What is window glass made of?
Window glass takes 7 things directly, among them silica sand, soda ash, limestone, dolomite, tin and nitrogen gas. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Limestone goes straight in
- Dolomite goes straight in
- Rock salt through soda ash
- Water through hydrogen
- Trona through soda ash
- Tin ore through tin
- Air through nitrogen gas
- Natural gas through hydrogen
- Corn through soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Coal through tin, coke
- Sugarcane through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses