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[Black Hole]

Is CO heavier or lighter than air?

 

[antipodean]

Is CO heavier or lighter than air?

I believe it is heavier than air, that is why one needs to take serious precautions when cleaning tanks and other containers where you have to crawl inside, even when the top is open.

 

[EEPhil]

Your friendly neighbourhood AI (DuckDuckGo) says slightly lighter than air. Makes sense, my CO detector is higher than the boiler.

 

[EEPhil]

Well, that's confusing. Try..

Is Carbon Monoxide Heavier Than Air? | Safety Guide

Is carbon monoxide heavier than air? Discover the physics behind carbon monoxide behavior and how it affects detector placement and ventilation. Read more!

pksafety.com

 

[gomezz]

By simple reasoning a molecule of CO is heavier than a molecule of O2. But by that same reasoning a molecule of water H2O is much lighter so why does water not float on air? Need a chemist to explain that to this layman.

 

[Black Hole]

It's not just the mass of the constituent atoms, you also have to consider the overall volume those atoms occupy.