What are syringes made of?
Syringes take polypropylene, ink, synthetic rubber, silicone and stainless steel directly. Trace them back and you pass 44 made things on the way to 23 raw materials.
How syringes are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 23 raw materials
- Water through silicone
- Silica sand through silicone
- Crude oil through polypropylene, propylene
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Natural gas through synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Quartz through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Coal through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Chromite through stainless steel, chromium
- Limestone through stainless steel, chromium
- Nickel ore through stainless steel, nickel
- Rock salt through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash
- Trona through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
- Bauxite through stainless steel, chromium, aluminum, alumina
Made along the way: 39 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 28
PropyleneCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneMethanolHydrochloric acidOxygen gasArgonHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidHydrogenTolueneCharcoalPropaneSoda ashAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimePetroleum cokeCaustic soda
Plastics and fibers 1
Electronics 1
Food 3
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.