Posted by Bipasha Basu on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 1:48am.
Look at the structures shown on the sites below. Vitamin A is mostly hydrocarbon chains and will be soluble in fats(long hydrocarbon chains) while vitamin C has a number of OH groups which will make it soluble in water. Remember like dissolves like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
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