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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 1

1. Pthirus gorillae
2. Chemicals in inkjet photo paper
3. biographical info about Agnes Stroud Lee
4. ppb
5. question regarding stars
6. Ice as a murder weapon
7. A question I've never pondered
8. Why weed is illegal
9. Increasing the range of the Strong Nuclear Force
10. Microwaving a beetle
11. Would it be possible (assuming enough materials and labor (!)) to make a stone tower so tall it CANNOT crack? (but instead deforms plastically)
12. Weak equivalence question

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 2

1. plasma rockets-pbsnova
2. How much copper and/or gold is there in an HDMI cable?
3. Indoor air quality solutions?
4. Softwood
5. breast question
6. Why does my head click if I turn it too fast?
7. 50 F/500 - speaker
8. Howwhy tastes enhance eachother or cancel eachother out?
9. Electrical energy
10. Mushrooms in BC
11. Crystaline sucrose
12. Disease Labs
13. 3D technology for teaching cats and dogs
14. Albert Einstein
15. Vintage sperm doesn't produce vintage offspring?
16. Gliese 581 g comparisons that are fair
17. Black holes?
18. Mushrooms
19. Phonophore - communication device

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 3

1. Centre of mass of the Earth
2. stelar cartography
3. Bio engineering
4. How does a rocket "steer"?
5. Ensembl sucks as*!
6. Global oxygen production of Algae
7. Masturbation

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 4

1. SI: The Logical System?
2. HIV infection
3. Pre-positioned nuclear weapons
4. What is in this picture of Mars?
5. Jellyfish - bubbles in the top part
6. Is toxoplasmosis a cause for discrimination?
7. Dissimilarities between cell lines and genome databases
8. Disrupting a gene by inserting a marker - how to express the marker?
9. Six volt automotive systems
10. calculating odds
11. Soil PH 8.3
12. Stinky refrigerator
13. Storing Cr2032 Batteries
14. Passage of Time
15. How fast would you have to be going to get to Jupiter in a year?

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 5

1. E=mc²
2. DNA
3. Robert G. Edwards
4. Good-smelling bad smells
5. Gravitational constant
6. Dealing with excessive moisture inside an apartment...
7. HIV infection through childbirth?
8. Paleontology
9. In-line duct heater
10. Percentage of common genes
11. Physical meaning of 1 Farad = 1 Second/Ohm
12. Permanganate reaction with heat
13. irish tornadoes
14. Video clips stuff for science articles
15. Is E=mc^2 an approximation?
16. Celebrity endorsement - scientific name of?
17. Ethanethiol production
18. Why do parrots mimic human speech?
19. 5' on sense strand corresponds to C or N terminal on protein?
20. "treated merino wool

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 6

1. change in ic engine
2. Atlantic halibut
3. Planet gravity
4. Cleaning detergents
5. Microfibre cloths for cleaning
6. The theory of toxic sludge lagoons, re: Hungary's red flood

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 7

1. using sulfur to make carbon-carbon bonds
2. 3-second Pop Tarts?
3. ...sulfuric acid costs 9.8 cents a litre
4. Slit diffraction
5. Einstein's view
6. Why do Some people have heavier sleep than others?
7. Where to focus to photograph a mirror reflection
8. Chicken genome nuggets
9. diffraction of white light versus monochromatic light
10. Pressure cooker - rubber ring
11. Can expressing GFP interfere with any cellular processes?
12. Coin question
13. Metal detectors outside MRI rooms
14. Seeing through frosted glass or net curtains with a telescope or zoom lens
15. Mushroom identification
16. Boiling milk in a microwave oven
17. Red mud into iron?
18. Is "dark energy" really the Universe's brane whipping around?

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 8

1. There are mentions of cross-linked polystyrene. Rexolite is a significant industrial example. Why no mention of it?
2. Which one of these will change color in a Biuret Reagent test?
3. Rocket science
4. Highest mountains in Europe and reliable sources
5. Lizard hibernation
6. CM1 is to DMEM as swing is to roundabout?
7. Seiche
8. Accuracy of Gas Regulators
9. Painting a GarageFloor
10. is empirical electronegativity strictly transitive?
11. river rock

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 9

1. Why do parrots live such a long time?
2. Levitating animal
3. Radio-controlled watch exactly 40 minutes fast
4. Dead transistor radio
5. Making selections in Pymol
6. Why are we not researching this?
7. Ideal Springs
8. Whole grain on the food pyramid

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 10

1. Practical way
2. Map of direction of stellar and galactic motion
3. What is this on the roof?
4. Insect identification
5. Carbon footprint
6. Lead toxicity
7. Work/Power problem
8. backlighting digital cameras
9. Which preservatives are used in McDonald's french fires?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 11

