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carbon monoxide gas

n. an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon [syn: carbon monoxide, CO]

Usage examples of "carbon monoxide gas".

The rented Mercedes was not difficult to unlock, and within seconds Santine, almost invisible in white camouflage against the snow, had concealed two audio transmitters and, under the driver's seat, a radio-activated cylinder of odorless, colorless carbon monoxide gas.

Is it possible that sufficient carbon monoxide gas could have been introduced into the room in this way to have brought about the man's death?

She was unaware that carbon monoxide gas had already slowed her reactions.

Now, anything like a brazier will, unless there is proper ventilation, give rise to carbonic oxide or carbon monoxide gas, which is always present in the products of combustion, often to the extent of from five to ten per cent.

The carbon monoxide gas generated by the gas-and-ether death trap cleared out rapidly.

Implausible, even ludicrous ideas were suffusing his brain, invisible and odorless as carbon monoxide gas: that the Palouse was a normal landscape.