A 14-year-old schoolgirl has been seriously injured after a substance, believed to be acidic, was thrown at her and another teenager outside her school in west London, with a staff member also ...

Resham Khan was left with burns on her face, arms, legs and shoulder after having acid thrown at her The latest acid attacks in north-east London on Thursday, which saw five people being sprayed ...

In the BBC Radio 4 documentary Vitriolic, journalist Ayshea Buksh meets victims of acid attacks who have been scarred for life and had to undergo major surgery in their long recovery. Here she ...

A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of smaller molecules called nucleotides. Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a ...

Chemically, an amino acid is a molecule that has a carboxylic acid group and an amine group that are each attached to a carbon atom called the α carbon. Each of the 20 amino acids has a specific ...

Bubbles of CO 2 rise from volcanic vents on the seafloor and dissolve to form carbonic acid. Carbonic acid is relatively weak; people drink it all the time in carbonated beverages. But if enough ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and ...