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Why is gold nitrate soluble?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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The nitrate anion is a large, monovalent moiety. Gold is also a fairly large cation, so, although the charge is +1, the effective attraction over that distance is somewhat lessened. These two factors make it easy for a polar solvent (like water) to separate gold nitrate into its respective ionic species. For the record, I cannot think of a single non-soluble nitrate compound.

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