C-phycocyanin
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 0.5 nm. About 7,000 side by side would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- “Spirulina extract” in candy and gum. No FD&C number.
- Height
- 11.5 nm, standing on its edge. Only 3 nm thick.
- Weight
- 187 zeptograms
- Build
- A doughnut. Three pairs holding hands around a hole.
- Color
- Blue. Glows red.
- Marks
- Nine blue pigments, each a ring of four snapped open.
- Habits
- Catches light and passes it to chlorophyll. Hates heat.
- Known for
- Federally cleared to dye hard-boiled eggs blue, in season.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SPIRU in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of spirulina, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for C-phycocyanin, No. 10. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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