What are water heaters made of?
Water heaters take sheet steel, glass, magnesium, polyurethane and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 33 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Dolomite through magnesium
- Water through paint
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Air through sheet steel, zinc
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Quartz through magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Coal through magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Crude oil through polyurethane, propylene
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through paint, acrylic, methanol
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 18
Soda ashPropyleneNitric acidChlorineTitanium dioxidePigmentOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidAmmoniaCarbon dioxideCharcoalNaphthaCarbon blackMethanolPropaneHydrogen