What are snowboards made of?
Snowboards take 9 things directly, among them lumber, adhesive, polyethylene, ink, steel and epoxy. Trace them back and you pass 51 made things on the way to 23 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
- Lumberat Laminate a core block
- Adhesiveat Laminate a core block
- Polyethyleneat Saw the sidecut, slice the block
- Inkat Print base and topsheet
- Steelat Bend edges around the base
- Epoxyat Lay up in an aluminum form
- Vulcanized rubberat Lay up in an aluminum form
- Fiberglassat Lay up in an aluminum form
- ABS plasticat Lay up in an aluminum form
From the ground: 23 raw materials
- Timber through lumber
- Water through ink
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Silica sand through fiberglass
- Limestone through fiberglass
- Air through ABS plastic
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through ABS plastic, ethylene
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ABS plastic, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Rock salt through epoxy, caustic soda
- Trona through fiberglass, soda ash
- Coal through ABS plastic, benzene, toluene
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 42 things
Metals 5
Chemicals and fuels 29
Paraffin waxEthyleneCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonPhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaSoda ashNaphthaAmmoniaBenzeneStyreneSulfuric acidMethanolNitric acidHydrogenHexaneFormaldehydePropaneCarbon dioxideTolueneCharcoal