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Qualifications, Curriculum
and Assessment Policy Unit,
Department of Education and
Skills, Block 2 Marlborough
Street,
Dublin 1
(01) 8892384
General
Please bring this Circular and Circular 0014/2011 (Discontinued Use of Chemicals - Substances of Very High Concern)
to the attention of teachers of science in the school and also provide a copy to members of the school board of
management. Note that any activity which involves substances whose use should be discontinued such as the
demonstration of the oxidation of potassium sodium tartrate by hydrogen peroxide, catalysed by cobalt(II) salts (page
18 Ordinary level Chemistry syllabus / page 53 Higher level Chemistry syllabus) or using cobalt chloride paper to test
for water (OC14, page 19 Junior Certificate Science syllabus) should no longer be conducted.
This Circular and Circular 0014/2011 may also be accessed at http://www.education.ie
Breda Naughton
Principal Officer
16th September 2013
Ordinary Level Syllabus Page 24 - Adjusted Content effective from September 2013 for all students who
will sit the Leaving Certificate Chemistry examination in 2015 and thereafter
Mandatory Experiment 8.1
Simple experiments to illustrate Le Chateliers principle:
Fe3+ + CNS Fe(CNS)2+
(to demonstrate the effects of both temperature changes and concentration changes on an equilibrium mixture)
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