Though denoted by a formula identical with that of carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon seems to be divalent in carbon monoxide, but tetravalent in carbonyl compounds.
Its percentage composition by volume is: Carbon monoxide 21.
Liebreich having apoarently shown that it acts upon the blood in the same way as carbon monoxide to form a stable compound.
The inflammable gas is carbon monoxide, which, however, does not burn with its proper purple flame, but with a flame tinged bright yellow by the sodium present.
Acetylene per se would appear to have but a small toxic action; for the principal toxic ingredient in coal-gas is carbon monoxide, which does not occur in sensible quantity in acetylene as obtained from calcium carbide.
The temperature to which this compound is subjected causes the liberation of carbon monoxide when in contact with hot charcoal.
It is also the slowest, but is often used mixed with something that will evolve large volumes of carbon monoxide or hydrocarbon gas on being heated.
The great quantity of carbon monoxide which it contains renders it very poisonous and exceedingly dangerous, because it is generated under pressure.
Carbon monoxide, CO, is found to some extent in volcanic gases.
Carbon monosulphide, CS, is formed when a silent electric discharge is passed through a mixture of carbon bisulphide vapour and hydrogen or carbon monoxide (S.
The volume composition of carbon monoxide is established by exploding a mixture of the gas with oxygen, two volumes of the gas combining with one volume of oxygen to form two volumes of carbon dioxide.
We may consider first those flames where solid particles are out of the question; for example, the flame of carbon monoxide in air.
The conclusion that must necessarily be drawn from the result is that if carbon monoxide is a test for active oxygen, then when ozone is decomposed by heat there is no nascent or active oxygen formed.
This interrupted current of oxygen was continued for about an hour but no oxidation of carbon monoxide to dioxide could be detected.
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