Epigallocatechin gallate
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. A tea leaf is about sixty million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- EGCG. Nobody says the whole thing.
- Height
- 1.1 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.76 zeptograms
- Build
- Four rings and eight OH groups, all bristling.
- Taste
- Bitter. Dries your mouth by grabbing the proteins in your spit.
- Known for
- Half the catechins in a cup of green tea.
- Hours
- Leaves the leaf in the first three to five minutes.
- Weakness
- Air. Black tea is the same leaves left to oxidize, and most of it is gone.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked GREEN TEA in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz cup of green tea, on average.
Teas vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Epigallocatechin gallate, No. 80. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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