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Materials · 1895

Liquid air (Linde)

Liquefied air supplies pure oxygen and nitrogen at industrial scale.

Carl von Linde liquefied air in 1895 and began producing oxygen by fractional distillation in 1902. Cheap oxygen later enabled basic oxygen steelmaking and rocket propellant.

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