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A salt may be more soluble than others depending on how easily they form ions in solutions. This also depends on the solvent (where the salt dissolves in) used.

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Examples: silver chloride, iron sulfide, barium sulfate, calcium carbonate, lead sulfate etc

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That is because they consist of ions, and water is polar.

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