Peonidin 3-galactoside
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 60,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Peonidin 3-galactoside. The cranberry’s main red.
- Height
- 1.4 nm, stretched out.
- Weight
- 0.77 zeptograms
- Build
- Flat three-ring head, one sugar for a tail.
- Color
- Cherry red in acid. Turns deep blue when the acid runs out.
- Marks
- One methyl group more than its cousin, cyanidin.
- Origins
- Cranberry bogs, mostly in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Named after the peony.
- Associates
- Cranberries, which float. Growers flood the bog and round them up.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CRAN in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz glass of cranberry juice cocktail, give or take.
Bottles vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Peonidin 3-galactoside, No. 19. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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