What is paint made of?
Paint takes water, titanium dioxide, pigment and acrylic directly. Trace them back and you pass 13 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How paint is made What is made from it See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Rock salt through titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
- Air through acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Crude oil through pigment, carbon black
- Natural gas through acrylic, methanol
Made along the way: 10 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 9
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.