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Why sodium hydroxide is much more water soluble than chloride?

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NaOH is much more soluble than NaCl. Enthalpy of a soluti on can be expressed as the sum of lattice enthalpy and enthalpy of hydration of a compound.

Dissolution of NaCl is accompanied by very small heat change so solubility of NaCl is less than NaOH
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