CI What is the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
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with regard to the effect on the human body, and Fs diesel smoke dangerous to health?
ACarbon monoxide (CO) is a half-burnt gas
resulting from partial combustion that can be said to be "searching for more oxygen" for conversion to carbon dioxide (CO2). If inhaled in quantity by a human being, it extracts oxygen from the bloodstream and can be lethal. Death by carbon-monoxide poisoning is extremely painful.
Carbon dioxide is a fully-burnt gas and is harmless—unless the amount inhaled is such that there is insufficient air fa mixture of iitrogen and oxygen) to sustain life, so causing 3sphyxia.
Diesel smoke is one of the many forms of 3ir pollution that may be conducive to lung :roubles of various kinds. At worst it can only 3e harmful in prolonged doses, and there are lo indications that it contains cancer-producing ]gents.