If you convert Chromium Dust to Chromium Tiny Dust you get 9 Chromium Tiny Dust, if you then use 4 Chromium Tiny Dust in a Crafting Grid you get one Chromium Dust. So for one Chromium Dust you can get 2 plus 1 extra Chromium Tiny Dust. Posted it over on the Modern Industrialization Discord and was sent here. So...

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This report, though earnest, was made in error. OP was playing an outdated AoF6 release; confirmed in chat with them.

(Fwiw, I am SubordinalBlue from AoF discord and servers)