Oleic acid
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. An olive is over ten million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- 18:1 on nutrition tables. From oleum, Latin for oil.
- Height
- 1.9 nm, stretched out.
- Weight
- 0.47 zeptograms
- Build
- Long and greasy, with a kink at its one double bond.
- Habits
- Travels in threes, as fat. Olive oil is mostly that.
- Associates
- Ants. It smells of death to them: they haul anything daubed with it to the trash.
- Weakness
- Running loose, it’s a flaw: extra virgin olive oil may have only 0.8% free.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked OLIVE in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a tablespoon of olive oil, mostly tied up in threes as fat.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Oleic acid, No. 87. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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