What are billiard balls made of?
Billiard balls take phenol, formaldehyde, pigment and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 18 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Air through formaldehyde
- Water through paint
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Crude oil through phenol, propylene
- Natural gas through formaldehyde, methanol
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
Made along the way: 14 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 12
BenzenePropyleneMethanolTitanium dioxideCarbon blackNaphthaHydrogenTolueneChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidAmmonia