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carbon monoxide

NOUN
colorless odorless toxic gas
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A rom-com need not be a sparkling shelf covered with bon-bons, but it shouldn’t be a nauseating cloud of carbon monoxide that makes you want to flee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Det Chief Insp Ben Robinson said that although the post-mortem examinations, which were held on Sunday, were yet to establish a cause, carbon monoxide poisoning remained a primary line of inquiry.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

The 2009 endangerment finding was the result of a major report by the EPA, which identified six greenhouse gases, including carbon monoxide and methane, as endangering current and future generations.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Before JWST, researchers relied on ground-based telescopes to measure molecules such as water and carbon monoxide in exoplanet atmospheres.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green