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.
(Detectors like this are called colorimetric because they detect and measure a color change in the chemical blob.). Photo: How an electronic, colorimetric carbon monoxide detector works. An LED shines through a colored chemical detector onto a photocell. When carbon monoxide is present, the detector changes color, the beam is interrupted, and the photocell no longer picks up light.