What are fishing rods made of?
Fishing rods take 8 things directly, among them carbon fiber, fiberglass, epoxy, paint, cork oak bark and sewing thread. Trace them back and you pass 47 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Cork oak bark goes straight in
- Air through carbon fiber
- Silica sand through fiberglass
- Limestone through fiberglass
- Water through adhesive
- Crude oil through epoxy, propylene
- Natural gas through carbon fiber, ammonia
- Rock salt through fiberglass, soda ash
- Trona through fiberglass, soda ash
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Corn through fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugarcane through fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through fiberglass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 40 things
Metals 5
Chemicals and fuels 27
PropyleneAmmoniaSoda ashPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaTitanium dioxidePigmentParaffin waxOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaCarbon dioxideBenzeneSulfuric acidCarbon blackMethanolEthyleneNitric acidHydrogenPropaneToluenePara-xyleneEthylene glycolCharcoal