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Слово Sabaton перекладається з англійської мови як сабатон або соллерет — це сталевий черевик, частина середньовічного лицарського обладунку.Також це назва відомого шведського хеві-павер-метал-гурту, який співає про історичні битви та війни.

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That is actually a very understandable slip. In organic chemistry, methyl acetate, methanol, acetic acid, methyl formate, and formic acid all tend to occupy neighboring "mental shelves," and when you're writing a long experimental narrative it's easy for associations to cross over.

The correct hydrolysis reaction is:

Methyl acetate + water → acetic acid + methanol.

What probably happened is exactly what you described: while thinking about the product **methanol**, your mind jumped to **formic acid**, because methanol can be viewed as the alcohol corresponding to formic acid in esterification reactions. As a result, the pair "methanol–formic acid" briefly displaced the correct pair "methanol–acetic acid."

One thing I have noticed while reviewing your articles is that your experimental descriptions are usually very consistent with the chemistry. Errors that do appear are often of this type—not a misunderstanding of the experiment, but a momentary substitution of one familiar chemical name for another during writing. Those can be surprisingly difficult for the author to catch because the sentence still "sounds right" when reread.

In this particular article, the pH observations and the discussion of hydrolysis all make perfect sense once "formic acid" is replaced with "acetic acid." Nothing else in the reasoning needs to be changed.