What are ice skates made of?
Ice skates take 7 things directly, among them leather, sewing thread, adhesive, steel, stainless steel and chromium. Trace them back and you pass 51 made things on the way to 22 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 22 raw materials
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Water through chromium
- Chromite through chromium
- Limestone through chromium
- Air through chromium
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Nickel ore through stainless steel, nickel
- Coal through chromium, aluminum
- Trona through chromium, soda ash
- Zinc ore through screw, zinc
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- 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: 44 things
Metals 10
Chemicals and fuels 25
QuicklimeParaffin waxOxygen gasArgonSoda ashEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenPropaneCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokePara-xyleneEthylene glycolNaphthaBenzeneCharcoalToluene