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You mean, "What is a solvent for carbon monoxide?"

Carbon monoxide will dissolve in just about any common gas that you care to name: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon, neon, helium, hydrogen, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide.

How else does carbon monoxide get from here to there?

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The solubility of carbon monoxide in liquids is low, for ex. 27.6 mg/liter in water.

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In ALL liquids?? Perhaps you need to try hydrocarbons, fats, lipids, liquid nitrogen, liquid carbon dioxide (under pressure), and so forth.

If carbon monoxide were not soluble in blood, then it would not be dangerous to human beings, mammals, birds, and reptiles. (We would breathe it in and then right out again.)

In any case, a gas can be a solvent just as a liquid can. Try dissolving some sulfur dioxide in some nitrogen gas. It works very well, though we don't like this. Sulfur dioxide in nitrogen causes bad air pollution.

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Adolfo Adams

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3y ago

What else can I help you with?