One metal kills both, so they are the same monster.
Two unrelated organisms, one metal, two entirely different killing routes. Coincidence is under one in ten million.
The silver convergence
Contact pathology · Two retrovirusesPlate · OVERLORD · The silver convergence · theoretical reconstruction
One metal, two deaths, drawn on the same sheet. Left: galvanic short of an iron-calibrated fuel cell. Right: copper-site occupancy of in mitochondria at maximum. Lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium are all toxic. None produce this collapse in both. They are not the same monster.
Lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium: all toxic, none producing the specific rapid systemic collapse silver produces in both phenotypes. The dies by galvanic short and oligodynamic poisoning of an iron-calibrated fuel cell. The dies by copper-site occupancy of cytochrome c oxidase in mitochondria running at maximum. Two architectures, two retroviruses, two delivery routes — one metal.
The Committee's biochemists treat this as the most consequential finding in the project. The only hypothesis that does not require a coincidence their statisticians put at less than one in ten million is relatedness: and as kin. The metal is the reagent. What it reveals is a family. This entry is the reagent. The fourth volume is the proof.