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Orthoboric acid acts as a Lewis acid . Why ?

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It acts as a weak monobasic lewis acid by accepting a hydroxyl ion.
`underset ("Boric acid ( lewis acid)")(B(OH)_(3)) +H^(+) OH^(-) rarr [B(OH)_(4)]^(-)+H^(+)`
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