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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 1

1. What will happen if you break a magnet
2. coral and sea level changes
3. Earth resources - oxygen production
4. Great Apes
5. Is this stuff for real?
6. Sunblock and tanning
7. cable modem
8. Nothing about benefits of seawater
9. process to manufacture Magaldrate
10. radar displays
11. Optics: dispersion
12. The downside of quitting smoking
13. Human breast milk
14. are vets doctors?
15. Heartburn
16. Apes and monkeys
17. Osmosis question
18. Kiloyottabyte, megayottabyte etc.
19. Vibrating air columns

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 2

1. toring Liquid Nitrogen
2. lobal coal reserve will last 600 , 155 and 285 years
3. Too loud to hear yourself think
4. Fire tornado machine
5. Crossing legs
6. New element
7. Full-by-Water Question
8. cryptid
9. Referencing Wikipedia in Endnote
10. antithesis, up
11. Displacement of Water
12. Surface Tension of an Electrically Charged Droplet
13. Copper Extraction
14. Boric acid insecticide
15. Beetle to be identified
16. Does Erica carnea contain a Viagra-like substance?
17. Update to City of Hope wikipage
18. Oldest, longest-living species?
19. Stem Cell Research
20. Just been watching House on DVD
21. Vapor Pressure
22. flagellates

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 3

1. IFF
2. ree stumps in dams
3. quantum physics
4. treating mental health disorders
5. Nuclear Attack on polar regions
6. Monitoring glycemia
7. Semiconductor Memory
8. Black Holes
9. Asian people less resistent to alcohol?
10. See Marginated Tortoise's talk page
11. What's the point of finding non-intelligent life?
12. Turning Earth Into A Gas Cloud

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 4

1. Question about plant biology
2. Cream Cheese
3. Making water flow visible
4. White rice
5. train with petrol
6. Water Woes
7. identify this cabbage?
8. Slowing Earth's rotation
9. Meteorology Software
10. buoyant force.
11. global warming and carbon dioxide level
12. energy saving conundrum
13. Steel made from rocks?
14. Time
15. oxygen
16. Question about glasses and ear defenders

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 5

1. Lifespan of cats
2. The Impact of the Immune System on the Nervous System
3. Instructables web site
4. Alcohol's effect long-term effect on growth
5. The need for a balance in relation to Energy articles
6. Hepatitis B vaccine
7. Cardiac Cycle
8. Hearing tests
9. Why does hot water clean better than cold?
10. What if... Earth was frictionless?
11. How do satellites orbiting the earth avoid colliding with each other?
12. Nuclear Shelter
13. field lines
14. Burying carbon dioxide
15. shape of ionic compounds
16. Lambertian verus Batwing radiation
17. pen to Suggestions
18. date format history
19. Mushrooms
20. Cravings
21. Population growth
22. Starlings - how do they know where the worms are?

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 6

1. shit
2. Do birds reject sick offspring
3. Bouyancy in dead sea
4. shit
5. Electron Microscopes
6. Static Electricity
7. graphing forces
8. Geriatrics
9. a topic related to taxonomy of angiosperm
10. Belly button problem
11. Composition
12. relative atomic mass
13. mass of fractions
14. Normalized Mean Square Error
15. Heat transfer in space
16. Proof of global warming
17. Greenhouse Gases

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 7

1. Primordial soup
2. Monarch Butterflies
3. Umbilical cord
4. inosaur age
5. WARTS
6. Packing density
7. Pen Lasers or 'Penned' Lasers
8. Perpetual Motion Machine Idea
9. Where do birds get their blood cells from?
10. Voice power
11. gluconeogenesis/glycolysis regulation

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 8

1. Understanding the Feline Way of Picking Food
2. Information entropy of the universe
3. microbiology
4. Evangelical christians with dilated eyes
5. Yellow moon?
6. Human carry electric
7. Magic mushrooms - effect on non-humans
8. Does it help to be fat to play the tuba?
9. Extinction
10. Emotional Crying
11. could electrons be splitted ?
12. NOx Production
13. DVD/CD Writing
14. Genetic disorder transmission
15. [Natural Environment]]
16. inageroon
17. A question on " self "
18. Intelligent, non-Terrestrial Life?
19. nknown Plant Picture
20. Morphological Crystallography,the Tschermak forms and the 48 simple forms in mineralogy

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 9

1. Can the octet rule be explained in terms of more fundamental behaviors of sub-atomic particles?
2. Artichokes polish aluminum?
3. Easter osmosis ?
4. Earth Re-Entry
5. Wirenetting allowing blackbirds, not magpies
6. Protein digestion
7. Wake imaging
8. Light pens/light guns
9. Motion Sensors
10. Name that celestial body
11. Dyssomnia vs Insomnia
12. Electric Cas vs not driving
13. Chicken or the egg?
14. [Geomagnetic reversal]]
15. Identifying an Ethiopian goat antelope
16. rthritic cat
17. Nuclear fuel rod disposal
18. Measurements
19. Tarpan fact check
20. Terminal velocity of a droplet

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 10

1. motorola razor v3
2. Control that Oscar Meyer..
3. yes
4. Time Dilation
5. EMF and p.d
6. air borne telemetry system
7. spring launch
8. scales
9. Dew point below freezing
10. Dipole antigravity
11. scientific brain game
12. Suicide and Mutual assured destruction
13. Kinetic Energy in Wake of Fast Moving Object
14. Differences between human and other lifeforms
15. Complication vs. side effect
16. Unknown Costa Rican lizard
17. Anti-Hydrogen
18. Nose question
19. How Intelligent Is Alien Intelligence?

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 11

1. HIV tests -- false negative/positive statistics
2. Donors in Donor Priority Lists
3. COHb
4. Types of DNA
5. Raw meat
6. Chernobyl
7. Decomposition of plastics
8. Electromagnetic radiation versus "colo[u]r"
9. Railroads
10. Density and volume
11. low-UV compact fluorescent floodlights?
12. Mangos
13. Catalytic Strategies of Catalase
14. human ageing
15. XBOX 360
16. Sudden Alertness

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 12

1. Wastewater treatment with galvanic agglutination
2. ifferentially-sized particle self-sorting
3. Grimacing
4. Embryos, yolk sacs, placentas, and conservation of mass
5. Spider identification
6. Rooted growth on face
7. Coefficient of relatedness calculation
8. permanent magnet depletion
9. Egg Mass loss.
10. Quantum physics
11. Cost per mile map
12. Motion sickness
13. staphylococccs
14. Headphone magnets
15. Space Station Expeditions
16. Can SETI Detect Our Own Transmissions?
17. Quantum physics in only one or two dimensions
18. Links
19. phosphorus coated quartz
20. Prostacyclin and Thromboxane
21. irst forensic crime-solver
22. Are there cokroaches in Ireland?
23. Masses into amount of moles
24. Conversion
25. Long term shaving

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 13

1. Variable 1
2. Diesel Generator - External Fuel Tank?
3. Ophidian Peritonitis
4. Critical condition...?
5. Smaller Time/Distance
6. Coefficient of Relatedness verus Degrees of Separation
7. Why are parrots so damn messy when they eat?
8. Tunafish - cooked?
9. v vs monitor
10. Another Radiation Question
11. Cylindrical mirror
12. Coefficient of Relatedness envisioned
13. can safety
14. urethra
15. The Skinny Wine?
16. Feeding before training

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 14

1. Animal beers?
2. Health exam
3. Testosterone Levels
4. Skin turning black and scaly?
5. Clonazepam & Caffiene
6. article of mapping of bacteriophage genome & phage phenotype
7. Unknown Costa Rican lizard
8. Deciduous Forests
9. Quantum Numbers
10. Energy in a Microwave Oven: Where Does It Go?
11. Reaction Rates/pH question
12. Cell Food - deutrosulfazyme
13. Previous question about damage to decidious forest
14. Bromine Stuff
15. battery farms and global warming
16. Hairlessness
17. Can a strong magnet erase a credit card?
18. Source of copper sulphate

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 15

1. Stomach safety - Uncooked rice?
2. 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · ·
3. Urea Experiment
4. LORAN C
5. Anaerobic Respiration
6. Dry ice safety
7. Epoxy aroma
8. Alternating Current
9. higher Coefficient of relationship
10. Nitric Acid
11. Passive immunity
12. Wrong Article
13. nknown Dianthus Image
14. Sit-ups

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 16

1. Total number of people
2. Do certain squirrel species commit suicide? (or for that reason any species, other than the human species?
3. Quantifying article
4. A tree named Sag
5. Emphysema death breakdown
6. I don't know jack about the beanstalk
7. Viruses
8. Hydroponics and Tequila
9. What's the age record for herring gulls?
10. Eris

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 17

1. hites of eyes
2. Prostate health
3. Inverted glass with water holds a card
4. emfs and internal resistance
5. Knife into head
6. Prevalence of freezing temperatures on Earth
7. CMOS and CCD image sensor comparison
8. spring !
9. Genetics of ear-wiggling?
10. Effectiveness of 'low blow' against bear attack?
11. Does everything sink when it goes below a certain depth in the ocean?
12. microbiology
13. do fish like rain
14. Hypoxic tents
15. Tapping on the fishtank...
16. Asymptomatic carriers
17. v = frequncy  ?
18. Dust Settles... Or Does It?

