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POISONOUS GASES
Name | Concentration | given off by | Dangerous places | Signs and Symptoms | Treatment |
CO2 carbon dioxide heavier than air (specific gravity 1,52) | Innocuous 400: 1000000 0.04% Lethal 80000: 1000000 8% | our lungs in exhalation, carbon dioxide tank (a respirotary stimulant during anesthesia to help to maintain base equilibrium in certain complicated types of medical cases), «dry ice» (by sublimation of solid carbon dioxide to gaseous carbon dioxide) | Tends to gravitate to low areas and accumulate in cellars, manholes, wells, silos, caves and mines, tightly closed ice houses and any confined premises | Symptoms of asphyxia: dizziness, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), a feeling if the head wewrw going to explode, sweating (dyaphoresis), muscular weekness and fatigue, sleepness, lassitude, high blood pressure, rapid pulse, general collapde, coma, death | 1. Enter into unsafe areas with adequate safeguards (an ordinary oxygen mask) 2. MoCases of poisoning ve the victim into fresh air, 3, Start immediately artificial respiration if breathing has ceased or is very poor 4 Cases of poisoning should be hospitalized as quickly as possible. |
CO carbon monoxide | Innocuous 400: 1000000 0.04% for one hour, 150: 1000000 0.015% for 8 hours
| burning where there is a limited supply of fresh air, car exhausts
| Unventilated places: garages, automobiles with closed windows, even if vehickle is moving | Headache, dizziness, yawning, faintness, ringing in the ears, nausea, pounding in the heart, bright cherry-red color of skin, lethargy, stupor, coma, death Keep in mind that any person
| Keep in mind that any person experiencing the early symptoms must seek fresh air because a lethargy make any effort seem to be scarcely worth the bother |
H2S hydrogen sulfide | Innocuous 10: 1000000 0.001% Lethal 1000: 1000000 0, 1% in 2 min. | the decomposition of organic matter | Cesspool;s, tannery vats, fat-rendering plants, the holds and bilges of fishing vessels, sour crude tanks, manholesewer | Dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain, cardiac irregularity, anoxic convulsions, coma |
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