Dude, who even knows.
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Vitamin C, or “ascorbic acid” is short for “antiscorbutic acid” where “scorbutic” is “relating to or affected with scurvy”.
How did I not know this?
yeah this makes sense but it is a weird abbreviation. I did not know this either
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a can mean the same thing as a prefix as anti and scorbic and scorbutic could reasonably also mean the same thing? -ic...
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IIRC the antiscorbutic properties of citrus was discovered, and then lost, and then rediscovered, in part due to the...
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