What are whiteboards made of?
Whiteboards take 9 things directly, among them glass, cobalt, nickel, sheet steel, MDF and adhesive. Trace them back and you pass 51 made things on the way to 23 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 23 raw materials
- Silica sand through glass
- Limestone through glass
- Cobalt ore through cobalt
- Nickel ore through nickel
- Timber through MDF
- Water through adhesive
- Crude oil through aluminum
- Coal through aluminum
- Air through ABS plastic
- Rock salt through glass, soda ash
- Trona through glass, soda ash
- Sulfur through nickel, sulfuric acid
- Zinc ore through sheet steel, zinc
- Bauxite through aluminum, alumina
- Natural gas through ABS plastic, ethylene
- Iron ore through ABS plastic, pigment
- Corn through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide
- Dolomite through sheet steel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through sheet steel, steel, manganese
- Titanium ore through ABS plastic, pigment, titanium dioxide
- Quartz through sheet steel, steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Sugarcane through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through glass, soda ash, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 42 things
Metals 8
Chemicals and fuels 27
Soda ashSulfuric acidParaffin waxPetroleum cokeNaphthaPropyleneAmmoniaBenzeneEthyleneStyrenePigmentCarbon dioxideQuicklimeOxygen gasArgonHydrogenMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidTolueneTitanium dioxideCarbon blackPropaneCharcoal