Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a small carbohydrate molecule first identified in the 1920s by Albert von Szent Györgyi, who discovered that it was able to prevent and cure scurvy.

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S.T., Dover, Delaware DEAR S.T.: In the same way that its chemical name, ascorbic acid, also refers to vitamin C, the compound known as vitamin B5 can go by its chemical name, pantothenic acid.