What does the "C" stand for within Vitamin C?Does the "C" stand for Calcium??
Answers: "C" in Vitamin C is no road related to Calcium.
Anyone could think that the "C" could be related to "citrus fruits" as the first sources of such vitamin C given to British Royal Navy sailors and soldiers which proved its efficacy on scurvy.(Remember that story of Scottish naval surgeon James Lind who did the Citrus experiment to those aboard the ship in 1747. He discovered that an unknown nutrient (now certain to be vitamin C) in citrus foods prevented scurvy.
But the concrete reason is that the first vitamins be named contained by alphabetical order according to the lay down of their discovery or rediscovery. Vitamins A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J.
Vitamins F, G, H, and I were reclassified then and discarded as false leads or renamed because they be related to "vitamin B", which became B"complex" of or designated next to different numbers- B1,B2, and so on.......
When vitamin K was discovered by a Danish researcher it be named "K" not due to communiqu¨¦ naming order but the moniker was taken after the Danish word for clotting - "Koagulation" as vitamin K help the blood to clot.
When the rest of the other vitamins were discovered after that,the system of letter naming become out of style, so they are called merely by their chemical names.
Hope that's clear ample....
No, Vitamin C is a vitamin. Calcium is a separate and disparate mineral. Your body needs both.
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