Continued

When the formate ester degrades into formic acid, the associated alcohol of
the compound would likely also evaporate, and leave no residue.

Simply adding formic acid back would not recreate a formate, since you need
to do a dehydrolysis reaction, generally using sulfuric acid to pull out a
molecule of water.

Randy Oliver

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