Deathes from ambient carbon monoxide poisoning are increasing.
Colorless, odorless carbon monoxide is a deadly poison that kills nearly 500 unsuspecting people a year.
As motor vehicles burn fuel, they give off carbon monoxide as a waste.
Carbon monoxide is a good tracer for moving smoke plumes, even across large distances.
Carbon monoxide is also one of the chemicals that create ozone pollution and urban smog.
The smoke plume is reflected in elevated carbon monoxide concentrations in these regions.
"Sodium, potassium, silicon monoxide and then oxygen - either atomic or molecular oxygen - make up most of the atmosphere," Fegley said.
Moscow's air is polluted at the best of times, but this smog, heavy with carbon monoxide, makes breathing difficult.
Carbon monoxide offers a lot more energy per molecule to hungry microbes than methane does-but Mars's carbon monoxide level is stable and much higher than the claimed methane level.
Mines are notorious fordust and toxic gases such as carbon monoxide and radon, which can enterthe body via the lungs.
An autopsy showed that Oide had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but that his blood also contained traces of sleeping pills.
This releases a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, known as syngas, and leaves a residue of amorphous elemental carbon called carbon black.
And some go for pure chemistry, breaking the cellulose down into a gaseous mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide before building it back up into something more useful.
They both involve heating, rather than burning, waste until it breaks down into a flammable mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, called syngas, and residual char, ash or slag.
"I got up and there was thick white smoke everywhere — worse than a fire. I knew straight away that it was carbon monoxide," he told the new Zealand Herald.
Villagers have no choice but to use wood, coal or dung fires, raising the risk that young children will be killed by carbon-monoxide poisoning or a bad case of pneumonia ravaging weakened lungs.
Because they were so sensitive to deadly gases such as methane and carbon monoxide, a canary dropping off its perch was a highly visible signal to the miners that it was time to leave.
Additional pockets of high carbon monoxide concentrations southeast of Hudson Bay may have been transported to the area from the Northwest Territories, but they may also be from local fires.
A car with a natural gas-powered internal-combustion engine emits87 per cent less nitrogen oxide,70 per cent less carbon monoxide and25 less carbon dioxide than a car with an engine that uses petrol, according to research by the Honda Motor Co.
