Taurine
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 0.05 nm. About 150,000 of them end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, in full.
- Height
- 0.56 nm, end to end.
- Weight
- 0.21 zeptograms
- Build
- Two carbons, a nitrogen at one end, a sulfur at the other.
- Habits
- Calls itself an amino acid. Never joins a protein.
- Associates
- Clams. They stock up on it when the water gets saltier.
- Weakness
- Water. Boil a clam and most of it leaves for the cooking water.
- First seen
- In ox bile. Hence the name: taurus is Latin for bull.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CLAM in the freezer at HQ.
of them in a dozen raw clams, give or take.
Clams vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Taurine, No. 57. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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