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Q: What is the name of the acid in ants and nettles?
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What is the scientific name for the acid in ants?

The acid in ants is formic acid.


What is the same about bees ants and nettles?

The biggest thing they have in common is that they all sting, and in each case the sting contains formic acid.


What kind of acid do ants produce?

Ants and some other stinging insects release formic acidwhen they bite. Some plants, such as nettles, also release formic acid when touched.


Do apples contain formic acid?

No, apples do not naturally contain formic acid. Formic acid is usually found in ants and some stinging nettles.


What liquid is found in ants and some plants such as stinging nettles and is still used in dying textiles?

Formic acid ,I didn't know it was a dye however


What is the name of the acid found in the certain ants?

Formic acid


What type of acid is in nettles?

Formic acid.


What is the name and formula of the acid used by some ants as a weapons?

The ants have Formic acid, HCOOH.Added:Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae, so acid and family name are 'related' quite logically!


What type of acid in nettles?

Citric No it's formic acid


What is the birth name of Jim Nettles?

Jim Nettles's birth name is James Arthur Nettles.


What acid is ants?

When ants sting they use formic acid. It is the simplest organic acid.


Do ants have acid?

Many species of ants produce formic acid in their venom.