Vitamin C Crystals

Science can be found in the most ubiquitous items…

From Wellcome Images:

B0006834 Credit M I Walker, Wellcome Images
Vitamin C crystals
Crystals of oxidised Vitamin C (dehydroascorbic acid). Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a good anti-oxidant as it is readily oxidised itself to a form that is stable and unreactive. This protects cells from damage caused to reactive oxygen species.
Light microscopy 2005
Collection: Medical Photographic Library

Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0

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~ by metousiosis on July 28, 2009.

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