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hydrazine
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hy·dra·zine  (hdr-zn, -zn)
n.
A colorless, fuming, corrosive hygroscopic liquid, H2NNH2, used in jet and rocket fuels.

hydrazine [ˈhaɪdrəˌziːn -zɪn]
n
(Chemistry) a colourless basic liquid made from sodium hypochlorite and ammonia: a strong reducing agent, used chiefly as a rocket fuel. Formula: N2H4
[from hydro- + azo- + -ine2]

hydrazine  (hdr-zn, -zn)
A colorless, fuming, corrosive liquid with an odor like ammonia that is a powerful reducing agent. It can be combined with organic compounds to form jet and rocket fuels and is also used to make explosives, fungicides, medicines, and photographic chemicals. Chemical formula: N2H4.
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Noun1.hydrazine - a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels
rocket fuel, rocket propellant, rocket propellent - an explosive charge that propels a rocket
reducer, reducing agent, reductant - a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver


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Many of the products containing the beta-ketoester pendant group are also candidates for further reactions with compounds such as hydroxylamine or hydrazines to give mixed heterocyclic compounds.
Many compounds, among them nitroso compounds, mercaptans and their zinc salts, thiocarboxylic acids and their salts, disulphides, sulphenamides, hydrazines, peroxides and metal complexes, are known to have depolymerizing effects[5].
Margherio, vice president and general manager, Hydrazines and Acids at Arch, said: "This expansion will assist Arch in meeting growing market demands in the U.
 
 
 
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