Thymol
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. A thyme leaf is about seven million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Thymol. Alias: thyme camphor.
- Height
- 0.79 nm, standing up.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Build
- Colorless crystals. Melts just above 120 °F.
- Associates
- Its twin, carvacrol, the smell of oregano. Same atoms, OH one seat over.
- Origins
- Thyme, from Mediterranean hillsides. Bee balm, an eastern US wildflower.
- Habits
- Moonlights as menthol: factories make one from the other.
- First seen
- As crystals in thyme oil, by the King of Prussia’s apothecary.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked THYME in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of dried thyme, give or take.
Thyme varies. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Thymol, No. 84. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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