Curcumin
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 50,000 of them end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Curcumin. Aliases: diferuloylmethane, Natural Yellow 3, E100.
- Height
- 1.7 nm, standing on one end.
- Weight
- 0.61 zeptograms
- Build
- A ring at each end of a seven-carbon chain.
- Color
- Yellow. Turns red-brown in soapy water. Glows green under UV light.
- Habits
- Avoids water. Fades in sunlight.
- Associates
- Moonlights in yellow mustard.
- Origins
- Turmeric root, from the ginger side of the family.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked TURMERIC in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of ground turmeric, on average.
Jars vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Curcumin, No. 42. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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