What is ink made of?
Ink takes 7 things directly, among them vegetable oil, phenolic resin, carbon black, titanium dioxide, pigment and water. Trace them back and you pass 22 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Soybeans through vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through vegetable oil
- Clay through vegetable oil
- Crude oil through carbon black
- Air through carbon black
- Titanium ore through titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Corn through ethanol
- Sugarcane through ethanol
- Rock salt through titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 16 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 13
HexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthyleneHydrogenBenzenePropyleneMethanolNaphthaToluene