Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to ants.
- adjective Of, derived from, or containing formic acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, produced by, derived from, or characteristic of ants. Also
formicic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; ; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid.
- adjective carbamic acid.
- adjective a colorless, mobile liquid, HCO.OH, of a sharp, acid taste, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
ants . - adjective organic chemistry Of, pertaining to or derived from
formic acid (or frommethane ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or containing or derived from formic acid
- adjective of or relating to or derived from ants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The California Highway Patrol indicates that the tanker was carrying a corrosive material known as formic acid.
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The ERC process, "the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide," combines captured carbon dioxide with water to produce high value materials, such as formic acid and formate salts, which are conventionally obtained from the thermochemical processing of Fossil Fuels.
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The ERC process, 'the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide', combines captured carbon dioxide with water to produce high value materials, such as formic acid and formate salts, which are conventionally obtained from the thermochemical processing of Fossil Fuels.
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The ERC process, "the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide", combines captured carbon dioxide with water to produce high value materials, such as formic acid and formate salts, which are conventionally obtained from the thermochemical processing of fossil Fuels.
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These ants first blind them by spraying formic acid on their eyes.
Ants vs. Crab 2009
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These ants first blind them by spraying formic acid on their eyes.
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We've discovered that another hive is afflicted with a parasitic mite with the terrifying name Varroa destructor Next week we plan to treat them with formic acid, an organic chemical control.
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Presumably the lipid et cetera material that clad the first cellular like inorganic open vent vacuoles of materials such as ZnS less likely the organic destructive FeS originated from Fischer-Tropsch like processes instead of Zn world photosynthesis of CO2 to formic acid.
New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System | Universe Today 2010
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Then again, the absence of a preferred chemosynthesis pathway that formic acid photosynthesis impress, means that the old "chicken-and-egg" paradox of "what came first, enzymes or metabolism" that it promise to resolve remains.
New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System | Universe Today 2010
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We've discovered that another hive is afflicted with a parasitic mite with the terrifying name Varroa destructor Next week we plan to treat them with formic acid, an organic chemical control.
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