Which of the following names are correct for the given oxyacids?

- Nitrous acid

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- Nitrous acid

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- Polynitryl acid

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- Nitric acid

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Solution

The correct options are
B - Nitrous acid
D - Nitric acid
$H N O_{2}$ is named as nitrous acid. Let us look at the structure:

Although not shown here, each oxygen atom has two lone pairs while the nitrogen has one lone pair. Can you guess the oxidation state of the Nitrogen atom here?
$H N O_{3}$ is nitric acid.It has the structure:

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