The phrase "absorb carbon monoxide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing environmental science, health, or chemistry, particularly when referring to the process of taking in carbon monoxide by living organisms or materials.
Example: "Certain plants have the ability to absorb carbon monoxide, helping to improve air quality in urban areas."
Alternatives: "take in carbon monoxide" or "capture carbon monoxide."
At one time talk of invention to be attached to autombiles to absorb carbon monoxide.
There are materials that can selectively absorb carbon monoxide molecules, but the challenge is to make them release the gas again, without the need to heat them to high temperatures.
Solutions of CuCl in HCl or NH3 absorb carbon monoxide to form colourless complexes such as the chloride-bridged dimer [CuCl(CO)]2.
Now scientists in Japan have created a sponge-like material with nanoscale pores that becomes more efficient at absorbing carbon monoxide, the more is taken up.
That trees absorb carbon.
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and provide shade.
The procedure worked because a surface of red-hot carbonless iron readily absorbs carbon from the carbon monoxide generated in the enveloping charcoal fire.
By C. H. Gray, A. Cotter, and E. B. White The New Yorker, September 28 , 1935P. 9 Bugle Notes, Dying, Dying, Dying: On the eve of the 2nd World War it was discovered that ordinary percentages of carbon monoxide, absorbed over long periods of time, take away sex desire.
Poisons that are gases at room temperature (e.g., carbon monoxide) are absorbed mainly by inhalation, as are vapours, which are the gas phase of substances that are liquids at room temperature and atmospheric pressure (e.g., benzene).
The CON act as an oxygen donating catalyst which provides oxygen for the oxidation of carbon monoxide and absorbs oxygen for the reduction of nitrogen oxides.
Another teratogenic element in smoking is carbon monoxide, which is rapidly absorbed in the blood where it binds to haemoglobin and forms carboxyhaemoglobin which results in hypoxia, and might be teratogenic and fetotoxic [ 50].
