Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Cryogenic fractional distillation- the separation of air by compression, purification, and cooling and distillation. [|Cryogenics] - The branches of physics and engineering that involve the study of very low temperatures, how to produce them, and how materials behave at those temperatures. Fractionation- process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is separated into different fractions. Isolation - the process of recovering an element from the ground [|Liquefaction] - the process in which a gas is converted to a liquid [|Octet Rule] - states that atoms with less than twenty valence electrons will react in order to form atomic structures similar to those of the Noble Gases