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Who needs a carbon monoxide detector?
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas which results from incomplete burning (complete burning produces carbon dioxide instead). Defective furnaces sometimes produce carbon monoxide which can kill people. For example, the parents of Weird Al Yankovic were killed by carbon monoxide from a defective furnace. So, if you can detect it soon enough by means of alarm that goes off when the carbon monoxide level becomes high enough to detect, you can escape.
Do human need carbon monoxide to survive?
The body makes all the carbon monoxide it needs, which isn't much but it's more than none.
What is the average amount of carbon monoxide a human body needs?
700kg
How can you prevent carbon monoxide?
By having safety measures in place such as having a carbon monoxide detector, not leaving appliances running with no open windows etc. This is especially important to not leave your car running in a closed garage since the fumes can build up.
What are the materials that plant needs to make proteins besides glucose?
water,Carbon monoxide,sun,gluecose,oxygen :) photosynthesis
Why does Nighthawk Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm keep Chirping about every 30seconds even with new batteries?
because after 7 years it needs replacing. It's in the manual.JB
Who needs a carbon monoxide detector?
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas which results from incomplete burning (complete burning produces carbon dioxide instead). Defective furnaces sometimes produce carbon monoxide which can kill people. For example, the parents of Weird Al Yankovic were killed by carbon monoxide from a defective furnace. So, if you can detect it soon enough by means of alarm that goes off when the carbon monoxide level becomes high enough to detect, you can escape.
Do human need carbon monoxide to survive?
The body makes all the carbon monoxide it needs, which isn't much but it's more than none.
What is the average amount of carbon monoxide a human body needs?
700kg
Smoke detector keeps beeping?
The batteries might be there just in case it loses power, so check for cables running from the wall into the smoke alarm unit.
What is so dangerous about carbon monoxide?
It's not that carbon monoxide is toxic, but it bonds with haemoglobin in the blood more readily than oxygen does. If your bloodstream is full of carbon monoxide it can't carry oxygen so you asphyxiate and die.
How can you prevent carbon monoxide?
By having safety measures in place such as having a carbon monoxide detector, not leaving appliances running with no open windows etc. This is especially important to not leave your car running in a closed garage since the fumes can build up.
Why do batteries in smoke detectors have to be replaced in 6 months?
They don't. Normally the 9 volt alkaline batteries in a smoke detector need to be replaced every year. If yours needs to be replaced every 6 months then something is wrong. If you are using a standard battery and not an alkaline battery it may only last 6 months. Use nothing but alkaline batteries. You sould hear a chirp from the detector when the battery needs replacing. A hard wired smoke detector has a battery back-up that should last around 2 years. If it only lasts 6 months then there is no power to the smoke detector and it is wired wrong or the wiring has come loose. The only reason to recommend changing batteries every 6 months is bacuase people tend to not change the batteries as they should. It has been proven by tests that about 35% of smoke detectors in homes have dead batteries.
Can people be effected by carbon monoxide released from gaseous systems that are for extinguishing a fire?
Carbon monoxide is flammable so is not used in fire extinguishing systems. The carbon dioxide that is used in extinguishers can be deadly to humans as it displaces oxygen that a fire needs to burn, and humans need to breathe.
What are the materials that plant needs to make proteins besides glucose?
water,Carbon monoxide,sun,gluecose,oxygen :) photosynthesis
What carbon monoxide used for?
it is a gas emitted in automobile fumes... it is colorless and odorless... it can kill you by taking the place of oxygen in red blood cells and depriving your body of oxygen... your home needs to be tested for carbon monoxide... it is found in cigarette smoke... hope that helps!
Why carbon monoxide is harmful?
When a carbon atom and an oxygen atom combine to form carbon monoxide, it is a relatively unstable molecule. The oxygen atom can still bond with something else, and when breathed enters the blood and attaches to red blood cells. Once it does that, it becomes stable, but unfortunately that stable state is unusable by the body - it has displaced a needed regular oxygen atom, and prevented the body from getting some of its oxygen. Losing a little oxygen from your blood is okay - the body has a lot of reserve capacity built in - but if you breathe in a lot of carbon monoxide, then too many red blood cells become attached to the carbon monoxide and not enough are free to carry the necessary oxygen. Depending on how much carbon monoxide is breathed in, the person will slowly or quickly suffocate from a lack of oxygen in the blood.Or, put another way,The red colour in red blood cells comes from haemoglobin. This molecule combines with oxygen to form oxy-haemoglobin. As the blood circulates round the body, any cell needing an atom of oxygen takes it from a red blood cell and plain haemoglobin reappears. When carbon monoxide gets into the lungs it attaches itself to a red cell, forming carboxy-haemoglobin. Carboxy-haemoglobin cannot carry oxygen. Cells cannot remove the carbon monoxide from the red cells, so the haemoglobin is permanently put out of action. If too much carbon monoxide is inhaled, enough individual body cells die from oxygen starvation to cause the death of the whole body.
