hydrazoic acid

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hydrazoic acid (uncountable)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) The poisonous and explosive compound HN3.
    • 1927, James Broadbent Harker, Hydrazoic Acid as an Ammono Nitric Acid, page 13:
      In explaining this reaction it can be assumed that the hydrazoic acid is first reduced to an unstable ammono nitrous acid which decomposes further to nitrogen and ammonia.

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