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Carbon Monoxide
Carbon monoxide is colorless, tasteless, and odorless. In large quantities, it can also be deadly. It has been referred to as a silent killer. Home carbon monoxide detectors became available in the 1990s.
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Where do you find carbon monoxide at home?
I advise you to never try to get carbon monoxide, as it is very dangerous and can kill you. You can avoid it by NEVEREVEN IF IT IS JUST A SECOND do not run a grill, generator, or car inside your house. Some appliances like kerosene heaters can cause carbon monoxide poisoning inside your house. Charcoal too gives off that carbon monoxide (CO). If you have a generator, grill, or car, keep it outside of your house, and never run it inside of your house.
What type of bond is present in carbon monoxide?
One carbon atom and one oxygen atom are connected by a triple bond that consists of two covalent bonds and one dative covalent bond.
How is carbon monoxide formed and destroyed?
Carbon monoxide, CO is formed when combustion of carbon based materials take placed and there is not enough oxygen to create carbon dioxide. It is a product of imperfect combustion of hydrocarbon fuels (such as oil, gasoline, natural gas, and coal) and is almost always formed to some degree when something is burned because burning anything never results in perfect combustion. On an industrial scale however, carbon monoxide is formed in a completely different reaction, known as steam reformation. In this process methane gas (also known as natural gas) is combined with steam (gas phase water) at high temperature over a catalyst to form hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide: CH4 + H2O --> 3H2 + CO This is how almost all hydrogen gas is generated in the world today. The carbon monoxide is not very useful by itself, and can be further reacted with steam to give more hydrogen gas, in the water gas shift reaction: CO + H2O --> CO2 + H2 Carbon monoxide, is one atom of carbon bonded to one atom of oxygen. Carbon monoxide is dangerous to people and animals because it can bond with hemoglobin in the bloodstream and block the normal absorption of oxygen by the blood. It is invisible and odorless and deadly. Although it is not generally considered a direct greenhouse gas, it does have important effects on global warming. Carbon monoxide is used in the floats of some colonistic animals resembling jellyfish (such as the Portuguese Man-o-War). See the links to the left for more information about CO, the steam reformation reaction, the gas shift reaction, and CO's effect on the atmosphere. The word is monoxide.
It is the product of partially burned carbon ( CO ).
It can be further burned to carbon dioxide ( CO2 ).
It's not stable and is important only because it has an affinity for hemoglobin,
thus blocking the bloods ability to carry oxygen to your tissues. CO
Carbon monoxide poisoning sometimes mistaken as what?
Although most CO poisoning is acute, or sudden, it is possible to suffer from chronic CO poisoning. This condition exists when a person is exposed to low levels of the gas over a period of days to months.
Why is carbon monoxide a compound?
Carbon monoxide is a compound because it is composed of two different elements, carbon and oxygen, chemically bonded together. The two elements share electrons, forming a stable compound with unique properties distinct from those of its individual elements.
Carbon Monoxide is a poison to your body. It sufficates you since your body needs oxygen. If you breath this in instead then your bringing this poison to your heart, lungs, and every cell in your entire body.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of carbon monoxide?
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a poisonous gas that comes from the incomplete combustion of an organic compound, such as methane, propane, tobacco, and gasoline. If a person is exposed to high concentrations of CO in an enclosed area he/she could die.
Should carbon monoxide detectors be on the ceiling or on the floor?
- At about 3 ft from a fireplace
- At about 10 feet from a boiler room or furnace
- At the door of all bedrooms
- At 3 ft from any gas appliance
- Anywhere that solid or other fuels are or may be in combustion
Is carbon monoxide a colorless odorless gas?
It is a colorless, toxic gas but it is responsible for thefoul smell of rotten eggs and other things.
How does carbon monoxide zffect a smoker's blood?
Carbon monoxide binds tightly to the hemoglobin in red blood cells, instead of the oxygen that they should normally carry. So when you breathe in, the CO molecule attaches to the blood cell rather than the O2 molecule, and your cells don't get enough oxygen.
CO can kill.
How burning carbon in air can lead o the formation of carbon monoxide?
The formation of carbon dioxide.
Burning coal that releases only carbon dioxide means the coal is completely burnt and more energy is produced. Carbon monoxide is released when the combustion process is incomplete.
Why can carbon monoxide be burned to produce energy?
From my understanding in most cars it cant be burned directly. It is mixed in with air from the cold air intake and is burned with the air gas mix
i dosent have much do do with the net energy of the reaction but it does break the Co into separate less deadly oxygen and carbon. Which is better for the ozone.
