Beta-lactoglobulin
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 0.2 nm. A dairy cow is about three hundred million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- BLG. More than half the protein in whey.
- Height
- 4.7 nm. Nearly as wide as it is tall.
- Weight
- 30 zeptograms
- Build
- A cup made of eight strands. The lid shuts below pH 6.
- Habits
- Goes around in pairs in milk. Splits up in acid.
- Associates
- Usually caught holding a fat, palmitic acid, in its cup.
- Origins
- Cow’s milk. Human milk has none.
- Suspected
- Of having a job. Decades of study, and nobody can say what it is.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked WHEY in the fridge at HQ.
of them in one scoop of whey protein powder, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Beta-lactoglobulin, No. 90. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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