What are soccer balls made of?
Soccer balls take polyurethane, polyester, ink, vulcanized rubber, sewing thread and air directly. Trace them back and you pass 35 made things on the way to 17 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 17 raw materials
- Air goes straight in
- Water through sewing thread
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Crude oil through polyurethane, propylene
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Natural gas through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Limestone through polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 30 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 23
PropyleneNitric acidChlorineCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolNaphthaAmmoniaSulfuric acidPara-xyleneEthyleneEthylene glycolHexanePhenolFormaldehydeOxygen gasBenzeneStyreneHydrogenCarbon dioxideMethanolToluene