What are banknotes made of?
Banknotes take raw cotton, flax, water, gelatin, polyvinyl alcohol and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 27 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Raw cotton goes straight in
- Flax goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Pigs through gelatin
- Cattle hide through gelatin
- Limestone through gelatin, quicklime
- Natural gas through polyvinyl alcohol, methanol
- Air through polyvinyl alcohol, oxygen gas
- Rock salt through polyvinyl alcohol, caustic soda
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 24 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 19
QuicklimeEthyleneOxygen gasMethanolCaustic sodaCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolNaphthaHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidHydrogenBenzenePropyleneToluene