Greetings Mike et al



 Consider the connection

We treat for mites with Formic acid and Oxalic Acid



Formic Acid is the simplest of the Carboxylic acids and it's liquid

If one goes down the list of? the carboxylic acids one comes upon
salicylic acid? and yes through a process called acetylation is transformed into ASA .

You may remember your mother or others sprinkling salicylic acid crystals on top of jam etc before closing the freshly canned contents.? Also it's used in dishdetergents and sold as antibacterial.



if you can imagine taking two of those molecules of formic acid and joining them then they turn into a powder and? are call dicarboxylic acids 

thus Oxalic acid being the first? in that class.



Walter

Ontario


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