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Simple testing for the presence of carbon I tried to edit the title, but could not figure out how, so I changed it just above. -------------------------- Hello, I'm in high school and I have a science project, I must test for carbon without testing gas emissions using the following materials/scenario. 1.) Take the center carbon rod from a heavy duty battery and scrape some of the powder off/or use the rod directly. Assignment Create a chemical test and/or process to test the rod/powder for the presence of carbon without using gas emissions as indication of carbon: Example of the test exception: "I can't just burn it in oxygen and test the gas for CO2, because that would be using the gas to detect the carbon" So my question is Question: How can I detect the carbon without testing gas emissions, I need the simple basic way, cheap, It's a science project. I've looked everywhere and cannot find anyway to do this, Please help me Thanks,