When combined with ammonia, it is used as a urinary antiseptic that can be nitrated to then form the explosive RDX.  
This compound was discovered in 1867 by the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofman, who never managed to isolated it in pure form.  When combined with ammonia, it is used as a urinary antiseptic that can be nitrated to then form the explosive RDX.  It can be dehydrated to trioxane, and when chemically combined with phenol, it forms bakelite.  Produced principally by the vapor-phase oxidation of methanol, it is not surprisingly also known as methanal.  FTP, name this compound with formula H-C-H-O, the simplest of the aldehydes, which is most famous for its use as an embalming agent
This compound was discovered in 1867 by the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofman, who never managed to isolated it in pure form.  
formaldehyde (accept early methanal)