What are wine corks made of?
Wine corks take cork oak bark, paraffin wax and silicone directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 11 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 11 raw materials
- Cork oak bark goes straight in
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Water through silicone
- Silica sand through silicone
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Quartz through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Coal through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Rock salt through silicone, hydrochloric acid, chlorine
- Sulfur through silicone, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid
- Air through silicone, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid