Carbon Monoxide

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Description

• Chemical formula is CO
• One carbon atom and one oxygen atom
• Colorless
• Odorless
• Gas at room temp.
• Do not confuse with CO2

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Sources
Burning anything organic (living or once
living-containing Carbon) and inhaling the fumes
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Methylene Chloride

• A liquid found in degreasers, solvents and paint
  removers
• Metabolized by the liver into CO
• Can cause CO poisoning where CO is not inhaled

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Toxicity

• Dangerous levels of CO
• 100ppm
• highly toxic

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Symptoms

• HEADACHES
• NAUSEA
• DIZZINESS
• BALANCE ISSUES
• FATIGUE

• JOINT PAIN
• SLEEP ISSUES
• CHEST
• DISCOMFORT
• Red blotchy skin
• ASTHMA!

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Detection
Put near source furnace, fire place
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Cure and Lasting Effects

• Cure
• O2- replace CO on the hemoglobin
• Get them outside if possible
• Coffee or strong tea
• Cotton with ammonium chloride
• Makes person cough
• Lasting Effects!
• Brain Damage
• Heart Damage
• Endocrine Damage

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History

• Early 1200s- Spanish alchemist Arnold of
  Villanova described a poisonous gas produced by
  the incomplete combustion of wood that was almost
  certainly carbon monoxide
• Joseph Priestley- more recent and scientific
  study of CO

Deaths are rare for people who have high income
b/c they have to do proper maintenance...
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Where is it?
China
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Social Impacts

• None
• Can affect people of lower socio-economic status
  due to lower income.
• Less money to make repairs to furnaces
• Lower education levels
• Less money to purchase
• CO detectors

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Bibliography

• http//www.carbon-monoxide-survivor.com/carbon-mon
  oxide-poisoning-damage.html
• http//emedicine.medscape.com/article/819987-overv
  iew
• http//www.uk2.net/blog/guide-to-making-money-onli
  ne-pt-1/