In the regime where salt promotes chromatin condensation by screening repulsion between DNA-rich surfaces, reducing salt from 0.15 M to 0.1 M weakens the effective attraction. In the schematic upper-critical model this means a lower critical temperature and a smaller coexistence region; at a fixed suitable temperature the dilute-phase saturation concentration rises. The second curve is therefore drawn inside and below the first. The magnitude of the shift is not specified by the question.
This direction has a microscopic basis: reducing ionic strength increases the range of electrostatic repulsion between negatively charged DNA segments. Modelling of interacting arrays supports a role for screening and nucleosome contacts in stabilizing chromatin-rich phases.[ref]
Nucleosome plasticity is a critical element of chromatin liquid-liquid phase separation and multivalent nucleosome interactions by Stephen E. Farr and others. Salt-dependent coexistence and the role of nucleosome breathing
In the idealized limit of unscreened DNA-DNA repulsion, the ordinary condensed phase can disappear, rather than simply acquiring an arbitrarily small positive critical temperature. However, zero added NaCl is not literally zero counterions: charged chromatin requires charge compensation, and buffer ions and counterions associated with the preparation remain. Salt also screens attractive interactions, and very high salt can alter nucleosome stability. The proposed shift applies to the stated low-salt screening regime, not a universal monotonic law at every salt concentration.
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