element for another you want to think where that is abundant. it's abun dan nt in mono lake. we think about the periodic table. arsenic life just below phosphorous on the periodic table they have the physical size that's very similar. physical size of the atom. actually, the fact that this chemical sim later and other things that i would be happy they discuss at length with folks, it lends insight into something that arsenic is toxic because it looks like photos ferous. so our cells can't tell the difference. that's very interesting to me as a biochemist. i went to look for this particular micobe. we took the mud from mono lake and wanted to see if anything would grow if we took that mud and gave it an laboratory