What are colored pencils made of?
Colored pencils take pigment, water, paraffin wax, lumber, adhesive and paint directly. Trace them back and you pass 27 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Timber through lumber
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Air through pigment, carbon black
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
Made along the way: 22 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 17
Titanium dioxideCarbon blackHydrogenChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolPhenolAcetoneCaustic sodaNitric acidNaphthaBenzeneToluene