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How do carbon monoxide enter the body?
Inhaled
What can carbon monoxide dangerous and may kill you?
When you breathe it in, carbon monoxide prevents your blood cells from carrying enough oxygen.
What is the bacharach carbon monoxide detector used for?
A portable carbon monoxide detector is used to sniff an area in a confined space to make sure that there is no carbon monoxide gasses present before any personnel are allow to enter the confined space.
Why does Carbon Monoxide make you sleepy?
It jacks the spaces on the red blood cells originally for oxygen Carbon Monoxide combines with hemoglobin (the stuff on the red blood cells) 500 times faster than oxygen.
What substance can poison and destroy red blood cells?
Carbon monoxide - if the haemoglobin (the substance which makes the cell red) is poisoned by carbon monoxide the whole cell is destroyed
How do carbon monoxide enter the body?
Inhaled
Why is carbon monoxide harmful but carbon dioxide is not?
Carbon monoxide bonds with the hemoglobin in red bloods cells and renders them useless. Carbon dioxide does not do this.
High concentration of carbon monoxide?
A high concentration of carbon monoxide means that the haemoglobin in your red blood cells is being destroyed. Carbon monoxide is a very toxic gas.
What can carbon monoxide dangerous and may kill you?
When you breathe it in, carbon monoxide prevents your blood cells from carrying enough oxygen.
Who disagrees with carbon monoxide?
Any living organism that uses red blood cells will find carbon monoxide disagreeable.
Is carbon monoxide found in animal cells?
No, not if the animal is healthy.
Why is carbon monoxide more dangerous than carbon dioxide?
Carbon monoxide bonds the the hemoglobin in out red blood cells. This renders our blood unable to transport oxygen. Carbon dioxide does not do this.
What is in carbon monoxide that makes it so dangerous?
Carbon monoxide binds to the hemoglobin in the red blood cells preferentially to oxygen. So the affected red blood cells do not carry oxygen to the body cells. This starves the cells of oxygen and they will then die.
Which gas will be absorbed by the erythrocytes to the exclusion of oxygen?
That would be Carbon monoxide. The blood cells prove that they like Carbon monoxide better by turning even more red. Carbon monoxide poisoning is often first diagnosed by the person's features being cherry red.
What is the bacharach carbon monoxide detector used for?
A portable carbon monoxide detector is used to sniff an area in a confined space to make sure that there is no carbon monoxide gasses present before any personnel are allow to enter the confined space.
Why does Carbon Monoxide make you sleepy?
It jacks the spaces on the red blood cells originally for oxygen Carbon Monoxide combines with hemoglobin (the stuff on the red blood cells) 500 times faster than oxygen.
What substance can poison and destroy red blood cells?
Carbon monoxide - if the haemoglobin (the substance which makes the cell red) is poisoned by carbon monoxide the whole cell is destroyed
