...on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:06:46AM +0000, Ken Seefried wrote:
> Oh, come now people. There's no metabolic process that makes aluminum into
> food. Undoubtedly, these fungi are eating something organic (glue?) and
> producing an acid that is destroying the metalic layer.
The news article does not say that the fungus
is going for the aluminium, by the way.
It says, the fungus destroys the polycarbonate
because it feeds on the nitrogen and carbon, if
the environment is suitable ( > 30 degrees celsius
temperature, > 90% relative humidity), thereby
destroying the information stored in the aluminium
layer.
The original article (in spanish) is at
http://www.cienciadigital.net/junio2001/fnoticia_cd.html
Babelfish produces sort of an understandable
translation.
Alex.
Received on Thu Jun 21 2001 - 11:48:53 BST