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When sodium hydrogen carbonate is added to ethanoic acid a gas evolves. Consider the following statements about the gas evolved?

(A) It turns lime water milky.


(B) It is evolved with a brisk effervescence.


(C) It has a smell of burning sulphur.


(D) It is also a by-product of respiration. The correct statements are:


When sodium hydrogen carbonate is added to the ethanoic acid , CO2 gas evolved, and it turns lime water milky, it’s also a by-product of respiration and it evolves with brisk effervescence.

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