The basicity of phosphoric acid is:

1

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Solution

The correct option is D $3$
The basicity of phosphoric acid, $H_{3} P O_{4}$ is 3. Basicity is the number of acidic hydrogen atoms in the molecule. For hydrogen to be acidic, it must be attached to a strongly electronegative atom such as oxygen or fluorine.
Hence option C is correct.

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