Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless, fuming, corrosive hygroscopic liquid, H2NNH2, used in jet and rocket fuels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Diamide, H4N2, a colorless stable gas, soluble in water, having a peculiar odor and a strongly alkaline reaction.
- noun The general name of a class of bodies derived from this gas by replacing one or more of its hydrogen atoms by a compound radical: as, ethyl hydrazine, C2H5N2H3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also
diamide ,amidogen , (or more properlydiamidogen ), etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun inorganic chemistry, uncountable A
corrosive ,fuming liquid , NH2-NH2, used as arocket fuel . - noun organic chemistry, countable Any member of the class of
organic compounds formally derived from NH2-NH2.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels
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Examples
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In other words, moves the movable flaps on it and it's conducted by burning hydrazine, which is interestingly the same fuel that's in that spy satellite coming up.
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It weighs two and a half tons, it is spiraling toward Earth, it carries a deadly fuel called hydrazine and it is on schedule for splashdown in my gazpacho on March 12.
Should You Worry 2008
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First of all, it has 1,000 pounds of hydrazine, which is very toxic rocket fuel.
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And so they have this system that runs on hydrazine, which is kind of a toxic brew of chemicals which creates the, the energy required to control those air surfaces, and on the infrared you can see that think chugging.
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And what they're saying is that this flash evaporator, which provides cooling for these auxiliary power units, which heat up hydrazine, which is a toxic chemical, essentially.
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They're run-by hydrazine, which is a toxic substance in and of it's own right.
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It would just compound the terrible tragedy if somebody were to be burned or disfigured in some way by hydrazine, which is in particular a very, very volatile ultimately cancer-causing substance.
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Those auxiliary power units use a substance called hydrazine, among other things, to operate.
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Roughly two-thirds of the spacecraft's weight is in fuels, including hydrazine, which is highly corrosive and toxic.
NYT > Global Home By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011
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Roughly two-thirds of the spacecraft's weight is in fuels, including hydrazine, which is highly corrosive and toxic.
NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011
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