Simply the best version of the chemistry solubility rules song.
SOLUBILITY SONG LYRICS
Group 1 and ammonium salts,
Wherever they may be
Can always be depended on for solubility.
Acetates and nitrates?
The answer's always clear,
They each and all are soluble,
Is all we want to hear.
Chlorides bromides iodides
Are soluble weve read,
Save silver, mercurous mercury,
And (slightly) those with lead.
Every single sulfate,
Is soluble, 'tis said,
'Cept barium, silver, calcium
Mercury, strontium, lead.
Carbonates are insoluble,
Usually that is so,
Or else our marble buildings
Would melt away like snow.
Phosphates or sulfides will not mix
With water it is true
But if combined with Group 1
Or ammonium they do.
Hydroxides plus metals won't dissolve,
All but these you see.
With Group 1 or ammonium
They dissolve quite readily.
When added to hydroxides
You must not forget:
Calcium, barium strontium
Make them dissolve a bit.
The strong electrolytes I sang
Are soluble you see,
Add strong acids and bases
To this category.
Weak electrolytes do not
dissolve as we have seen,
Covalents and weak acids,
this is what I mean.
Gases will never dissolve
As you well may NO,
These include HCN
H2S, CO.
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