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Topic: Hydrazine


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  hydrazine — FactMonster.com
The glue or gelatin inhibits decomposition of the hydrazine.
Hydrazine is also prepared by reaction of sodium hypochlorite with urea in the presence of glue or gelatin.
Hydrazine and its derivatives are also used in the manufacture of algicides, fungicides, insecticides, and agricultural chemicals; in rubber curing and the manufacture of foam rubber and plastics; in soldering fluxes; and as a corrosion inhibitor in boiler feedwater.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0824703.html   (261 words)

  
  Hydrazine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hydrazines are part of many organic syntheses, often those of practical significance in pharmaceuticals, such as antituberculants, as well as in textile dyes and photography.
Hydrazine is used in the Wolff-Kishner reduction, a reaction that transforms the carbonyl group of a ketone or aldehyde into a methylene (or methyl) group via a hydrazone intermediate.
Hydrazine is used in many processes including: production of spandex fibers, as a polymerization catalyst, a blowing agent, in fuel cells, solder, fluxes, and photographic developers, as a chain extender in urethane polymerizations, and heat stabilizers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hydrazine   (1043 words)

  
 ACS :: Hydrazine Sulfate
Hydrazine sulfate is not approved for use with cancer patients in the United States.
Hydrazine sulfate was popularized as an unconventional cancer treatment in the mid-1970s by a cancer researcher, Joseph Gold, MD, director of the Syracuse Cancer Research Institute in New York.
Hydrazine sulfate was a popular alternative cancer treatment in the US until the FDA stopped companies from selling it directly to the public in the mid-1970s.
www.cancer.org /docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Hydrazine_Sulfate.asp?sitearea=ETO   (1581 words)

  
 Artemis Project: All About Hydrazine
Hydrazine, or diamine, in the form of propellant for thrusters, is by far the most common means of spacecraft propulsion and attitude control.
Hydrazine fumes in air with vapours are 4% heavier than air, and enough hydrazine evaporates from the liquid to allow an explosion at 38 C (the flash point).
Hydrazine is a dangerous, although non-cumulative poison, is corrosive to eyes, skin, and mucuous membranes, and is a probable human carcinogen.
www.asi.org /adb/04/03/09/hydrazine-info.html   (1541 words)

  
 HHMI Lab Safety: LCSS: HYDRAZINE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hydrazine is extremely destructive to the tissues of the mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract, eyes, and skin.
Hydrazine vapor is irritating to the nose, throat, and respiratory tract, and inhalation of high concentrations may be fatal as a result of spasm, inflammation, chemical pneumonitis, and pulmonary edema.
Hydrazine is listed by IARC in Group 2B "possible human carcinogen" and is classified as a "select carcinogen" according to the criteria of the OSHA Laboratory Standard.
www.hhmi.org /research/labsafe/lcss/lcss46.html   (713 words)

  
 ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Hydrazines
Hydrazines are clear, colorless liquids with an ammonia-like odor.
Hydrazines easily evaporate to the air, where they are broken down by reactions within minutes or hours.
Breathing hydrazines for short periods may cause coughing and irritation of the throat and lungs, convulsions, tremors, or seizures.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /tfacts100.html   (908 words)

  
 Hydrazine Sulfate
Hydrazine sulfate is a chemical that has been studied as an antitumor agent and as a treatment for the body wasting (i.e., cachexia) associated with advanced cancer.
Hydrazine sulfate has shown no antitumor activity in randomized clinical trials, and data concerning its effectiveness in treating cancer-related cachexia are inconclusive.
The use of hydrazine sulfate as a treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer was also evaluated in an NCCTG-sponsored trial.[9] In this trial, 243 patients were randomly assigned to receive either hydrazine sulfate or placebo in addition to a multiple-drug chemotherapy regimen.
www.medhelp.org /NIHlib/GF-475.html   (4739 words)

  
 HYDRAZINE - (Organic Method #20)
Hydrazine is a severe skin and mucous membrane irritant in humans; in animals, it is also a convulsant and a carcinogen.
"Hydrazine is used as a rocket propellant, polymerization catalyst, a blowing agent, a reducing agent, and oxygen scavenger in boiler water treatment, in the synthesis of maleic hydrazide, and in the manufacture of drugs.
The amount of hydrazine found in the samples and blank is obtained from the calibration curve of peak area versus micrograms of hydrazine per sample.
www.osha.gov /dts/sltc/methods/organic/org020/org020.html   (2816 words)

