What are baseball caps made of?
Baseball caps take cotton fabric, sewing thread, adhesive, polypropylene and button directly. Trace them back and you pass 34 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Water through button
- Raw cotton through cotton fabric, cotton yarn
- Corn through cotton fabric, corn starch
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Air through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Limestone through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
- Sugarcane through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through button, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 29 things
Chemicals and fuels 19
Paraffin waxPropyleneEthyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenNaphthaPara-xyleneEthylene glycolBenzeneOxygen gasCarbon dioxideToluene