What are hiking boots made of?
Hiking boots take leather, nylon, sewing thread, adhesive, vulcanized rubber and carbon black directly. Trace them back and you pass 42 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Cattle hide through leather
- Rock salt through leather
- Water through carbon black
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Crude oil through carbon black
- Air through carbon black
- Limestone through leather, chromium
- Chromite through leather, chromium
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Trona through leather, chromium, soda ash
- Corn through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Bauxite through leather, chromium, aluminum, alumina
- Sugarcane through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through leather, chromium, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 36 things
Metals 4
Chemicals and fuels 23
QuicklimeBenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaParaffin waxSoda ashNaphthaHydrogenTolueneEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaStyreneCarbon dioxidePetroleum cokePara-xyleneEthylene glycolOxygen gas