It can kill you! Yeah, this thing is silent and deadly! Colorless and odorless, you never know where it can be leaking from. Can you smell? Nope! Can you taste it? Nahhh! Have you figure it out yet? The thing that might take your life right now, or maybe tonight or maybe tomorrow. No? Well, I’ll be nice and tell you. The poisonous demand that lurk through the air so free and careless is Carbon Monoxide or CO. In this paper, you will learn all what and how it can kill you plus how you can protect yourself from Mr.CO Carbon Monoxide can be found any and everywhere. Cars, trucks, small engines, stoves, lanterns, grills, fireplaces, gas ranges, or furnaces do hold and produce Carbon Monoxide. It is easy to ingest, just breathe. Ahhh how do you feel …show more content…
now?A little bit off perhaps? Maybe a headache, dizziness, vomiting, chest pain, confusion or a weakness. Oh my, you’ve got the symptoms. It is known to feel like the flu but if you do breath in too much you may pass out or die in just minutes. If you are drunk or sleepy most of the time you do die before exhibiting the symptoms. Each year over 400 die from Carbon Monoxide, 20,000 visit the ER and 4,000 are then hospitalized for treatment. Anybody can get it too, babies, small children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly are all at risk. Better call grandma! When Mr.CO reaches over 35 ppm (parts per million) it is no longer considered safe. This will happen over 8 hours. If when it reaches over 35 ppm the symptoms will slowly start to appear for you over a 2-3 hour span. Medium exposure is between 200 ppm and 800 ppm. The highest level of exposure is anything over 800 ppm. Now I know I may have scared you a little bit.
Opps… But now I’ll tell you how to stay safe, protected, and healthy. Firth take a big breath of air and hold! Hold… You still holding, can’t breath? Silly human that's not how you stay healthy, safe, and protected at all but it was fun to see you try. For real now I’ll tell you. A few ways to stay safe in your home is to install a battery-operated CO detector in your home. Check and replace the battery when you change the time on your clocks each spring and fall. Another way is too when you buy gas equipment, buy only equipment carrying the seal of a national testing agency, such as Underwriters’ Laboratories seal. One last tip is to make sure gas appliances are vented correctly and never ever use a generator inside your home unless it is seated less than 20 feet from any window, door, or vent. That was a lot to take in, but you can do it, buddy. I have faith in you. Carbon Monoxide is a very serious gas though. It is nothing to joke about. Although we don’t know it is there to be honest it is. We just have to take extra precautions to ensure our health, safety and life will be caused no harm. Mr. CO is a silent killer but let's be the loud savior for
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Willy is showing all the signs of CO poisoning, he is showing the tiredness, the hair loss, and the sensitivities of different foods. The flashbacks, whenever Willy has a flashback the flute plays. One day when Willy was driving home, he started to daydream about his old Chevy. When Willy was daydreaming about his old Chevy, he started to drift off the road, which caused him to crash and send him over the railing of the bridge. Linda doesn’t think that it was an accident, Linda thinks it was on purpose. Although, Willy has carbon monoxide poisoning due to Being tried and very weak, mood swings and irritability, the fuzziness and poor decision making.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a colorless gas, which was first discovered in 1577 by Van Helmont who detected it in the products of both fermentation and charcoal burning. CO2 is used in solid, liquid, and gas forms in a variety of industrial processes. These include: beverage carbonation, dry ice, welding and chemicals manufacturing. It is produced by the combustion of all carbonaceous fuels and can be recovered in an abundance of ways. It is widely used today as a by-product of synthetic ammonia production, fermentation, and from flue gases by absorption process. CO2 is also a product of animal metabolism and is important in the life cycles of plants and animals. It is present in the atmosphere only in small quantities (.03% by vol.)
Carbon monoxide is a major component in smoke from fires. It can cause a loss of mental acuity, acute nausea and severe headaches (Reinhardt 33). Death can occur at extreme levels of this intoxication and it can even cause shortness of breath and dizziness (Reinhardt 35). It may not seem like it is that bad, but one must consider that these things add up and can really affect their health and well-being. The carbon monoxide levels tend to shoot up when the wind speed goes up during daily exposure (U.S. Department of Agriculture 3). It also depends on what kind of duties you have as a firefighter; because those with the highest level of carbon monoxide in their system were a part of the direct attack and those with the least were the fire starters (U.S. Department of Agriculture 3). Carbon monoxide is a powerful poison that can kill you and it is absolut...
Each year about 3,000 nonsmoking adults die of lung cancer as a result breathing the sm...
