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Hydrazine

//ˈhaɪdɹəˌziːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH₂-NH₂, used as a rocket fuel. uncountable
  2. 2
    a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels wordnet
  3. 3
    Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH₂-NH₂. countable

    "From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV)."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hydrazin, coined by Emile Fischer in 1875 as a derivative from Diazin, an obsolete name for diimide, of which hydrazine is a hydrogenated analog. By surface analysis, hydr- + azo (“nitrogen”) + -ine.

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