Example sentences of "carbon monoxide " in BNC.
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| 1 | Destined to run in Manchester , they will relieve traffic congestion and help to reduce the levels of carbon monoxide in the city centre , outlying suburbs and satellite towns of Bury , Altrincham , Salford , Oldham and Rochdale . |
| 2 | A post-mortem examination by Dr Alexander Gibson , a Home Office pathologist , gave the cause of death as carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 3 | Vehicle exhausts are also probably the biggest producers of man-made carbon monoxide , which destroys hydroxyl , an atmospheric ‘ cleansing agent ’ which gets rid of methane , another greenhouse gas . |
| 4 | Carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons will be less dramatically reduced , possibly by considerably less than half , while carbon dioxide emissions will increase because catalysts lead to heavier fuel consumption ( only lean-burn engines which use less fuel would cut CO 2 emissions , but progress on them is slow ) . |
| 5 | In the United States , the strict new Clean Air Bill passed by the senate in April 1990 would cut carbon monoxide emissions by 70 per cent and a number of other gases by 22 per cent . |
| 6 | Caused by the photochemical reaction of sunlight with carbon monoxide ( much of it from cars ) and nitrogen oxides , most of them man-made . |
| 7 | All manner of dogs have won , including a Pekingese who saved a mother and daughter from carbon monoxide poisoning , right up to a sandy-coated mongrel who learned how to climb a ladder in his apprenticeship as a window cleaner 's assistant ! |
| 8 | Shepherd 's Bush yielded up none of these things , unless you counted carbon monoxide as a floating mist and the people coming out of the underground station as a foaming cataract . |
| 9 | The diesel engine burns its fuel so much more efficiently that its hydro carbon and carbon monoxide emisions are low enough to dispense with a two way catalytic converter . |
| 10 | ‘ Cat ’ cars also produce 2.5 times more harmful carbon monoxide and far more nitrogen oxide than diesel cars . |
| 11 | The sides of the pack must carry details of how much tar , nicotine and carbon monoxide are in each cigarette as well as explanations of why each is harmful to health . |
| 12 | Besides a national flue — gas desulphurisation ( FGD ) programme on power stations , West Germany introduced its own laws to require catalytic converters on cars ( devices containing a platinum-coated honeycomb which treat exhaust gases , transforming up to 90 per cent of the NOx , hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide ) . |
| 13 | These included methane , ammonia , probably hydrogen cyanide , hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide . |
| 14 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 15 | He was in good health , owing to the cycling perhaps , despite carbon monoxide and lead in London streets . |
| 16 | Cigarettes increase the carbon monoxide level in the blood . |
| 17 | In addition , Dave tells me that the centre has also treated a number of carbon monoxide poisonings and gas gangrene injuries — fortunately , both from causes other than diving . |
| 18 | Norfolk goes on to point out that people who go jogging in the city for half an hour can absorb the , equivalent of 10 to 20 cigarettes ' worth of carbon monoxide ( ‘ Jogging is completely unnecessary , ’ according to cardiologist George Sheenan , who wrote one of the early jogging handbooks , Running And Being . |
| 19 | Light gases , for example hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen , helium , carbon monoxide and methane are however , an important exception being non-odorous . |
| 20 | On this occasion the lack of odour can be detrimental , as several light gases , notoriously carbon monoxide and methane are toxic and the human nose unable to provide a warning of their presence . |
| 21 | Carbon monoxide and hydrogen are also excluded since , while always present , their concentrations are negligible . |
| 22 | The end product contains mainly carbon monoxide and hydrogen from the gasification step plus a little methane from the carbonisation . |
| 23 | Eventually a temperature is reached where the endothermic ( heat absorbing ) reaction of carbon dioxide with the hot coke to give carbon monoxide starts , CO 2 + C = 200 ( H = +39 kcal/mol ) |
| 24 | This gives a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in another endothermic reaction , |
| 25 | The combination of the chief components , carbon monoxide and hydrogen , are usually referred to as synthesis gas ( or syn-gas ) . |
| 26 | In order to use syn-gas directly it must be possible to vary the ratio of carbon monoxide to hydrogen . |
| 27 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 28 | An extensive chemistry is being built up involving the use of carbon monoxide , hydrogen , and other simple building block molecules in interconversions catalysed by metals . |
| 29 | This mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen is obtained from methane , higher hydrocarbons or coal |
| 30 | The key is that acetic acid can be put together out of carbon monoxide and methyl alcohol ( methanol , wood alcohol ) . |