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Savage1701
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Yeah, yeah, it's just a movie, but I was still wondering:
1. Would hydrazine decompose completely when dripped over rhodium, as Mark Watney did in the movie? That stuff is really toxic even in tiny amounts, isn't it?
2. Wouldn't Watney have died from displacement asphyxiation ? He was decomposing so much hydrazine to make all that water he needed for his soil; wouldn't he have suffocated from all the excess nitrogen he would have been liberating along with the hydrogen?
Just curious...
1. Would hydrazine decompose completely when dripped over rhodium, as Mark Watney did in the movie? That stuff is really toxic even in tiny amounts, isn't it?
2. Wouldn't Watney have died from displacement asphyxiation ? He was decomposing so much hydrazine to make all that water he needed for his soil; wouldn't he have suffocated from all the excess nitrogen he would have been liberating along with the hydrogen?
Just curious...