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{{Short description|Basic material that is used to produce goods, finished products, energy, or intermediate materials}} {{redirect|Raw Material|other uses|Raw material (disambiguation)}} [[File:AlbertaSulfurAtVancouverBC.jpg|thumb|[[Sulfur]] at harbor in [[North Vancouver (city)|North Vancouver]], British Columbia, ready to be loaded onto a ship|alt=Refer to caption ]] [[File:Latex - Hevea - Cameroun.JPG|thumb|[[Latex]] being collected from a [[rubber tapping|tapped]] [[Pará rubber tree|rubber tree]]|alt=Latex flowing from a tapped rubber tree into a bucket]] A '''raw material''', also known as a '''feedstock''', '''unprocessed material''', or '''primary commodity''', is a basic material that is used to produce [[goods]], [[finished goods]], energy, or intermediate materials/[[Intermediate good]]s that are feedstock for future finished products. As feedstock, the term connotes these materials are bottleneck assets and are required to produce other products. The term raw material denotes materials in unprocessed or minimally processed states such as raw [[latex]], [[crude oil]], [[cotton]], [[coal]], raw [[biomass]], [[iron ore]], [[plastic]], [[air]], [[lumber|logs]], and [[water]].<ref>Christophe Degryse, L'économie en 100 et quelques mots d'actualité, De Boeck, 2005, p. 140.</ref> The term secondary raw material denotes waste material which has been recycled and injected back into use as productive material.<ref>European Commission, [https://ec.europa.eu/environment/green-growth/raw-materials/index_en.htm Raw materials], updated 26 March 2020, accessed 31 December 2020</ref> {{Economic sectors}}
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