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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 1

1. TEMPERATURE TIME GRAPH
2. Synchronizing clocks.
3. Wine drinkware
4. Minimum protein etc. in a healthy diet
5. Phosphate
6. Who was the guy who did the first CO₂ readings?

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 2

1. Unknown squirrel species
2. Improvised teleprompter - looking for one-way mirror in UK
3. Planetary rings
4. Carbon dioxide accumulation
5. Juicy nose
6. Electra hydraulics
7. drive
8. Tree color.
9. Power lines compared to Overhead cables on train lines
10. MBBS 100% free scholarships
11. How are proton beams created?
12. What would happen
13. time on the cross
14. Tougher than grass
15. is it possible to get pregnant 6 days after (onset of) menstruation?
16. PREGNANCY

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 3

1. SINUS OF NOSE
2. Baseball physics
3. Psychological reaction
4. RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
5. Body aches and massage
6. Cute animals with bad attitudes
7. Electrical power into food in post-holocaust conditions?
8. Recycling symbol?
9. What is this lizard?
10. Cheese Bacteria Manufacturers
11. fridge
12. Cinnamon causing depression?
13. EJACULATION

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 4

1. Request for id of Anole(?) seen in Guadeloupe, possibly an Anolis marmoratus (Leopard Anole)
2. calories burned per hour of X activity
3. Einstein postulate:
4. Surgical training of doctors with a first professional degree in medicine
5. Moon Tangential velocity
6. Finasteride
7. Physics definitions
8. Egg heat
9. Muskrat
10. Speed of light frame of reference
11. Happiness: A mental illness?
12. Kidron

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 5

1. HEADACE
2. Electrochemistry
3. Cat Behavior - combination of "playing the piano" and mate mounting?
4. bioinformatics question
5. longest wavelength of EM radiation
6. Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
7. Cracking a Chest
8. Railroad Engineering

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 6

1. Terraforming Venus
2. seeing red
3. What causes color?
4. What's the nasty stuff in coal ash?
5. 2012-- mayan civilization
6. Early Earth
7. Poles on a DC Motor
8. Flaming globes of Sigmund - dreaming phenomenon
9. Thymus vulgaris
10. Another factoid for discussion...
11. what am I doing wrong with this acid base problem? (sodium acetate solution
12. do the effects of smoking ever go away? (smoking regular cigarettes like marlboros)
13. ex=paratrooper with back problem been put on tramadol for 8 years.........
14. Sodium bicarbonate
15. Time and the Big Bang
16. discrepancies in attempting to isolate enthalpies/entropies of dissociation
17. Health hazards from living near a busy road
18. calculating the %protonation of amine in an ammonium acetate like salt...

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 7

1. Radio station reception
2. acid rain/ fog
3. Salt Level in water to corrode metal
4. physics question
5. Changes in cooking oil
6. Renal agenesis
7. Advanced search engine for sound
8. germinating
9. Experiment at Geneva
10. Electric drill rating
11. gravitation
12. Organ donation
13. Time Travel
14. Photographs
15. Titan arum
16. Destruction of chlorate explosives
17. population control

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 8

1. Miners "surviving" by eating sawdust and bark
2. Are there diets that cause a person to not defecate?
3. Help with a physics question
4. Is the ability of scopolamine to suspend free will an urban legend?
5. Life project
6. SUV fuel tank
7. What is the technical name for the sensation that there is someone behind you?
8. Honey-bee prefered row crops in the U. S.
9. Gastroenteritis
10. Armour vs railguns?
11. Need help identifying a Prunus species
12. shewees
13. is the following experiment valid?
14. Apples numbing the lips.
15. Why do we need vitamin D?
16. Sexual attraction to skeletons

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 9

1. Use of imaging in cancer diagnosis
2. Causality
3. crash landing fatality rates - higher for helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft?
4. Re-focusing photographs
5. why are car wheels the size that they are?
6. Making hybrid fruit trees
7. Collision
8. Physiological diplopia
9. Coordinate system
10. Adiabatic Expansion
11. Chemistry question
12. Can I drink dishawshing liquid?
13. do bodybuilders get blind or have poor eyesight from overexertion?
14. Enzyme for digesting pork?
15. Baby teeth
16. bride selection

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 10

1. Flower unknown
2. onion skin layers
3. Food additives
4. Paddle is moving and stationary at the same time: parallel universes????
5. Brain simulations
6. Chrome plating
7. Atkins diet for small children
8. Unknown Caterpillars
9. Bird deads, causes unknown
10. How power stations deliver electrical energy to my home
11. nuclear waste
12. Nuclear waste - reuse
13. Wheat Berries
14. Bus brand
15. Question about Autism
16. Uncertainty principle

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 11

1. Torque due to gravity
2. Quantum Entanglement
3. What do these formulae mean?
4. Owl species
5. Is there a way to create a barrier to light rays that LOWERS THEIR FREQUENCY using light or energy?
6. Filling a volcano with water
7. Destroying the Earth
8. Nitrogen/neon atmosphere
9. Plants
10. Stains
11. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure
12. internal balance
13. Venus of Willendorf
14. Miscellaneous Meteorology
15. Swallowed by a whale
16. Mystery Box
17. Least common cause of death

