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Example sentences for "carbon monoxide"

  • Though denoted by a formula identical with that of carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon seems to be divalent in carbon monoxide, but tetravalent in carbonyl compounds.

  • Its percentage composition by volume is: Carbon monoxide 21.

  • Liebreich having apoarently shown that it acts upon the blood in the same way as carbon monoxide to form a stable compound.

  • The inflammable gas is carbon monoxide, which, however, does not burn with its proper purple flame, but with a flame tinged bright yellow by the sodium present.

  • Acetylene per se would appear to have but a small toxic action; for the principal toxic ingredient in coal-gas is carbon monoxide, which does not occur in sensible quantity in acetylene as obtained from calcium carbide.

  • The temperature to which this compound is subjected causes the liberation of carbon monoxide when in contact with hot charcoal.

  • It is also the slowest, but is often used mixed with something that will evolve large volumes of carbon monoxide or hydrocarbon gas on being heated.

  • The great quantity of carbon monoxide which it contains renders it very poisonous and exceedingly dangerous, because it is generated under pressure.

  • First Aid in Cases of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.

  • Carbon monoxide, CO, is found to some extent in volcanic gases.

  • Carbon monosulphide, CS, is formed when a silent electric discharge is passed through a mixture of carbon bisulphide vapour and hydrogen or carbon monoxide (S.

  • The volume composition of carbon monoxide is established by exploding a mixture of the gas with oxygen, two volumes of the gas combining with one volume of oxygen to form two volumes of carbon dioxide.

  • We may consider first those flames where solid particles are out of the question; for example, the flame of carbon monoxide in air.

  • The conclusion that must necessarily be drawn from the result is that if carbon monoxide is a test for active oxygen, then when ozone is decomposed by heat there is no nascent or active oxygen formed.

  • This interrupted current of oxygen was continued for about an hour but no oxidation of carbon monoxide to dioxide could be detected.

  • Carbon monoxide is absorbed by a solution of cuprous chloride in hydrochloric acid or, better, in ammonia.


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