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Q. The Birkeland-Eyde process is a commercial method, the raw material used in this process is

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The Birkeland-Eyde process is a commercial method, the raw material used in this process air. Dinitrogen is prepared commercially from air by liquefaction and fractional distillation. When liquid air is allowed to distil, dinitrogen having lower boiling point (77K) distills over first leaving behind liquid oxygen (boiling point is 90K.