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 12

1. I know why the sky is blue...
2. high altitude training chamber levels blood acidity
3. Gold
4. Organic crops and contamination
5. Is there a term for that shimmery border you get where two vibrant colours meet?
6. Biological pest control for Fruit fly
7. three phase electric energy meter
8. Cholestasis in humans and animals
9. is it possible to "work off" cholesterol?
10. Printing on aluminum cans
11. Old television smoky exploding madness!
12. "Neutron-activatable elements"?.. I'm inventing terms because I don't know English well.
13. about generators
14. Air ducts
15. Using imaging software to determine the length of a section of coiled apparatus

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 13

1. Problem about capacitors in series
2. Wasp question (not about the insect)
3. generalising the pI = pH formula for situations where the opposing weak acid and base are of different concentrations
4. Voltage Divider and a Wheatstone Bridge
5. Plants - pinching new growth? pinching? really?
6. marine animals that have evolved from land animals.
7. Primaeval woodland in the UK
8. Gravity, friction and mass.
9. Homosexuality and Pedophilia
10. Making my own tubular steel shelving in needed dimensions

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 14

1. Pressure
2. Research influenced by funding source
3. Metal in the microwave?
4. IIT QUESTION
5. Even harmonics in Electrical power lines
6. Gravity, friction and mass II
7. Memory
8. about science
9. how does the nitrate reduction test work in microbiology?
10. Using earwax to test purity of water
11. wielding
12. decarboxylation and reduction of pyruvate
13. "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds"
14. Physics - Safer Car
15. Flashing of white tail by alarmed animals
16. Cryptorchidism in patients with 5-Alpha-Reductase Deficiency. [?]
17. Cat and dog repeller
18. Bear locomotion
19. Mastering crystallography
20. doctors dont wear gloves
21. Fractals and the structure of the brain
22. Birds riding thermals

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 15

1. Caustic size variation with temperature
2. ISS EVA Capabilities
3. Car trick
4. Wolverine vs Honey Badger
5. now result
6. What do these symptoms lead to?
7. DNA Bases
8. Electrolysis
9. sodium carbonate

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 16

1. The mass of something 1836 times smaller than you?
2. Internet searches for non-linear notations
3. Icelandic volcano and air travel.
4. Black lights, wattage, and wave lengths
5. Palatine uvula
6. Do plants need to sleep?
7. Refractive index less than one
8. The Leaning Brown Building of the Spanish Steps
9. brain activity and dreams
10. Why can't plants move?
11. Mind controlling gene function.
12. Map of the world folded along the equator
13. Let's split...
14. football effecting brain
15. Movie about the "representative town in sampling"
16. Largest Recorded Solar Flare
17. Escape velocity
18. beer
19. Help comprehending units of energy
20. c and si

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 17

1. Jets in front of wings
2. Space elevator
3. health/meth/sex/ed
4. Communicating dates to future civilizations
5. Head Hair
6. Article needs help
7. Dandelion-lettuce hybrid?
8. Is there any realistic danger to Europe from Icelandic Volcanos?

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 18

1. Vegetarianism and Diabetes
2. Sunrise and sunset
3. Concentration of urine
4. enzyme activity
5. Proposed emergency ash reducing: "Rapid glacier removal operation" off the top of volcano on Iceland.
6. Asexual reproduction
7. iodized salt
8. Saltwater ecosystems
9. Historical Alternatives to Ballistic Pendulums
10. ocean currents
11. bond formation of SiO
12. single crystal chalk (kitchen chemistry woohoo!)

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 19

1. Rain will clear the skies of ash, but can we artificially fill up the water by nuclear power?
2. use for nuclear waste
3. ISS framework overbuilt?
4. sperm for Iceland
5. being really happy
6. Arterial injuries
7. can combine theory
8. Test for swelling in knee joint
9. Air Conditioning
10. Circadian rhythm abnormalities in non-humans?
11. Greenwich meridian.
12. How much ash to stop a car?
13. Billiard ball and slipping
14. help with the seasons
15. Do royalty masturbate?
16. Plants
17. Volcano - worst case scenario
18. Cockatoos and music

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 20

1. ISI flight path during landing
2. knee posture?
3. word for a taxonomy guide
4. meditation
5. pain receptors of preys
6. Evolution, intelligent design, and irreducible complexity.
7. Is volcanic ash worse for aircraft than other dust and sand?
8. Russian EMP weapon used in Smolensk?
9. If my wife dies, how much time would I have to extract her eggs with which to produce children in-vitro?
10. deleted youtube vids
11. Silver nitrate
12. eggs
13. Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
14. of the following, which informs the innate sense of rhythm
15. Causes for human genitalia variation range?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 21

1. tongue map
2. toba bottleneck
3. cleaning up chemical spills
4. Wrongly cleaned copper nickel coin resulting in light copper colored stains.
5. Self-replicating molecules
6. Sunset color on a different planet
7. Volcanic ash vs other jet engines
8. blood-vessel building
9. Genotype and drug resistance
10. is clozapine antiaromatic?
11. Fish trachea
12. Scientific Principle
13. Muscle tingling after exercise?
14. PDF
15. Force of a magnet on metal
16. Cast iron object unknown
17. How would one calculate the total entropy of the sun?

