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You need to try and relight a glowing splint. If it does relight, then there is oxygen gas.

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Oxygen supports combustion so a good method for positive test for oxygen is to take a glowing splint and place it in a sample of gas. It re-ignites, then the gas is oxygen.

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A glowing splint will burst into flame/smoke in pure oxygen (using a test tube).

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Hydrogen gas will make a 'pop' sound in the presence of a flaming splint, or a flame of any sort.

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8y ago

Oxygen will relight a glowing splint

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