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Hydrazine   /hˈaɪdrəzˌin/   Listen
Hydrazine

noun
1.
A colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels.





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"Hydrazine" Quotes from Famous Books



... part had been worked out in theory long before. To my spacesuit they had fixed two tiny rockets. One aimed out from the small of my back, the other straight out from my belly. Two pressurized containers contained hydrazine and nitric acid, which could be released in tiny streams into peanut rocket chambers by a single valve-release. They were self-igniting, and spurted out a needle-fine jet of fire that imparted a few dynes of force as long ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman


Words linked to "Hydrazine" :   reducer, rocket propellent, rocket propellant, reducing agent, reductant, rocket fuel


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