Synonyms for carbon monoxide
car·bon monox·ide

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1. carbon monoxidenoun

   Synonyms:
   CO

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1. carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide gas, COnoun

   an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

   Synonyms:
   carbon monoxide gas, conscientious objector, cobalt, atomic number 27

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1. carbon monoxide

   Synonyms:
   CO

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1. Keith Pinkerton:

   If you’re using a portable generator, it needs to be a minimum of 30 feet away from the house while it’s running to eliminate the possibilities of carbon monoxide poisoning.

2. James Reese:

   There is some discontent between factions in the camps, and the weather is brutal, people are trying to sleep in cars, and carbon monoxide poisoning is a concern. There are over 100 vehicles in snow banks crashed on the side of the road. People are trying to leave but don’t know where to go. Visibility is about 50 feet. If you aren’t ready for this environment, you will die.

3. Mieczyslaw Kaczmarczyk:

   Inside there are highly effective, catalytic gas burners which burn the gas superbly. Their unique feature is that the combustion of gas occurs at a very high temperature, about 800 degrees (Celsius). Therefore the gas burns completely, it burns very accurately, and harmful gases such as carbon monoxide or nitrogen oxides are not produced.

4. Jennifer McCormick:

   Make sure that the home you are renting is required to have all safety features per the law, carbon monoxide is a lethal hazard — and some rental companies may have in their contracts that they are not responsible for the condition of the property.

5. Thomas Eissenberg:

   Both the laboratory and the naturalistic studies are consistent with one another, that water pipe tobacco smoke contains many toxicants, including nicotine that causes dependence, tobacco-specific nitrosamines that cause cancer, carbon monoxide that causes cardiovascular disease, and now benzene that causes leukemia, and water pipe tobacco smokers have these same toxicants in their bodies after they smoke tobacco in a water pipe.