• Question: Would anything happen if carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide combined as a gas

    Asked by ells8 to clairemarieroberts, Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 27 Apr 2012.
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      Pete Etchells answered on 27 Apr 2012:

      Great question! Carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide don’t react with each other, so they wouldn’t combine to form something new if they came into contact with each other. In fact, they come into contact with each other all the time; it’s just that nothing happens! it’s kind of like when carbon dioxide and oxygen come together in air – they don’t react with each other, they just get mixed up.

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