Acids+and+Bases

Acids and bases are essential to our everyday lives: - providing flavour to foods and drinks - helping to clean all sorts of surfaces and kill microbes - keeping the right pH in our bodies so that all our internal chemical reactions work - reacting with other substances to make useful compounds

A good place to start exploring this topic is through:

[|The pH Factor]

A great website produced by the Miami Museum of Science. Try some of their activities and experiments like:

[|Secret writing]

To understand acids and bases we need to know about atoms, their structure, and how they form ions. Go to the page Atomic Structure to find out more.