What are umbrellas made of?
Umbrellas take 7 things directly, among them polyester, ink, sewing thread, fiberglass, plastic and vulcanized rubber. Trace them back and you pass 40 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Water through sewing thread
- Silica sand through fiberglass
- Limestone through fiberglass
- Natural gas through plastic
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Air through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through fiberglass, soda ash
- Trona through fiberglass, soda ash
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 33 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 26
Carbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolSoda ashNaphthaEthylenePropylenePhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaPara-xyleneEthylene glycolHexaneFormaldehydeOxygen gasSulfuric acidAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeHydrogenBenzeneStyreneMethanolToluene