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Explain the structure of nitric acid.

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Nitric acid (`HNO_(3)`) exists as a planar molecule as shown below:

The resonance structure of `HNO_(3)` has following two structures :

This is due to presence of resonance in between N and O atoms. But in N - OH group, there is no resonance present.
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