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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 1

  1. Raindrop
  2. Insect identification
  3. Copper Sulfate as an algacide
  4. Loop Quantum Gravity
  5. Robert I of Parma's children
  6. Gull strength
  7. Am I the only one who gets unsettled?
  8. Astronomy - Solar Eclipse
  9. Sunburn
  10. creation of the universe
  11. Large Hadron Collider

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 2

  1. Body part focus of cell phone health studies
  2. Predatory Dinos
  3. Allylic halides and nucleophilic substitutions
  4. Can you explain this 'major discovery'?
  5. Life time of hydrogen economy
  6. Zenker's Diverticulum is well know among Gastroenterologists, who was Zenker and where did he publish his new disorder?
  7. Applied maths
  8. Why didn't man evolve wings?
  9. Synthesis problem
  10. human cloning
  11. Pigs on the wing
  12. Risk of contracting MRSA

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 3

  1. Amount of energy needed to reach the speed of light: Infinite. Amount of atoms to destroy the sun: 1?
  2. I don't understand Schrödinger's cat
  3. A bit near the question above...
  4. Double alkylation of carboxylic acid derivatives
  5. Extremes of earth's atmosphere
  6. Baked limestone
  7. Shining Metals dug from the mountains
  8. Why do we care about faces?
  9. Mechanical pencil uses chuck?
  10. Plant defences and herbivory in the African savanna
  11. On the subject of human cloning (not sure if this is the right desk for this)
  12. Anyone here a doctor?

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 4

  1. Heparin lock
  2. five kindoms
  3. chordee
  4. A lot of quasi-related questions
  5. I was washing dishes...
  6. Drinking water vs. pouring it over your head to cool down
  7. Existance of God
  8. Calculation of pipe dia. Formula Needed?
  9. Medical appliances (?), early/mid-20th C.
  10. Post thunderstorm ionization
  11. Tree of life
  12. Blood plasma
  13. Help diagnose my ear deficiency!
  14. Earths core
  15. Galactic Center of the Milky Way
  16. Why can't bullets fly ?
  17. Plant identification: red berries
  18. Why did Newton think light speeded up in glass?
  19. Gas
  20. Viscious liquid
  21. Expansion on shaking container of hot water

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 5

  1. Apparent Incandescence of Planets
  2. Height of mountains
  3. Semiconductor Resistivity
  4. Applications of Chem kinetics
  5. Kissing scenes in movies - health risks?
  6. Do newspaper inks contain cyanide?
  7. Logical human thought
  8. electro etching of copper with copper suphate soln
  9. Rise time
  10. Question of utmost seriousness
  11. Harmful bacteria

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 6

  1. Shoe polish and solubility
  2. Recycling plastic
  3. Gasoline Expiration Date?
  4. Genital herpes Outbreaks
  5. Windowboxes
  6. how to submit a picture with an question?
  7. Buoyancy on the ocean floor
  8. Epileptology and Neurophysiology
  9. Name for when skin hurts
  10. Dental membranes?
  11. Heat rub on the testicles?
  12. Please identify this spider

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 7

  1. Please try to disprove this theory
  2. Will going faster than the speed of light create a black hole?
  3. TeleDeltos paper
  4. Why cant I type?
  5. Helium lifting gas
  6. Curl of F
  7. Cats and their waste
  8. Air brakes
  9. Loud booms
  10. Čerenkov radiation/speed of light/follow on from previous question
  11. Keeping Cool
  12. Wormholes and momentum
  13. Project Management
  14. Why would a pencil sharpener need microbial protection?
  15. 111-year-old reptile
  16. Why are their bellies cut open?
  17. Vectors

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 8

  1. Color of Water
  2. Monitor colors keep changing
  3. Anywhere on earth?
  4. Paradox?
  5. Thermocouples
  6. Why does quantum mechanics only work on a small scale?
  7. cooling/heating vortex
  8. Do any types of dementia result in loss of tact
  9. Physics of boat towing
  10. Water to Ice
  11. Permeability of plastic
  12. Beta plus decay and conservation of mass
  13. Water for the West
  14. Too Many Magnetic Minerals in me Coffee
  15. Structure of liquid water

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 9

  1. Mosquitos
  2. Botany(project topic)
  3. obstertricians
  4. Conservation of linear/angular momentum
  5. Triceratops vs Tyrannosaurus Rex
  6. Pollution and cycling
  7. Supertime
  8. Centrifugal Sorting of Saturn's Rings
  9. What STD can be transmitted through oral sex?
  10. Educational videos in psychology
  11. Academic, corporate and free researchers
  12. Automobile bumpers
  13. Control group in statistics
  14. Caffeine timing and sleep
  15. Space-time equation
  16. Recent Horrible News!
  17. Comet of Sodom
  18. I can't find my mistake

