#// i remember learning about sudafed and meth in the singular forensic science class i took

[surging-eyes-seeing-through]

Hello again Mr. Apollo! I’m submitting my fun fact early today because I’m probably gonna be preoccupied with birthday shenanigans later! 🥳 You don’t gotta answer until later if you don’t want, I mean technically you don’t gotta answer at all but like. You get what I mean. Anywho!

Your cool bug fact today is that there’s exactly one oxygen atom separating pseudoephedrine (the active ingredient in Sudafed) from methamphetamine (…meth). The molecular structures of the two are EXTREMELY similar. On a somewhat related note, many organic molecules can be transformed into seemingly unrelated compounds, such as toluene (paint thinner) and benzaldehyde (artificial cherry flavor), in which two hydrogen atoms are swapped out for one oxygen. Yay chemistry! :D

~🐢

"...'yay, chemistry' is right. It's, I mean... It sure is complicated, I'll give it that."

(And I'm happy people much smarter than me are dealing with actually figuring it out...)

"But, uh... congrats, to whoever's having the birthday. I don't care too much for mine, but I know people really get into that stuff."