1. Ascorbic acid (or other antioxidants) as a redox catalyst
2. How do I grow a really long beard?
3. B12
4. Folding my own proteins @home
5. Holes of insects in old wood
6. Passing on sex genes
7. plasma phase carbanions
8. where can I get tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron?
9. Phosphodiesterase vs. phosphoesterase?
10. relativity question
11. Pigeons on my TV aerial?
12. Egg in Vinegar

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 12

1. Missing reference/article
2. Nuclear isomers for chemical transmutation of gold i.e. alchemy?
3. Calculate the heat supplied
4. is it a contradiction to know something about something we can't know anything about?
5. Electrode potentials at red heat
6. Chile mine rescue
7. Unitary operator
8. Emulsion paint - why not water-soluble when dry?
9. why wrinkles around mouth
10. natural sciences v. finance
11. expansion of the universe

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 13

1. Water being included as a test subject
2. Sanpaku
3. Is it a fungus?
4. Incinerating raw sewage using liquid oxygen?
5. speed and distance of expansion
6. "pass through" versus "bounce"
7. Conductive Napalm
8. Humans in North America
9. Blood tranfusion
10. If it's not in UniProt, does it still exist?
11. Identify device
12. What happened to my apple juice?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 14

1. difference between quantum state and wavefunction?
2. Contact lens solutions don't drip out of bottles when inverted.
3. Space telescope naming question--Edwin Hubble got one, how about Henrietta Leavitt?
4. Synthesis of 3-Carbethoxycoumarin
5. magnitude of contact forces
6. Walking or Cycling?
7. N-Acetylglucosamine as a protein ligand
8. Magnesium flame test
9. Chilean miners' dental problems
10. Semi-terrestrial octopuses/octopi/octopodes...
11. How does this levitation magnet system's feedback system likely work?
12. Horse Chestnuts, leaf miner and bleeding canker
13. Odds of discovery of Pioneer plaque by an ET

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 15

1. how do you define time ?
2. memory storage devices
3. how to explain the oxidation of ethers to esters with calcium hypochlorite? (and a question about activated C-H bonds)
4. Upper limit on speeds
5. reversible oxidation of a USB plug?
6. Link crashes
7. Sodium tellurate
8. methane + CO2 --> acetic acid
9. Thermodynamics question
10. Should my neighbor's cat drink old milk?
11. Next Day Soup.
12. is there such a thing as "mild chlorine poisoning"?
13. How does matter fall into a black hole?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 16

1. Wedge Constant:- newton laws of motion
2. EDTA reaction
3. aging and sensory capacity
4. Elliptical Orbit vs Circular Orbit problem
5. Train tracks and leaves
6. tunnel diode
7. Sapience
8. Nuclear Physics

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 17

1. Cobalt chlorides
2. Controlled mass loss of Earth.
3. unprovoked reoccuring blister type lesions on feet
4. Mass of copper
5. Flatulence smelling
6. pressure exerted by expanding ice
7. caffeine
8. Carbon monoxide detector
9. Papillomaviruses stable for months??
10. Killing Me Softly With a TV
11. Absorb my frameshifts
12. Amount of energy required to boil water
13. Elbow braces and tendinitis
14. To what extent are humans adapted to meat-eating?
15. Wildlife ID - does this sound like a slime mold?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 18

1. Train Speed vs Plane Speed
2. In the animal kingdom, do females compete over males?
3. Beatrice being buried alive in Kill Bill Vol. 2
4. linear diode
5. Galvanic corrosion
6. light pulse intensity with time
7. Mass spectra
8. Squirrel locomotion
9. What we see is a prediction
10. When a balloon pops, does it go supersonic?
11. Nepal timezone
12. Can acid reflux irritate the tonsil?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 19

1. Modified Stern-Gerlach device
2. sofa acquiring static electricity from sunlight
3. Forests half blown down
4. How long is my exon?
5. what do you do with a hypothesis? "decide" it?
6. Lithium hydroxide reaction with carbon dioxide
7. Special PCR machine for touchdown PCR?
8. NIR Technology
9. Multiple partners
10. Tin(II) oxide hydrate
11. Wave function for large objects
12. Oyster name

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 20

1. Pancreatin
2. P-v curve problem
3. Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
4. how much would it cost a fit 20 year old to go die on Mars with a 5% chance of dying sooner
5. exploring mars
6. Thermodynamics question
7. Animal nutritional requirements
8. voice
9. Bismuth toxicity
10. Mass spectrometry

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 21

1. Griswold - knitting industry machine
2. Explanation
3. Visible, or not visible?
4. Age of the universe by isotope ratios
5. Turning flight
6. isolated system
7. wireless transfer of elecrticity for long distance transmisan
8. Water in the equilibrium expression?
9. white light fringes in the Michelson interferometer
10. Improved Brownian ratchet would overcome the second law of thermodynamics?
11. Is sushi healthy?
12. Focusing on a blurred image
13. Tritan
14. MCH and MCHC units
15. Coplanar forces

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 22

1. How many generations have there been?
2. Dark matter: cold gravitationally bound clumps of H and He?
3. Age of plants and animals in Copernican exoplanet expectations
4. Bread made with "100% British Wheat"
5. Feeling of blood circulation
6. "HMS Astute: world's most advanced nuclear submarine runs aground" -- world's most advanced? why?
7. nerve regeneration and pain?
8. Tin(II) oxide hydrate oxidation
9. good bacteria
10. Pancreatin Reaction
11. positive on-off switch

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 23

1. The "sound" of light
2. Drooping crops..
3. Rope on a table
4. Flowering in Basil (Ocimum sp.)
5. Moment of Inertia
6. Steam or smoke from nuclear sub
7. Patents for fuel-efficient engines owned by oil companies - did they also bribe Snopes?
8. How to find an astronaut
9. light travel time vs. light year distance
10. DNA
11. Bodies in space
12. Library of Congress
13. Potential habitability of extrasolar planetary star systems
14. Expanding gas
15. toothbrushes
16. center of mass problem
17. thermo-plastic emulsion
18. Kinetic Energy Lost
19. Which red cattle breed in Guadeloupe?
20. Green pennies
21. Chicken vs chicken

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 24

1. UDFy-38135539 both exists AND may have been seen by space aliens, or something
2. Stay with me, buddy; we're gonna make it through this
3. Large rigid structures on the ocean
4. The law of thermodynamics
5. Underwater wrecks and pressure
6. is this real?
7. follicles
8. Foucault pendulum swings
9. measuring id, ego, etc.
10. regarding use of solumedrol
11. glacier grit
12. Why do humans need potable water?
13. Light speed and giant sticks

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 25

1. Dark spots/bruises on old people's skin
2. Calorimetry
3. Atom pic
4. Dry CuCl
5. When do you think they'll come out with plasma weapons?
6. 2 errors ?
7. Sticking the Landing
8. how would we even know
9. Probability amplitudes
10. Making Helium
11. Golden cross on the Moon
12. Comet identification
13. Pulpit Rock

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 26

1. Digestion
2. Angular momentum
3. Evaluating IQ without math
4. Ironing interferes with digital TV reception
5. Number of people on earth
6. Highest rank with only one species in it?
7. Magnetic flux and electricity
8. Tachyon
9. relation between friction and area
10. Lagrangian point
11. Orangutan strength
12. Double Displacement Reactions

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 27

1. Naturally-occurring promethium
2. Formation of gold deposits
3. some one will helpme that in which place i should ask my questions
4. Spelter
5. Magnetic flux and electricity
6. Magnetic flux and magnets
7. Tillage
8. chocolate bar
9. The Vitamin B12
10. mosquito eggs and larva
11. does puree count as a liquid?
12. Magnets and electricity...again!
13. Combining tornadoes
14. Colloidal iron?
15. Are the majority of birds noisy fliers?
16. Go (weiqi) - computers vs human brains
17. Cryosurgery to repair torn tissue?
18. Quantum Entanglement

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 28

1. Why do flour and sugar store so well?
2. force
3. Sexuality question
4. My theory on why we often can’t run in dreams – is it valid?
5. solar enery storage
6. Is ADD real?
7. O2 effect on metabolism
8. Pyrotechnic colorant
9. Complement system and antibody-antigen complexes
10. Tachyons
11. Another chemistry question
12. Geodesic dome garden shed
13. Figuring names out for cells
14. Possible circuit that shows this particular voltage/current pattern
15. BPA degrade

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 29

1. Are "spectrum disorders" really just a way of saying "we don't know" ?
2. 120W power supply 30W load
3. Phase behavior of pure substances below triple point pressure
4. electricity doesn't weight anything
5. Fuel Consumption vs CO₂ emmissions
6. Firing a ceramic
7. Multiple tasks with both individual hands difficulty
8. Energy Anomaly??
9. Is the thymus an endocrine gland?
10. Clamped buttress
11. on utilizing sound energy
12. Big Cats
13. Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power
14. CFL bulbs afterglow "flashing"
15. my project
16. Toothpaste
17. Hardness of human teeth
18. What looks like peas?

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 30

1. Carbonated drinks and digestive health?
2. uakari fruits
3. Time dilation? Time speeding?
4. Stained glass
5. Is it possible to create an exotic atom with antiprotons instead of electrons?
6. Woodchip bug
7. volcanic tropical cyclones
8. Pure energy
9. DC Circuits - resistors
10. What is the average age of onset of Alzheimer's disease?
11. SECIS element
12. does citric acid actively mask the taste of ethanol?
13. Difficulty in differentiating actors and actresses from the fictional characters they portray?
14. Theory?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 31

1. Artificial reefs
2. Earthworms
3. Optical computing
4. why do plants use so much more potassium than animals?
5. Contradiction in the solution to a Physics question?
6. Solar cells, dark current and current direction
7. Creature in Thailand
8. Curious phenomenon
9. Birefringence