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Acetomenaphthone

A synthetic form of vitamin K: it is the diacetate of menadiol (vitamin K4), prepared around 1940 and used as a source of vitamin K to support blood clotting. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?The letter K comes from the German Koagulationsvitamin: the vitamin was discovered in 1929 by the Dane Henrik Dam while studying chickens that bled, and it earned him the Nobel Prize in 1943.

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