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take the gas atach it to the flask with limewater....if carbon dioxide is present then it will turn cloudy...thats the answer for test of carbon dioxide

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If we bring a burning candle to the sample of gas it will be extinguished, or if bubbled through lime water (Calcium hydroxide) it will turn milky due to the formation of Calcium Carbonate.

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You burn it. If it is actually Carbon dioxide it won't burn

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Limewater

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