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
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
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