Vitamin K is found in nature in two forms: * K1, also called phylloquinone, is found in plants and vitamin. * K2, also called menaquinone, which can be synthesized by many bacteria. Vitamin K3, menadione, ia a manmade vitiman K.
Menadione is another name for vitamin K.
Vitamin K1 is also known as phylloquinoneVitamin K2 is also known as menatetrenoneThere are also three synthetic forms of vitamin K
The chemical name for vitamin K is phylloquinone. It also is referred to as phytomenadione or phytonadione. This vitamin is important in the body for blood coagulation.
Vitamin K is so-called because its name in German was Koagulations-Vitamin. It was discovered in the search to discover the cure for haemorrhage in baby chicks fed on a simplified food diet that did not contain 'Vitamin K'.
Vitamin K (2-Methyl-3-phytyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) is the antihemorrhagic vitamin.
Phylloquinone
Vitamin A: Retinol, Vitamin B1: Thiamine, Vitamin B12: Cobalamin, Vitamin C: Ascorbic acid, Vitamin D: Calciferol, Vitamin E: Tocopherol, Vitamin K: Phylloquinone.
Potassium is known by the abbreviation K+. It is not a nickname.
Vitamin K.
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Shortest answer, no. Vitamin K is a vitamin.
Vitamin K is responsible for the clotting of blood..