why do B vitamins have various numbers? Are they chemically related?

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why do B vitamins have various numbers? Are they chemically related?

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We used to think they were the same thing until we managed to separate them. Since the letters beyond B were already in use for other vitamins, we just added numbers for the newly separated vitamins.

For skipped letters and numbers, we called them vitamins until we later discovered that those chemicals do not meet our definition of vitamin

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