For this research paper, I chose to discuss the Louisiana air quality and its effects on the community. I was raised here in Baker, Louisiana which is north of Baton Rouge. Growing up I noticed something very striking and odd. We are overly exposed to chemical plants and their outputs. Driving around Baton Rouge at night and seeing a distant flame I often wonder what it really was. I wonder how this was affecting the community. How was this affecting our health? Upon doing research, I discovered it is called upset emissions. Upset emissions are unplanned events which release VOCs into the air. The Bucket Brigade which is an anti-energy group refers to emissions as accidents. Every year they release an annual report which gives information on the State of Louisiana air quality. A group called Energize LA made a rebuttal against the report. They argued that the Bucket Brigade facts were inaccurate. The views of both will be explained in detail. For this research paper, there will be a discussion on the upset emission effects on communities and health. As well how it correlates to the previous class discussions on the Clean Air Act.
Suppose you had a long, stressful day. The only thing you can think about is relaxing in the comfort of your own home, never once considering the dangers that may be lingering around you. When we are in our own homes, we feel protected and less susceptible of being injured or hurt. We lock our doors at night, because it gives us a sense of security. We become so consumed with protecting ourselves from society, that we fail to acknowledge the dangers that we are faced with every day. Just because we can’t see, smell, or hear something, doesn’t necessarily mean we are out of harms way. The effects of carbon monoxide are often fatal and each of us is at risk of becoming affected with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.
PURPOSE: To persuade my audience that we must take action now to control air pollution
The only way to detect the gas is through carbon monoxide detectors. The benefit of the detector when it's wired into the alarm system is that help can be dispatched quickly if high levels of carbon monoxide are detected. 4. Protect Your Valuables While your family is your biggest asset, the second biggest thing in your home is your possessions. You want to protect your items with the right technology.
Although home insulation is very durable, over time, it can become damaged and less effective in preventing heat transfer. That is when you'll need to replace it. You should be aware that the only times when you should completely remove any section of insulation is when it has been fire damaged, water damaged, or has become infested with rodents, mold or other pests. If you think your insulation needs to be removed because it looks dirty or tattered, or you want to replace it with better insulation, the odds are that the insulation is still good and performing its job and need not be removed. A professional insulation inspection will reveal whether or not you need to replace your insulation - or just part of it.
When I turn on my television screen all I see is my kind. My kind lying face down on the ground surrounded in a pool of their own blood. It is not only adults but kids that had dreams and aspirations in life to become something that will never come true. Then I see retaliation some are peaceful protest and other are violent, only making matters worst. This playlist goes out to the young black souls that lost their lives over the past four years.
Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people
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Lung cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart Disease, Stroke, Asthma Reproductive Effects in Women, Premature, Low Birth-Weight Babies, Diabetes, Blindness, Cataracts and Age- Related Macular Degeneration, do any of those sound appealing? Well, that’s the cause of smoking. When you smoke you cut your life short by 10 years or even more then that, so that’s a question why are they so easy to access? Why is their substitutes but are as just a dangerous? Anywhere you look you will probably see someone you don't know or even someone you know smoking a cigarette, and most the time it’s because they are addicted to them. So what’s in cigarettes? Why are people not worried about the outcomes of smoking, because it’s just lighting up, right? It’s just let me smoke this one then that’s it, I will quit? Right?
Many health issues are caused by smoking cigarettes, but cardiovascular disease and lung cancer are the main effects of it. Carbon monoxide is the chemical compound found in cigarettes that causes cardiovascular disease; it “reduces the blood 's capacity to carry oxygen to heart and other organs thus causing angina or chest pain, aneurysm, stroke and gangrene” (Anurupa). According to Dr. Anurupa, “smoking can cause the blood to clot up because the carbon monoxide thickens the blood and it will increase the fatty substances in the blood stream, as a result of heart attack.” Nicotine is another harmful chemical compound within cigarettes that can cause harmful health effects to the body, like lung cancer. With lung cancer, smokers have “difficulties with breathing, feeling weak, and keep coughing” (Yoder 1). The chances for smokers to recover from lung cancer are low even if it is discovered in an early stage; this is a disease that takes a long period of time to recover. Smokers should not have to suffer from these horrible health problems. Banning smoking in all indoor and outdoor public places will help to reduce the number of smokers suffering from these horrible
Every so often, a story on the news will be shared about someone who has died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The thought of this actually happening to yourself or someone you know is a scary one and not so unrealistic. Widely known as the “silent killer,” carbon monoxide has no odor, no color, and no taste. Without a detector, it is difficult to tell if high levels of carbon monoxide are existent. If the early signs of high carbon monoxide levels are not detected, people who are subjected to these high levels are likely to lose consciousness and possibly die (New York State Department of Health, 2014).