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Classify the following species into Lewis acids and Lewis bases and show how these act as Lewis acid/base: (1) `OH^(-)`
(2) `F^(-)`
(3) `H^(+)`
(4) `BCl_(3)`.

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A Lewis acid is an electron-pair acceptor and a Lewis base is an electron-pair donor.
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