That seems to be the case, i am going to take the crystal thing a little further by trying to find as much info on their growth whether it be an acid environment or alkaline, i am going down this road having been spurred on by the movie Andromeda Strain all those years ago, i feel there might be something in this, and as others have pointed out before, that the word Virus is synonymous with poison, and the page i linked to expresses the dilemma of which terminology to use, what's bugging me the