What are mattresses made of?
Mattresses take steel wire, polyurethane, adhesive, polyester and sewing thread directly. Trace them back and you pass 41 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Water through sewing thread
- Crude oil through polyurethane, propylene
- Air through polyurethane, nitric acid
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sulfur through polyurethane, chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Coal through steel wire, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Corn through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 36 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 23
PropyleneNitric acidChlorineParaffin waxOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaAmmoniaSulfuric acidEthyleneMethanolPhenolAcetoneCaustic sodaHydrogenPara-xyleneEthylene glycolPropaneBenzeneCarbon dioxideCharcoalToluene