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It causes the formation of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood, which inhibits oxygen intake. Without oxygen, you die.
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It combines with the hemoglobin in your blood cells, with deprives the cells of oxygen, and without oxygen in your blood the cells die.
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Because you can burn your mouth on the car's tailpipe.
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Carbon monoxide has tendency of combining with heamoglobin in blood 200 times than that of oxygen.It forms carboxyhaemoglobin and deprives the blood of oxygen.
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When carbon monoxide is inhaled, it takes the place of oxygen in haemoglobin, the red blood pigment that normally carries oxygen to all parts of the body. Because carbon monoxide binds to haemoglobin several hundred times more strongly than oxygen, its effects are cumulative and long-lasting, causing oxygen starvation throughout the body. Prolonged exposure to fresh air (or pure oxygen) is required for the CO-tainted hemoglobin (carboxyhaemoglobin) to clear. Carbon monoxide detectors for homes are now readily available and are increasingly being required by municipal building codes.
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