单词 | carbon monoxide |
释义 | carbon monoxiden. A colourless, odourless, flammable, extremely toxic gas formed by the incomplete combustion of carbon.Formula: CO. Formerly called carbonic oxide. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poisonous gas carbonic oxide1802 poison gas1816 cyanogen1823 carbon monoxide1868 sneeze gas1918 sneezing gas1918 Lewisite1921 sternutator1922 blister gas1936 nausea gas1936 Zyklon1939 harassing agent1968 1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) ii. 177 Carbon monoxide is a combustible gas. 1881 S. W. Johnson tr. C. R. Fresenius Man. Qualitative Chem. Anal. (new ed.) 216 Carbon monoxide..burns with a blue flame. 1947 Yale Law Jrnl. 56 500 Asphyxiation by carbon monoxide accounts for about 25% of all suicides. 1989 Which? Apr. 191/2 Vehicles also emit smoke, carbon monoxide..and lead (a potent neurotoxin) from leaded petrol. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xv. 469 Forests..function as the world's major air filter removing carbon monoxide and other air pollutants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1868 |
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