What are skateboards made of?
Skateboards take 7 things directly, among them timber, adhesive, ink, polyurethane, aluminum and steel. Trace them back and you pass 50 made things on the way to 22 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 22 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Water through polyurethane
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- 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
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Zinc ore through ball bearing, sheet steel, zinc
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 44 things
Metals 9
Chemicals and fuels 27
Paraffin waxCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolPropyleneNitric acidChlorinePetroleum cokeOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonEthyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneCaustic sodaHydrogenHexaneFormaldehydeNaphthaPropaneBenzeneCharcoalToluene