Vitamin C Under Microscope
Vitamin C under the microscope.
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Vitamin C is also known as "ascorbic acid".
The a- in the name means "not" and "scorbic" comes from "scurvy"; hence, it is known as "no scurvy acid" - scurvy being the disease that promoted the vitamin's discovery.
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No way. I never would have guess it just means "not scurvy." Thanks for this random piece of information.
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This is very interesting. I knew it was called ascorbic acid and knew it prevented scurvy, but didn;t make the connection with a-scorbic.
Pretty sure you're right though. From wikipedia: "The name antiscorbutic was used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for foods known to prevent scurvy"
Not a long step from antiscorbutic to ascorbic.
Maybe you should post this to TIL ?
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Scurvy has left the chat.
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Blood sugar has entered the chat.
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My first thought was that this needs to be a pattern!! I'd love to wear a dress like that
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I thought that's what sub this was when I first saw the pic! :)
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It looks like an incredible hippy embroidery.
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It even looks like a cross-section of an orange.
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Mm, yeah, gimme that un scurvy juice
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Now that just looks like a ton of positivity I'm ready to ingest!
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That's how my brain feels when I'm hungover and drink a big glass of OJ
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Looks like an undersea data cable
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