What are roller skates made of?
Roller skates take polyurethane, plastic, nylon, ball bearing, bolt and vulcanized rubber directly. Trace them back and you pass 34 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Water through polyurethane
- Natural gas through plastic
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Air through nylon, nitric acid
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Zinc ore through bolt, zinc
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Iron ore through ball bearing, steel, manganese
- Limestone through ball bearing, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through ball bearing, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through ball bearing, steel, manganese
- Quartz through ball bearing, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through ball bearing, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 9
Chemicals and fuels 17
PropyleneNitric acidChlorineNaphthaEthyleneBenzeneAmmoniaCarbon blackSulfuric acidHydrogenTolueneOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonStyrenePropaneCharcoal