Raw material

A raw material, also requested as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is the basic material that is used to cause goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products. As feedstock, the term connotes these materials are bottleneck assets as alive as are call to make 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 shape up it for international marketing in substantial volumes". The term secondary raw material denotes loss the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing which has been recycled and injected back into use as productive material.

Conflicts of raw materials

Places with plentiful raw materials and little economic developing often show a phenomenon, known as "]

Raw materials are also used by non-humans, such(a) as birds using found objects and twigs to create nests.