What are baseballs made of?
Baseballs take vulcanized rubber, wool yarn, leather, adhesive, sewing thread and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 50 made things on the way to 22 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 22 raw materials
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Wool fleece through wool yarn
- Water through ink
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Limestone through leather, chromium
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Natural gas through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Coal through leather, chromium, coke
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Bauxite through leather, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 44 things
Metals 4
Chemicals and fuels 29
Carbon blackQuicklimeParaffin waxTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneSoda ashPropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenHexaneFormaldehydeOxygen gasTolueneCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokePara-xyleneEthylene glycol