What use does carbon monoxide have?

Answer 1

Large quantities of aldehydes are produced by the hydroformylation reaction of alkenes, carbon monoxide, and H2.

In the Fischer-Tropsch process carbon monoxide is hydrogenated to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. This technology allows coal or biomass to be converted to diesel.

In the Monsanto process, carbon monoxide and methanol react in the presence of a homogeneous rhodium catalyst and HI to give acetic acid. This process is responsible for most of the industrial production of acetic acid.

An industrial scale use for pure carbon monoxide is purifying nickel in the Mond process.

In Biology, carbon monoxide is naturally produced by the action of heme oxygenase 1 and 2 on the heme from hemoglobin breakdown. This process produces a certain amount of carboxyhemoglobin in normal persons, even if they do not breathe any carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide are burnt to provide heat for manufacturing processes, to heat homes and to separate metals like iron and nickel, from their ores and even to purify them.

In the form of producer gas or water gas, it is widely used as a fuel in industrial operations. The gas is also an effective reducing agent.

Carbon monoxide also reacts with certain metals, especially iron, cobalt, ruthenium and nickel, to form compounds known as metal-carbonyls. Some of the carbonyls have unusual physical and chemical properties that make them useful in industry and catalysis. The highly toxic nickel tetracarbonyl, for example, is used to produce very pure nickel coatings and powders.

Answer 2

Canned carbon monoxide can be used to test carbon monoxide alarms and sensors.

Answer 3

They make methanol out of it.
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Answer 4

Carbon monoxide has important industrial uses but no application in everyday life.

Answer 5

carbon monoxide is a gas

Answer 6

They make other chemical out of it.