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The reason of CO being a deadly gas irrespective of the fact that it is a colorless, odorless gas found in furnace and automobile engine exhaust and cigarette smoke. CO binds to hemoglobin 210 times more tightly than does O2. CO also bonds with an electron transport protein and disrupts
Concept introduction:
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, tasteless and colorless gas with less density than air. It consists of one atom of carbon and one atom of oxygen connected with a triple bond with a molecular mass of
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