What is underwear made of?
Underwear takes cotton yarn, nylon, polyurethane, spandex, sewing thread and ink 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
- Raw cotton through cotton yarn
- Water through ink
- Air through nylon, ammonia
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Crude oil through polyurethane, propylene
- Rock salt through spandex, 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
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Limestone through spandex, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 29 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 22
BenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaPropyleneChlorineFormaldehydeEthylene glycolCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolNaphthaHydrogenTolueneSulfuric acidMethanolEthyleneOxygen gasCarbon dioxideHexanePhenolPara-xylene