carbon monoxide
noun
: a colorless odorless very toxic gas CO that is formed as a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon or a carbon compound
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Three buildings were evacuated, one due to the fire and two because high amounts of carbon monoxide were detected.
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Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 28 Nov. 2024
In that time, the agency said, American vehicles have become 99 percent cleaner, cutting pollutants like particulate matter, soot and carbon monoxide that contribute to asthma, heart problems and cancer.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
This methanol could only have formed on grains of carbon monoxide–rich ice, which would have filled the cold molecular cloud from which the protoplanetary disk came but would then have vaporized in the warm disk.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
Its residential smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, under the trade names Universal and USI Electric, are manufactured in and imported from China.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 28 Nov. 2024
In that time, the agency said, American vehicles have become 99 percent cleaner, cutting pollutants like particulate matter, soot and carbon monoxide that contribute to asthma, heart problems and cancer.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
This methanol could only have formed on grains of carbon monoxide–rich ice, which would have filled the cold molecular cloud from which the protoplanetary disk came but would then have vaporized in the warm disk.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
Its residential smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, under the trade names Universal and USI Electric, are manufactured in and imported from China.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Carbon monoxide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20monoxide. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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