Kei Okubo, an organic photochemistry professor at Osaka University, developed the technology, which produces methanol and formic acid that emits zero carbon dioxide (CO2). Okubo on Feb.
Unlike acetate, which the body uses, formic acid poisons the mitochondria ... of the central nervous system which can cause people with methanol poisoning to fall unconscious and go into a ...
Most people here are farmers or cattle owners ... Dr Baidya said that the formic acid sprayed by hundreds of ants may have affected the eyes of the animals, but adds that "it is not recorded ...