What are nitrile gloves made of?
Nitrile gloves take water, synthetic rubber, sulfur and chlorine directly. Trace them back and you pass 9 made things on the way to 7 raw materials.
How nitrile gloves are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 7 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Sulfur goes straight in
- Rock salt through chlorine
- Crude oil through synthetic rubber, naphtha
- Natural gas through synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Air through chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Coal through synthetic rubber, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 7 things
Chemicals and fuels 7
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.