Chemical Burn

I need help describing an old chemical burn on a character of mine.

I wasn't sure how to go about describing something like this. What kind of langauge should I use? I did look up some pictures, but I got squeamish at some point.

 

You could do it like this:

Harold looked at the old burn on his arm, a reminder of his stupid decision back in his high school chemistry class that nearly cost him that limb.

That's all I've got right now. Hope that helps.

 

Adjectives. Like describing a look

 

How convenient for me. This is how I did it in my novel:

Hope that helps.

 

Is this about a scar or a fresh burn?

And you get squeamish, @Leaka? How are you going to write if you get squeamish researching something you want to describe?

 

Was the question to me? I was trying to portray a scar of an old burn. I thought it would be helpful to OP.

 

My question was to @Leaka.

 

All right. Now you have seen how narcissistic I can be. I think people are constantly thinking about me.

 

What would an old chemical wound look like?

And yes I got squeamish. It was all icky and gross. It made me get all goosebumpy.

 

My cousin was burned pretty badly when I was a child. She always reminded me of raw chicken skin.

 

The skin where he'd been burned was a livid red; pockmarked and scarred. There was no sensation there, the nerve endings having been burned out and replaced by a thick layer of lumpy keloid tissue.

How's that for a nasty scar?