How is carbon monoxide formed and destroyed?

Answer 1

Carbon monoxide, CO is formed when combustion of carbon based materials take placed and there is not enough oxygen to create carbon dioxide. It is a product of imperfect combustion of hydrocarbon fuels (such as oil, gasoline, natural gas, and coal) and is almost always formed to some degree when something is burned because burning anything never results in perfect combustion. On an industrial scale however, carbon monoxide is formed in a completely different reaction, known as steam reformation. In this process methane gas (also known as natural gas) is combined with steam (gas phase water) at high temperature over a catalyst to form hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide: CH4 + H2O --> 3H2 + CO This is how almost all hydrogen gas is generated in the world today. The carbon monoxide is not very useful by itself, and can be further reacted with steam to give more hydrogen gas, in the water gas shift reaction: CO + H2O --> CO2 + H2 Carbon monoxide, is one atom of carbon bonded to one atom of oxygen. Carbon monoxide is dangerous to people and animals because it can bond with hemoglobin in the bloodstream and block the normal absorption of oxygen by the blood. It is invisible and odorless and deadly. Although it is not generally considered a direct greenhouse gas, it does have important effects on global warming. Carbon monoxide is used in the floats of some colonistic animals resembling jellyfish (such as the Portuguese Man-o-War). See the links to the left for more information about CO, the steam reformation reaction, the gas shift reaction, and CO's effect on the atmosphere. The word is monoxide.

It is the product of partially burned carbon ( CO ).

It can be further burned to carbon dioxide ( CO2 ).

It's not stable and is important only because it has an affinity for hemoglobin,

thus blocking the bloods ability to carry oxygen to your tissues. CO

Answer 2

to destroy it you have to burn it

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