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Carbon monoxide is created by incomplete combustion by lack of oxygen:

2C2H5OH + 5O2 --> 2CO + 2CO2 + 6H2O

in stead of

2C2H5OH + 6O2 --> .. + 4CO2 + 6H2O

which is the same as, correctly written (by dividing by 2): C2H5OH + 3O2 --> 2CO2 + 3H2O

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