During nitration of benzene using a mixture of conc. HNO3 and conc. H2SO4 function of conc. H2SO4 is to increase the rate of reaction by increasing the concentration of NO2+ according to following reaction.Here nitric acid acts as

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a stronger acid

a weaker acid

a base

none of the these

answer is C.

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