MistressPhoenix t1_j1w35ai wrote on December 27, 2022 at 8:57 PM

Reply to comment by Topinambourg in TIFU and almost killed my whole family by lizziebordensbae

It most certainly can kill you. First hit when searching if natural gas can kill you

Topinambourg t1_j1w40e9 wrote on December 27, 2022 at 9:03 PM

Leaving natural gas open doesn't make Carbon Monoxide.

Carbon Monoxide is created by incomplete combustion, usually because of a defective device burning gas. This is absolutely not the case here.

It's useless to share random links if you don't read them nor understand them.

There was a 0% chance of a carbon monoxide intoxication by leaving the stove open (and no flame). As I said there are explosion dangers but it's not that straightforward and depends on the gas type and its concentration. So it depends on the volume of the house, the ventilation, etc

Now badly maintained devices can leak gas while working, and some of this gas can be CO, result of an incomplete combustion and a device malfunction. Once again that's not at all what happened there

Talvert182 t1_j1x4v03 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 1:25 AM

You don’t need CO to die from asphyxiation. You just need enough of a gas to displace the oxygen. It’s the same reason people die from inhaling nitrous oxide. Carbon Monoxide is just especially good at it and used to be a lot more common.

Topinambourg t1_j1yh3v8 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:24 AM

CO doesn't kill because of asphyxiation. It fixates on the blood cells and prevents them to work correctly. That's why it's called intoxication/poisoning.

OP cottage isn't a hermetic minuscule vault, the gas outflow would never asphyxiate anyone, because there is an enormous oxygen volume and because the place isn't perfectly hermetic from the outside air. It's almost like saying the CO2 created by their breathing could have killed them. And once again the smell would wake anyone up way before the level of oxygen is low enough to be damaging.

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