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CAPE Chemistry Unit 1 · 2007 · Paper 2 · Question 3(d)(ii)

A student heated two calcium salts, A and B, and the following results were obtained. Compound A decomposed to give a gas which formed a white precipitate on being bubbled into an aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide. Compound B decomposed to give two gases. One gas was brown in colour and turned moist blue litmus paper red and the other gas rekindled a glowing splint.

Identify the TWO gases evolved on heating Compound B.

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