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What do catalytic converters do?

Chemistry For Your Life

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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Hydrocarbons are ones that should have reacted but didn't. And so they left over sort of from the original engine piston situation. They need to go from being a hydrocarbon to being H2O and carbon dioxide. So when they go into the bank, they're waiting until things can happen that can let them leave that way. The catalyst is trying to change filter out before it's this the leftover elements and atoms are put out into the air.

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