What is carpet made of?
Carpet takes nylon, polypropylene, wool yarn, water and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 23 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Wool fleece through wool yarn
- Air through nylon, ammonia
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Crude oil through polypropylene, propylene
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
Made along the way: 19 things
Chemicals and fuels 15
BenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaPropyleneParaffin waxNaphthaHydrogenTolueneEthyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic soda