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First Alert Combination Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarm Carbon monoxide poisoning can be deadly, which is why travelers have been stocking up on best-selling the First Alert Combination Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarm this year.
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
The team found that molecules such as silicon monoxide, water vapor, and aluminum monoxide appear exactly where clumpy dust clouds were seen in the VLT data.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025
The titanium dioxide converts into titanium monoxide, a much less stable form and therefore more damaging to tissues in the body.
—Nina Dietz, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025
Carbon monoxide is a quiet assassin.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
The team found that molecules such as silicon monoxide, water vapor, and aluminum monoxide appear exactly where clumpy dust clouds were seen in the VLT data.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025
The titanium dioxide converts into titanium monoxide, a much less stable form and therefore more damaging to tissues in the body.
—Nina Dietz, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025
Carbon monoxide is a quiet assassin.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Monoxide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monoxide. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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monoxide
noun
mon·ox·ide
mə-ˈnäk-ˌsīd 
: an oxide containing only one oxygen atom in the molecule
Medical Definition
monoxide
noun
mon·ox·ide
mə-ˈnäk-ˌsīd
: an oxide containing one atom of oxygen per molecule see carbon monoxide
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