What common oxidizing component used in rocket fuel, implicated in occupational disasters with the Apollo-Soyuz and Titan II missile explosions, can cause upper airway corrosion, pneumonitis and potentially methemoglobinemia?
Dinitrogen tetroxide
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/MMG/MMGDetails.aspx?mmgid=394&toxid=69
Contributed by Mason Jackson, MD
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