Hydrazine is highly toxic unless handled in solution as, for example, hydrazine hydrate .
| FactSnippet No. 738,797 |
16 Facts About Hydrazine
2.
Hydrazine is mainly used as a foaming agent in preparing polymer foams, but applications include its uses as a precursor to polymerization catalysts, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals, as well as a long-term storable propellant for in-space spacecraft propulsion.
| FactSnippet No. 738,798 |
3.
Hydrazine is used within both nuclear and conventional electrical power plant steam cycles as an oxygen scavenger to control concentrations of dissolved oxygen in an effort to reduce corrosion.
| FactSnippet No. 738,799 |
4.
Hydrazine is used as a long-term storable propellant on board space vehicles, such as the Dawn mission to Ceres and Vesta, and to both reduce the concentration of dissolved oxygen in and control pH of water used in large industrial boilers.
| FactSnippet No. 738,800 |
6.
Hydrazine was first used as a component in rocket fuels during World War II.
| FactSnippet No. 738,802 |
7.
Hydrazine is used as a low-power monopropellant for the maneuvering thrusters of spacecraft, and was used to power the Space Shuttle's auxiliary power units .
| FactSnippet No. 738,803 |
8.
Hydrazine is documented as a strong skin sensitizer with potential for cross-sensitization to hydrazine derivatives following initial exposure.
| FactSnippet No. 738,804 |
9.
Hydrazine has formula, or more clearly, with two amine groups connected by a single bond between the two nitrogens.
| FactSnippet No. 738,805 |
10.
Hydrazine can be synthesized from ammonia and hydrogen peroxide with a ketone catalyst, in a procedure called the Peroxide process .
| FactSnippet No. 738,806 |
11.
Hydrazine has basic chemical properties comparable to those of ammonia:.
| FactSnippet No. 738,807 |
12.
Hydrazine is a convenient reductant because the by-products are typically nitrogen gas and water.
| FactSnippet No. 738,808 |
13.
Hydrazine is the most common and effective reducing agent used to convert graphene oxide to reduced graphene oxide via hydrothermal treatment.
| FactSnippet No. 738,809 |
14.
Hydrazine can be protonated to form various solid salts of the hydrazinium cation, by treatment with mineral acids.
| FactSnippet No. 738,810 |
15.
Hydrazine is used in the Wolff-Kishner reduction, a reaction that transforms the carbonyl group of a ketone into a methylene bridge via a hydrazone intermediate.
| FactSnippet No. 738,811 |
16.
Hydrazine is the intermediate in the anaerobic oxidation of ammonia process.
| FactSnippet No. 738,812 |