Glycine
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 0.02 nm. A full-grown sea scallop shell is about three hundred million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Gly, or just G. Formerly “sugar of gelatin.”
- Height
- 0.44 nm. Ten atoms, all told.
- Weight
- 0.12 zeptograms
- Build
- The simplest amino acid there is.
- Taste
- Sweet. The main reason scallops taste sweet.
- Marks
- No left or right hand. The only protein amino acid that matches its mirror image.
- Habits
- Every third link in collagen.
- Associates
- Comets. Found in comet dust flown back to Earth.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SCALLOP in the freezer at HQ.
of them in a 3 oz serving of fresh scallops, give or take.
Scallops vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Glycine, No. 60. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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