Stellar Evolution: From Protostars to the Main Sequence. (also see Review of Heat Flow Inside Stars) As previously discussed, most of the formation time between the initial collapse of an interstellar cloud and the formation of the star that results from that collapse is spent in a slow contraction.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless, and tasteless gas that is near impossible to identify without a proper detector. It is caused by fuels not burning completely, including wood, gasoline, coal, propane, natural gas, gasoline, and heating oil.
The alarm points on carbon monoxide detectors are not a simple alarm level (as in smoke detectors) but are a concentration-time function. At lower concentrations (e.g. 100 parts per million) the detector will not sound an alarm for many tens of minutes.