What are high heels made of?
High heels take 7 things directly, among them leather, sewing thread, ABS plastic, steel, adhesive and vulcanized rubber. Trace them back and you pass 56 made things on the way to 23 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 23 raw materials
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Water through adhesive
- Air through ABS plastic
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Limestone through leather, chromium
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Crude oil through ABS plastic, propylene
- Natural gas through ABS plastic, ethylene
- Iron ore through ABS plastic, pigment
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Zinc ore through screw, zinc
- Coal through leather, chromium, coke
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Titanium ore through ABS plastic, pigment, titanium dioxide
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Corn through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through leather, chromium, 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: 49 things
Metals 10
Chemicals and fuels 29
QuicklimeNaphthaPropyleneAmmoniaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePigmentOxygen gasArgonParaffin waxCarbon blackSoda ashHydrogenTolueneTitanium dioxidePropaneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokePara-xyleneEthylene glycolCharcoal