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Sodium chloride is highly polar (ionic in fact) where hexane is very not. The two don't attract at all, so each is insoluble in the other.

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Sodium chloride is a polar compound; the solvent ethanol is not polar.

Ethanol is a non polar solvent. NaCl is a polar compound. Therefore NaCl is insoluble in ethanol.

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Because petroleum ether is not a polar compound.

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Sodium chloride is a polar compound; the solvent ethanol is not polar.

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Sodium chloride is a polar, ionic compound but ether is not.

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Ethanol is a non polar solvent. NaCl is a polar compound. Therefore NaCl is insoluble in ethanol.

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Because ethanol is a nonpolar solvent.

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Because ethanol is not a polar solvent.

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Sodium chloride is not soluble in ether.

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