{"id":43006,"date":"2022-02-06T21:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43006"},"modified":"2022-02-06T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:05:49","slug":"chemistry-lewis-acid-lewis-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-lewis-acid-lewis-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry: Lewis acid, Lewis base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring chemistry, Lewis acids and bases arise. The tutor mentions them.<\/h2>\n<p>\nA Lewis acid is a species that has room, in its outer shell, for an extra pair of electrons. H<sup>+<\/sup> is an example, but so is BH<sub>3<\/sub>. H<sup>+<\/sup>, having no electrons, has room for exactly two electrons in its outer shell, whereas B in BH<sub>3<\/sub>, surrounded by only six electrons, has room for two more.<\/p>\n<p>A Lewis base is a species that can offer an unbonded pair of electrons (aka a lone pair). H<sub>2<\/sub>O is an example, since the O in H<sub>2<\/sub>O has two lone pairs. Similarly, NH<sub>3<\/sub> is a Lewis base because its N has a lone pair.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/chemistry\/chapter\/15-2-lewis-acids-and-bases\/\">opentextbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring chemistry, Lewis acids and bases arise. The tutor mentions them. A Lewis acid is a species that has room, in its outer shell, for an extra pair of electrons. H+ is an example, but so is BH3. H+, having &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-lewis-acid-lewis-base\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry: Lewis acid, Lewis base<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43006"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43014,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43006\/revisions\/43014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}