formic acid | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun formic acid has 1 sense

formic acid - 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
--₁ is a kind of acid

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