Carbon monoxide (CO), an air pollutant, when inhaled readily binds with the hemoglobin in the blood stream to form a life threatening compound known as

Carbon monoxide binds haemoglobin to form carboxyhaemoglobin, a life-threatening compound.

It binds far more strongly than oxygen, starving the tissues of oxygen.

The name hemoglobous is not a real compound.

Carbo hemoglobin is not the correct name for this compound.

Carbon mono hemoglobin is not the accepted term either.

Carboxyhaemoglobin in blood causes headache, dizziness and, at high levels, death.