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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 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.




According to the infallible Wikipedia ionizing radiation can refer to either electromagnetic radiation or massive particles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation


I should have looked that up, huh? :-)




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