hydrazine

See also: Hydrazine

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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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹəˌziːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hydrazine (countable and uncountable, plural hydrazines)

1. (inorganic chemistry, uncountable) A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH₂-NH₂, used as a rocket fuel.
2. (organic chemistry, countable) Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH₂-NH₂.
   • 2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:

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

Synonyms

• diamidogen

Derived terms

• arylhydrazine
• benzoylhydrazine
• dimethylhydrazine
• hydrazination
• hydrazinium
• hydrazinolysis
• isonicotinoylhydrazine
• methylhydrazine
• monomethylhydrazine
• nonhydrazine
• phenelzine
• phenylhydrazine
• picrylhydrazine
• zinoconazole

Translations

NH₂-NH₂

Chinese: Cantonese: 聯氨 / 联氨 (lyun4 on1) Mandarin: 聯氨 / 联氨 (zh) (lián'ān) Czech: hydrazin m Finnish: hydratsiini Hungarian: hidrazin (hu) Japanese: ヒドラジン (hidorajin) Kazakh: гидразин (gidrazin) Korean: 하이드라진 (haideurajin) Maori: haitarahini, hauwaiota Portuguese: hidrazina f Russian: гидрази́н (ru) f (gidrazín) Spanish: hidracina f

derivative

Chinese: Cantonese: 肼 (zeng2) Mandarin: 肼 (zh) (jǐng) Finnish: hydratsiini Irish: hiodraisín m Japanese: ヒドラジン (hidorajin) Korean: 하이드라진 (haideurajin) Russian: гидрази́н (ru) f (gidrazín)

French

Noun

hydrazine f (plural hydrazines)

1. hydrazine