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Case Reports
. 2005 Jun;26(2):177-80.

A suicide using a homemade carbon monoxide "death machine"

Joseph A Prahlow  1 , Barrett W Doyle
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  • PMID: 15894855
Case Reports

A suicide using a homemade carbon monoxide "death machine"

Joseph A Prahlow et al. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2005 Jun.

Abstract

Deaths related to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are common. Most represent accidents and suicides, and most result from CO production via the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing substances. Suicide via CO toxicity is not uncommon and typically involves the use of motor-vehicle exhaust as a source of CO. Presented herein is a case of suicidal CO poisoning in which the CO was produced via a chemical reaction between formic acid and sulfuric acid within a homemade device.

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