Methyl salicylate
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. An inch-long wintergreen leaf is over thirty million times longer.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Methyl salicylate. Alias: oil of wintergreen.
- Height
- 0.78 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.25 zeptograms
- Smell
- Wintergreen. Moonlights in root beer.
- Known for
- Turning the spark blue when you crunch a wintergreen mint in the dark.
- Habits
- Plants under attack send it up like a flare. Ladybugs answer.
- Associates
- Black birch. Scrape a twig and sniff.
- Origins
- Teaberry, a creeper in acid woods all over New England.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked WINTERGR in the fridge at HQ.
of them in the oil from an ounce of dried wintergreen leaves, give or take.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Methyl salicylate, No. 34. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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