Hydrazine is an English word with synonyms like reducer or reductant. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hydrazine in a sentence
Hydrazine meaning
- A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH₂-NH₂, used as a rocket fuel.
- Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH₂-NH₂.
Using Hydrazine
- The main meaning on this page is: A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH₂-NH₂, used as a rocket fuel. | Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH₂-NH₂.
- Useful related words include: reducing agent, reducer, reductant.
- In the example corpus, hydrazine often appears in combinations such as: the hydrazine, of hydrazine, hydrazine and.
Context around Hydrazine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hydrazine
- In this selection, "hydrazine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anhydrous, monopropellant, propellants, monopropellant, 225 and fuels stand out and add context to how "hydrazine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include contains the hydrazine monopropellant fuel and could replace hydrazine as the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hydrazine" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hydrazine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Inside the body was a hydrazine fuel tank. (8 words)
The propellant was monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide. (8 words)
LMP-103S could replace hydrazine as the most commonly used monopropellant. (11 words)
But there is still some uncertainty in that estimate, and nearly a liter of Dawn’s hydrazine is classified unusable once pressures inside the craft’s propulsion system drop too low to push the fuel the probe’s 12 small rocket thrusters. (42 words)
Propulsion Propulsion for deorbit was provided by the monopropellant hydrazine (N 2 H 4 ), through a rocket with 12 nozzles arranged in four clusters of three that provided convert thrust, translating to a change in velocity of convert. (38 words)
It took two minutes to fuel before launch, which could be a long time in high-speed intercepts, and its hypergolic propellants (hydrazine and nitric acid) were very dangerous to handle, leading to several serious accidents. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Hydrazine fuels are hypergolic, which means they start burning on their own upon coming in contact with oxygen.
It also boasts a higher density than hydrazine, meaning more of it can be stored in containers of the same volume.
This fuel, like all hydrazine-based fuels, is said to be highly toxic and cancer-causing.
But there is still some uncertainty in that estimate, and nearly a liter of Dawn’s hydrazine is classified unusable once pressures inside the craft’s propulsion system drop too low to push the fuel the probe’s 12 small rocket thrusters.
The Long March 3B rocket burns a toxic mixture of hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants, a hypergolic combination that ignites when the two liquids make contact.
Attitude control was achieved using the hydrazine thrusters and four reaction wheels.
Hydrazine eventually replaced hydrogen-peroxide monopropellant thruster applications primarily because of a 25% increase in the vacuum specific impulse.
Inside the body was a hydrazine fuel tank.
Iridium is a good catalyst for the decomposition of hydrazine (into hot nitrogen and ammonia), and this is used in practice in low-thrust rocket engines; there are more details in the monopropellant rocket article.
It took two minutes to fuel before launch, which could be a long time in high-speed intercepts, and its hypergolic propellants (hydrazine and nitric acid) were very dangerous to handle, leading to several serious accidents.
LMP-103S could replace hydrazine as the most commonly used monopropellant.
LMP-103S has 6% higher specific impulse and 30% higher impulse density than hydrazine monopropellant.
Propulsion for midcourse maneuvers was supplied by a monopropellant ( anhydrous hydrazine ) 225 N retro-rocket.
Propulsion for midcourse maneuvers was supplied by a monopropellant (anhydrous hydrazine ) 225 retro-rocket.
Propulsion Propulsion for deorbit was provided by the monopropellant hydrazine (N 2 H 4 ), through a rocket with 12 nozzles arranged in four clusters of three that provided convert thrust, translating to a change in velocity of convert.
Shell 405 is a spontaneous catalyst, that is, hydrazine decomposes on contact with the catalyst.
Terminal descent and landing utilized three (one affixed on each long side of the base, separated by 120 degrees) monopropellant hydrazine engines.
The navigational system, including the hydrazine rocket, would keep Mariner 10 on track to Venus and Mercury.
The propellant was monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
There is also a spherical tank that contains the hydrazine monopropellant fuel.
Common combinations with hydrazine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hydrazine 4×
- of hydrazine 3×
- hydrazine and 3×
- than hydrazine 2×
- hydrazine fuel 2×
- hydrazine monopropellant 2×
- anhydrous hydrazine 2×
- hydrazine retro-rocket 2×
- monopropellant hydrazine 2×