What are acoustic guitars made of?
Acoustic guitars take timber, adhesive, lacquer, steel wire and nylon directly. Trace them back and you pass 38 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Water through adhesive
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Corn through lacquer, ethanol
- Sugarcane through lacquer, ethanol
- Air through nylon, ammonia
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Sulfur through lacquer, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Sugar beet through lacquer, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 34 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 21
Paraffin waxEthanolBenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaHydrogenOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaToluenePropaneCharcoal