What are matches made of?
Matches take lumber, paraffin wax, sulfur, cardboard and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 26 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Sulfur goes straight in
- Timber through lumber
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Water through adhesive
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Rock salt through cardboard, wood pulp, caustic soda
- Limestone through cardboard, wood pulp, quicklime
- Air through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 22 things
Chemicals and fuels 17
HydrogenCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidNaphthaBenzeneToluene