Rapid Revision: Chemistry Leaving Certificate

This book is written to accompany the textbook Chemistry Live! The main purpose of this book is to help you revise the material in Chemistry Live! as comprehensively as possible. It is not meant as a replacement for the textbook as it is not possible to give the same detail and level of explanation in a revision book that one finds in a textbook. Thus, by its very nature, it cannot contain absolutely everything that you might need in order to answer exam questions to the depth required. It is recommended that you regularly refer to the textbook during the revision process in order to 'fill out' your knowledge of the course. It is very important when using this book that you pay careful attention to the diagrams and tables - and even to the captions for these diagrams and tables. These contain useful information, some of which is not repeated in the text of this revision book. All Higher Level material is indicated by a vertical line drawn down the left-hand side of the margin. We wish to acknowledge the assistance of the following in proofreading and providing help in various ways: Daniel Burke, Mary Clayton, Tommy Collins, Declan Crotty, Rachael Currivan, Barry Dillon, Michael Delargey, Sean Finn, Helen Healy, Alan Kennedy, Karen Kennedy, Ted O'Keeffe, Derry O'Donovan, Michael O'Leary and Cliona Ní Donnabháin. We wish to thank Antoinette Walker for the enormous amount of work she has done in her capacity as editor of this book. We also wish to thank the staff at Folens, particularly Oisín Burke and John O'Connor, for their help and support. Last but not least, we wish to thank Michael Phillips for the outstanding artwork he has produced for this book.