Re: Carbon monoxide

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU>]

Jim,

        Carbon monoxide is a product of incomplete combustion...depends on
the kind of fuel and the conditions of burning.  We do get CO when coal
burns, but usually less both because of the fuel composition and the fact
that it is easier to control the conditions of combustion in a stationary
coal-fired plant...

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Green [SMTP:JMGreen@SISNA.COM]
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 11:36 PM
> To:   PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
> Subject:      Carbon monoxide
>
> A non-science friend wonders as follows:
>
> |Why do we seem to get more carbon monoxide when gasoline burns than when
> |anything else does?  Do we get it when coal burns?  Do we get as much?
> |
> |Is carbon monoxide stable?
> |
> |I am ruminating on greenhouse cases.
>
> What would you tell him?
>
>
> Jim Green
> JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen