Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chemical compound containing four oxygen atoms per molecule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An oxide having four atoms of oxygen in the molecule; a quadroxide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry any
oxide containing fouroxygen atoms in eachmolecule
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an oxide containing four atoms of oxygen in the molecule
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Examples
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I'm guessing the hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide tanks and plumbing will have to be removed entirely.
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I spent several hours researching zeppelins, Martian aerodynamics, hydrazine, nitrogen tetroxide oxidizers, entomopters, and the problems one encounters with propellers and rotors in a thin atmosphere.
Author Caitlín R. Kiernan considers the science of putting zeppelins on Mars Paul 2009
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I spent several hours researching zeppelins, Martian aerodynamics, hydrazine, nitrogen tetroxide oxidizers, entomopters, and the problems one encounters with propellers and rotors in a thin atmosphere.
Archive 2009-01-01 Paul 2009
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The fuel is monomethyl hydrazine (MMH) and the oxidizer is nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4).
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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The fuel is monomethyl hydrazine (MMH) and the oxidizer is nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4).
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It's not just the cooling, there's also all the rocket motors out there have all of these nasty gases like hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
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The electrification of the plate is now tested by sifting over it a mixture of powdered flowers of sulfur and red lead Pb3O4 or lead tetroxide.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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If you compress NO2, you wind up with the dimmer N2O4, dinitrogen tetroxide, which dissociates back to NO2 on pressure release, producing toxic levels of NO2.
Nitrous James Killus 2007
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If you compress NO2, you wind up with the dimmer N2O4, dinitrogen tetroxide, which dissociates back to NO2 on pressure release, producing toxic levels of NO2.
Archive 2007-12-01 James Killus 2007
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The electrification of the plate is now tested by sifting over it a mixture of powdered flowers of sulfur and red lead Pb3O4 or lead tetroxide.
Lichtenberg Figures 2007
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