Air is a mixture of many gases, primarily nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. could distillation be used to separate air into its component gases? explain your answer.

Yes. Air can be separated through fractional distillation. The air must be cooled to a liquid first. Considering nitrogen oxygen and argon all have different boiling points, the liquid air mixture can be heated very gently and carefully in a fractionating column. Each element will eventually vaporise and they can be condensed and collected at different points up the fractionating column because they each have different boiling points.