What are Rubik's Cubes made of?
Rubik's Cubes take ABS plastic, ink, screw and steel directly. Trace them back and you pass 39 made things on the way to 21 raw materials.
How Rubik's Cubes are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 21 raw materials
- Air through ABS plastic
- Water through ink
- Crude oil through ABS plastic, propylene
- Natural gas through ABS plastic, ethylene
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Zinc ore through screw, zinc
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Rock salt through ink, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 35 things
Metals 7
Chemicals and fuels 23
NaphthaPropyleneAmmoniaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePigmentCarbon blackTitanium dioxideEthanolOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonHydrogenTolueneHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidPropaneMethanolCharcoal
Plastics and fibers 1
Electronics 1
Food 3
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.