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how does carbon monoxide damages your body

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Answered by faizan18

Carbon monoxide is harmful when breathed because it displaces oxygen in theblood and deprives the heart, brain, and other vital organs of oxygen. Large amounts of CO can overcome you in minutes without warning—causing you to lose consciousness and suffocate.

09pramod: co has more affinity toward the haemoglobin(hb) present in rbc so instead of hb combining with oxygen it combine with co and form carboxyhaemoglobin which is very harmful it can cause you vital disease

Answered by Sign

Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas. It binds to haemoglobin of the blood to form carboxyhaemoglobin complex which is 300 times more stable than oxyhaemoglobin complex.
When concentration of carboxyhaemoglobin reaches about 3-4% the oxygen carrying capacity of blood is greatly reduced. This results in headache, nervousness and cardiovascular disorder.

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