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CARBON MONOXIDE GAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbon monoxide gas mean? 

CARBON MONOXIDE GAS (noun)
  The noun CARBON MONOXIDE GAS has 1 sense:

1. an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbonplay

  Familiarity information: CARBON MONOXIDE GAS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARBON MONOXIDE GAS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

carbon monoxide; carbon monoxide gas; CO

Hypernyms ("carbon monoxide gas" is a kind of...):

monoxide (an oxide containing just one atom of oxygen in the molecule)


 Context examples 


The team started with a simple chemical mixture of mostly hydrogen gas and 0.3 percent carbon monoxide gas.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)



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