naming oxiranes??

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Kneecoal

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this is throwing me... i don't understand how an oxirane can have numbered carbons on it if there's one on each end of the triangle. for example there was a problem in destroyer using what they called 2-methyl oxirane.

can someone please explain this?
 
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