Betanin
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 0.1 nm. About 44,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Beetroot red, in the trade. E162 in Europe.
- Height
- 1.8 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.91 zeptograms
- Build
- Two rings with a nitrogen each, and a glucose.
- Color
- Bluish red. Blue-violet in alkali, then yellow-brown.
- Habits
- Turns up, pink, in the pee of about one person in eight.
- Associates
- Prickly pears and Swiss chard. Never in the same plant as an anthocyanin.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked BEET JUICE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz glass of beet juice, give or take.
Beets vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Betanin, No. 79. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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