The story
- German · borrowed fromHydrazin
- English todayhydrazine
Borrowed from German Hydrazin, coined by Emile Fischer in 1875 as a derivative from Diazin, an obsolete name for diimide, of which hydrazine is a hydrogenated analog. By surface analysis, hydr- + azo (“nitrogen”) + -ine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.