You’re wasting your time talking to Ed about coated anthrax spores. He still believes what Alibek told him - that there is “no principle” to coating.
Ed even believes all the coated spores shown in “Microbial Forensics” are some stunt set up to demonstrate how spores are NOT weaponized ;))))
Meanwhile - the scientific community reads Beecher’s Meselson-inspired paper, laughs quietly to themselves, and continues to study the aerosol properties on silica COATED spores. Some of the samples in the study you cite are 40 years old - and they still have robust silica COATINGS.
TrebleRebel,
From the article -
“In this process the material passed through a series of stages separated by increasingly finer mesh screens.”
That is what I am describing when I use the phrase sequential filtration.
Perhaps Ed could upload the picture of a particle presumed to be a single BG spore coated with fumed silica in 7A. TrebleRebel, as you know, in the study, many particles similar to this were observed while no single spores without the silica were observed. Agglomerated spores with only a light coating of silica were readily observed as indicated by Figure 7b.
Ed,
I also am curious how you think your webpage discussion squares with the revised edition of Borden Institute’s latest edition of Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13639_1-9930431-42.html