Chemistry
State three tests by which you could identify a gas as being chlorine.
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Tests for chlorine:
- It turns moist blue litmus paper red and finally bleaches it.
- It turns moist starch iodide paper (KI + starch) blue black
- Pass the gas through silver nitrate solution, a white ppt. of silver chloride is formed.
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