The Matter It is a substance that makes up physical bodies, it is made up of elementary particles.
Substances from nature that are used to manufacture various products after an intervention on them
Meanwhile, the raw material it is each of the materials that the industry will use for the conversion of manufactured products. Generally, the raw materials are drawn from nature itself, then subjecting them to a transformation process that will lead to the production of consumer products.
Raw materials are substances that nature brings us closer and that can be intervened by human beings to make other products as we said, while at this point the creativity of each person is key, since the same added to the raw material will allow you to create those new products.
Among the most common examples of raw materials we can mention wood with which design furniture is made, leather, with which garments and accessories can be made, including jackets, shoes, handbags.
Types of raw materials
Wood has a plant origin and leather comes from animals. But these are not the only sources of raw materials, the mineral universe brings us as many as gold, silver, copper, with which it is possible to make beautiful and valuable jewels that later we will wear on necks, wrists and ears, necklaces, bracelets and earrings. , respectively.
And oil and gas can be obtained from the fossil remains, two elements so important for the operation of means of transport and industries.
On the other hand, raw materials that have been manufactured but still do not constitute a definitive consumer good are called semi-finished products, work-in-process or semi-finished products, that is, these are the intermediate step between raw material and consumer goodFor example, the wood of a tree is the raw material, then, when it is transformed into slats or planks, it becomes a semi-finished product and finally, when the slats are transformed into a table or any other piece of furniture, it will become in a consumer good so that it can be acquired in a trade or company by the final consumer.
We can find raw materials of various kinds as we already indicated and we add others: vegetable (linen, cotton), animal (fur, wool, leather), mineral (copper, marble, bauxite, gold, iron) and fossil (oil, natural gas). The water, hydrogen and air They are also raw materials that allow us to produce agricultural material, fertilizers and nitrogen, respectively.
And the sand, clay, cement, lime, wood, water and silica sand They turn out to be the raw materials of construction par excellence.
Indiscriminate exploitation and negative impact on the environment
When addressing this issue, we cannot ignore that in many parts of the world the indiscriminate exploitation of raw materials with an excessive commercial desire as the main objective, and without adequate preservation and containment of the environment, has caused enormous damage to it.
Pollution, depletion of soils and resources, to cite the most serious consequences in this sense that occurred and that have been observed and denounced by environmental organizations that protect nature and its resources.
Deforestation carried out in some places without an adequate preservation plan is one of the greatest scourges that the planet has been living and is living today.
All these unconscious actions that are carried out to produce and produce more and thus increase the profits of companies has had a fundamental victim that has not yet managed to recover: our planet.
The climate change that we are seeing throughout the world is proof of what we mentioned.
And if there is no global awareness about it and concrete plans to counteract it, it will be very difficult to heal it because a large part of those resources cannot be recovered suddenly.
In addition, Raw Material, is the name by which a person is popularly known Spanish music group which is made up of three brothers, Mónica, Juan and Pedro Fernández de Valderrama Díaz.
