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Did you know ants contain formic acid?

A species known as the yellow mad
ant has been eradicated from the

Pacific. For about a decade, ants have
threatened seabirds by swarming their
nests and anything on the ground.
Ants sprayed formic acid on birds,
causing injuries and even death, Dinas

Perikanan dan Margasatwa officials
said.

Ant acid/formic acid is the simplest

carboxylic acid with the molecular Figure 3. Ants contain formic acid
formula HCOOH. The name formic acid Sumber: Glencoe, 2002
comes from the Latin word formica nb: silahkan klik gambar untuk
memperbesar gambar
which means ant. Ants spit out formic

acid when the nest is threatened, or https://phys.org/news/2021-06-crazy-ants-
when there is a danger of attack from birds-eradicated-pacific.html

outside. Formic acid is soluble with water. The reaction of ionization of

formic acid in water is as follows:

The writing of H3O+ ions in water can simply be written with H+(aq) So
that the reaction equation becomes:

In the above discourse, why is the formiate content in ants called acid?

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