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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 1

1. Process capability index
2. Other compounds of Krypton not included
3. Wedge-Tailed Eagle eyesight
4. Chess computer calculations
5. U.K. ceng
6. Humid desert climate?
7. Sulfuric acid spill
8. Senior scientist

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 2

1. Identification of little egret's prey
2. Name for when a person's face turns red when they are mad

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 3

1. Air quality index and highest takes all
2. Manhunt for suspect in recent TA shooting: Were tracking dogs used? If not why not?
3. Which is more comprehensive regarding exercise problems? The Feynman Lectures on Physics or Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau & Lifshitz?
4. Biology
5. Mercury bubble time-of-use meter
6. Sharpness of cutting device a physical unit

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 4

1. Medication Dose and Weight
2. Italian scientific journal
3. Are there dozens of models of computational linguistics?
4. Reservoirs are pernicious
5. Ground glass joints with 2.5 bar pressure relief valve?

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 5

1. Fighting fire with fire
2. Where can I find a map of average daily temperature range in the US?
3. How many viable human DNA combinations are there?
4. radio-activity
5. anthropology
6. Elements past period 7

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 6

1. Homocysteine elevated
2. Destroyer
3. How tall could an artificial mountains be?
4. Rules restricting use of centi, deci, deca, hecto SI prefixes.
5. What's the smallest or shortest building that'd be measurably weaker if it didn't follow Earth's curve?
6. Aversion to IQ tests

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 7

1. Why does $80cdot10^{-6}=8cdot10^{-5}$?
2. Carbon monoxide
3. Microwave oven entrance plate?
4. Dignitas death experience
5. CO2 filter that let's O2 through

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 8

1. argh! what is the standard industry term for this kind of plug?
2. Does eggs contain (free) H2O?
3. World's lowest maximum voice
4. Is it true that ethnic Swedes will be a minority by 2050?
5. Does the stroke volume of the right ventricle equal to the left ventricle (heart)?
6. Does the right and left ventricle have the same BPM?
7. Nobel prize nominee but never won
8. hazards of abandoned buried electrical cables
9. slower/bigger molecule = bigger cross-section / more reactive? (second-order / SN2)

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 9

1. When is technology not just equal to applied science?
2. Is there something in alternative medicine that's not considered as pseudoscience?
3. Mirrors flip...
4. does Truvada (used in anti-HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) have significant binding activity to human telomerase reverse transcriptase?
5. Which organs of human body can be regenerated?
6. el Chapo escape engineering
7. Opposite sex monozygotic twins without Turner syndrome

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 10

1. Does an atomic explosion send EM waves radiation into outer space?
2. Benoit - binomial authority for Euphrictus squamosus?
3. Sleeping pill effects

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 11

1. Wind direction confusion
2. Wood's metal
3. synthesis of tetrabutylammonium borohydride versus a PTC reaction of sodium borohydride + tetrabutylammonium bromide
4. How does this atom have such high valence?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 12

1. Intra-species violence
2. does degeneracy in antibonding orbitals (e.g. dichloromethane) affect reactivity?
3. Why do dead bodies get swollen?
4. How do animal duels (clashing horns or others) and getting the female partners work?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 13

1. Tutoring biology in a creationist curriculum
2. Commercialisation of healthcare
3. Why do some viruses have silly names?
4. Fructoselysine article - need categories

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 14

1. Electric motors and hybrid vehicles
2. History of puberty blockers
3. Platinum electrode
4. What's the difference between transvestites and transsexuals?
5. popping zits
6. Eka-, dvi-, tri-, and chatur-
7. solubility of zwitterions in organic or lipophilic solvents
8. Do amino acids sometimes combine in water?

