Limonene
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 navel orange is about ninety million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- d-Limonene. Has a mirror-image twin.
- Height
- 0.83 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.23 zeptograms
- Build
- One ring, with a stubby arm at each end.
- Marks
- Lives in tiny oil glands just under the skin of the peel.
- Habits
- Bend the peel and it bursts out at over 20 miles an hour.
- Associates
- Lemons, mandarins, grapefruit: the whole citrus family.
- Known for
- Popping balloons. It dissolves the rubber.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked ORANGE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a tablespoon of grated orange peel, give or take.
Oranges vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Limonene, No. 45. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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