What is watercolor paint made of?
Watercolor paint takes water, pigment, glycerin, honey and plastic directly. Trace them back and you pass 19 made things on the way to 14 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 14 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Iron ore through pigment
- Sulfur through pigment
- Honeycomb through honey
- Natural gas through plastic
- Titanium ore through pigment, titanium dioxide
- Crude oil through pigment, carbon black
- Air through pigment, carbon black
- Oil palm fruit through glycerin, palm oil
- Soybeans through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Clay through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rock salt through glycerin, caustic soda
- Coal through pigment, titanium dioxide, coke
Made along the way: 15 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 12
Titanium dioxideCarbon blackCaustic sodaMethanolNaphthaEthylenePropyleneChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidHexaneHydrogen