Fractional Distillation

• What is fractional distillation?

  • Fractional distillation is a separation technique used to separate mixtures of liquids (or other components) with different boiling points 
  • (E.g. oxygen and nitrogen can be obtained from liquid air by fractional distillation because they have different boiling points)

  
• What is a fractionating column?

  A long column containing hundreds of glass beads