What are cricket bats made of?
Cricket bats take timber, adhesive and vulcanized rubber directly. Trace them back and you pass 24 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Water through adhesive
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Air through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Natural gas through adhesive, polyethylene, ethylene
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 22 things
Chemicals and fuels 17
Paraffin waxCarbon blackEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenNaphthaBenzeneStyreneToluene