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Lewis acid

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Lewis acid

▶noun Chemistry a compound or ionic species which can accept an electron pair from a donor compound.

– origin 1940s: named after the American chemist Gilbert N. Lewis.

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