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 * What were the resources used to make the cell phone?**

Depends how strict the definition of a resource is. Every finite object (e.g. pencils, paper, computers) is possibly a resource, but the ones that people concern themselves with most often, for example, are: money, manpower, energy (in the form of electric), and natural resources like oil, coal, wood and other chemicals. We have to think about each component in a phone. There is the casing (uses plastic which comes from crude oil and is shaped using heat produced from coal, oil or nuclear as the primary material). Then there is the microchip. This is silicon, metal and more plastic. Energy and heat used as well. The screen is the most complex item. Being made up of chemicals such as liquid crystal, and plastic, this takes energy again to make