In seperation of components of the air, which gas gets converted into liquid first ? oxygen, argon or nitrogen ?

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Solution

At first, the nitrogen will separate out as liquid because it has least melting point and it is vaporized first in cryogenic distillation and so condensed first as liquid while the argon and oxygen are at second number.

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