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Is boric acid a protic acid??? |
| Answer» A protic acid is one which can ionise in solution to produce proton or hydronium ion. It is not protic acids since it does not ionise in H2O to give a proton.Boric acid is not a protic acid. It accepts a pair of electron from OH- ion of water and acts as a lewis acidB(OH)3 +2H20 →[B(OH)4]-+H3O+<br>According to their theories , a protonic acid is a species which donate a proton i.e. ... But boric acid do not donate H+ rather it accepts an electron pair from the solution or the donor i.e. an OH-. | |