Today in History Today is Wednesday, Aug. 17, the 230th day of 2016. There are 136 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 17, 1807, Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat began heading up the Hudson River on its successful round trip between New York and Albany.
carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide carbon dioxide co2 and carbon monoxide co are sometimes confused they are quite different in their effects on humans carbon dioxide co2 is present in the atmosphere today at 385 parts per million by volume or 0 039 percentarbon monoxide co unlike co2 is a bad poison co is produced by incomplete combustion i e when there isn t enough oxygen to make co2 you get co carbon monoxide binds very strongly to the iron in the hemoglobin in the blood once carbon monoxide attaches it is very difficult to release
Carbon monoxide is a product of the in- complete combustion of carbon and hydrocarbons in a limited supply of oxygen at high temperatures (circa 1000). It is colourless, odourless and non-irritant, therefore it cannot be detected by human senses.