hollowed out the local economy.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it can be captured and turned into a valuable raw material.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

Then there is the lack of data: Visual images, audio and text have been stored in astounding quantities on the internet for decades, giving AI lots of raw material to train on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"These price jumps are threatening for SKW Piesteritz if the prices for the main raw material cannot be passed on to customers", managing director Carsten Franzke told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

By transmuting common uranium into a fissionable product that could be extracted chemically, Seaborg calculated, they could increase the supply of raw material available for a bomb by a hundredfold.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik