What is cellulose acetate made of?
Cellulose acetate takes wood pulp, acetic anhydride, water, acetone and plasticizer directly. Trace them back and you pass 15 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Timber through wood pulp
- Air through plasticizer
- Rock salt through wood pulp, caustic soda
- Limestone through wood pulp, quicklime
- Natural gas through acetic anhydride, carbon monoxide
- Crude oil through plasticizer, propylene
- Coal through acetone, benzene, toluene