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Carbon monoxide, CO, and carbon dioxide, CO2, are two famous oxides of carbon. However, C3O2 is another sub oxide of carbon. Carbon monoxide is formed from graphite and oxygen. On heating or burning the graphite, which is one of the many natural forms of elemental carbon, with a limited quantity of oxygen, we get carbon monoxide. |
However, when steam reacts with red hot coke, it also produces carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas i.e. H2. The CO and H2 when combined form a mixture known as water gas which is generally used as an industrial fuel.
Coke is considered as the impure residue of carbon which produced from the burning of coal. When formic acid HCOOH or oxalic acid H2C2O4 heated with concentrated sulfuric acid i.e. H2SO4, carbon monoxide is prepared. It is the laboratory production of CO. The sulfuric acid takes away the water from the formic acid or oxalic acid, and absorbs the water that is produced. Carbon monoxide easily gets burned in oxygen and formed carbon monoxide. This carbon dioxide is considered to very useful in gaseous fuel. At high temperature, metallurgical reducing agents reduce many metal oxides to elemental oxides such as copper (II) oxide, CuO and iron (III) oxide Fe2O3. In turn, they also get reduced to the metals by carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide is very dangerous poison and its fragrance-free and tasteless properties give no sign of its presence. In blood carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin. This combination is so strong and stable that the body process can not break it. However, once it get combined with hemoglobin it will not combine with oxygen and restricts the hemoglobin from holding oxygen in every part of body.
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