If you want to know how a car recycles the exhaust carbon monoxide, look up EGR valve (Exhaust Gas Recirculation)
Why carbon monoxide is neutral?
Carbon monoxide is considered neutral because it has one oxygen atom and one carbon atom, resulting in a balanced charge of zero. Its equal number of protons and electrons make it electrically neutral.
What is use of carbon monoxide?
Carbon Monoxide is a gas formed from carbon and oxygen. It has the formula CO. Carbon dioxide another gas formed from carbon and oxygen, has the formula CO 2.
A gas, the molecules of which are made up of one carbon atom bonded with one oxygen atom. Carbon monoxide gas is clear, odorless and lethal when inhaled in LOW concentration.
It is a clear, odorless, gas, the molecules of which are composed of one carbon atom double bonded to one oxygen atom.
If you inhale it,it bonds with the hemoglobin in your blood preventing it from being available to bond with oxygen. Therefore you asphyxiate and die.
This is why it is recommended to have gas appliances service annually by a certified, qualified person and to have a carbon monoxide alarm fitted.
In what circumstances might one suffocate?
One can suffocate when there is insufficient supply of oxygen to the body. This can occur under water, in chemical contaminated areas, pollution of air with excessive carbon monoxide or nitrogen. Suffocation can also occur when a person gets buried under heavy load or gets trapped under sand.
Does a candle emit carbon monoxide?
the previous answer to this question was obvious very wrong and dangerous, it seems anything that produce a flame can produce CO, the more candles or smaller the room , seemingly the more danger, and this is from personal experience, I am alive but life is over, and don't depends on nausea or headache to warn you of a problem, for gods sake tell everyone you can whether you get CO or a lack of oxygen or whatever you will be horrible afterwards i can guarantee you assuming you live. read up on CO and you will see what i mean. just because you live doesn't mean you will want to be alive.
Does carbon monoxide harm the environment?
it destroys ozone layer and affects badly on ecosystem
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Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas. In high concentrations can be lethal. The effects of CO to the environment are not very important (you think probable to carbon dioxide).
See also the link below.
How does carbon monoxide effect your body?
when carbon monoxide enters the body, it alters the hemoglobins in your red blood cells. hemoglobins are what carry oxygen on your red blood cells throughout the body, and when carbon monoxide comes, it allows fewer oxygen molecules to be absorped into the red blood cells.
What are the elements present in the carbon monoxide?
That can easily be determined by looking at the name
carbon monoxide
you need to beak it down. This molecule has 2 part, 1 of which has a descriptor
Carbon mon oxide
carbon is an element, so no further info needed from that part
mon is a prefix that means one, so one oxide
oxide is oxygen.
so carbon monoxide is 1 carbon atom attached to 1 oxygen atom.
What are the disadvantages of carbon monoxide?
Frequently created by the incomplete burning of fuel, it consists of carbon and oygen. It is flammable, and lighter than air. It combines with red blood cells better than oxygen- making it difficult to get it out of your body once it is breathed in.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is (3 main facts):
- an odorless,
- very toxic
- gas
How is carbon monoxide formed by incomplete combustion?
All combustion of carbon containing fuels can produce CO if there is insufficient oxygen to carry the reaction through to full oxidation. Theses rae thetwo overall reacions of alkanes with oxygen:-
CnH(2n+2) + (2n+1) 1/2O2 -> nCO + (n+1) H2O
CnH(2n+2) + (3n+1) 1/2O2 -> nCO2 + (n+1) H2O
There are two overall reactions possible- in excess oxygen the CO from reaction 1 is oxidised to give CO2, (this is the blue flame seen in a log or coal fire)
What actually happens is a lot more complex than the reactions above show, combustion involves a reaction pathway with radicals and chain reactions.
How do you convert carbon monoxide into oxalic acid?
It is a naturally occurring chemical found in vegetables such as beetroot, spinach, and rhubarb. Oxalic acid also occurs in relatively high concentrations in tea, chocolate, and other cocoa products. It combines with calcium and magnesium in the gut to form insoluble salts which impede the absorption of these essential minerals. High concentrations of oxalic acid are toxic, which is why we do not eat rhubarb leaves (they contain very much more oxalic acid than the stems). oxalic acid is also produced in the human body. About 5 per cent of the population suffer from recurrent kidney stones as a result of internal oxalic acid production.
**The oxalic acid of commerce, however, is manufactured in ton quantities by reacting sugar with nitric acid, in the presence of a catalyst.