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carbon monoxide comparison table

Subject	has decompostion temperature	is not accelerated by	is a kind of	is an instance of	has definition	has charge	has symbol
diatomic molecule	< 10000 K		molecule		a molecule containing only two atoms which can be of different elements
interstellar molecule			molecule		Molecule present in interstellar space. As of late 1974, at least 33 molecular species had been identified with reasonable certainty.
neutral particle		electric or magnetic fields	particle		A particle with zero charge	0
carbon monoxide	< 10000 K	electric or magnetic fields		neutral particle	A molecule consisting of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom. It is the most abundant interstellar molecule after molecular hydrogen and is especially useful because it radiates at radio wavelengths, so astronomers can use it to map the distribution of molecular hydrogen.	0	CO

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