What are snow globes made of?
Snow globes take 7 things directly, among them glass, plastic, porcelain, paint, adhesive and water. Trace them back and you pass 38 made things on the way to 22 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 22 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Natural gas through plastic
- Kaolin through porcelain
- Quartz through porcelain
- Feldspar through porcelain
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Oil palm fruit through glycerin, palm oil
- Soybeans through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Clay through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Air through adhesive, epoxy, acetone
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 32 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 23
Soda ashNaphthaEthylenePropylenePigmentTitanium dioxideParaffin waxCaustic sodaMethanolAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeHydrogenCarbon blackChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidPhenolAcetoneNitric acidHexaneBenzeneToluene