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Noun: material intensity
  1. The expenditure in specific terms (per unit of production) of material resources (basic and auxiliary materials, fuel, energy, and depreciation of fixed assets) needed for production.
    - consumption of materials

Type of: consumption, economic consumption, usance [archaic], use, use of goods and services

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