Relating to or containing a cyanide group combined with formic acid; describing compounds with both cyan and formic acid elements.
From 'cyan-' (from cyanide chemistry) + 'formic' (relating to formic acid, from Latin 'formica' meaning ant). A chemical adjective.
Formic acid gets its name from ants—it's the chemical that makes ant bites sting—and when chemists combine formic acid with cyanide elements, they create compounds so unstable they rarely exist outside laboratories.
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