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Vitamin K plays a key role in helping the blood clot, preventing excessive bleeding. Unlike many other vitamins, vitamin K is not typically used as a dietary supplement.
Vitamin K is actually a group of compounds. The most important of these compounds appears to be vitamin K1 and vitamin K2.
Viscosity
Viscosity is the characteristic of a fluid to exert a force between it so as to reduce the relative motion between the membranes.
Viscous force is the frictional force acting parallel to the membranes in such a way as to interfere with their relative motion between the moving fluid membranes.
Hypervitaminosis is a condition of abnormally high storage levels of vitamins, which can lead to toxic symptoms.
Hypervitaminoses are primarily caused by fat-soluble vitamins (D and A), as these are stored by the body for longer than the water-soluble vitamins.
Vitamin B 1 – Thiamine
Vitamin B 2 – Riboflavin
Vitamin B 3 – Niacin
Vitamin B 1 – Thiamine
Vitamin B 2 – Riboflavin
Vitamin B 12 – Cyanocabalamine
Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and then passes to one’s eyes. He was also the first to demonstrate that vision occurs in the brain, rather than in the eyes.
Lord Rayleigh
He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies. ” He served as President of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908 and as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1908 to 1919.
-Value of systolic blood pressure : 120 mm of Hg
-Value of diastolic blood pressure : 80 mm of Hg
-Systole occurs when the heart contracts to pump blood
-Diastole occurs when the heart relaxes after contraction