Amy has the right chemistry.

A SCOTS schoolgirl has invested a new chemical - by accident.

Amy Arbuckle, 17, created the lead-based substance as part of her advanced higher chemistry studies at her school, Buckie High, in Moray.

Amy said: "To be honest, it wasn't what I had planned to make. I was amazed when I found out it was a new compound."

Experts at Aberdeen and Southampton universities confirmed that her creation - diaceto trithiocyano plumbate - is an original compound.

It belongs to a class of chemicals which can be used to make fake blood, but her substance is clear and a use for it has still to be found.

Amy, of Findochty, Banffshire, wants a career in another branch of science.

She said: "I would love to be a biology teacher. I hope to go to Strathclyde University to study biomedical science. "

A Moray Council spokesman said: "This is the ninth discovery of a new chemical at Buckie High, more than any other school in Scotland."

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