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 22

1. Dry ice engine
2. Galactic feature
3. electromagnetic wave - atom - electrons
4. A dim Sparky?
5. Abnormal daisy
6. what do they do with the glass slides after a skin scraping test
7. Orgasm
8. Passive immunity in humans
9. Eustachian Tube
10. nicotine gum expiration
11. Frequency of STDs in population
12. Pumping seawater into the volcano crater
13. Time machine
14. One stuffy nasal passage suddenly clearing itself... what physical mechanisms are at play?
15. ghosts

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 23

1. Eyjafjallajökull: Tephra color
2. Invertebrate stomach
3. Milk protein denaturation
4. Why exactly do pet parrots mimic (or attempt to learn, if you believe that) human speech?
5. gravity-south pole
6. 9 volt battery
7. Global warming.
8. Perpetual motion machine
9. Antimatter bomb
10. Penguins
11. Exoplanet naming scheme
12. III
13. The basic assumptions of GR
14. Empty balloons
15. Number of mammals in the world
16. Oil Depth
17. GLYCOLYSIS video(s) in µm/Å-scale
18. What's the point in some reflexes?
19. Abdomen
20. scuba
21. muscle fuel

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 24

1. Energy used in travel
2. Why no plastic beer bottles?
3. Catabolic breakdown of muscles
4. Number of cells in a human body
5. Katla
6. Stratified Italian soda + cold cream => Salt fingers??
7. First human

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 25

1. relation between the expansion of orbits and of the universe
2. Physics-Question regarding Vacuum
3. power in watts used when sending a phone text message.
4. What is suprastine
5. Riding a bicycle - reducing energy used per mile
6. What to do with left over cooking oil?
7. homoaromaticity in dimedone?
8. Volcanoes
9. Is this correct?
10. Small windmill for electricity
11. Mass wrapping around a rod
12. Detonations and the like

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 26

1. Stingray question
2. is there an exit valve? what about on the scuba fireman where? and on oxygen tanks in a ambulance or hospital?
3. milk
4. Source of pneumonia in bedridden elderly?
5. Hubble's "visible spectrum" image of the Carina nebula
6. Dibenzodiazepines follow-up
7. Life expectancy of nuclear power plants.
8. Ant for ID
9. Mold
10. CCs?
11. Kepler mission field of view
12. Chromoscope pictures of the galaxy
13. Who turns the machine off from a terminally ill patient?
14. Reactivity of Na or Ca
15. Protein
16. Soda Bottle Rocket

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 27

1. Methanol poisoning
2. Snowflake symmetry
3. Mechanics of motion sensors
4. microbes outside earth
5. Sea blue - Sky blue
6. Human-Animal perceptions
7. Ambidextrous people
8. What is this box?
9. Light-straight line; but how many?
10. penury
11. Spiders
12. Asystole and CSI: Miami
13. Dropping a potato out of a plane
14. Railguns on ships
15. % of water when raining
16. extreme human evolution

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 28

1. Molecular Electronics
2. Warm Sector
3. Chemistry: Si face and re face
4. Are cars and planes Faraday cages?
5. EM colours
6. Dream Recall
7. Ambient construction
8. Ions
9. help me please (eating heroin rabbits)
10. Naming of a species
11. Mass to energy conversion
12. Is it normal for men to have a noticeably reducing libido at the age of 50.
13. Chromate formation
14. Geology
15. Ghost

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 29

1. Albert Einstein
2. Cell
3. Aliens
4. God
5. Black hole
6. Wormhole
7. Titration curve: help!
8. conductivity of crumpled aluminum foil
9. Reactivity series for anions
10. dietary fiber supplements such as methycellulose and inulin. What is each of these, and what is the difference between the two?
11. Eagles and their Wings
12. Living and Non-living
13. Gas and Gravity
14. Alarm clock
15. How to Identify nylon 6 from nylon 6,6?
16. animal government
17. Biological Classification
18. Fact checking from Fight Club
19. Superconductivity and gravity
20. Edge of the Universe
21. Healing of cut
22. Dissolution of Metals
23. Death
24. Reduction of Iodate
25. Why do birches grow in clumps

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 30

1. Rust metal quickly.
2. noble barrier
3. Solar sail
4. Spaceship propulsion
5. chrome plating
6. How to remember names?
7. amines and hydroxide ions
8. magnetic question
9. Why the "niger" in Sciurus niger ?
10. transformer
11. Expansion of the universe
12. increase the likelihood of having dreams
13. Question about gun-type fission weapon
14. the thermodynamics of an ideal air conditioner
15. Gun with balloon
16. Telescope
17. Habeñero pepper safety