What are leather handbags made of?
Leather handbags take 7 things directly, among them leather, cotton fabric, nylon, adhesive, sewing thread and brass. 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
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Water through sewing thread
- Limestone through leather, chromium
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Air through leather, chromium
- Raw cotton through cotton fabric, cotton yarn
- Corn through cotton fabric, corn starch
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Copper ore through brass, copper
- Zinc ore through brass, zinc
- Lead ore through brass, lead
- Tin ore through brass, tin
- Coal through zipper, aluminum
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Bauxite through zipper, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 40 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 22
QuicklimeBenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaParaffin waxSoda ashNaphthaHydrogenTolueneEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaOxygen gasPetroleum cokeCarbon dioxidePara-xyleneEthylene glycol