What are ceramic floor tiles made of?
Ceramic floor tiles take clay, feldspar, silica sand, water, glass and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 28 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Clay goes straight in
- Feldspar goes straight in
- Silica sand goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Limestone through glass
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 26 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 21
Soda ashCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthyleneHydrogenBenzenePropyleneMethanolNaphthaToluene