carbon monoxide

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   an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

   Synonymscarbon monoxide gasCO

   Broadermonoxide

Questions about carbon monoxide

What does carbon monoxide mean?

carbon monoxide means "an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon".

What is another word for carbon monoxide?

Close synonyms include carbon monoxide gas, CO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbon monoxide a common word?

carbon monoxide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.