What are stainless steel water bottles made of?
Stainless steel water bottles take stainless steel and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 29 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Water through paint
- Chromite through stainless steel, chromium
- Limestone through stainless steel, chromium
- Air through stainless steel, argon
- Nickel ore through stainless steel, nickel
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Natural gas through paint, acrylic, methanol
- Crude oil through paint, pigment, carbon black
- Coal through stainless steel, chromium, coke
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Trona through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash
- Corn through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through stainless steel, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through stainless steel, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 27 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 18
Oxygen gasArgonTitanium dioxidePigmentPropaneSoda ashSulfuric acidChlorineCarbon blackPropyleneAmmoniaMethanolCarbon dioxideQuicklimePetroleum cokeNaphthaCaustic sodaHydrogen