  
 Hydrazine
Used in boiler feed water treatment, to reduce oxygen in the system, the normal level of hydrazine reserve to be maintained in the water is between 0.1 and 0.3 ppm.
Excess hydrazine, in a boiler, breaks down to produce ammonia that has beneficial effects in raising the pH of the steam/condensate system and thus affords some protection to the system by neutralizing any carbon dioxide.
Hydrazine should be handled with care since it is allergenic and carcinogenic to humans.
www.steamesteem.com /hydrazine.html   (109 words)

  
 Hydrazine Sulfate
Hydrazine sulfate is a chemical that has been studied as a treatment for cancer and as a treatment for the body wasting (i.e., cachexia) associated with this disease.
Hydrazine sulfate has shown no anticancer activity in randomized clinical trials, and data concerning its effectiveness in treating cancer-related cachexia are inconclusive.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7] [8] [9] Hydrazine administration was associated with increases in lung, liver, and breast tumors in rats, [2] [5] increases in lung and liver tumors in mice, [1] [2] [3] [4] [8] and increases in liver tumors in hamsters.
www.meb.uni-bonn.de /cancer.gov/CDR0000062975.html   (5870 words)

  
 Hydrazine Sulfate
Hydrazine sulfate (HS) is an inexpensive common chemical which is commercially available for about 11 cents per gram.
Hydrazine sulfate influence on nutritional status and survival in non-small-cell lung cancer.
Cisplatin, vinblastine, and hydrazine sulfate in advanced, non small-cell lung cancer a randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind phase III study of the cancer and leukemia group B.
www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/hydrazine.html   (1887 words)

  
 Hydrazine Sulfate - National Cancer Institute
Hydrazine sulfate is marketed in the United States as a dietary supplement/nutraceutical by some companies.
In animal studies, hydrazine sulfate has been added to the drinking water or the food supply, or it has been given by injection.
Gold J: Use of hydrazine sulfate in terminal and preterminal cancer patients: results of investigational new drug (IND) study in 84 evaluable patients.
www.nci.nih.gov /cancertopics/pdq/cam/hydrazinesulfate/HealthProfessional/page2   (390 words)

  
 Hydrazine (HSG 56, 1991)
Hydrazine is infinitely soluble in water and may be flammable and explosive up to a concentration of 400 g/litre (40%).
Hydrazine is mainly used as a raw material in the manufacture of agricultural chemicals, blowing agents, polymerization catalysts, and pharmaceutical products, and as a corrosion inhibitor in boiler water.
Hydrazine is degraded rapidly under aerobic conditions in the presence of organic material, and/or in alkaline or hard water.
www.inchem.org /documents/hsg/hsg/hsg056.htm   (3617 words)

  
 Hydrazine Sulfate / Hydrazine Sulphate : BC Cancer Agency
Gold and other supporters of hydrazine sulfate were unconvinced of the findings that suggest that the use of HS had no benefit to patients with advanced lung and colorectal cancer.
The intensity of the gluconeogenesis in the liver decreased and in the kidneys increased.
Hydrazine sulfate is known to produce excitement, lethargy, convulsions, hypotension, arrhythmias, fatty changes in the liver, hypoglycemia, weight loss and terminal changes in SGOT (serum glutamin oxaloacetic transaminase) activity.
www.bccancer.bc.ca /PPI/UnconventionalTherapies/HydrazineSulfateHydrazineSulphate.htm   (1947 words)

  
 Hydrazine (Arno Hahma; Gerald L. Hurst; Tom Perigrin)
Hydrazine is a reducing agent so one needs to keep it away from metal salts, especially copper alloys to avoid potential fires.
Hydrazines value is closer to substances which we consider less toxic, such as the gas from burning sulfur (SO2) which has a LC50 inhl rat 611 ppm/5 Hour.
Hydrazine as well as hydrazine and many of its mixtures can be conveniently stored even in aluminum containers.
www.yarchive.net /explosives/hydrazine.html   (3149 words)

  
 The Truth About Hydrazine Sulfate - Dr. Gold Speaks
A casual examination of the Internet shows that information in regard to hydrazine sulfate is composed of a mixture of “endorsements” of hydrazine sulfate from individual patients and their advocates—and the seemingly authoritative disparagement of it by cancer establishment sources.
Although hydrazine sulfate is carcinogenic—i.e., can cause cancer—in some weanling mice given the drug in their drinking water since birth, there has never been a case of human cancer reported as a result of HS therapy.
Stukov, A.N., Razumeiko, O.B. and Filov, V.A. On the incompatibility of hydrazine sulfate with ethanol and barbiturates.
www.hydrazinesulfate.org   (7507 words)

