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When carbon burns in limited oxygen is carbon monoxide produced?
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What is the equation for burning carbon in limited supply of oxygen to form carbon monoxide?
Incomplete reaction of carbon and oxygen: 2C + O2 --> 2CO
What product of the combustion of a hydrocarbon occurs only when the supply of oxygen is limited?
The most common such product is carbon monoxide.
Why does carbon monoxide burn and carbon dioxide does not?
Carbon monoxide binds very tightly to heme; carbon dioxide does not. Carbon dioxide is not poisonous per se, but it's not harmless either; concentrations of carbon dioxide above 20% or so are pretty bad for you even if there's also plenty of oxygen to breathe.
How many atoms of carbon react with a molecule of oxygen to form a molecule of carbon monoxide?
there is one atom of oxygen in Carbon monoxide (CO) i.e. half molecule of oxygen.
How does carbon monoxide affect oxygen saturation?
The problem with carbon monoxide is that haemoglobin would much rather take it up than oxygen. In fact, haemoglobin has a 500 times greater affinity for carbon monoxide than with oxygen. Without oxygen being transported to our cells, respiration ceases and basic metabolic reactions in our body stop, and we quickly die from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Do all fires produce carbon monoxide?
It depends on how much oxygen there is in the area of where is the fire, If the fire has enough or too much oxygen, there is no carbon monoxide, if there is any lack of oxygen, carbon monoxide is produced.
Why generator produce carbon monoxide?
Carbon monoxide is produced when a fuel is burning with an insufficient oxygen supply.
When the amount of oxygen is limited carbon and oxygen react to form carbon monoxide. How many grams of CO can be formed from 35 grams of oxygen?
When the amount of oxygen is limited, carbon and oxygen react to form carbon monoxide. How many grams of CO can be formed from 35 grams of oxygen?
How is carbon monoxide produced?
carbon monoxide is produced by the burning of many different types of fuels.
What harmful effects does carbon monoxide have on the blood?
Carbon monoxide form carboxyhemoglobin and the transport of oxygen by blood is very limited.
Why carbon monoxide is used in DLCO studies instead of oxygen is because carbon monoxide is?
neither diffusion nnor perfusion limited
How combustion of carbon differs in a limited supply of oxygen compared to when oxygen is in excess?
Oxygen in excess: carbon dioxide is obtained.Not sufficient oxygen: carbon monoxide is obtained.
What is produced when fire burns?
carbon dioxide(co2) BUT... if there must me not enough oxygen then the produced gas is carbon monoxide(co)
What is the equation for burning carbon in limited supply of oxygen to form carbon monoxide?
Incomplete reaction of carbon and oxygen: 2C + O2 --> 2CO
When the amount of oxygen is limited carbon and oxygen react to form carbon monoxide. How many grams of CO can be formed from 35.0 grams of oxygen 2C plus O2 2CO?
61,27 carbon monoxide are formed.
What products are produced when methane reacts with oxygen?
In the case that there is abundant amounts of oxygen, the products are carbon dioxide and water. But if there is only a limited amount of oxygen, the products are carbon monoxide and water.Example:(abundant amount of oxygen) CH4 + O4 = CO2 & H2O(limited amount of oxygen) CH4 + O2 = CO & H2OThe other is carbon dioxide: CH4 + O2 ------- 2H2O + CO2
How is carbon monoxide produced and how does it act as a poison?
Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. Haemoglobin in your blood is not a stable compound, such that it can transport oxygen around your body. What carbon monoxide does is to react with the haemoglobin to form carboxyhaemoglobin, which is a stable compound, and you wouldn't get enough oxygen, which then you die of asphyxiation (if I didn't forget anything).
