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Artemis Project: Lunar Dinitrogen Tetroxide Production |
 | | However, dinitrogen tetroxide is 69.6% oxygen, which can be readily extracted from lunar minerals, and indeed a lunar oxygen extraction pilot plant will be carried on the first mission. |
 | | If a simple apparatus was included to synthesize dinitrogen tetroxide out of imported ammonia and indiginous oxygen, it would afford considerable leveraging towards the cost of future missions. |
 | | Dinitrogen tetroxide can be prepared by thermal decomposition of heavy metal nitrates, or by reducing or decomposing nitric acid. |
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