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Answer for the clue "Unprocessed resource ", 12 letters:
raw material

Word definitions for raw material in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A raw material is the basic material from which goods, finished products or intermediate materials are manufactured or made. Raw material may also refer to: Raw Material (album) , 2000 Mars Ill album Raw Material (Uprok) , 2002 Mars Ill album

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture. 2 (context figuratively English) Any input to a factory or other installation which processes it.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing [syn: staple ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raw \Raw\ (r[add]), a. [Compar. Rawer (r[add]"[~e]r); superl. Rawest .] [AS. hre['a]w; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh, OHG. r[=o], Icel. hr[=a]r, Dan. raa, Sw. r[*a], L. crudus, Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. [root]18. Cf. Crude , Cruel ...

Usage examples of raw material.

And imagine the extent of the raw material, a little nation of nonpersons by the millions.

In their second year, the lumber experts would be expected to provide pulp for the manufacture of paper, as well as raw material for plastics and other chemicals.

Even now the blind scalpels of evolution took raw material adapted for a vanished world and cut and shaped it for the conditions of the new.

When the last morsel of raw material was exhausted, there were one hundred twenty-seven duplicates of Link's own shirt, besides the original shirt itself.

The cargo hold is filled with bales and bales of coarse brown fibrous material--raw material for life preservers or bran muffins, he supposes.

Creating unique blendings out of what was merely promising raw material.

Just dumping her body overboard means losing raw material, a loss we can't afford.