Draw the structure of boric acid. From the structure of boric acid, show that it is monobasic acid.

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Solution

Boric acid has 3 OH group et it is a monobasic acid.
Hence, Boric acid is a Lewis acid where a lone pair of electrons is accepted by the vacant orbital of boron.
Hence, $H_{3} B O_{3}$ is a monobasic acid.

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