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2. Is this silent killer in your home? These are the signs of ...

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   Carbon monoxide is a dangerous and silent killer. The colorless and odorless toxic gas kills hundreds of people every year and sickens thousands more, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

3. Carbon monoxide poisoning - Wikipedia

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   Carbon monoxide has a higher diffusion coefficient compared to oxygen, and the main enzyme in the human body that produces carbon monoxide is heme oxygenase, which is located in nearly all cells and platelets. [6] Most endogenously produced CO is stored bound to hemoglobin as carboxyhemoglobin. The simplistic understanding for the mechanism of ...

4. The Best Place to Put a Carbon Monoxide Detector (and 5 ... - AOL

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   Leaks from the furnace, water heater, or other appliances can release invisible carbon monoxide into your home. Correctly installing an alarm can keep you safe. The Best Place to Put a Carbon ...

5. That rotten egg smell could be a gas leak. What can you do to ...

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   Gas leaks can also release carbon monoxide, another dangerous gas that can affect your health. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: Tiredness. Nausea and dizziness. Headache. Chest or ...

6. Sewer gas - Wikipedia

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   Sewer gas is a complex, generally obnoxious smelling mixture of toxic and nontoxic gases produced and collected in sewage systems by the decomposition of organic household or industrial wastes, typical components of sewage. [1] Sewer gases may include hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, methane, esters, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

7. Indoor air quality - Wikipedia

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   Carbon monoxide may be emitted from tobacco smoke and generated from malfunctioning fuel burning stoves (wood, kerosene, natural gas, propane) and fuel burning heating systems (wood, oil, natural gas) and from blocked flues connected to these appliances. [26]

8. Carbon monoxide detector - Wikipedia

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   A Kidde plug-in carbon monoxide detector. A carbon monoxide detector or CO detector is a device that detects the presence of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. In the late 1990s, Underwriters Laboratories changed the definition of a single station CO detector with a sound device to carbon monoxide (CO) alarm.

9. Lawmaker introduces a bill to put carbon monoxide detectors ...

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   It took nearly a day for authorities to determine the symptoms sickening students, staff and EMS workers came from a carbon monoxide leak in one of the elementary school's boilers, a length of ...