In de Amerikaanse TV show Breaking Bad maakt Walter 99% pure blauwe meth uit zijn lab. Maar de grote vraag is of 99% wel bestaat en of de kleur uit de serie ook echt voor komt. Antwoord op al deze vragen kan je in dit artikel vinden, die feiten en fictie uit naast elkaar zet.

It's probable that the writers are simply taking liberties, but there is one, albeit unlikely, solution. And it might explain Walt's pride in his chemistry and his destructively protective regard for his formula: Walt somehow discovered a simple, cheap, and brilliant way to make the P2P cook enantiomerically pure. This might tie in the other mystery of Walt's cook: that the meth he makes is blue. "The color is also really odd," Parkinson says, "particularly because there aren't any impurities in the P2P process that would make it blue."

In the end, Parkinson says that whether or not the writers of the show have a secret solution to the P2P enantiomer problem, as a chemist he doesn't mind. "It doesn't bother me," says Parkinson, "It's a very creative show, and I think the liberty like that just creates the possibility that Walter did something incredibly brilliant, which, though unlikely, makes it all the more interesting."