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<blockquote data-quote="sl1000794" data-source="post: 212490" data-attributes="member: 6974">Carbon monoxide has an atomic weight of 28 (O=16 and C=12) and oxygen has an atomic weight of 32 (16 + 16), so they are very close. But since carbon monoxide is lighter and is produced by combustion, the gas will be hotter than the air around it and will rise slightly.&nbsp; The common thinking is to place the CO monitor units at around head height or above so that the monitors will be exposed to the air that you are breathing.&nbsp; That's where we placed them in the apartments that we built that had interior wall furnaces.Back in the '80's we lost 3 young men that worked for a landscape contractor that was doing a project for us.&nbsp; They had gone on a deer hunting trip into the Sierra's and got caught/stuck in an early freak snow storm.&nbsp; They were in a pickup with a camper and ran out of propane.&nbsp; They used a charcoal hibachi for heat in the camper and all lost their lives.I see where guys have written on here that they experience headaches and attribute it to CO poisoning and I believe that they have had the headaches, but CO poisoning is called &quot;The Silent Killer&quot; because you never know that you are experiencing it.&nbsp; Your O2 saturation goes down as your blood doesn't carry enough oxygen to your cells and you simply pass out and eventually die from oxygen starvation.&nbsp; People out here in the SF Bay area that have been exposed to CO poisoning and survived are taken to the Pacific Grove recompression chamber (primarily used for dive related &quot;bends&quot; incidents) and are subjected to pressurization and treated with 100% oxygen to rid the body of the CO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sl1000794, post: 212490, member: 6974"] Carbon monoxide has an atomic weight of 28 (O=16 and C=12) and oxygen has an atomic weight of 32 (16 + 16), so they are very close. But since carbon monoxide is lighter and is produced by combustion, the gas will be hotter than the air around it and will rise slightly. The common thinking is to place the CO monitor units at around head height or above so that the monitors will be exposed to the air that you are breathing. That's where we placed them in the apartments that we built that had interior wall furnaces. Back in the '80's we lost 3 young men that worked for a landscape contractor that was doing a project for us. They had gone on a deer hunting trip into the Sierra's and got caught/stuck in an early freak snow storm. They were in a pickup with a camper and ran out of propane. They used a charcoal hibachi for heat in the camper and all lost their lives. I see where guys have written on here that they experience headaches and attribute it to CO poisoning and I believe that they have had the headaches, but CO poisoning is called "The Silent Killer" because you never know that you are experiencing it. Your O2 saturation goes down as your blood doesn't carry enough oxygen to your cells and you simply pass out and eventually die from oxygen starvation. People out here in the SF Bay area that have been exposed to CO poisoning and survived are taken to the Pacific Grove recompression chamber (primarily used for dive related "bends" incidents) and are subjected to pressurization and treated with 100% oxygen to rid the body of the CO. [/QUOTE]

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