What is dental floss made of?
Dental floss takes nylon, paraffin wax, polypropylene and steel directly. Trace them back and you pass 23 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Air through nylon, ammonia
- Water through nylon, ammonia
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Coal through steel, manganese, coke
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sulfur through steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 19 things
Metals 5
Chemicals and fuels 13
BenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaHydrogenPropyleneOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaToluenePropaneSulfuric acidCharcoal