Too much carbon monoxide makes a person dead, not drunk.
As an example of the use of Ostwald's energy-equations for the indirect determination we may take the case of carbon monoxide.
Hot concentrated sulphuric acid also decomposes allantoin, with production of ammonia, and carbon monoxide and dioxide.
Oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon monoxide have the value 1.4; these gases have diatomic molecules, a fact capable of demonstration by other means.
The value of d can be evaluated by considering the combustion of amorphous carbon to carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.