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Sodium chloride is ionic, and therefore very polar. Isopropanol is a hydrocarbon, and is therefore non-polar. Like dissolves like, and polar and non-polar are opposites, so the salt doesn't dissolve. Water, however, will easily dissolve salt, because, like salt, water is polar.

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