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What is the basicity of Boric acid?

3 It constantly varies 2 1

Nihar Mahajan by Nihar Mahajan , 20, India

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Rishabh Tiwari
May 14, 2016

H3BO3 is a weak acid with basicity 1 , It acts as a lewis acid in its Aqueous Solution.....Here's The Reaction→

H3BO3 + H2O <===> B[(OH)4]^ (-ve) + H^(+ve)

Thank you..

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You too (+1) nice

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 1 month ago
Ashish Menon
May 16, 2016

Boric acid may seem to have basicity 3 but it atually has basicity 1. The reason is that it has eficiency of electrons. I am not sure to how much extent resonance of electrons plays part in its basicity being 1.

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Exactly efficiency of electrons! +1 bro.

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years, 1 month ago

Great :+1 The same way

Abhiram Rao - 5 years, 1 month ago

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