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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 1

1. How plate tectonic works
2. Where can I print or download the computer models which are currently accepted by the scientific community which prove climate change incontrovertible?
3. Q-carbon
4. Medication allowed by a blood donation
5. Living things consisting physical forms
6. Abiogenisis
7. Smallest thing in the Universe
8. Psychology of phobia of needles

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 2

1. Midget Jockeys
2. Universe is infinitely old??
3. Boxelder bug or Small Milkweed bug?
4. Transportation industries
5. Replacing a fuse of a microwave grill oven

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 3

1. Has the density of the Universe ever been greater than 1.0?
2. Gay Bomb
3. Masturbation for Astronaughts
4. Stages of non-grief emotions
5. Are Modal Realism and the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis the same thing?
6. Fake snow that feels liquidy but no apparent moisture on your hand?
7. Why do real flowers feel so soft on the fingers?
8. Will water-based personal lubricants work for non-sexual purposes?
9. Disasters / International space station

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 4

1. Humans without junk DNA
2. Alcohol rubs when drawing blood
3. Holographic universe and Simulation hypothesis

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 5

1. What's the cheapest fully automatic car that has a clutchless manual mode?
2. Making human males female
3. Guy on earth looking at a camera inside a spaceship.
4. transistor as a switch/oscillation
5. Exaggerated colour in old movies
6. Routine blood test draw locations
7. An ionic bounding can occur between metals to metals or nonmetals to nonmetals?
8. Can it be an cation in the metals or an anion in the nonmetals?
9. Kidney Stones / Hernia prior modern medicine

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 6

1. Does light accelerate?
2. What does the VIIA of periodic table stand for?
3. Element can lose or gain more than three electrons?
4. DIY fabrication of articles using resilient silicone material
5. Radios in trucks?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 7

1. Relating to heat transfer
2. Anyone recognise this insect ?
3. Trade secrets and labs
4. Civil engineering
5. cleaning the dye off money

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 8

1. From Computer Science to Civil Engineering?
2. Thiourea Reactions

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 9

1. Eroded teeth
2. TianQin planned gravitational wave detector
3. During prehistoric times, what was the likelihood of growing up to maturity and reproducing for humans?

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 10

1. Americans and the metric system
2. Bird identificaton
3. Are smiling faces more attractive than not-smiling faces?
4. Why is it so hard to walk on all fours?
5. Concentration of minerals in the Earth crust

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 11

1. Calculating orbital distance based on 2 observations
2. Super attacks
3. Two questions about steroids and testes

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 12

1. Alcohol's effect on CNS
2. Do insects learn?
3. Name of physical property when solid object touches water
4. What is enq in the following context?
5. When and how Saddam Hussein destroyed his WMD?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 13

1. Leadership skills
2. Why can ethanol be used as a rocket fuel but gasoline can't?
3. How do waves and winds interact?

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 14

1. Were coalition troops prepared for/expecting an attack with chemical/biological weapons?
2. Measuring the mass of non-detected dark matter
3. Bowel Movements
4. Poorly designed battery: fire by discharging?
5. Gravity trains and the rotation of the earth

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 15

1. finding the work according to the blood pressure and the heart rate
2. A medium-size object
3. high blood pressure/donating blood
4. Orangutan humor?
5. What does the exact moment of sunrise and sunset signify?

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 16

1. list of stars about 30000 ly distant please
2. What is the precise length of a day?
3. Will global warming slow down or speed up the earth's rotation speed?
4. Journal Articles
5. Energy expended per newton per second
6. What sense is my betta fish using to detect the arrival of food?
7. How did Races/ phenotype features originate?
8. Optometry
9. Voice pitch of brunette and blonde women
10. Perception of own health in an isolated group

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 17

1. sodium iodide catalysis of SN2 reactions of diols on dichloromethane
2. black holes, space physics stuff
3. Cloud seeding to prevent floods
4. Glaciers on Pluto
5. Infrastructure asset management

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 18

1. How will moving to the Grand Cayman Islands change my DNA?
2. Artificial Eggs

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 19

1. Baumgartner's balloon
2. Orion, Sirius, and sunrise on Dec 25
3. Truss type
4. Weather balloons
5. How do evolutionists explain that life appeared just once?
6. New charity article may need a look for promoting AIDS denialism

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 20

1. Electrochemistry of rust restoration by electrolysis
2. Snoring
3. Ageing of heart
4. Electronics in ovens
5. Pistol Star magnitude

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 21

1. Vitiligo
2. Does libration cause tidal effects ?
3. What is the reverse of being tidaly locked?
4. DC railway traction power supply
5. Engineering asset management to operational management
6. Garnier's new "micellar technology" in their makeup remover / facial cleanser
7. How did humans cope with pain before widespread opiate use?
8. Are the sizes of noses becoming smaller in recent generations?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 22

1. Hospital pain management and heroin addicition
2. Falcon 9 first stage
3. Soyuz TMA-19M
4. Mysterious Benoit Species Description
5. Volume of the observable universe
6. Photo details
7. Railways
8. Share of scientific publications written in English

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 23

1. Falcon 9 Flight 20 and why it is historical
2. No large moons for gas giants and ice giants ?
3. U.K. Rail
4. Birth control v. MTF hormone replacement therapy v. anti-aging hormone replacement therapy

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 24

1. Removing stains from white clothes with UV cross linking machine
2. Refraction of particles
3. How bad is it for a scientist to ignore publications not written in English?
4. Tetanic convulsion

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 25

1. Project management
2. "Language Development"
3. Good introductory book on algorithms for a middle-school kid
4. Calculating joules without distances
5. Is there H2O (water) in milk?

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 26

1. Gas on a planet and saterites
2. Cats and dogs and rock and roll
3. Engineering fields
4. Prince Rupert's sugar
5. Engineering design
6. Does excessive strength training and exercise in youth really stunt growth?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 27

1. Tablet usefulness?
2. virus
3. How fast would Moore's Law be if most surplus productivity was applied to Moore's Law?
4. How many names could one learn?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 28

1. Microaggression theory
2. Why does "benzylamine hydrochloride" point to "Motion sickness"?
3. Which algorithm to use
4. Bleach and vinegar reactions
5. Hydration retardant
6. Disorder name sought

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 29

1. Fire simulator
2. Bacterial growth number of phases are 4 or 6?
3. The Universe is Flat?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 30

1. Why do large ships have water shooting out of their hulls?
2. Epidemiology of scoliosis
3. Driverless cars and the future of radio
4. elephants
5. Feet

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 31

1. What is the programming language in which vineyard bots program is written?
2. Pre-natal genetic screening and rare diseases
3. Year-round averaged air quality score
4. E as a chemical element symbol
5. Mineral identification
6. separating L-DOPA from dopamine
7. preventing sodium borohydride from reacting with alkyl halides (including iodides) and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (enones)