What are tennis rackets made of?
Tennis rackets take 7 things directly, among them carbon fiber, epoxy, polyurethane, plastic, paint and leather. Trace them back and you pass 36 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Air through carbon fiber
- Water through leather
- Natural gas through plastic
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Crude oil through plastic, propylene
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Limestone through leather, chromium
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Corn through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through leather, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 29 things
Metals 4
Chemicals and fuels 22
PropyleneAmmoniaPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidNaphthaEthyleneTitanium dioxidePigmentQuicklimeBenzeneSulfuric acidHydrogenOxygen gasCarbon blackMethanolSoda ashTolueneCarbon dioxidePetroleum coke