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Diagram showing the acid-base reaction between ammonia (NH3) and boron trifluoride (BF3) to form ammonia boron trifluoride (NH3-BF3), with structural formulas and labels for each compound.

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Lewis acid Lewis base acid Brønsted-Lowry theory Arrhenius theory Nucleic acid oxyacid Amino acid phenol sulfuric acid carbonic acid sulfonic acid hydrogen cyanide

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Gilbert N. Lewis

American chemist