What are golf balls made of?
Golf balls take synthetic rubber, polyurethane, paint and ink directly. Trace them back and you pass 30 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Water through ink
- Crude oil through synthetic rubber, naphtha
- Natural gas through synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Air through polyurethane, nitric acid
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- 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 20
NaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePropyleneNitric acidChlorineTitanium dioxidePigmentCarbon blackEthanolHydrogenTolueneAmmoniaSulfuric acidOxygen gasMethanolHexanePhenolFormaldehyde