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 10

  1. Herbivores and omnivores in same species
  2. Wet wipe marker
  3. Density of human blood
  4. If everything in the universe suddenly doubled in size, would it matter?
  5. Thremocouple power output
  6. Cooking Pasta
  7. Ants climbing trees
  8. How do we know Planck measurements are the ultimate?
  9. Centrifugal Sorting of Materials
  10. Eucalyptas Tree,nor Cal
  11. Flu like symptoms
  12. The Matrix
  13. Animals
  14. Umbilical Cord
  15. Bismuth tin alloy

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 11

  1. Favored cigarette brands by ethnicity
  2. What's this map projection?
  3. sea anemones
  4. Inexpensive sheets of transparent elastic material
  5. Legs on a whale
  6. How fast will a fishhook rust
  7. Zucchini plants with white lines
  8. Black holes in the solar system?
  9. Deadliest lightning incident?
  10. Plate movement and longitude

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 12

  1. MDS , Myeloproliferative Dysplasia.
  2. genaral knowledge
  3. 10 books in science
  4. Chemical Equilibrium question
  5. which type of ether used for anesthesia for child in 1954
  6. Empyrean vs. E8
  7. A conceptual problem in Physics
  8. Self-sacrifice in non-human animals?
  9. Teeth Whitening
  10. Size of Orbitals?

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 13

  1. silverback gorillas
  2. Mosquito species?
  3. Welding Smoke
  4. Eyebrows
  5. Autism-spectrum disorders and evolution
  6. The End of the World!
  7. Protein Bending
  8. Two-stroke engines
  9. Heparin suppresion of platelet count
  10. Need info about penis meds
  11. Measuring age
  12. Communiction with Aliens
  13. The Big Bang Theory
  14. Chemistry and /or biology
  15. Blood types
  16. Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 14

  1. Issue of quantum
  2. plum tree bark
  3. 'pop' sound 11 seconds after a shooting star
  4. Kidney output not in article
  5. CD player -- most common type of fault
  6. Railway locomtive Steam Cycle...
  7. UFO sightings
  8. Skin effect in transmission lines
  9. Electric Current
  10. Hot water cold water
  11. Electromagnet
  12. The End Of The World as we know it!
  13. Causality
  14. Uses of propane vs. uses of natural gas

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 15

  1. While I'm reminded of Moluccan Cockatoos
  2. Woodpeckers
  3. Dunbar's number and the autism spectrum
  4. about 20 dec 2012
  5. pH correction
  6. Air force
  7. Solutions
  8. Flexibility and gender
  9. Large Hadron Collider
  10. electrocution by toasters
  11. firefox and IE............eye adjustment........

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 16

  1. Common/Household "soft" magnets
  2. Vitamins
  3. food science
  4. IUPAC Nomenclature of carbohydrates
  5. Obtaining special dc power supply.
  6. Evaporating black hole
  7. Calcium and Acne
  8. Glucose question
  9. Electronically squaring a signal
  10. Is everything technically light?
  11. "Most chemicals are white."
  12. The colour white
  13. Electromagnet, Again

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 17

  1. sarcodactylus OR sarcodactylis?
  2. Solar mining
  3. Anti-ballistic missile
  4. Dockin in orbit
  5. Medicine
  6. Light in a time warp
  7. Olympic dope caught doping
  8. Sedative effect of alcohol
  9. Octopus

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 18

  1. Confidence boosting
  2. Physics
  3. Sperm cell
  4. Building an atomic bomb
  5. Christmas suicide
  6. Two wheels, spinning in different directions
  7. Mail sorting
  8. Strongest acid!
  9. science / about the reproduction of animals
  10. Habitable planet/moon systems
  11. light chains of immunoglobulin
  12. Aero engine lubrication
  13. Red meat
  14. mama
  15. Antiperistasis
  16. Does human perception of time speed up with age?

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 19

  1. light
  2. Railguns, rail errosion
  3. Laser
  4. natural c onception after menopause
  5. Is a little lead deadly?
  6. Wall voltage through your body vs resistance
  7. Radio wave strength
  8. healing effect of color on the elderly
  9. Black holes

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 20

  1. Black hole evaporation and time dilation
  2. Using sig figs in calculations with both addition and multiplication
  3. Earth's rotation
  4. How a redshift affects the appearance of the moon on the horizon
  5. size of earth
  6. Banked Corner
  7. Brass shell casings corrosion rates in soil
  8. Brightness of the Sun and other stars
  9. Scientific/medical reasons for Heartbreak
  10. Tea
  11. Black holes again: interior
  12. 21 Hockey Pucks
  13. Moving toilet water

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 21

  1. Herbal infusion
  2. eye damage from hand dryers
  3. Astronomy Question: Need a Repeating Celestial Event
  4. "Green Bags"
  5. The Large Hadron Collider and the Sun
  6. Apparently Natural Causes?
  7. Liquids going from perspiration to waste in humans
  8. what is important of material sciences?
  9. Telephone call to 911
  10. Solutions and volume changes
  11. Optical zoom
  12. For Chemistry Experts

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 22

  1. When someone says that they can see the intelligence in an animal's eyes...
  2. Drunk Driving deaths by country
  3. not a question, but... worth it (LHC)
  4. Frostbite
  5. Physics with Calculus queston, regarding differential mass elements
  6. Tornados at night?
  7. Apple
  8. Is it right that accidentally snorting msg can cause bleeding from nose and eyes?
  9. drug reaction
  10. Olympics
  11. Glass figure changing color
  12. On the Topic of Color Changes
  13. Victorian women

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 23

  1. The perfect murder
  2. Cooling soups
  3. Ortho, Meta and Para
  4. fluocinonide 0.05%
  5. Homeopathy
  6. Light sensitivity disease?
  7. Why have I never had a hangover?
  8. Diagnostic of brain injuries
  9. Towels
  10. If a man and a cheetah were to run a marathon...

