How to Use hydrazine in a Sentence

hydrazine

noun

• This led to a leak of hydrazine, which did not damage the test article.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
• There's a buildup of propellant residue in the narrow lines that feed hydrazine fuel to the thrusters.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
• The use of hydrazine as a fuel for launch vehicles has been phased out for most of the world, Ars reports.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
• The long arc might have been caused by an explosion of hydrazine propellant.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2016
• The debris could very well contain traces of hydrazine or other nasty propellants best not touched.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2018
• This means that like the Kepler mission, Dawn has run out of hydrazine fuel, which the vehicle needs to orient itself and keep its antennas aligned with Earth.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2018
• The APUs used toxic hydrazine to generate the hydraulic power needed to move the shuttle's elevons the muscle needed for braking and steering.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2018
• Debris from the station could be hazardous, though, as the craft is carrying a highly toxic and corrosive substance called hydrazine.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• The space junk may be contaminated with hydrazine, a toxic rocket fuel, experts have said.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2018
• Russia's workhorse Proton rocket uses hydrazine for its first and second stages.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2020
• However, the first launch was canceled when engineers noticed increased levels of hydrazine in the propulsion system.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 July 2022
• Liquid hydrazine, a popular fuel for rockets of all varieties, can be quickly absorbed through the skin and acts as a neurotoxin.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2018
• Prior to launch, the telescope was fueled with 240 liters of hydrazine fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2022
• If that happens, people are warned not to touch or breathe any vapors from debris that could be contaminated with highly toxic hydrazine fuel.
  — James Dean, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2018
• Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Cassini, and New Horizons all used a radioisotope power source but used hydrazine fuel in a chemical engine that quickly flung them to the far reaches of the solar system.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• Current spacecraft rely on chemical propellant, such as liquid hydrogen and hydrazine, to take off from the planet and then maneuver in space.
  — PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2023
• With this modernized upper stage, Russian officials hoped to move away from the toxic propellants—dinitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine—that power the Briz-M upper stage.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2022
• Compared to hydrazine, which has a consistency similar to water, AFM-315 is viscous.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 12 June 2019
• Debris may contain a highly toxic and corrosive substance called hydrazine.
  — Omar Abdel-Baqui, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2018
• Burning hydrazine doesn't produce a combustion reaction, and both of the exhaust products, nitrogen and hydrogen, are clear.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2021
• With the depletion of its hydrazine fuel, the Dawn spacecraft would have entered several safe modes as the onboard computer attempted to identify and rectify the issue.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2018
• The launch was delayed from June 10 after teams detected hydrazine vapor in the spacecraft, and ultimately decided to replace the vehicle’s parachutes.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2022
• Impulse Space has been testing space thrusters that provide a less toxic alternative to the hypergolic fuels such as hydrazine typically used by spacecraft.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 July 2022
• To maneuver to a destination after launch, spacecraft often use a liquid rocket fuel called hydrazine.
  — Shannon Stirone, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2017
• The fuel is a safer alternative to hydrazine, the fuel typically used on spacecraft that is toxic to humans and requires extensive safety precautions when handling it.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2019
• Yet the majority of China's launch fleet is powered by hydrazine fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020
• One carries hydrazine while the other carries cryogenically cold helium.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• For his calculations, Stuhlinger assumed that the chemical ship’s rocket motors would burn nitric acid oxidizer and hydrazine fuel.
  — David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2012
• A year later, another derivative of hydrazine, iproniazid, was discovered that was equally successful at treating TB infection in mice but even more so in humans.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
• To maneuver, Cassini carefully places monomethyl hydrazine in contact with nitrogen tetroxide, which spontaneously oxidizes (burns) it.
  — Dave Brody Executive Producer, Fox News, 19 July 2017

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