  
 Hydrazine Sulfate - Rational Wellness Therapy - Nu-gen Nutrition
Hydrazine Sulfate is not approved by the FDA or endorsed by the AMA for the treatment of any medical condition.
Hydrazine Sulfate is one very important part of a total wellness program where one treats the whole nature of the individual through supplementation, diet, exercise, meditation, prayer, etc..
Hydrazine sulfate influence on nutritional status and survival in non-small-cell lung cancer.J. Clin.
www.cancerchoices.com /Hydrazine_Sulfate.htm   (636 words)

  
 Hydrazine | Technology Transfer Network Air Toxics Web site | US EPA
Hydrazine is used in agricultural chemicals (pesticides), chemical blowing agents, pharmaceutical intermediates, photography chemicals, boiler water treatment for corrosion protection, textile dyes, and as fuel for rockets and spacecraft.
Inhalation of hydrazine for a year resulted in effects to the ovaries, endometrium, and uterus in female rats and to the testes in male hamsters.
Hydrazine occurs as a colorless, oily, flammable liquid that is miscible with water.
www.epa.gov /ttn/atw/hlthef/hydrazin.html   (1328 words)

  
 The Cachexia Treatment Plan - For Advanced Terminal Patients - Hydrazine Sulphate or Hydrazine Sulfate
Hydrazine Sulfate blocks the cachexia cycle in the liver and cesium chloride blocks the cachexia cycle in the cancer cells!!
Hydrazine Sulfate is an MAOI (Momoamine Oxidase Inhibitor).
Hydrazine sulphate should be taken in exact doses because it is not a natural substance.
www.cancertutor.com /Cancer/Hydrazine.html   (3995 words)

  
 Hydrazine
Hydrazine marketed for rocket propellant contains a minimum of 97 per cent N2H4, the other constituent being primarily water.
Hydrazine a toxic, flammable caustic liquid and a strong reducing agent.
Hydrazine is manufactured by the Raschig process, which involves the oxidation of ammonia to chloramine, either indirectly with aqueous sodium hypochlorite or directly with chlorine, and subsequent reaction of chloramine with excess ammonia.
www.astronautix.com /props/hydazine.htm   (215 words)

  
 Lox/Hydrazine
Hydrazine a toxic, flammable caustic liquid and a strong reducing agent.
Hydrazine is manufactured by the Raschig process, which involves the oxidation of ammonia to chloramine, either indirectly with aqueous sodium hypochlorite or directly with chlorine, and subsequent reaction of chloramine with excess ammonia.
The cost of anhydrous hydrazine in drum quantities in 1959 was $ 7.00 per kg.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/props/loxazine.htm   (595 words)

  
 SCRI - Hydrazine Sulfate
Hydrazine sulfate is an anti-cachexia drug which acts to reverse the metabolic processes of debilitation and weight loss in cancer and secondarily acts to stabilize or regress tumors.
Hydrazine sulfate is a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor and is incompatible with tranquilizers, barbiturates, alcohol and other central nervous system depressants.
Word of her recovery spread throughout the nation, as a result of which thousands of cats and dogs were placed on hydrazine sulfate, many of whom were reported to have recovered completely.
scri.ngen.com   (1088 words)

  
 Hydrazine (Doug Jones; Henry Spencer)
Hydrazine has the best performance (and is also useful as a monopropellant), MMH is more stable and gives the highest performance when freezing point is an issue (Galileo uses MMH), UDMH is still more stable and is usable in big regeneratively-cooled engines, and 50-50 is almost as stable as UDMH and performs better.
The only real issue, apart from the heat generated, is that you must be absolutely sure there is *no* leftover hydrazine in the output stream, because hydrazine is highly poisonous, and carcinogenic to boot.
There have been proposals to carry hydrazine and decompose it to supply makeup nitrogen for breathing gas on long duration missions, while the hydrogen is reacted in a fuel cell with oxygen to create drinking water and useful power.
yarchive.net /space/rocket/fuels/hydrazine.html   (1056 words)

  
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1,1-Dimethyl hydrazine is a federal hazardous air pollutant and was identified as a toxic air contaminant in April 1993 under AB 2728.
1,1-Dimethyl hydrazine is used as a component of jet and rocket fuels, in chemical synthesis, as a stabilizer for organic fuel additives, as an absorbent for acid gases, and in photography (HSDB, 1991).
The total emissions of 1,1-dimethyl hydrazine from stationary sources in California are estimated to be at least 910 pounds per year, based on data reported under the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Program (AB 2588) (ARB, 1997b).
www.scorecard.org /chemical-profiles/html/11dimethyl_hydrazine.html   (670 words)

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