Why is CO considered poisnous ?

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Posted by Priyansh Singhal 6 years, 11 months ago
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Yogita Ingle 6 years, 11 months ago
Carbon monoxide (CO) is considered to be more toxic or hazardous than Carbon Dioxide (CO2) due to the fact that CO reacts with the hemoglobin in our blood streams and produces a stable compound that actually prevents oxygen from entering the body. However, CO2 is more tolerable in a human body because we are able to exhale it. And it doesn't have the same chemical properties that CO has. CO2 doesn't react with the hemoglobin in our blood streams. To be more specific there is a reaction between CO and the hemoglobin in our body that occurs while on the other hand the CO2 doesn't. Basically, the hemoglobin is an oxygen binding protein, and CO is more ready to share it's oxygen atom with the hemoglobin than the CO2. read less
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Aman Kumar 6 years, 11 months ago
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