Metabolism Based on Silica?

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Overview:

Title: Metabolism Based on Silica?
Author: uncredited
Year: 1961
Type: Essays

Editions/Publications:

Unknown. Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, October 1961 (Unknown, uncredited, Street & Smith Publications, Inc., $0.50, 180 pages, digest, MAGAZINE)