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 24

  1. Earth's Magnetic Poles
  2. Spontaneous human combustion
  3. Experiments with body gases and blow back
  4. Earths core
  5. Pure fusion bomb
  6. Heliocentrism
  7. Hygiene
  8. What is the nature of consciousness?
  9. Oxycodone and Morphine: Detection periods?
  10. Inhalent detection (inspired by question above)
  11. Hairspray vs. Houseflies
  12. neo cortical physiology and art/drama/music therapy
  13. The Size Of The Universe
  14. Terminology re: motion created by amniotic fluid
  15. Future studies in areospace
  16. find definitions
  17. What is this bird?
  18. advantage of youth in gymnastics
  19. Space Questions

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 25

  1. Frequency of Meiotic Crossover
  2. Human growth hormone production.
  3. Cooked meat and air in a refrigerator
  4. Alcohol-and-cigarette-based human combustion
  5. power system
  6. Medical Term for No Fear in Crisis.
  7. Is copper(II) ion more stable than copper(I) ion?
  8. Useful life of commerically packed grated ginger
  9. WTC floor plan
  10. Why do we laugh at people who get hurt
  11. why do I look worse in photographs than in mirrors?
  12. Human eggs
  13. Infinity

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 26

  1. Gas snorting
  2. Any way to discourage my parrot from washing her head in her water pot?
  3. Cheap, small, low-power technology for detecting a short-range distance?
  4. General relativity analogy thoughts.
  5. Given the same amount of sleep
  6. Listeriosis
  7. Curling a ribbon by scraping it?
  8. Maglev
  9. Why is 3d10 configuration so stable??
  10. Geomagnetic reversal and the End of the World
  11. Keep a "hard(permanent) magnet" floating
  12. Lifespan of an American Spadefoot toad

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 27

  1. Springs and simple harmonic motion
  2. Yawning
  3. man without a face
  4. Cat Eyes
  5. Can tapirs pick things up with their nose?
  6. Jurassic Park question
  7. Is there any animal which lacks self-preservation instinct?
  8. Glaucoma / abd pain
  9. What happens when blood goes into tissue?
  10. Evolution and the "no new information" argument
  11. The evolution of intelligence
  12. Objects rotating in space

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 28

  1. Spider silk
  2. What eats starfish?
  3. Do today's dyes weaken fabrics still?
  4. ELISA kit aging
  5. Sliding filament theory
  6. Metaphase of mitosis
  7. Name that plant
  8. Flying cats
  9. Who would win?
  10. cryptozoology and biology
  11. humidification operation
  12. Yeti and Bigfoot
  13. spider web sacs in trees?
  14. what is animal.
  15. BIOLOGY
  16. Spider eggs?
  17. dog
  18. has our buddy broke his leg?????
  19. Conflicting information on effects of neutering dogs

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 29

  1. Motorcycle
  2. Clorox as hair lightener/bleach
  3. Perception of Musical Pitch
  4. Transverse waves
  5. Why is mescaline a controlled substance?
  6. Emit Visible Light by Radio Transmitter
  7. Bat vs bird populations
  8. What's with this leaf?
  9. Freaks
  10. Standard Units for Quantities of Lumber

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 30

  1. about electrons...
  2. Purple skin
  3. Optical Activity
  4. Distortion in half-wave rectifier.
  5. Cause of Quantum Decoherence?
  6. Inventing VS Engineering
  7. Spider in My Front Yard
  8. Helicopters unable to fly above a pit
  9. bipolar transistor
  10. Butterfly Bee Insect (Unknown)

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 31

  1. Magnetic "field lines"
  2. Where could I buy lead ball bearings?
  3. Asteroids and comets
  4. Poisonous things that taste good
  5. Breakdown via anti-hydrogen
  6. DNA inbreedinng
  7. when to plant nectarines from saved pits
  8. lipid movement in a liposome..
  9. Mozzy bites
  10. Unknown insect
  11. Magnetic cows
  12. Path integral formulation
  13. blood
  14. Life in the most polluted environments?
  15. Physics Degree
  16. Red jelly growing in fridge
  17. Why do we find some animals attractive?
  18. Human lungs
  19. Sweet smell from blown up capacitors?
  20. Hydrogen Peroxide and Bacteria
  21. The Big Bang and Gravity
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