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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Haddon's cause of death was suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, Pennsylvania's Solebury Township Police Department confirmed with Fox News Digital.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2024
He was hospitalized on June 30 after being discovered by first responders who were alerted by a carbon monoxide alarm at their Hamptons home, per an incident report from the Southampton Fire Department.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Dec. 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, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
The more interesting kinds of ices on Pluto are made up of volatiles: methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2024
He was hospitalized on June 30 after being discovered by first responders who were alerted by a carbon monoxide alarm at their Hamptons home, per an incident report from the Southampton Fire Department.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Dec. 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, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
The more interesting kinds of ices on Pluto are made up of volatiles: methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Carbon monoxide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20monoxide. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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