What are sunglasses made of?
Sunglasses take cellulose acetate, water, nickel, polycarbonate, acrylic and glass directly. Trace them back and you pass 28 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Nickel ore through nickel
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Timber through cellulose acetate, wood pulp
- Air through cellulose acetate, plasticizer
- Sulfur through acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Crude oil through acrylic, propylene
- Rock salt through polycarbonate, chlorine
- Natural gas through acrylic, methanol
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through polycarbonate, acetone, benzene, toluene
- 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: 23 things
Chemicals and fuels 20
Acetic anhydrideAcetonePlasticizerSulfuric acidPhenolPropyleneCaustic sodaChlorineAmmoniaMethanolSoda ashQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideCarbon monoxideBenzeneNaphthaCarbon dioxideHydrogenToluene