Furaneol
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 pineapple is about four hundred million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Pineapple ketone. Also strawberry furanone, HDMF.
- Height
- 0.63 nm
- Weight
- 0.21 zeptograms
- Build
- A five-sided ring with two methyl whiskers. Nearly flat.
- Smell
- Caramel when strong. Strawberry when weak.
- Marks
- Left- and right-handed. In water, it keeps switching.
- Known for
- The loudest smell in a fresh pineapple, 2,700 times what a nose can catch.
- First seen
- In pineapple. Since spotted in strawberries, tomatoes and buckwheat.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked PINEAPPLE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a cup of fresh pineapple chunks, give or take.
Pineapples vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Furaneol, No. 47. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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