What are tennis balls made of?
Tennis balls take vulcanized rubber, adhesive, wool yarn, cotton yarn and water directly. Trace them back and you pass 26 made things on the way to 10 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 10 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Wool fleece through wool yarn
- Raw cotton through cotton yarn
- Crude oil through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Air through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Natural gas through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 22 things
Chemicals and fuels 17
Carbon blackParaffin waxNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidHydrogenToluene