Originally Posted by
geoff 
Meth implies a single carbon atom in the molecule and eth is two, right? I took AP Chem in high school but remember almost nothing.
"Meth" implies the presence of a methyl group,
I think, which is a radical attached to a carbon with three hydrogens; methamphetamine has a methyl group where the radical is nitrogen, according to the diagram on
Wikipedia. I actually really hate chemistry. I can do it, but I really have to work hard to understand it. Does not at all come easily to me.
I can't believe what a nerd I am, I just looked up the chemical structure of my DOC...