NanoKid
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, a line every 0.1 nm. A six-foot man is about a billion times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- NanoKid. Family name NanoPutian: nanometer plus Lilliputian.
- Height
- 1.7 nm. One hand up.
- Weight
- 0.90 zeptograms
- Build
- Two benzene rings for a torso, four triple bonds for limbs. tert-Butyl hands, propyl feet.
- Head
- A 1,3-dioxolane. Strictly speaking, a protecting group.
- Habits
- Swaps heads. A diol and a microwave make it a NanoMonarch.
- Associates
- A cousin with sulfur feet, who stands upright on gold.
- Occupation
- Cartoon star. Explains the periodic table to schoolkids.
- Last seen
- In a flask in a lab in Houston, and in classroom cartoons.
atoms make one whole person: 39 carbons, 42 hydrogens, 2 oxygens.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for NanoKid, No. 134 of the exotic forty. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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