iloveyou
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Posts: 72
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 Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:25 am Post subject: Vitamin |
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Hello, 
Regarding how to write vitamins.
I thought that vitamine comes first followed by A,B,C, D
such as Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin C, Vitamin D...
Reading my book, I came acroos B Vitamin, and I googled it finding out
it is actually written so.
So, my question is, is it just Vitamin B?
Can I say A vitamin, C vitamin as well?
Thanks
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redset
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
Posts: 582
Location: England
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My understanding is that vitamin A, C, D etc. are all single vitamins - people used to think that vitamin B was a single type of vitamin, but it turned out to be a group of several vitamins. Now we either refer to the individual vitamins by name (B1, B6 etc.) or just call them B vitamins. A supplement which has all of the B vitamins is called a vitamin B complex.
There's some interesting and slightly technical info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins |
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