What are jigsaw puzzles made of?
Jigsaw puzzles take ink, paper, cardboard and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 38 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
How jigsaw puzzles are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Water through adhesive
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay 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
- Timber through cardboard, wood pulp
- Rock salt through cardboard, wood pulp, caustic soda
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through ink, ethanol, ethylene
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 34 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 24
Carbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolParaffin waxHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthyleneCaustic sodaQuicklimeHydrogen peroxidePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolAcetoneNitric acidHydrogenBenzeneNaphthaToluene
Plastics and fibers 5
Wood and paper 1
Food 3
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.