词汇 | niacin |
词源 | niacin. The valuable vitamin, surprisingly enough, takes its name from nicotinic acid, plus the suffix in. In fact, it was at first called nicotinic acid, but that name’s association with to- bacco necessitated the new coining in the early 1940s. |
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