Oxygen and nitrogen are obtained from air by fractional distillation. Why can this method be used for this purpose yet cannot be used to obtained...

      

Oxygen and nitrogen are obtained from air by fractional distillation. Why can this method be used for this purpose yet cannot be used to obtained hydrogen and oxygen from water?

  

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Kavungya
Air is a mixture which can be separated by physical means – fractional distillation, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen and these two can’t be separated by distillation but by a chemical means like electrolysis.
Kavungya answered the question on March 25, 2019 at 10:36


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