carbon monoxide
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- noun
- /ˈkɑrbən məˈnɒksaɪd/
- Specialized
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monóxido de carbono
- When added to conventional gasoline, it reduces carbon monoxide emissions by increasing the fuel's oxygen content.
- carbon monoxide emissions
- carbon monoxide levels
- carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
And blood tests revealed these massive amounts of carbon monoxide in her bloodstream.
- And blood tests revealed these massive amounts of carbon monoxide in her bloodstream.
- Nah, if you endure the carbon monoxide just a little bit longer, it will kill you.
- The carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides start going down.
- You vent the carbon monoxide and then you understand how much oxygen you can get from the process.
- And they, somebody hid the carbon monoxide detector and I couldn't find it in this Airbnb, in this Airbnb.
- And then it's like carbon monoxide is like from boilers and stuff, poisons your brain and it makes you hear things.
- And then you get a, a multi chirp beep for carbon monoxide and a long siren, I think for smoke.
- The alarm went off, scared them off and they left since there was no carbon monoxide and no fire and we were both asleep, like there was nothing that could have tripped the alarm.
Examples
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Three events involved the release of carbon monoxide, injuring 62 people.
Academic text (2002) -
And blood tests revealed these massive amounts of carbon monoxide in her bloodstream.
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And then they discover that the carbon monoxide levels in her blood are high.
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All of them got carbon monoxide poisoning by now.
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The carbon monoxide monitors are going off.
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The carbon monoxide has poisoned him.
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She had some kind of accident with the car and got carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Taken to the hospital, the Maddoxes were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning and released.
Fiction book (1999) -
Nicotine does not cause cancer; it is the tar and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke that is harmful.
Academic text (2011) -
Dozens of others had been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, health officials said.
Synonyms
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A gas with no color and no smell that is very poisonous and comes from burning fuel
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositional: 'monoxide' denotes an oxide with one oxygen atom and 'carbon' names the element, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it is the oxide of carbon (a carbon + one-oxygen compound, typically a gas). While specific properties like being colorless, odorless, and highly poisonous are extra lexical knowledge, the basic referent is directly derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Carbon monoxide gets its name from two parts: carbon (the material in coal and wood) and monoxide, which literally means 'one oxygen'. It was named this way because when carbon burns without enough air it makes a gas with only one oxygen, and that gas is colorless, has no smell, and is very poisonous, so the name now refers to this dangerous gas.