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April 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 1
- are we inside a black hole?
- Hearing loss from music performance
- Nuclear renewable energy
- Radium mixed with uranium
- True or false? "Winter ice maximums in the arctic are relatively unchanged. Summer minimums are lower."
April 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 2
- Book recommendations on the history of automotive engines
- Do bacterium have feelings/aspirations?
- Sedan vs. Hatchback
- Do we use the calories in alcohol as energy?
- Stupid cold fusion questions
April 3[edit]
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April 4[edit]
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- Special relativity. Simultaneity 2
- Composition of Antarctic tephra
- Shadows
- Tigers smarter than lions?
April 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 5
- Nuclides undergoing nuclear fission
- MHD and nuclear reactors coupling
- Arduino: RGB LED lights and Resistors
- Solubility
- Voltage drop over fully open transistor?
- Why is Fresh-water Fishing mostly so poor in Winter? (I'm sure there are exceptions)
- How does lactulose cause flatulence ?
- Gravity detector
- Bacterial victim
- Reaction with ice
April 6[edit]
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- That automatic camera timer
- Harvest energy of downwards escalator
- Wind and solar power
- Does kosher/halal beef taste different due to drainage of blood?
- Does it make sense to talk about temperature of particles?
April 7[edit]
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- Rotating sphere
- how is this happening?
- Sharks' food choice - surfers vs. scuba divers
- Covalent bonds
- what % ethylene is polyethylene made of?
- How many notes can the average human sing?
- How to dissolve the chemical that wrecks circuit traces?
- Outpatient procedure complication and mortality rates
- Washing clothes
April 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 8
- Bread slice missing middle
- "Engagement length"
- Psychology study that involves perception of pain of another person
- Engineering Physics
- Do hens ever reach a point where they are passed their egg-laying days?
April 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 9
- Source of ammonia in life science lab?
- Handedness and cheek concavity
- US college admission through standardized tests alone
April 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 10
- Special relativity. Simultaneity 2.
- Help identify this plant, please
- 2016 Mercedes GLE 350d urea injection
- Sunlight in June
- Criticality and Neutron flux
- Why do Electric aircraft have poor thrust to weight ratio?
April 11[edit]
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April 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 12
- Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI)
- Sentient nerves
- Compression ratio vs displacement
- Flamethrowers
- Can trisodium phosphate attack or catalyze the hydrolysis of thioethers or thiolic amino acids (cysteine and methionine, etc.) in a frying pan?
- calculating the pH-dependent solubility product of phosphate species in the presence of calcium ions
- bilateral renal agenesis likelihood an survival
- Are there respectable studies that re-cooked starches are lower in glycemic index?
- How do babies get good bacteria in their digestive tracts ?
- Animals to be identified
April 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 13
- Why are flies prevalent in some places and nearly absent from others?
- 'Distant antagonistic muscles'
- Memory during sleep
- Metabolic uncoupling medications?
April 14[edit]
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April 15[edit]
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- How closely do compression coil springs obey Hooke's law?
- How much would it cost to make diamond food and drink vessels?
- Number of coils in a torsion spring and its torque
- Thermally stable and polymerisation inert agents for OMCR
- Biomedical engineer
- Geyser (water heater)
- States of matter/transfer of energy
April 16[edit]
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April 17[edit]
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- Torch beam question
- Limits of human cognition: smallest pixel size/broadest range of colors
- Mechanics of human eye
April 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 18
- Copper circuit board production
- Restart after crash
- Continuous flow of electric current
- Why aren't there fungi that are sexually transmitted?
- Raising chickens
- Changing Fields within engineering
April 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 19
- Energy/food crises
- Body mass v O2
- Ionisation enthalpy
- DSP price and capability?
- bone breakage and calcium loss
- Why do Neisseria gonorrheae and Chlamydia trachomatis infect together?
- Camera to detect dampness ?
- What line coding do modern harddiscs use?
- U.K. Mental health care system
- Is there a *guaranteed* way to ensure that a person who already got an orchiectomy *doesn't* have *any* extra testicles?
April 20[edit]
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- Why did "clean coal" turn out to be so slow and expensive to develop?
- Pot seasoning
- Salt and sweating
April 21[edit]
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- Big Bang-- free lunch?
- Do we know how much speed can have voyage in large scale structure?
- Pathfinder question(s)
- Does gravity slow down time sundial clocks?
- Canadian geese that travel in pairs
- Seismology patterns today
- Classical momentum problem
- If a person who got an orchiectomy has an extra testicle (with an epididymis), then can this person's vas deferens recanalize and restore fertility?
- What's with the red displays in front of buses now appearing in NYC?
- Two Nostril questions
- Will everything be the same as today some day in the future?
April 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 22
- Special relativity. Simultaneity 3
- Flu shot...
- Can thinking about sex reduce pain?
- First device to produce non-static electricity
- Contractile vacuole in Paramecium.
- It's not the amps that kills you, it's the power
April 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 23
- Meaning of Berl. Ber.
- How can I get a copy of a paper that does not appear to be available anywhere online?
- Salts
- Leyden jar
- Who was it?
- Overload question
- Do ostriches ever fledge?
- Stellar classification
April 24[edit]
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April 25[edit]
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- Why do we sometime listen a sharp beep sound for some period of time?
- Could it be that a person can stop his pulse or is it fake?
- Trying to identify a berry
- Eye damage due to eye exams
- Painting the Moon
April 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 26
- Incremental cost of ice drilling
- mastoids
- Volume expansion or contraction for mixing two solutions
- Phase-transition of water: Supercritical --> solid?
- Reusing lunar rovers
April 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 27
- What is the most time which recorded about human being without sleeping?
- Why do transmission substations gets overheated during black outs?
- Can playing too much on the keyboard induce bodily injuries?
- Top bottom wing(s) of a plane
- Absence of Nipple development - Medical term?
April 28[edit]
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- Is it posssible to push in and pull out a hoop in womb, so that liquid can cover an object demi-spherically?
- Is it possible to make chemical reaction, so that equal amount of material can make one-to-one-to-one correspondence?
- Locust
- Dowsing
- Remembering numbers
- Acne faces
- Ayrton fan
April 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 April 29
- question regarding phsyics
- Burning quartz glass
- Bilbana
- Magnetic field dependence on recording material?
- How did the Amazon Reef go undiscovered for so long ?
- Adding water to aquifers
- Shepherd's rose identification