Talk:Hydrazine nitrate
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Various problems Hydrazine nitrate is a salt; the correct formula is N2H5NO3 (positive charge on N2H5, negative on NO3). If the melting point is 72C the appearance would not be a liquid. "Because it has no carbon elements" is badly written and incorrect. (A compound containing carbon may not leave any solid detonation product if there is sufficient oxygen to oxidize all of the carbon.) 69.72.92.31 (talk) 22:44, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
First synthesis date might be wrong The article claims 1989 now. But I've come across the following paragraph in "Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants" by John D. Clark (1972, ISBN13: 9780813507255) at page 186.
"In this country, up to 1954, there were two main lines of high energy monopropellant development. One stemmed from the efforts, described in Chapter 3, to reduce the freezing point of hydrazine. As has been related, JPL and NOTS, between 1948 and 1954, had examined mixtures of hydrazine and hydrazine nitrate with a thoroughness which left little to be desired. And it was obvious, of course, that a mixture of hydrazine and hydrazine nitrate would have a better monopropellant performance than straight hydrazine. And when it was tried, which it was by 1950, it was discvoered that the obvious was indeed true. There was only one catch. Any mixture which contained enough hydrazine nitrate and little enough water to have a respectable performance was more likely than not to detonate with little or no provocation. So that was not the route to a high energy monopropellant." And after that follows a footnote referring to it being of potential interest as a liquid monopropellant for guns but that it never got anywhere.
This to me indicates it must've been synthesised before 1989 that is mentioned in the article now. Possibly even before they tried it as a liquid monopropellant component in those experiments back then, since the book was first published in 1972 it must've been declassified already by then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.110.162.233 (talk) 18:35, 28 August 2019 (UTC)