- carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide
- Carbon dioxide is the gas we exhale when we breathe; carbon monoxide is the highly poisonous gas associated with car exhausts.
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carbon monoxide — a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas, CO, that burns with a pale blue flame, produced when carbon burns with insufficient air: used chiefly in organic synthesis, metallurgy, and in the preparation of metal carbonyls, as nickel carbonyl. [1870 75] … Universalium
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