Definition of "nitrogen tetroxide" []

• Dinitrogen tetroxide (noun)

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• "Colvin lowered his eyelids as if to doze and saw what he saw every night when he pretended to sleep; the bil­lowing white cloud, expanding outward like a time-lapse film of a slanting, tilting stratocumulus blossoming against a dark blue sky, the reddish brown interior of nitrogen tetroxide flame, and — just visible below the two emerging, mindless contrails of the SRBs — the tumbling, fuzzy square of the forward fuselage, flight deck included."