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NIH3D

Carbon Dioxide

PubChem 280
was used by NIH 3D workflows to automatically generate models for
Misterke
Created:
9/4/15
Submitted:
10/6/26
Published:
10/6/26

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3DPX-001879

Licensing:

Public Domain
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Version 3

Category

Small Molecules
Small Molecules
Description

Carbon dioxide is a one-carbon compound with formula CO2 in which the carbon is attached to each oxygen atom by a double bond. A colourless, odourless gas under normal conditions, it is produced during respiration by all animals, fungi and microorganisms that depend directly or indirectly on living or decaying plants for food. It has a role as a vasodilator agent, an anaesthetic, a solvent, an antagonist, a mouse metabolite, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolite, a member of greenhouse gas, an Escherichia coli metabolite, a human metabolite, a member of food packaging gas, a food propellant and a refrigerant. It is a gas molecular entity, a carbon oxide and a one-carbon compound.
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