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Definition of Formic acid
1. Noun. A colorless pungent fuming vesicatory liquid acid HCOOH found naturally in ants and many plants or made catalytically from carbon monoxide and steam; used in finishing textiles and paper and in the manufacture of insecticides and fumigants.
Definition of Formic acid
1. Noun. (organic compound) The simplest carboxylic acid, HCOOH, a colourless, corrosive liquid with a sharp odour; it is present in the stings of ants, bees and nettles, and is prepared industrially by the oxidation of methanol or formaldehyde; it has some industrial uses, and its esters, the formates are used in perfumes. ¹
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Literary usage of Formic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Impurities in Acetic Acid The more important impurities that are looked for in
commercial acetic acid are formic acid, furfurol, acetone, sulphuric acid, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Jour., 1907, vi, 487) have employed formic acid in 412 patients during 1906 at the
... If this diminution of the paralysis is really due to the formic acid, ..."
3. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"If formic acid or an alkali formate is heated with mercuric chloride, MERCUROUS
CHLORIDE precipitates before the liquid has reached the boiling-point. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"The Action of metallic Magnesium on certain aliphatic acids, and the detection
of formic acid. By HJH FENTON, Sc.D., FRS, Christ's College ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"formic acid.—We have discussed the germicida! action of acids generally ...
formic acid has this power to a considerable extent, and is a strong antiseptic. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"formic acid.—We have discussed the germi- cidal action of acids ... formic acid
has this power to a considerable extent, and is a strong antiseptic. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"formic acid mixes with water in all proportions, with diminution of specific
gravity and without rise of temperature. According to Liebig, an aqueous acid ..."
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