Vitamin D3
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 50,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Cholecalciferol. Calciol, for short.
- Height
- 1.6 nm, standing up straight.
- Weight
- 0.64 zeptograms
- Marks
- A steroid with one ring broken open. Sunlight did it.
- Origins
- Your skin makes it when UVB sunlight hits a cousin of cholesterol.
- Hours
- Boston sunshine makes none, November through February.
- Associates
- Sheep. Most bottled D3 starts out as wool grease.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked COD OIL in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a teaspoon of cod liver oil, on average.
Bottles vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Vitamin D3, No. 31. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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