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FORMIC ACID

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• FORMIC ACID (noun)
The noun FORMIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: FORMIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.

• FORMIC ACID (noun)

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("formic acid" is a kind of...):

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

"Up a creek without a paddle."
(English proverb)
"Wait horse for green grass."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"A person who does not speak out against the wrong is a mute devil."
(Arabic proverb)
"Hasty speed is rarely good"
(Dutch proverb)

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