Question

Why nacl is soluble in water whereas agcl is insoluble in water?

Answer 1

Salt (sodium chloride) nacl is made from positive sodium ions bonded to negative chloride ions. Water can dissolve salt because the positive part of water molecules attracts the negative chloride ions and the negative part of watermolecules attracts the positive sodium ions.

Agcl is non -polar because of big size of silver ion with chlorine ion and so it's deform the electrons shells,so this gives its non polar nature so agcl insoluble in water ...