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Comma question

Here’s the sentence:

These chemicals, namely* carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide, are the most harmful.

Should there be a comma where the star is, or not? For some reason I don’t remember learning this in school, and I can’t find anything on Google about it.

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moshe_pi offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
GB | 1 year, 9 months ago (1 minute after post)

I think it should be a semi colon should it not e.g. ;

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Barbyman offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 9 months ago (1 hour, 42 minutes after post)

yes !!!! first then ,,,,,,in between elements…..

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Florimouse offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 26 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 9 months ago (5 hours, 43 minutes after post)

This would be better:

“These chemicals – namely, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide – are the most harmful.”

Or, drop “namely” altogether!

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Waltham, MA, US | 1 year, 9 months ago (20 hours, 18 minutes after post)

Florie gets the prize.

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