Impurities and solubility

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How does impurity affects solubility? increase/decrease/shift/etc?
 
Depends on what the impurity is...if it's an ion that the substance you're trying to dissolve would also produce this would lower the solubility of that substance. This is known as the common ion effect.
 
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