Raffinose
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. A can of beans is about ninety million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Raffinose. Aliases: melitose, gossypose.
- Height
- 1.3 nm. Floppy at the joints.
- Weight
- 0.84 zeptograms
- Build
- Three sugars in a row: table sugar wearing a galactose hat.
- Habits
- You can’t digest it. Your gut bacteria can, and they bill you in gas.
- Associates
- Stachyose, its big brother, who does most of the work in beans.
- Origins
- Named after the sugar refineries where it turned up.
- Weakness
- Water. Canning washes out about half the family.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked BEANS in the fridge at HQ.
of them in half a cup of navy beans (the baked-bean bean), give or take.
Beans vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Raffinose, No. 13. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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