carbon monoxide

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Noun

carbon monoxide (uncountable)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) A colorless, odorless, flammable, highly toxic gas.
    carbon monoxide poisoning
    • 1959, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 87, page 6658:
      A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the formula P2Mo20–24O2–60.

Synonyms

  • (chemistry): CO

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