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How will you prove that a given salt is a carbonate of a metal?

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To salt add few drops of dilute HCl or `H_2SO_4`. If colourless gas is evolved with brisk effervescence and on passing it through lime water, the lime water turns milky, the gas is `CO_2` and salt is a carbonate of metal.
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