formic acid

English

formic acid (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) 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.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, reprint edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, OCLC 867002875, page 224:
  The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?

methanoic acid

Arabic: حمض الفورميك‎
Chinese:
Cantonese: 甲酸 (gaap³ syun¹), 蟻酸, 蚁酸 (ngai⁵ syun¹)
Mandarin: 甲酸 (zh) (jiǎsuān), 蟻酸 (zh), 蚁酸 (zh) (yǐsuān)
Czech: kyselina mravenčí f
Dutch: mierenzuur (nl) n, methaanzuur n
Faroese: meyrusýra f
Finnish: muurahaishappo (fi), metaanihappo (fi)
Georgian: ჭიანჭველამჟავა (č̣ianč̣velamžava)
German: Ameisensäure (de) f
Greek: μυρμηκικό οξύ m (myrmikikó oxý)
Gujarati: પિપીલિકામ્લ (pipīlikāmla)
Hungarian: hangyasav (hu)