<VV> You Got it RIGHT! Re: CO or CO2 ? NO CORVAIR

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Well, at high enough concentrations, CO2 can be  toxic.  But the 3% CO2 level 
you cite is 30,000 ppm whereas merely 100 ppm  of CO can have serious health 
effects.
So don't open too many cans of soda at one time in a small closed  room!!<GGG>
    But seriously, we should all have a CO detector  present when we're 
driving our Corvairs with the windows closed.
    Frank "prefers CO2 over CO"  Burkhard    
 
In a message dated 6/18/2008 1:42:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
jvhroberts at aol.com writes:

CO2 is  in fact, VERY toxic. At 5%, it's almost immediately deadly. At 3%, 
breathing  rate goes so high, one could have cardiac arrest, etc. The human body 
doesn't  know when it's out of oxygen, only when there's too much CO2, and it 
will go  to extreme measures to get rid of it, even if the atmosphere has too 
much in  it. 







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