What are wheelbarrows made of?
Wheelbarrows take sheet steel, steel pipe, paint, vulcanized rubber and bolt directly. Trace them back and you pass 35 made things on the way to 16 raw materials.
How wheelbarrows are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 16 raw materials
- Water through paint
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Zinc ore through bolt, zinc
- Air through bolt, zinc
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Crude oil through vulcanized rubber, carbon black
- Limestone through steel pipe, steel, quicklime
- Dolomite through steel pipe, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel pipe, steel, manganese
- Natural gas through vulcanized rubber, synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Quartz through steel pipe, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel pipe, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 30 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 19
Titanium dioxidePigmentCarbon blackOxygen gasQuicklimeArgonSulfuric acidChlorinePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolNaphthaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePropaneHydrogenTolueneCharcoal
Plastics and fibers 2
Electronics 1
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.