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Can oxygen be removed from the air?
About 78 per cent of the air is nitrogen and 21 per cent is oxygen. These two gases can be separated by fractional distillation of liquid air.
What can remove oxygen?
You can use the freeze /thaw method to remove dissolved oxygen from a solution. This is the best way to get rid of oxygen. First you freeze your reaction mixture using liquid nitrogen, then pull vacuum for few min while it is frozen.
How do you filter oxygen from air?
The liquid air undergoes a process called fractional distillation. Fractional distillation uses the different boiling points of the main elements of air. As the liquid air is heated, the elements change from liquid to gas and separate from one another. Pump air through a filter to remove dust and other contaminants.
How do you liquify oxygen?
As oxygen boils at 90 K /-183 °C and liquid nitrogen boils at 77 K /-196 °C we can use liquid nitrogen to liquify oxygen. The usual way to do this is to pass oxygen gas from a compressed gas cylinder through a coil of hollow copper pipe which is submerged in liquid nitrogen.
Can you liquify oxygen?
Liquid oxygen is a cryogenic liquid. Cryogenic liquids are liquefied gases that have a normal boiling point below –130°F (–90°C). Liquid oxygen has a boiling point of –297°F (–183°C). Oxygen is often stored as a liquid, although it is used primarily as a gas.
How do you make pure oxygen?
Hydrogen and oxygen can be generated by passing an electric current through water and collecting the two gases as they bubble off. Hydrogen forms at the negative terminal and oxygen at the positive terminal. This method is called electrolysis and produces very pure hydrogen and oxygen.
What if you drank liquid oxygen?
The swallowed liquid would boil furiously and turn into high-pressure gas (in this case, oxygen). That gas would put too much pressure on your stomach and esophagus, perforating one or both of them. That would release the gas into your chest which would collapse your lungs.