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"Just as the pigment chlorophyll converts sunlight into chemical energy that allows green plants to live and grow, our research suggests that melanin can use a
by DonGateley 13y ago
"Just as the pigment chlorophyll converts sunlight into chemical energy that allows green plants to live and grow, our research suggests that melanin can use a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum - ionizing radiation - to benefit the fungi containing it,"
One problem with that. Ionizing radiation is not on the electromagnetic spectrum. It's particles with rest mass.
- TheEzEzz 13y agoAccording to the infallible Wikipedia ionizing radiation can refer to either electromagnetic radiation or massive particles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation
- DonGateley 13y agoI should have looked that up, huh? :-)