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Explain how pure nitrogen can be obtained from a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen.

Deals with separation of mixtures under fractional distillation

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The gases,nitrogen and oxygen are first cooled to liquid state then fractional distillation is done in a fractionating column. Nitrogen gas distils faster since it has a low boiling point of -196°C than oxygen. Oxygen then distils of at -183°C. Through this we obtain pure nitrogen from the mixture.
faychero answered the question on March 13, 2018 at 14:13

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