The Salt Bridge

[Grace_Stevenson_1A]

I am kind of confused on how exactly the salt bridge works. Could someone please explain to me how the transfer of ions would keep the solution neutral? Like using Cl- ions, isn't that very electronegative and would just pull more electrons to the cathode, which would cause the cathode to start rejecting electrons? Sorry thank you!!!

[Alexander Chen 3N]

If Cl- stays in the cathode, the cathode would be negatively charged, so electrons would be repelled from the cathode. The salt bridge allows these ions to move to the anode and make the 2 solutions neutral in charge.

About electronegativty: Chlorine itself is electronegative so it takes an electron to become Cl-. Because of this, the electronegativity of Cl is not important, because it has already taken an electron and has become Cl-.