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 18

1. Hurricane names
2. Change in velocities of orbits
3. which paper towel are strongest?
4. Chinese to English Geology Dictionary
5. "Perfect" insulation
6. hat planet is this?
7. enetic Tests
8. Is there a lot of vegetation in the South of China?
9. Vitamin B - Thiamin as a mosquito repellant
10. Baset trailer
11. Heavy questions
12. Determining energy cost of household
13. Mercury
14. The skull
15. "Perfect" Black Hole insulation

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 19

1. Turning gray/green
2. Male Contraceptive pill
3. Cell Division at Extreme Temperatures
4. Largest Bomb in Existence?
5. photon
6. Solar "Booms"
7. What's the best way to stop a parrot from swearing??
8. Insulin and Blood Sugar
9. Principle Rotation Axis in D_2d and D_3d Groups (Inorganic Chemistry & Symmetry)
10. Diarrea and Weight loss

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 20

1. Help me create a simple circuit to power an inverter
2. Provisions for nuclear warfare or WMD with extraterrestrials
3. magnetic flux
4. Dear Tiny Little Nuke
5. eye colour changing
6. Difference between illness and syndrome
7. Feraliminal Lycanthropizer
8. The efficiency of pro-vitamin A's
9. Heat-stability of choline
10. Peptobismol and antibiotic action

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 21

1. permanent magnet
2. plant metabolism acceleration
3. Bile
4. Reference for Scientific Method
5. Aerogel
6. Could anyone explain he mechanism by which two photon particles interact ? is the mechanism same for other bosons ?
7. Explain me photon characterastics . how black-hole attract photon while photon is massless ?
8. black holes
9. Mixing of oxygen with LPG for easy melting
10. Myoglobin production and Brain oxygen storage
11. oosting aerial/antenna strength
12. Physical terminology
13. do these issues come under coastal management?
14. Interesting question about photon energy !
15. hooting star?
16. Amateur radio in UK
17. snake repellant
18. Guard dog question

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 22

1. Platinum versus carbon
2. snails
3. (re) permanent magnet
4. archetectural spesification for cinemahall in india
5. Chemical activity
6. AC transformers
7. How long has most meat been dead in the super market?
8. Passing uric acid crystals in the urine?
9. Uv Sestive Materials
10. UV sensitive Materials
11. Mystery insect - anyone know what this is?
12. Gymnena sylvestre and Garcinia Cambogia
13. physics
14. All science a philosophy
15. Shark attack

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 23

1. Automobile engineer
2. Interval Running
3. Blood Sugar
4. Excercise
5. il vs. Fat
6. Space Shuttle
7. Sugar consumption
8. Ocean Current Maps
9. IGH PRESSURE GAS BOOSTING SYSTEM
10. toms of same element with different atomic number
11. Effect of putting a microwave on without anything in it
12. biggest object in the universe
13. Solar power
14. when do christmas trees die
15. Bird in a cage
16. Studio designs
17. Ferrofluid fridge magnet
18. 300 more birthdays
19. Identification of a Duck Species
20. Cervidae "total numbers"
21. Lutein

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 24

1. Mechanism of action of oral contraceptives
2. Patina on a bronze surface.
3. Saturn V with Weather Balloons
4. Light and Water
5. Permanent Magnets
6. dentify fruit
7. Special Relativity: Time Dilation
8. ugly spots in my cup
9. Mile High Clouds
10. Aircraft mainplane
11. mpact crater
12. birefrengent pump laser filter
13. What compounds are created by an antacid and stomach acid?
14. Influenza Vaccination
15. Identity of indiscernibles (2 objects possessing the same properties are the same object?)

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 25

1. Comets
2. Lightning Safety
3. IVF page
4. Model of the tongue
5. Name for biological phenomenon.
6. Virtual Stellar Map
7. Glycemic Index and carrots
8. Science Competition questions
9. Favorite colors and car colors
10. Astronomical question
11. Snakes
12. biotech
13. Hydrogen Sulfide
14. Clotted Cream?
15. I need to learn a lot about dwarfism fast--

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 26

1. Rainfall measurements
2. Gliese 581 and interstellar travel
3. Torque horsepower, other concepts
4. Christopher Lloyd's DeLorean
5. Tuber or corm?
6. airborne radio direction finder
7. well area of influence
8. Acne!
9. Multiple pivots
10. Zinc amino acid chelate
11. How to spend a trillion dollars
12. Cancer
13. Strange eye problem, long term watering
14. Near earth Astroids and empty space
15. neutralizing
16. Eye watering in response to reading about eye watering...?

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 27

1. Gloster F.5/34 with Merlin engine?
2. Question about the Integrity of the information, re: Chemistry
3. Catching "Colds"
4. distillation
5. basic questions about earth's orbit
6. Catching colds again
7. TORNADO!!!
8. two personalitys one body

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 28

1. hydration of methane
2. Torque horsepower revisited
3. Solvay Process
4. Balancing chemical equations
5. Virus or bacteria phases
6. Overarm throw analysis
7. Before burying people
8. quation problem
9. Applications of Linear Algebra
10. reg hall effect non contact type current sensors
11. NACA 632
12. aussian curves: peak height vs area
13. Abundance of land slightly above see level
14. Spacecraft chart
15. experiment to induce a mild form of (Synesthesia?)
16. Speaker power
17. apillary threads for power production
18. Cosmic Inflation

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 29

1. Hardened Boron Alloy Vs. Hardened Steel
2. beetle
3. Cancer in Argentina
4. Sound of P38 lightning
5. Electromagnetic radiation as particle and wave
6. fabic
7. ye Colour and Genealogy
8. Cyclone Technology

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 30

1. Random Numberon calculator
2. eight Loss Overnight
3. Global Warming
4. Why is the F/A-18 Hornet so good?
5. what is science?
6. growth plates
7. icture identification