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Continued abiotic reactions with formate could produce larger organic compounds like amino acids, which can be strung together into molecules essential for life, such as enzymes and other proteins.
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Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
This revealed the presence of the lead formates—surprising in itself, but the team also identified those formates in areas where there was no lead pigment, white, or yellow.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023
Early analyses also suggest that the small organic acid formate is present in the borehole water.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
Then the researchers evaporate the liquid under sunlight, leaving solid formate crystals, which are easy to store.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
The collaborative shoe collection features the RS-XL, which comes in three versions of a different mixtape formate—cassettes, CD, and playlists.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 14 July 2023
We weren’t live today with the formate.
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 10 Apr. 2021
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has conducted a fresh, in-depth analysis and found rare traces of a compound called lead formate in the painting, according to a recent paper published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
The Spanish Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique telescope had detected the presence of ethyl formate.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2018
Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
This revealed the presence of the lead formates—surprising in itself, but the team also identified those formates in areas where there was no lead pigment, white, or yellow.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023
Early analyses also suggest that the small organic acid formate is present in the borehole water.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
Then the researchers evaporate the liquid under sunlight, leaving solid formate crystals, which are easy to store.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023
The collaborative shoe collection features the RS-XL, which comes in three versions of a different mixtape formate—cassettes, CD, and playlists.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 14 July 2023
We weren’t live today with the formate.
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 10 Apr. 2021
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has conducted a fresh, in-depth analysis and found rare traces of a compound called lead formate in the painting, according to a recent paper published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2023
The Spanish Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique telescope had detected the presence of ethyl formate.
—John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2018
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First Known Use
1807, in the meaning defined above
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Medical Definition
formate
noun
for·mate
ˈfȯ(ə)r-ˌmāt 
: a salt or ester of formic acid
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