What is stained glass made of?
Stained glass takes 8 things directly, among them silica sand, soda ash, limestone, lead, solder and linseed oil. Trace them back and you pass 25 made things on the way to 24 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 24 raw materials
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Limestone goes straight in
- Rock salt through soda ash
- Water through copper
- Trona through soda ash
- Lead ore through lead
- Flax through linseed oil
- Copper ore through copper
- Air through copper
- Natural gas through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Corn through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through lead, coke
- Zinc ore through lead, zinc
- Tin ore through solder, tin
- Silver ore through solder, silver
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Sulfur through copper, sulfuric acid
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through steel, steel scrap, propane
- Sugarcane through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses