What are chess sets made of?
Chess sets take lumber, adhesive, lacquer and lead directly. Trace them back and you pass 28 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Timber through lumber
- Water through adhesive
- Lead ore through lead
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Corn through lacquer, ethanol
- Sugarcane through lacquer, ethanol
- Coal through lead, coke
- Zinc ore through lead, zinc
- Air through lead, zinc
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sulfur through lacquer, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Sugar beet through lacquer, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 24 things
Metals 2
Chemicals and fuels 16
Paraffin waxEthanolEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenNaphthaBenzeneToluene