In this question it is important to examine the elements in the products. Only those elements in the product could have been present in the reactants.
However, air also contains elements and burning a substance involves forming a compound with one of those elements.
Consequently, we cannot be certain if our compound contained this element or the products were formed in the reaction between this element and our compound.
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