What are sofas made of?
Sofas take 8 things directly, among them lumber, MDF, adhesive, steel wire, polyurethane and polyester. Trace them back and you pass 46 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Timber through MDF
- Water through sewing thread
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Air through polyurethane, nitric acid
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Raw cotton through cotton fabric, cotton yarn
- Corn through cotton fabric, corn starch
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Coal through steel wire, steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugarcane through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 38 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 23
Paraffin waxPropyleneNitric acidChlorineHydrogenEthyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneCaustic sodaOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaPara-xyleneEthylene glycolBenzenePropaneCarbon dioxideTolueneCharcoal