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 15

1. Is there such as "aspiration center" in nerve system?
2. Is there such as "motive entropy"?
3. Norovirus and Pathogenic Escherichia coli
4. Question about Quarks
5. Crude Oil

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 16

1. If a person has an MBA, is it wrong to say he's an economist?
2. Questions about EM radiation
3. Cartilaginous fish outcompeting bony fish as predators
4. Why are women bad at chess?
5. Follicular lymphoma
6. Is the “ankle” on both sides of the foot?
7. Radio tuning by analog-to-digital conversion?
8. how do I add the partition coefficient data to an article?
9. How often mentally ill people know they are mentally ill?
10. what is it the partition coefficient of 1-octanol defined as?
11. Alcohol and exercise

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 17

1. Is one of the following option right?
2. what is it called the compounds that occur between metals to metals?
3. Science(Physics?) Question
4. 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
5. Bigger microclimates
6. universal basic income
7. How can black holes form?
8. How much as human DNA changed along the centuries

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 18

1. ASASSN-15lh ‎
2. Cost of Space Missions and Materials
3. CO2 pressure in a soda drink
4. Asian eyes (epicanthic fold)'s protection from the sun
5. Urine specific gravity
6. Electric transferring machine
7. Syn-Bio-Sys
8. How to make a Sea water drinkable
9. Time dilation and speed being relative
10. Underground depth measuring device

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 19

1. Carbs in Stiegl Radler
2. what field studies maximum world population carrying capacity?
3. Why do humans sometimes classify themselves as animals and sometimes not?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 20

1. Strings At Absolute Zero
2. low boiling point solvents have lower enthalpies of vaporization than water, yet they feel cooler to the touch than water.
3. Carbon based Zeolite
4. CD jitter
5. Natural habitat of birds in the city
6. How much time can a fish survive outside water?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 21

1. Is it true a lot of people with down syndrome sound German/Russian when they talk?
2. Anti-animal armor ?
3. Lost mathematics and Scientific discoveries
4. Could STIs that are tolerable in one human population be deadly in another?
5. Force of gravity at the center

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 22

1. gravitons
2. Parachute jump
3. N-A=S what these letters stand for?
4. Spanish electric connector
5. Top British medical Schools?

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 23

1. Developmental stage of cells and freezing
2. Why we stop producing lactase as adults?
3. Video and scientific racism
4. Why does powdercoated metal, like the inside walls of a microwave, not spark?

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 24

1. "freeform" electromagnetic coils
2. Analogue live TV
3. Considering starting a new project on here
4. Did the universe start with only neutrons?
5. Reverse polarity Schottky diode
6. Why do they make pipes out of lead?
7. Coefficient of friction between nickel and polyethylene

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 25

1. Why do Northeast Megalopolis snowstorm records look like this instead of a northern bias?
2. Stupid physics question (How can we see things more distant than the age of the universe?)
3. Liquid non-Newtonian fluids?
4. Are long underwater submarine cruises harmful to human health?
5. IR laser line generator.
6. Little bugs in uncooked pasta
7. My refs above

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 26

1. Atmosphere of Venus / compressing C5O10N2
2. Research article query
3. Earliest predictions of man on moon in 60s?

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 27

1. Can a man's epididymis grow back if *all* of it is removed?
2. U.S. currency subjected to microwaves
3. Are dogs racist?
4. Why don't some species have a common name?
5. Disadvantages of iontophoresis for administering drugs ?
6. Why do humans around the world cover the genitals?
7. Scientific description of Anelasmocephalus hadzii (Martens, 1978)

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 28

1. Acquired resistance to diseases such as Zika virus
2. East Asia and Stroke
3. What if we could eradicate the bad mosquitoes?
4. physiology
5. Mounting with adhesive

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 29

1. Challenger Deep vs. mantle and magma
2. Dateline as applied to historical dates
3. Gas giants and fast winds
4. How do I generate radio waves?
5. Family authoritarianism

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 30

1. Sewing machine oil
2. The odds against us being here
3. Is electricity made up of electromagnetic or mechanical waves?
4. January_2016_East_Asia_cold_wave in Thailand.
5. Volcano

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 31

1. Alkanes
2. KY
3. Cats and dogs
4. Clashing colors.
5. Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Colorectal cancer and Ileus
6. Geodesics near a black hole
7. What is World Health Organization's guidance on the longevity of Bti mosquito abatement strains?
8. AIDS in the middle east
9. LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH MELANCHOLIC DEPRESSION
10. Measuring the universe – Henrietta Leavitt