Explain how carbon monoxide is lethal when one inhales.

      

Explain how carbon monoxide is lethal when one inhales.

  

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Kavungya
Carbon monoxide with haemoglobin to form cherry – red carboxyhaemoglobin. This is much more stable than oxyhaemoglobin and thus the blood can no longer act as an oxygen carrier. Consequently the organism dies of suffocation since oxygen carrier in the blood stream has been incapaciated.
Kavungya answered the question on March 25, 2019 at 13:02


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