The drums, containing hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid, were stolen from the business in Whitecroft, and later recovered from a property in the same village.

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Autism risk might be cut nearly in half by making sure that mothers are taking supplements containing folic acid, a B vitamin, at the time of conception and in the early months of pregnancy.

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After eating food containing sugars, acid is created in the mouth.

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He showed how paints containing powdered metal can be splashed with acid to create metal oxides that give the effect of natural rusting, and how to make fake tree bark from a mold ingeniously colored using carpet scrapings.

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He searched for years and eventually lighted on a mixture of oleic acid (a fatty acid found in various vegetable oils) and nitrogen-containing compounds called amines.

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In December 1977 Donald Woods, a journalist and anti-apartheid activist, received a package containing children's T-shirts laced with acid: his young daughter was badly burned.

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