hydrazine

hydrazine has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc.
• n.. a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; a powerful reducing agent; used chiefly in rocket fuels