Hydrazine

Use

Hydrazine is used primarily as a chemical intermediate to produce agricultural chemicals, spandex fibers, and antioxidants. Hydrazine is also used as rocket fuel, an oxygen scavenger in water boilers and heating systems, a polymerization catalyst, a blowing agent, and as a scavenger for gases. Additionally, it is used for plating metals on glass and plastics and in fuel cells, solder fluxes, and photographic developers. Hydrazine is used as a reactant in fuel cells in the military, as a reducing agent in electrodeless nickel plating, as a chain extender in urethane polymerizations, as a reducing agent in plutonium extraction from reactor waste, and as a water treatment chemical. Hydrazine is also used as a chemical intermediate for blowing agents, photography chemicals, pharmaceuticals, antituberculants, textile dyes, heat stabilizers, explosives, and to make hydrazine sulfate. In addition, it has recently been determined that hydrazine increases the speed of the thin-film transistors used in liquid crystal displays, a discovery that promises to revolutionize the manufacture of LCD computer monitors. Hydrazine in a 70% solution is used to power the EPU (Emergency Power Unit) on the F-16 fighter plane. Hydrazine is also used as low-power propellant for Space Shuttle maneuvers in orbit, as Hydrazine will burn in the absence of oxygen.

Related Topics:
Spandex - Electrodeless - Plutonium - Liquid crystal display - Computer monitor - F-16 - Space Shuttle

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