Carbon Monoxide
Many sources on over Moscow will be able, given advice on gauze bandages and respirators. Tried – did not like, because were looking for information. On gauze can be forgotten at once: this band is just annoying. The smoke particles and carbon monoxide through it freely. But the skin starts to sweat enormously. Almost the same thing with a respirator: carbon monoxide (II) quietly seeps through any obstacles.
Output could be a gas mask with replaceable cartridges with activated carbon. That’s something only in the heat it does not want to wear. The conclusion is that gauze masks and respirators – situation is not saved. *** Unlike carbon dioxide, and easier – carbon dioxide, his cousin – carbon monoxide rather tricky. It binds to iron in red blood cells of blood – red blood cells – is irreversible. That is, if we breathe the air, where MPC (maximum permissible concentration) in the 1.5-10 times higher than normal, there is an accumulation of broken molecules of hemoglobin in red blood cells. Actually, the name “Carbon Monoxide” – comes from the fact that in the houses where no enough oxygen, there was incomplete oxidation of carbonaceous fuels (firewood and charcoal), and tenants UGORALI.
So now we ugoraem slowly, breathing in smog and hot air. Thus, the promise of advice. *** If you have stay in Moscow, it makes sense in all corners of the apartment to place a bowl of cold water. Basins, buckets, pots – it is desirable that the contact surface between air and water was highest.