Formic Acid Definition

Formic Acid Sentence Examples

• The sharp, broken end penetrates the skin, and into the slight wound thus formed the formic acid contained by the hair is injected.

• Glycerin is also employed in the manufacture of formic acid.

• It behaves as a powerful reducing agent, and on hydrolysis with dilute mineral acids is decomposed into formaldehyde and hydroxylamine, together with some formic acid and ammonia, the amount of each product formed varying with temperature, time of reaction, amount of water present, &c. This latter reaction is probably due to some of the oxime existing in the form of the isomeric formamide HCO NH 2.

• Busch (Ber., 1905, 38, pp. 856, 4049) has isolated a series of bridged ring compounds which he describes as endo-iminodihydrotriazoles, the triphenyl derivative (annexed formula) being prepared by condensing triphenylaminoguanidine with formic acid.

• Another mixture of this type is formic acid and water.