What are crayons made of?
Crayons take paraffin wax, titanium dioxide and pigment directly. Trace them back and you pass 9 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How crayons are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Water through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Rock salt through titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
- Air through titanium dioxide, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 6 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 5
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.