  In the Dirac/Weyl semimetal, the chiral anomaly appears as an "axial" current
arising from charge-pumping between the lowest (chiral) Landau levels of the
Weyl nodes, when an electric field is applied parallel to a magnetic field $\bf
B$. Evidence for the chiral anomaly was obtained from the longitudinal
magnetoresistance (LMR) in Na$_3$Bi and GdPtBi. However, current jetting
effects (focussing of the current density $\bf J$) have raised general concerns
about LMR experiments. Here we implement a litmus test that allows the
intrinsic LMR in Na$_3$Bi and GdPtBi to be sharply distinguished from pure
current jetting effects (in pure Bi). Current jetting enhances $J$ along the
mid-ridge (spine) of the sample while decreasing it at the edge. We measure the
distortion by comparing the local voltage drop at the spine (expressed as the
resistance $R_{spine}$) with that at the edge ($R_{edge}$). In Bi, $R_{spine}$
sharply increases with $B$ but $R_{edge}$ decreases (jetting effects are
dominant). However, in Na$_3$Bi and GdPtBi, both $R_{spine}$ and $R_{edge}$
decrease (jetting effects are subdominant). A numerical simulation allows the
jetting distortions to be removed entirely. We find that the intrinsic
longitudinal resistivity $\rho_{xx}(B)$ in Na$_3$Bi decreases by a factor of
10.9 between $B$ = 0 and 10 T. A second litmus test is obtained from the
parametric plot of the planar angular magnetoresistance. These results
strenghthen considerably the evidence for the intrinsic nature of the
chiral-anomaly induced LMR. We briefly discuss how the squeeze test may be
extended to test ZrTe$_5$.
