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Carbon Monoxide is found in boilers, it is a clear, odour free gas and if your boiler is broken the Carbon Monoxide can leak out and cause death.

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Carbon monoxide ( CO ) comes from incomplete burning of fuels like gas, oil, carbon and wood, by lack of oxygen for the complete reaction to Carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) and water. (So, not only from 'broken'(?) boilers, as said above)

It is an odourless and colourless gas and very, very toxic! (some mg per cubic metre air)

It prevents oxygen to be 'adsorbed' on the haemoglobin molecule in your blood, so only immediate inhalation of free oxygen may get you 'back' from a beginning unconsciousness.

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