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my fire alarm said there was carbonmonoxide in my house !!!should i be worried?

my fire alarm is hard wired soo its electric.i mean i didnt just say it..i pushed the butten in the middle and it starrted beeping.then like 30 seconds later it said.traces or carbon have been foundi did it again and it said the sameit is just a test to make sure it working or was it real????????i called my friend (since her dads a firemen) and asked him he said its probole ok but is there any way you can tell if there is any in the house???

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Remember that an infra red image is a false colour image because you can't see infra red. What colour it appears depends on the imaging system used. Most night goggles give a green image; the more IR an object reflects or emits the lighter green it appears. Very bright objects, such as a very hot object, appear almost white. Infra red satellite weather pictures taken at night are black and white. The whiter the cloud, the colder and therefore higher altitude is the upper surface the satellite is viewing. My digital camera shows the IR flash of a TV remote as white. The CCD in a digital camera is sensitive to near infra red as well as visible. When artificial retinas are transplanted into blind people, chances are they'll be similar to today's CCDs, so these people will be able to see in the dark. Have you ever noticed that TV footage of a fire often shows the flames as pink or crimson like red fireworks? That's because the camera can see near IR as well as red, and interprets it as red, but if you were there, since you can't see heat radiation, the flames would appear the usual orange or yellow.
uhh. sorry. :) you shouldn't have been picking your nose.
There is a US national regulation called the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Other countries have similar regulations. On any street, road, parking lot, bike path, etc. that is open to the public, all traffic signs, markings, signals, and so forth must follow the Manual. The MUTCD states that The SPEED HUMP sign should be used to give warning of a vertical deflection in the roadway that is designed to limit the speed of traffic. So, agency that maintains the road should have put up signs to warn people of the bumps. The Manual also has pavement markings that can be used to make speed humps more visible. Is that enough to make a case out of? I dunno. Probbly depends on what judge you get.

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