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CO interferes with the ability of the blood to carry oxygen. The result is headache, nausea, convulsions, and finally death by asphyxiation.

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How much carbon monoxide must be breathed to be fatal?

if losing 40% of blood loss is fatal then id assume that denaturing 40% of haemoglobin in the blood would be fatal,you only need one molecule of CO to render a whole haemaglobin molecule useless which usually carry's four O2 molecules,so if you have 30,000,000,000,000 RBC's(red blood cell), you have 270,000,000 haemaglobins in each RBC,you are gonna need about 2*10^21 molecules of CO to denature 40% of your haemaglobin which is probably fatal,or 0.0033moles/ 0.093 grams of CO,your average petrol car generates around 2g/km of CO so if you hooked the exhaust to a chamber and drove a kilometre you could kill 200 people with the CO alone,your average diesel car generates around 0.6g/km of COAnswer:Like most toxic poisonous substances Carbon Monoxide can be fatal at may combinations of time and exposure levels. There are safe working conditions hich allow some Carbon Monocide in the workplace air. The exposure time and levels of concern by NIOSH standards are:Exposure (hours)/CO Concentration (ppm)0.5 hours /2000 ppm1 hours /1600 ppm2 hours/1000 ppm4 hours / 400 ppm6 hours / 200 ppm8 hours / 150 ppm


What gases and given out when fossil fuels are burnt?

Gasses produced from fossil fuels are many, such as what was known as coal gas (acetylene), CO2, CO, and many others that are formed with impurities found in fossil fuels as sulphur which can produces several toxic gasses within itself.


How did the formation of coal decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the earths early atmosphere?

The formation of coal removed carbon dioxide from the Earth's early atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis. Plants absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stored it in their tissues. When these plants died and were buried, the carbon they had absorbed remained trapped in the coal deposits, thus reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.


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Carbon-dating. This is a process by which the proportion of carbon-14 in an organism is compared to the proportion know to be in the environment the carbon came from. By comparing the proportions, a scientist can determine the amount of time since the last replacement of the carbon-14, and thus give a rough time of how long ago the organism died.


How does the radiocarbon dating method determine the age of organic materials?

Radiocarbon dating measures the amount of carbon-14 in organic materials to determine their age. Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope that decays at a known rate over time. By comparing the amount of carbon-14 in a sample to the amount in the atmosphere, scientists can calculate how long ago the organism died.

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