carbon monoxide

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carbon monoxide (uncountable)

2. (inorganic chemistry) A colorless, odorless, flammable, highly toxic gas.

   carbon monoxide poisoning

   • 1959, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights‎^[1], 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 P₂Mo_20–24O_2–60.

• (chemistry): CO

• carbon dioxide