What are wheelchairs made of?
Wheelchairs take steel, aluminum, plastic, polyurethane and vulcanized rubber directly. Trace them back and you pass 32 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Natural gas through plastic
- Water through polyurethane
- Natural rubber latex through vulcanized rubber
- Sulfur through vulcanized rubber
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Rock salt through polyurethane, chlorine
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
Made along the way: 27 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 19
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonPetroleum cokeNaphthaEthylenePropyleneNitric acidChlorineCarbon blackPropaneSulfuric acidCaustic sodaHydrogenAmmoniaBenzeneStyreneCharcoalToluene