What are electric kettles made of?
Electric kettles take stainless steel, paint, polypropylene, copper wire, vulcanized rubber and nichrome directly. Trace them back and you pass 39 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
How electric kettles are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Water through paint
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Chromite through nichrome, chromium
- Limestone through nichrome, chromium
- Air through stainless steel, argon
- Nickel ore through nichrome, nickel
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Crude oil through polypropylene, propylene
- Copper ore through copper wire, copper
- Natural gas through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Coal through nichrome, chromium, coke
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Trona through nichrome, chromium, soda ash
- Corn through nichrome, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through nichrome, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through nichrome, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through nichrome, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 33 things
Metals 7
Chemicals and fuels 22
Oxygen gasArgonTitanium dioxidePigmentPropyleneCarbon blackPropaneSoda ashSulfuric acidChlorineAmmoniaMethanolNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyreneCarbon dioxideQuicklimePetroleum cokeHydrogenTolueneCaustic soda
Plastics and fibers 2
Food 2
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.