What are violins made of?
Violins take timber, adhesive, steel wire and nylon directly. Trace them back and you pass 34 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Water through adhesive
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Air through nylon, ammonia
- Natural gas through nylon, ammonia
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Iron ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel wire, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel wire, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel wire, steel, manganese
- Coal through nylon, benzene, toluene
- Quartz through steel wire, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 31 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 20
Paraffin waxBenzeneNitric acidAmmoniaEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaHydrogenOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonNaphthaToluenePropaneCharcoal