It eventually starves your body of oxygen.
What Harm Does Carbon Monoxide Do? What Can Be Done About This?
Where do you get that soil organisms convert carbon dioxide into C02? Considering every gas automobile emits 7000 ppm compared to the ,5 percent that exists in nature.
Carbon monoxide combines with haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is the red substance in blood which transports oxygen round the body. It combines with oxygen in the lungs, carries oxygen as oxyhaemoglobin round the body and releases oxygen to the tissues.
The freed haemoglobin then circulates back to the lungs to pick up more oxygen. If carbon monoxide is present in the lungs, it combines with haemoglobin.
Carbon monoxide is 200 times better at combining with haemoglobin than oxygen is. It therefore ties up haemoglobin so that haemoglobin can no longer combine with oxygen. At a level of 0.1%, carbon monoxide will kill us quickly; at lower levels, it causes headaches and dizziness and affects reaction times of a person exposed to it.
Being colorless and odorless, carbon monoxide gives no warning of its presence.
Nature can deal with carbon monoxide. Soil organisms convert it into carbon dioxide or methane. Moreover the tuning of vehicle engines can be altered to provide more air and produce only carbon dioxide and water.
Secondly many cars are now fitted with catalytic converters. The hot exhaust gases passes over a catalyst, which helps oxidize carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. Catalytic converters only work when the petrol contains no lead compounds
The freed haemoglobin then circulates back to the lungs to pick up more oxygen. If carbon monoxide is present in the lungs, it combines with haemoglobin.
Carbon monoxide is 200 times better at combining with haemoglobin than oxygen is. It therefore ties up haemoglobin so that haemoglobin can no longer combine with oxygen. At a level of 0.1%, carbon monoxide will kill us quickly; at lower levels, it causes headaches and dizziness and affects reaction times of a person exposed to it.
Being colorless and odorless, carbon monoxide gives no warning of its presence.
Nature can deal with carbon monoxide. Soil organisms convert it into carbon dioxide or methane. Moreover the tuning of vehicle engines can be altered to provide more air and produce only carbon dioxide and water.
Secondly many cars are now fitted with catalytic converters. The hot exhaust gases passes over a catalyst, which helps oxidize carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. Catalytic converters only work when the petrol contains no lead compounds