What are dumbbells made of?
Dumbbells take pig iron, steel, chromium and vulcanized rubber directly. Trace them back and you pass 32 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Iron ore through pig iron
- Limestone through chromium
- Air through chromium
- Chromite through chromium
- Water through chromium
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Coal through chromium, coke
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Rock salt through chromium, soda ash
- Trona through chromium, soda ash
- Crude oil through chromium, aluminum
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Corn through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 18
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSoda ashCarbon blackPropaneSulfuric acidAmmoniaCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokeNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneCharcoalCaustic sodaHydrogenToluene