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All Bronsted bases are also lewis bases, but all bronsted acids are not lewis acids. Why?

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Because, bronsted bases are proton acceptors and lewis bases contain lone pair/s of electrons available for coordination and thus they can accept protons.
Example: `NH_(3),H_(2)O`.
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