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They forgot the last part: “detectors”.
ummmm they forgot to put the happyface to a sad face ” turn that frown upside down” or maybe the oppisite
Who would actually want that is beyond me
Yeh, never pay for what you can get for free just by stepping outside. Be smart! I always say.
Where do you live that there’s CO floating around everywhere in abundance?
Is there anyone else there that’s living?
no you can’t. no you can’t get CO molecules easily, and even tiny concentrations (say 0.1%) are rather suffocating over short period of time.
Actually, there is one very easy way to obtain carbon monoxide and put it in your body. It’s called smoking. Even living with a smoker allows you to have measurable CO levels in your bloodstream several hours after you have left home.
Yes, you can. Yes, you can get CO molecules easily. Along with CO2, CO is produced by cars. CO is a by-product of combustion, and cars are run by burning gasoline. It isn’t in high enough concentrations to kill you, but it’s there, especially in areas of low air quality.
CO is easy to produce. Burning coal or charcoal at low temperatures or restricting air flow to a coal or wood stove produces deadly levels of CO. A blocked flue for a furnace or water heater recirculates the exhaust gases into the room removing the oxygen from the atmosphere until the flame in the burners burn bright blue white or yellow and produce CO. CO has the same weight as N2 and does not rise or fall, but distributes itself evenly through the atmosphere. CO detectors can be placed anywhere with equal effectiveness.
neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerds
Tripple bonding of the atoms is actually a cool process to study.
…leaves you breathless.
The double bonding of P’s in “triple” is also a rare but interesting phenomenon. Doesn’t leave me breathless, though.
I heard that putting some of that in your car leaves a nice smell.
…until it hits the nervous system and causes those sphincters to loosen…
It kills your poor little haemogoblins. Kills them dead. Makes them turn bright cherry red, then they turn up their pointy little toes and go “erk!” and die. It’s very sad.
Beef is sometimes treated with CO so that the myoglobin (related molecule to h[a]emoglobin) turns bright red and makes the meat look, arguably, fresher and more palatable. This is illegal in many places. As for me, I’d think, “Did they slaughter this steer by suffocating it with monoxide, rather than e.g. cutting its throat?”
Haemogoblins? What about ribosome orcs?
CO works well against both of them though.
Yay! A-SPENSIVE DEATH!
The Futurama suicide booths cost more and more each day with fewer options.
Perhaps it’s the nostalgia-edition with SUV sound and radio music from the sixties? Kill two, pay one?
What the doo-doo do they mean by “/up”? $25.00 is for something like hors’d'oeuvres, just enough of a whiff to get you dizzy? Then the price is prorated for larger amounts? If you want to suck the crazy, then it’s $250.00 plus tax. If you’re looking for death, it’s $1,500.00, plus funeral costs?
who would pay for something that can KILL u wow some people are judt dumb no offense
Indeed.
Stop it, Teal’c.
I know, it’s amazing how stupid some people can be, isn’t it?
I bought some the other day!
And how do you intend to callibrate CO detectors? You need actual CO in precise concentration to do that.
“judt dumb”. Yes. Absolutely. About as dumb as attaching “no offense” to a direct insult and..
Ah, fuggeddaboudit. In any case, no need to capitalise the “KILL” — everything and anything can kill you. Water, chocolate, nuts, oxygen, bread, milk, fruit, the lot. It all depends on how and where you use it and, in some cases, on whether you’re lucky or not; and we’re not even talking about poisons and drugs (alcohol etc) you can buy legally for various purposes. If someone buying CO is dumb – and you might want to talk to some chemistry majors about that – so are you for … well, every shopping trip ever. You’re paying money for something that can kill you. Sooo… idiot. No offense.
I hear it turns your lips blue, maybe I’ll give it a go!
well technically you can’t really get it for free unless you steal cars or something.
OH,, REALLY?
CO has gone up? Sell! Sell! Put everything we’ve got into hydrogen disulphide and skatole!
I think I stay up too late when I read these! Or maybe I get too much carbon monoxide, but you guys just crack me up!
Hum, Hydrogen Disulphide is important to many analytic reactions in chemistry, whereas I haven’t found a useful usage for CO yet. ^^
But could be useful to “take out” some oxygen out of other compounds.
It is used in meat packaging. It keeps the oxygen from spoiling the meat and keeps it a bright red. Reduced oxygen turns fingernails and lips blue except CO poisoning turns it bright red or pink.
What’s the opposite of a “useful usage”? Would it be a “useless usage” or “useful disuse”?
I must say though, Pro, that I like your idea of take-out oxygen. But really, at those times when I’m having an asthma attack, it would be better if you offered a rapid delivery service…
I had jerusalem artichokes for dinner. I’m about to corner the market!
Perhaps on sulfides…
Michelle Bachmann will be using this as further proof of the harmlessness of pollutants in her next argument in Congress. Thanks guys.
Well, she believes that the Great Depression was caused by “FDR’s Smoot-Hawley Tariff,” so obviously she can concoct an utterly insane argument entirely without our help.
CO is useful in Fischer-Tropsch production of Synthetic Natural Gas (SYNGAS), but that’s about it (and then it’s in large volumes).
Oh my goodness, I got bored typing this to correct the ignorance ;p
You really CAN get it for free in China. Lots of places.
Comes of all the coal fires…
What you are paying for is the convenience.