carbon monoxide gas

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

   Synonymscarbon monoxideCO

   Broadermonoxide

Questions about carbon monoxide gas

What does carbon monoxide gas mean?

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

What is another word for carbon monoxide gas?

Close synonyms include carbon monoxide, 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 gas a common word?

carbon monoxide gas 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.