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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the gas that humans and other mammals exhale and which plants use for making sugar through the process of photosynthesis. In high concentrations, it can be harmful to the environment and cause undesirable climate change.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 15y agoA colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO2, formed during respiration, combustion, and organic decomposition and used in food refrigeration, Carbonated Beverages, inert atmospheres, fire extinguishers, and aerosols. Also called carbonic acid gas. Each molecule of carbon dioxide contains one carbon and two oxygen molecules. Hence the name.
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∙ 15y agoCarbon dioxide is what we exhale. Plants take in CO2 and give out oxygen.
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∙ 12y agoYes, CO2 is the molecular formula for carbon dioxide.
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What is CO2 scientific name?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a chemical compound consisting of one carbon atom bonded to two oxygen atoms.
What is the element name for carbon dioxide?
Carbon Dioxide is a compound and thus does not have an element name
CO2's full name?
Carbon Dioxide Carbon dioxide
Name the gas found in fizzy drinks?
carbon dioxide
What is the element for carbon dioxide?
Carbon Dioxide is a compound and thus does not have an element name
What is the name of the carbon compound with one carbon and two oxygens?
Carbon dioxide, CO2
Why is carbon dioxide such a deadly poison?
carbon dioxide is not a deadly poison.....carbon monoxide is
Name the covalent compound CO2?
Carbon monoxide.
Name three gasses?
Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen.
What is the name of this compound CO 2?
CO2 is the chemical formula of carbon dioxide.
What does C02 mean?
carbon dioxide
What is the name of the process that will take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen?
oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle
