monoxide

Definitions

Examples

• Hospitals reported an alarming spike in carbon monoxide poisonings because of people running their cars in shut garages and lighting grills in their living rooms.

• Some have died of carbon monoxide poisoning after turning to their ovens or trucks to stay warm.

• Houston’s Fire Chief Samuel Peña said on Thursday that carbon monoxide poisoning is at an “all-time high” as people attempt to warm themselves with generators, gas heating devices or cars in their garage.

• Carbon monoxide poisoning is much less likely to happen if you’re parked in your driveway or on the street, but you must make sure your tailpipe isn’t blocked by snow.

• You don’t want to start a fire or unwittingly fill your home with carbon monoxide.

• His team of engineers set to work on a new device, a combination smoke and carbon-monoxide detector.

• For example, research has shown that most carbon-monoxide alarm incidents are triggered by a malfunctioning furnace.

• The blood is, however, never saturated with carbon monoxide, for the animal dies long before this takes place.

• The detection in air, if the carbon monoxide is in any quantity, is easy enough; but traces of carbon monoxide are difficult.

• Such a solution is an absorbent of carbon monoxide; it also absorbs ethylene and acetylene.

• A “smoky” chimney or a defective flue will therefore introduce carbon monoxide into living-rooms.

• Poisoning by coal gas is practically poisoning by carbon monoxide.