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Defining Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) as Lewis acid

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Varlam:
Lewis acid is an electron pair acceptor from a Lewis base.

How is Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) defined as a Lewis acid?

Is it the hydron who accepts the electrons from a base? or the carbon which accepts electrons from the hydorgen?

sjb:
For awareness, similar is discussed at https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/c5z6be/how_is_hydrogen_cyanide_hcn_defined_as_a_lewis

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