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They were the Arabs those who extended his cultivation for the Mediterranean coast. There corresponds to them also the name of the fruit "El-Barquq" from which the word apricot comes.
From the sweet almond of his bone there is extracted oil much used in the making of cosmetics. Of the same bone the acid isolated itself in 1955 pangámico, known some decades ago as vitamin B 15, name that later has been rejected for there were no conclusive proofs that it is a vitamin, not of that in human beings reduces the levels séricos of cholesterol, as it had been supposed.
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