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Starting from boric acid how can you prepare meta and tetraboric acid.

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Orthoboric acid on heating at `100^@C and 160^@C` forms metaboric acid and tetraboric acid respectively.
`H_3BO_2 overset(100^@C)to HBO_2` (metaboric acid)+ `H_2O`
`4H_3BO_3 overset(160^@C)to H_2B_4O_7` (tetraboric acid)+ `5H_2O`
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