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The compound used in cake mixes as a leavening agent is

  1. aluminium phosphate

  2. calcium oxide

  3. cyanuric chloride

  4. phosphoryl chloride
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Explanation

Aluminium phosphate is a chemical compound. It is used in cake mixes and in some baking powders as a leavening agent to help baked goods rise. Medicinally it is used as adsorbent for toxoid. It is used industrially as a high-temperature dehydrating agent.

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