Cholesterol
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. A fingernail grows that far in about a second and a half.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Cholesterol: Greek for “solid bile.” It’s been called worse.
- Height
- 1.9 nm, standing up straight.
- Weight
- 0.64 zeptograms
- Build
- Four rings welded flat and stiff, a floppy tail, and one OH for a head.
- Habits
- Slips in among the fats of every animal cell’s membrane, nearly one for one, and stiffens it.
- Associates
- Insects can’t make it. They eat it, or rebuild it from the plant kind.
- Known for
- A cousin of it melts twice, cloudy then clear. That’s how liquid crystals were discovered.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked BUTTER in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a tablespoon of butter, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Cholesterol, No. 88. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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