Firefly luciferin
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. About 65,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- D-luciferin. Also beetle luciferin.
- Height
- 1.2 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.47 zeptograms
- Build
- Three rings in a row. Two of them carry a sulfur.
- Color
- A yellow powder. Glows green under ultraviolet.
- Habits
- Meets oxygen and lights up. Afterwards it answers to oxyluciferin.
- Associates
- Click beetles and railroad worms glow with it too. The click beetles worked it out on their own.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked FIREFLY in the freezer at HQ.
of them in one firefly, give or take.
Fireflies vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Firefly luciferin, No. 99. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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