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What is the relationship between electronegativity and the solubility of a inorganic salts?

What is the relationship of electronegativity and the solubility of a inorganic salts?Does the solubility increase when electronegativity decreases or vice-versa? or neither...

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The higher the electronegativity, the stronger the acid would be... Therefore it would be more soluble. take NaCl (common table salt) as an example. The difference between Na's electronegativity and Cl's electronegativity is very high so NaCl is a very soluble salt. The only exception is HF - it is a weak acid - it dissociates very weakly because O-H bonds cannot break H-F bonds which are very strong.

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