What are adhesive bandages made of?
Adhesive bandages take adhesive, paper, cotton fabric and polyurethane directly. Trace them back and you pass 28 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How adhesive bandages are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Water through polyurethane
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Timber through paper, wood pulp
- Raw cotton through cotton fabric, cotton yarn
- Corn through cotton fabric, corn starch
- Air through polyurethane, nitric acid
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Natural gas through adhesive, acrylic, ammonia
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 24 things
Chemicals and fuels 18
Paraffin waxPropyleneNitric acidChlorineEthyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneCaustic sodaHydrogenQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideNaphthaBenzeneToluene