Harry Veeder wrote:
RICHLAND, Wash. When Yuri Gorby discovered that a microbe which
transforms toxic metals can sprout tiny electrically conductive wires
from its cell membrane, he reasoned this anatomical oddity and its
metal-changing physiology must be related...
http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.asp?id=171
Anybody know what this means? :
"/"Shewanella/, of interest in environmental cleanup for its ability
to hasten the weathering of toxic metals into benign ones"
How do you "weather" a toxic metal (like, perhaps, lead, arsenic,
mercury...) into a "benign one" (as in a benign metal, like, aluminum,
copper, iron, ...?) ?
There's clearly something here that I'm not getting.
