What is duct tape made of?
Duct tape takes natural rubber latex, plastic, polyethylene, cotton fabric, adhesive and cardboard directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Natural rubber latex goes straight in
- Natural gas through plastic
- Water through cardboard
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Raw cotton through cotton fabric, cotton yarn
- Corn through cotton fabric, corn starch
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Air through cardboard, wood pulp, hydrogen peroxide
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Limestone through cardboard, wood pulp, quicklime
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 24 things
Chemicals and fuels 18
NaphthaEthylenePropyleneParaffin waxHydrogenAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideBenzeneToluene