### oxide | monoxide:

Carbon monoxide
* Most carbon monoxide has effects
  - is created by motor vehicles, heating of dwellings and industrial pollution
* Some carbon monoxide improves survival
  - leaves corners
* acts as a poison by combining with haemoglobin in the blood
  - with hemoglobin in the blood
* attenuates aeroallergen-induced inflammation in mice.
* binding to iron porphyrins is the key pathway for carbon monoxide poisoning.
* by product of the flue gasses created by any gas burning appliance.
* by-product of combustion of fossil fuels
  - that comes almost entirely from motor vehicles
  - combustion, present whenever fuel is burned
* by-product of incomplete combustion, present whenever fuel is burned
  - when fuel burns
* byproduct of combustion
  - incomplete combustion of ordinary fuels
  - the incomplete burning of fuels
* can also be a hazard
  - cause seizueres, unconsciousness and coma
  - be deadly in more ways than the usual one
* can be fatal at high levels
  - when breathed in a confined area
  - gauged and eliminated indoors, researchers say
  - harmful to persons with heart, respiratory, or circulatory ailments
  - build up so quickly that victims are overcome before they can get help
* can cause asphyxiation by interfering with the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood
  - death and illness and also contributes to global warming
  - drowsiness, nausea and potentially death
  - fatigue, dizziness, nausea, and death
  - headaches and drowsiness, and even death at very high concentrations
  - injuries to health, see here
  - collect within a boat in a variety of ways
  - enter the cockpit without a detectable exhaust smell
  - escape from any fuel-burning appliance or furnace
  - kill
  - lead to worker illness
* can produce headaches, fatigue, sore throats and nausea
  - tiredness and headaches
  - rapidly build up in any indoor area
  - seep into the cabin of the vehicle
  - spill from vent connections in poorly maintained or blocked chimneys
* causes a greater lack of oxygen in non-smokers
  - cardiac, circulatory and respiratory problems
  - dizziness, headaches, throat irritation, and nausea
  - more poisoning deaths today than any other substance
  - suffocation and becomes the greenhouse gas
* clear odorless gas that reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen.
* clear, odorless gas, produced by combustion.
* colorless and odorless gas that usually goes unnoticed without a detector.
* colorless, oderless gas that is highly toxic
  - odorless and poisonous gas
* colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that can kill a person within two hours
* colorless, odorless gas produced by all gasoline engines
  - burning any fuel
* colorless, odorless gas that can be deadly
  - cause suffocation and death at high levels
  - forms when fuel is burned
  - has about the same specific weight of air
* colorless, odorless gas that is difficult to detect
  - formed from incomplete combustion
  - produced when any fuel is incompletely burned
* colorless, odorless gas that results from burning fuels
  - combustion appliances that burn fuel
  - toxic gas and by-product of incomplete combustion
* colorless, odorless, and a poisonous gas at high concentrations
  - tasteless gas contained in exhaust fumes
  - deadly gas
  - invisible, and very toxic gas
  - poisonous byproduct of combustion
  - tasteless and potentially dangerous gas
* colorless, odorless, tasteless gas against which humans have no protection
  - tasteless, odorless gas that is slightly lighter than air
* colourless, odourless gas
  - odourless, poisonous gas
* comes largely from incomplete fuel combustion in motor vehicles.
* commercially important chemical.
* common by-product of all home furnaces and appliances that use flammable fuel
  - combustion, present whenever fossil fuels are burned
  - indoor air contaminant
  - pollutant and a by-product of biomass burning
* cumulative poison which can rise to harmful levels in the body in minutes
* cuts down the amount of oxygen that red blood cells can carry through the body.
* dangerous gas in air pollution.
* deadly gas that results from smoking cigarettes
* decreases the body's ability to carry oxygen to tissues.
* enters the bloodstream and reduces oxygen delivery to the body's organs and tissues.
* flammable and potentially explosive gas.
* gas formed as a by-product of combustion
  - when organic substances burn
  - produced by incomplete combustion and is produced by every fire
* gas that is odorless, colorless and tasteless, but very toxic
  - usually produced from combustion
* gets in the blood, too.
* gray colored gas with an odor like rotten eggs.
* has a greater attraction to the hemoglobin of blood than oxygen does
* has no color, taste, or odor
  - odor, no color and no taste
  - smell, color or taste, but it can kill someone in a few minutes
* humane fumigating gas.
* impairs the body's ability to use oxygen.
* inhibits the blood's capacity to carry oxygen.
* interferes with the blood s ability to carry oxygen to the brain.
* interferes with the blood's ability to carry oxygen
  - transport oxygen to cells and tissues
  - distribution of oxygen in the blood to the rest of the body
* interupts the delivery of oxygen in the blood stream.
* is also a constituent of tobacco smoke
  - deadly poison
* is also an excellent tracer for observing global transport in the troposphere
  - ozone precursor
  - among the many toxic chemicals present in tobacco smoke
  - an example of a substance which is damaging to humans
* is an extremely dangerous poison
  - hazardous gas with no odor, color, or taste
  - industrial gas that has many applications in bulk chemicals manufacturing
  - invisible gas that can overcome a person without warning
* is an invisible, odorless gas which replaces oxygen in the bloodstream
  - odorless, colorless gas created from incomplete combustion
* is an odorless and colorless gas produced during combustion
  - gas, which makes it difficult to detect
  - gas that combustion by-product of both gas and diesel engines
  - invisible, toxic gas that is difficult to detect
  - odorless, col-orless and toxic gas
* is an odorless, colorless and toxic gas
  - gas that can cause sickness or death
* is an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas emitted in motor vehicle exhaust
  - tasteless gas that displaces the vital oxygen needed in our blood
* is an odorless, tasteless, colorless gas that is deadly
  - colorless, highly toxic gas
  - odourless and tasteless gas that is toxic in high enough concentrations
* is an odourless, colourless and poisonous gas emitted from the burning of fuel
* is another animal
  - common air pollutant that can reduce exercise safety and effectiveness
  - problem in many homes
  - substance that, when entering the body, displaces valuable oxygen
* is both a pollutant in itself and a major ingredient in smog
  - colourless and odourless
* is colorless and deadly
* is colorless, odorless and poisonous
  - tasteless , and mixes evenly with the air
* is colorless, odorless, non-irritating, tasteless and slightly lighter than air
  - tasteless toxic gas produced as a byproduct of combustion
  - tasteless, and non-irritating
  - tasteless, odorless, and non-irritating
  - colourless, odourless and extremely toxic
  - composed of one oxygen atom attached to one carbon atom
  - contained in the exhaust gases of petrol engines and is found in railway tunnels
  - converted into carbon dioxide in a shift reaction
  - created by internal combustion
* is dangerous because it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless
  - to inhale
  - deadly and usually gives no warning
  - diagnosed by a special blood test
  - different than most pollutants
  - difficult for an untrained person to detect
  - eliminated from the body over a period of hours
  - especially dangerous indoors, when ventilation is inadequate
  - excreted from the body in exhaled air
  - extremely deadly in an enclosed space, such as a garage or bedroom
* is formed because combustion is incomplete
  - through incomplete oxidation of carbon
  - found in cigarette smoke and is produced by the incomplete combustion of fuel
* is generated by gas-fueled space heaters, smoking and fires
  - from the incomplete combustion of trash and garbage
  - greenhouse gases
  - heavier than air
  - highly poisonous and it has no odor, taste or color
  - in the exhaust that comes from furnaces, hot water heaters, dryers, etc
  - inhaled into our bodies and absorbed by our red blood cells
  - inorganic compounds
  - insidious
  - liable to self-regulation by nitric oxide
  - lighter than air and colorless and odorless gas
  - measured only during the winter months
  - molecular and is considered to be neutral
* is much more reactive with haemoglobin than oxygen is
  - hemoglobin than oxygen is
* is odorless and colorless, but there can be signs of problems
* is odorless, colorless and deadly
* is odorless, colorless, and highly toxic
  - tasteless, but it can cause illness and even death
  - very hard to detect, and it can kill
* is one of the big killers in fires like that
  - eight key air pollutants targeted for direction
  - most dangerous elements of secondhand smoke
  - such agent, familiar to smokers
  - particularly harmful to people with heart or lung diseases and to pregnant women
  - perhaps the best understood of the pollutants discussed here
* is poisonous because it is absorbed by the blood in place of oxygen
  - to ALL warm-blooded animals
* is present in coal gas and motor exhaust fumes
  - when any type of heating device, which has a flame, is used
* is present wherever fuel is burned, be it wood, gas, or oil
  - there is incomplete combustion of carbon compounds
* is produced by burning any fuel
  - devices that burn fuels
* is produced by incomplete combustion of carbon in fuels
  - fossil fuels, especially in petrol engines
  - many human activities, as well as by some natural ones
* is produced by the combustion of fossil fuels
  - incomplete combustion of fuels
  - unvented gas heaters
  - during incomplete combustion
  - naturally by the human body as a signaling molecule
* is produced when a fuel burns where there lack of oxygen, and it has no smell
  - fuel, such as gas, oil, kerosene, charcoal, or wood, is burned
  - fuel burns incompletely
  - the charcoal burns
  - whenever a fuel such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood or charcoal is burned
  - quick and deadly
  - referred to as the silent killer
  - relatively high too because it product of the heating process
  - released by the driver into the closed back of the car
* is released when engines burn fossil fuels
  - fuels such as gasoline, natural gas, wood and coal burn
  - responsible for cardiovascular disease in smokers
  - roughly the same weight as air and distributes evenly throughout a room
  - second messengers
  - slightly lighter than air and quickly spreads throughout an entire house
  - such a gas because it rapidly binds with hemoglobin
  - synthesized from heme
  - taken into the body by the lungs through breathing
* is the cause of both deaths
  - deadly gas produced from inefficient combustion in furnaces and car engines
* is the leading cause of accidental poisoning deaths in the United States
  - poisoning in the United States
  - death by poisoning in the United States
  - poisoning deaths in America
* is the most common cause of fatal poisonings
  - toxic common compressed air contaminant
* is the number one cause of poisoning deaths in America
  - only constituent for which there is an annual limit measured in tonnage
  - pre-standardisation name that is still in common use today
  - primary danger, and has a cumulative effect in the human system
  - principal toxicant in smoke
  - waste that leaves the exhaust in the greatest amounts
* is toxic and has adverse affects above certain threshold levels
  - used as reduction agent in many metallurgic processes
* is, of course, an air pollutant
* kills because it inhibits the ability of the body to use oxygen.
* leading cause of fatal poisonings in America today.
* limits the ability of the blood to carry oxygen to our organs and tissues.
* lowers the blood's ability to carry oxygen.
* makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body.
* more active reductor than sulfur dioxide.
* nasty, odorless gas.
* natural by-product of combustion, present whenever fuel is burned
* normal by-product of combustion.
* occurs dissolved in molten volcanic rock at high pressures in the Earth's mantle
  - in various natural and artificial environments
* particularly dangerous indoor air pollutant.
* passes into the red blood cells after breathing it in.
* poison for any air-breathing animal
  - that starves the body of oxygen
* poisonous gas produced by the burning of fuel
* polar molecule with the oxygen end being slightly positive.
* pollutant that is mainly produced by cars.
* potentially deadly gas that's odorless, tasteless, and invisible.
* prevents oxygen from saturating the blood cells and nourishing the body
  - the blood from carrying oxygen to the tissues of the body
* produced by isolated arterioles attenuates pressure-induced vasoconstriction
  - the engine can kill, and gasoline can be a fire hazard
* provides protection against hyperoxic lung injury.
* reacts with chlorine to form phosgene
  - from phosgene
  - iron ore to produce molten iron and carbon dioxide gas
* reduces the ability of the blood to carry oxygen.
* reduces the amount of oxygen available to the brain
  - the blood can carry
* reduces the blood's ability to transport oxygen
* reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood
  - flow to the fetus
  - supply to the brain, causing carbon monoxide intoxication
* relatively rapid and effective method of euthanasia for birds.
* remains in the blood for up to six months after death.
* replaces oxygen in the blood, and can get to the brain and heart
  - bloodstream, a condition known as carboxyhemoglobin
  - the oxygen in the bloodstream, making the heart work harder
* result of the incomplete burning of fuel in combustion-based systems.
* reversible blood poison.
* slows the rate at which oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream.
* stimulates a potassium-selective current in rabbit corneal epithelial cells.
* strong reductant.
* takes the place of oxygen in the blood, causing cells to suffocate.
* tasteless, odourless killer.
* tends to build up in pockets in the poorly ventilated areas of workplaces.
* tracer of molecular gas, which is the fuel for star formation.
* very toxic gas that is odorless, colorless, and tasteless.
* waste product of cigarette smoking and also of gasoline engines.
* weighs about the same as air, and distributes evenly throughout a room.
+ Pollutant: Ecology :: Toxicology
  * Many pollutants have a poisonous effect on the body. Carbon monoxide is an example of a substance which is damaging to humans. This compound is taken up in the body instead of oxygen. That makes the body  and in severe cases may lead to death.