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Is petroleum used to manufacture record vinyl.
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Before a vinyl record can be made a lacquer is cut via the master recording and a groove cutting needle.
Vinyl records are made by unifying chlorine and ethylene.
This disc when separated has ridges instead of grooves.
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According to the american heritage dictionary petroleum is a thick flammable yellow to black mixture of gaseous liquid and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth s surface can be separated into fractions including natural gas gasoline naphtha kerosene fuel and lubricating oils paraffin wax and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of.
For the first several decades of disc record manufacturing sound was recorded directly on to the master disc also called the matrix sometimes just the master at the recording studio from about 1950 on earlier for some large record companies later for some small ones it became usual to have the performance first recorded on audio.
The crude oil petroleum or natural gas is used to obtain ethylene.
This article is about the production of vinyl records.
We are the largest single source for vinyl records representing 49 of the industry s 14 5 million units in total sales shipping 6 712 617 units in 2019.
Because of the materials used in its manufacture vinyl will sometimes emit various levels of volatile organic chemicals or voc s into the air for a period after initial installation.
During a process called cracking petroleum is passed through high heat and pressure as a result of which the petroleum is broken down into ethylene butadiene propylene and other by products.
However the amount of petroleum used in the production of vinyl is less than used in most plastics.
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Once the lacquer is grooved it gets a dose of metal to produce a metal master.
Our vinyl marketshare continues to grow year over year.
Vinyl styl manufacture on demand mod mill creek entertainment.
Vinyl record is not the most ecological product in the world.
The ethylene is then separated from the other by products.
As michal sterba ceo of czech based gz media a company a lot of uk record labels use for their manufacturing admits.
In a process called cracking the petroleum is passed through high heat and pressure as a result of which the petroleum is broken down into ethylene butadiene propylene and other by products.
The metal master is used to make the mother metal record which is used to make a stamper.