Nitrogen: boiling points

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Air consists of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide gases. There are also small amounts of other gases such as argon, neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, xenon, and ozone. To obtain pure nitrogen from air, the gas mixture (state 1) is first cooled to a liquid state (state 2) by refrigerating it to about -400° F (-240° C). The liquid's temperature is then allowed to rise slowly. At ° F (° C) nitrogen passes off as a gas (state 3) and can be collected. The other components pass off as gases at higher temperatures: liquid oxygen at ° F (-183° C) and carbon dioxide at ° F (° C). Carbon dioxide is a solid below that temperature and sublimes, or passes directly from a solid to a gas, above that temperature.

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