What are windshields made of?
Windshields take window glass, ink, polyvinyl butyral and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 42 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Silica sand through window glass
- Limestone through window glass
- Dolomite through window glass
- Water through adhesive
- Rock salt through window glass, soda ash
- Trona through window glass, soda ash
- Tin ore through window glass, tin
- Air through window glass, nitrogen gas
- Natural gas through window glass, hydrogen
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Corn through ink, ethanol
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Coal through window glass, tin, coke
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 38 things
Metals 2
Chemicals and fuels 27
Soda ashNitrogen gasHydrogenCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolPropylenePlasticizerParaffin waxAmmoniaCarbon dioxideQuicklimeHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineOxygen gasSulfuric acidEthyleneMethanolCaustic sodaNaphthaAcetoneNitric acidBenzeneToluene