What are vinyl records made of?
Vinyl records take 8 things directly, among them aluminum, lacquer, silver, nickel, paper and ink. Trace them back and you pass 39 made things on the way to 24 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 24 raw materials
- Crude oil through carbon black
- Coal through aluminum
- Silver ore through silver
- Lead ore through silver
- Zinc ore through silver
- Copper ore through silver
- Nickel ore through nickel
- Water through carbon black
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Air through carbon black
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Sulfur through nickel, sulfuric acid
- Timber through paper, wood pulp
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through PVC, pigment
- Natural gas through PVC, ethylene
- Rock salt through PVC, chlorine
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 31 things
Metals 3
Chemicals and fuels 22
Petroleum cokeEthanolSulfuric acidQuicklimeTitanium dioxidePigmentEthyleneChlorinePlasticizerCaustic sodaPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideHexanePhenolFormaldehydeNaphthaHydrogenBenzeneToluene