DISTILLATE OF ANT. A number of ancient recipes can be found for distillation of formic acid from ants dating from 1749: “A quantity of these insects collected in May and June was put into a large retort, water being poured upon them, the whole was distiller with a fire slowly increased to boiling…”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022