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A colorless fuming corrosive liquid
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hydrazine
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydrazine \Hy"dra*zine\, n. [Hydr- + azo- + -ine.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives ...
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The hydrazine antidepressants are a group of non-selective, irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) which were discovered and initially marketed in the 1950s and 1960s. Most have been withdrawn due to toxicity , namely hepatotoxicity , but a few ...
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n. a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context inorganic compound uncountable English) A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH 2 -NH 2 , used as a rocket fuel. 2 (context organic chemistry countable English) Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH 2 -NH 2 .
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Illustrative ammo compounds which can be reacted are ammonia, hydrazine, primary amines such as glycine, ethanolamine, diglycylglycine, norephedrine, aminopropanol, butanolamine, diethylamine, ephedrine, and the like.
Illustrative ammo compounds which can be reacted are ammonia, hydrazine, primary amines such as glycine, ethanolamine, diglycylglycine, norephedrine, aminopropanol, butanolamine, diethylamine, ephedrine, and the like.
Suddenly there were a couple of brief flares of hydrazine jets, and the thing was hanging motionless in reference to the Callisto lander.
When he came back, half drenched with salt water, phthalates and hydrazines, he thought we were pretty cool.
A toxic, corrosive substance, it is a blend of UDMH - unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine — and diethylene triamine.
Stenciled on the sides of other cars are other labels: MOLTEN SULFUR, LIQUID CORN SYRUP, and AQUEOUS HYDRAZINE.
Nitrogen let can cause acute pulmonary edemas, hydrazine is carcinogenic, and there are old studies linking aluminum with Alzheimer's.
Red-fuming nitric acid, nitrogen tetroxide, hydrazine, that sort of thing.
His paper on the rocket belt was enthusiastically received, and his demonstrations, using hydrazine procured by his Danish hosts, were a sensation.
This was not the forty-G unit that was supplied with fuel by transmitters from a supply dump, but a one-G maneuvering rocket with three big fuel tanks, one for hydrazine and two for nitrogen tetroxide.