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Amphetamine vs Methylenedioxymethamphetamine - What's the difference?

amphetamine | methylenedioxymethamphetamine |

As nouns the difference between amphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine

is that amphetamine is amphetamine while methylenedioxymethamphetamine is the psychoactive drug mdma or ecstasy, an amphetamine that produces entactogenic, psychedelic, and stimulant effects.

amphetamine

English

(wikipedia amphetamine)

Alternative forms

* amfetamine

Noun

  • (organic compound, proper) The racemic freebase of amphetamine, the chemical with an IUPAC name of "1-phenylpropan-2-amine"; equal parts of the levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine stereoisomers in their pure amine forms.
  • (informal) Any mixture of the amphetamine enantiomers, dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine; any chemical that can be described by an enantiomeric ratio of the amphetamine enantiomers.
  • (informal, nonstandard) Referring to a substituted amphetamine; a member of the amphetamine class of chemicals.
  • (medicine) A potent central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine chemical class that is used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.

    • Derived terms

    * methamphetamine * substituted amphetamine

    methylenedioxymethamphetamine

    English

    (wikipedia methylenedioxymethamphetamine)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The psychoactive drug MDMA or Ecstasy, an amphetamine that produces entactogenic, psychedelic, and stimulant effects.

    • Hyponyms

    * — the form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine found in E (ecstasy) *

    Related terms

    * methylene, di-, oxy-, methamphetamine * methyl, -ene, meth-, amphetamine, amine