#formic acid

[mushrooms-and-millipedes]

[blondebrainpowered]

Otters writhing under a tree in Singapore.

Video credit: Jeff Tan

Likely anting, rolling about in ants or termites to spread their defensive formic acid to help keep otter fur parasite free.

[elementcattos]

introducing: FORMIC ACID AND FORMATE!

formic acid (left)'s design is based on formica rufa, also known as the red wood ant. this species of ant is capable of spraying formic acid long distances through a hole on the tip of its abdomen known as an acidopore. he also has two pairs of hands and one pair of legs (if they're drawn) because, of course, ants have three pairs of limbs (and antennae, too). unlike ants, though, he doesn't have any ocelli (simple eyes) or complex/compound eyes, and just has two regular eyes

he carries a hydron (the white sphere with a plus on it) around and juggles it like a little ball, throwing it between his hands and balancing it on his abdomen (like in the left drawing). when he loses it, he becomes deprotonated and negatively charged, becoming formate (right). if another element catto grabs his hydron, that catto will become protonated

i worked way too hard on this lol

COMPOUND ANTO!!!!! I LOVE HIM

if the hydron is just a proton I think it would be more of a little ionized Hydrogen head, check the #hydrogen tag on this blog to see what hydrogen ions look like

but regardless i love this buge....... i like the idea of compound cattos containing hydrons just having them as little companions too :3

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Table 23.1 lists several of the unbranched aliphatic carboxylic acids found in the biological world (e.g. figure 23.1), along with the common names of each.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[wtf-fun-factss]

Researchers have developed an efficient and eco-friendly catalytic reactor that can convert the common air pollutant CO2 into high concentrations of pure formic acid, which can be used as a liquid fuel.– WTF Fun Facts

Source: http://thetartan.org/2019/9/9/scitech/greenhouse-fuel

[intelligentliving]

Scientists Make Fuel From Carbon Dioxide Using The Motion of Waves

A multidisciplinary team of scientists has successfully harvested energy from sea waves to produce carbon-based liquid fuel.

[abdulaziz2026]

من أخطر النباتات اللاسعة هو نيوزيلندا اللاسع أونغاونغا Ongaonga. فهو يحتوي على الهستامين histamine وحامض الفورميك formic acid، مما يسبب حروق مؤلمة. أما المُصنع منه فيمكنه أن يقتل حتى الحصان!

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Figure 6.38 shows representative examples of hydrogen bonding. (...) Notice from the examples shown in figure 6.38 that hydrogen bonds can form between different molecules (for example, H3N···H2O) or between identical molecules (for example, HF···HF). (...) Figure 6.38 includes a view of hydrogen bonding between molecules of the amino acid glycine.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.