The mixture of seawater with dinitrogen tetroxide created a nitric acid byproduct. The nitric acid mixed with the fuel and created a significant explosion, which ejected the R-27U missile.

Seawater mixed with the Dinitrogen tetroxide used by the missile, causing it to create nitric acid.

However, this system has one major downside: the Dinitrogen tetroxide used as the oxidizer for the missile is highly toxic and corrosive, especially when mixed with seawater.

Approximately 2,600 pounds of high-purity hydrazine was supplied for the rocket and payload, and 755 pounds of dinitrogen tetroxide for the payload in order to launch this Atlas V rocket on Aug. 8, ...

EXPERIMENTS carried out by Oza and Oza1 with silver and anhydrous strontium hyponitrites and dinitrogen tetroxide at 0°, 30° and 140° C. show the production, in the gas, of both nitrous oxide ...

Chemistry in liquid dinitrogen tetroxide and sulphur dioxide by Addison, C. C., 1913- Publication date 1967 Topics Nitrogen tetroxide, Sulphur dioxide Publisher Braunschweig, Vieweg; Oxford, London, ...

However, with less than five hours remaining in the countdown to launch, during a routine procedure, 13 of the 24 valves that control the flow of dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer through the service ...