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Why boric acid considered as a weak acid​

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Boric acid is considered as weak base because it cannot dissosiate H+ ion easily....

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Boric acid is considered as a weak acid because it is unable to act as a proton donor but acts as a Lewis acid by accepting the hydroxyl ion from water molecules.

In other words,boric acid is not able to release H+ ions on its own but do so by accepting OH- ions from water molecule to complete it's octet and in turn releases H+ ions.

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