Asparagusic acid
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. An asparagus spear is about three hundred million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Asparagusic acid. Alias: 1,2-dithiolane-4-carboxylic acid.
- Height
- 0.49 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Build
- A five-sided ring with two sulfurs holding hands. Makes it touchy.
- Origins
- Appears to be unique to asparagus.
- Suspected
- Of the curious smell of pee after asparagus. Witnesses say cooked cabbage.
- Marks
- Not every nose can pick up its trail.
- Known for
- Slipping into living cells. Chemists use it to light up the Golgi.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked ASPARAGUS in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one asparagus spear, give or take.
Spears vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Asparagusic acid, No. 51. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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