What is glass made of?
Glass takes silica sand, soda ash and limestone directly. Trace them back and you pass 6 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
How glass is made What is made from it See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Limestone goes straight in
- Rock salt through soda ash
- Water through soda ash
- Trona through soda ash
- Natural gas through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Air through soda ash, ammonia
- Corn through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses