What are bowling balls made of?
Bowling balls take plastic, glass, polyurethane and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 24 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Natural gas through plastic
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Water through paint
- Crude oil through polyurethane, propylene
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Air through polyurethane, nitric acid
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 20 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 16
NaphthaEthylenePropyleneSoda ashNitric acidChlorineTitanium dioxidePigmentHydrogenAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeSulfuric acidOxygen gasCarbon blackMethanol