How can you tell if an element or compound is a lewis acid or lewis base?

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How can you tell if an element or compound is a lewis acid or lewis base?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-26T02:50:25

Just to retire this question.... $how else but by experiment?$ $"how else but by experiment?"$

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Chemistry is an experimental science. Theories and rules are all very well, but they all rely on, and try to interpret the results that chemists observe when they add reagent A to reagent B under a given set of conditions....

You know the definition of $Lewis acidity$ $"Lewis acidity"$ , and of $Lewis Basicity$ $"Lewis Basicity"$ ....you have to hit the texts to comprehend and apply them....

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How can you tell if an element or compound is a lewis acid or lewis base?

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