Phosphatidylcholine
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. A drop of mayonnaise is about a million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Lecithin. This one is POPC, one common lecithin.
- Height
- 3.2 nm, standing on its tails.
- Weight
- 1.3 zeptograms
- Build
- A water-loving head on two greasy tails.
- Marks
- One tail straight, one kinked at its double bond.
- Habits
- Stands at the oil-water border, head in one, tails in the other.
- Known for
- Keeping mayonnaise from parting back into oil and vinegar.
- Associates
- Egg yolk. Over half the phospholipid in your cells is this kind.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked MAYO in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a tablespoon of mayonnaise, give or take.
Jars vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Phosphatidylcholine, No. 89. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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