The silent killer

So what is carbon monoxide? It's a good question, right? Carbon monoxide is carbon and one oxygen molecule.

Carbon monoxide is produced when the fuel is unburnt, so incomplete.

Perfect combustion gives you carbon dioxide and water.

But incomplete combustion gives you carbon monoxide, CO, and another thing called aldehydes, which is an alcohol.

But not an alcohol you can drink.

Don't drink this alcohol.

And there is a terrifying part of carbon monoxide.

that no one really knows what it is.

And if you do, perfect.

But it has no color.

It has no smell.

It has no taste.

You can't detect it with any of your senses.

Not even a little bit.

It has the same weight as the air we breathe.

The reason it's so dangerous is that it gets into your bloodstream.

And carbon monoxide binds with Hemoglobin, about 200 times more than oxygen does.

It pretty much, or basically, hijacks your red blood cells.

Your blood cells are flowing, and it carries this poisonous gas instead of oxygen, which we kind of need oxygen to breathe.

The symptoms of carbon dioxide poisoning are really sneaky.

They're kind of masked a little bit.

There's things that we get that relate to carbon monoxide poisoning.

So tell me what you think of this one.

Headaches, dizziness, nauseous, weakness, confusion.

Sounds kind of familiar, right? Not a Friday night after a night of partying.