formic acid English

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formic acid

— 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

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methanoic acid

oxomethanol

oxocarbinic acid

metacarbonoic acid

hydroxymethanone

hydroxymethane

hydrogen carboxylic acid