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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 1

1. Block erasure
2. Disulfiram and fetal alcohol syndrome
3. popularizing chemistry
4. DNA testing of cremains
5. energy solution
6. better fit?
7. Statistics on Human Penis Size
8. What is an airlift system
9. Current Control vs. Voltage control
10. Resurecting extinct species
11. Leptinella/Cotula
12. Weedicides
13. Blushing
14. aspirin
15. Instantaneous force
16. I have some Astronomy Questions:
17. How much does gravity hold the human body together?
18. Geomagnetically Induced Currents

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 2

1. Identifying YAG crystals
2. subatomic particles
3. subatomic shells
4. Zinc chloride solution
5. Which animal in burrow?
6. Tips to identify a Bird of prey in southern england?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 3

1. Snowing right now
2. hammerhead sharks
3. Torque and power
4. Effect of star Jupiter on Earth
5. Beyond the standard model and low temperature physics experiments
6. Getting sulfur from Gypsum.
7. Evolution
8. EM waves traveling through a vacuum
9. Gravitational waves and frame of reference
10. Destroying the Popemobile
11. the moon should have an atmosphere

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 4

1. Spotting nocturnal animals at night
2. Response to Creationwiki
3. ABO/Rh retype
4. International space station
5. humans on other planets
6. World War II US Submarine Equipment
7. Temperature inside an atomic nucleus, & what if it were cooled
8. Green birds in Greater London
9. what effects onbody organs human hanging death
10. Freeview signal, UK
11. Brownian ratchet
12. Living liquid
13. Hanging: suicide or execution?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 5

1. Question (acetone)
2. Thomisida
3. WHAT PERCENT OF THE PLANETS IN THE GALAXY HAVE LIFE
4. Water flowing on Mars???
5. Claims of Scientific Evidence Against Evolution
6. Radio frequencies
7. The "Laotian bird" Nock-ten (2011)
8. When in the history of Astronomy could a planet on the far side of the sun be ruled out?
9. move the world

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 6

1. I've read that children dislike vegetables because they're bitter?
2. cosmic strings
3. pretzel making
4. space/time, energy/matter
5. gravity
6. Power outages
7. distinction between coordinate covalent bond and covalent bond
8. How much (embedded) energy is needed to build different kind of power plants?
9. MOX UK

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 7

1. Reactive Oxygen Metabolites vs Reactive Oxygen Species
2. Do people actually sleeps like this?
3. CHOCK
4. Chicken lays eggs with double yolks
5. Speed of light
6. Tea "espresso"
7. Mitochondrial Inheritance
8. Language++
9. nucleon model
10. shortest inverval of time

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 8

1. Shortest division of time
2. How hot is my oven?
3. Acetone
4. Self combusting essential oils?
5. How to interpret my test results
6. chock2
7. who started the "information processing theory" ?
8. need some recommendations for digital cameras that are good at recording insects (specifically fruit flies)
9. Treeline and Kangerlassuaq
10. What vehicle make-&-model has had NO accident fatalities in its entire history?
11. How many MPH is the bumper rated for on our MRAPs and M1A2 Abramses?
12. Satellite dish ears
13. chernobyl nuclear plant
14. Water and Electricity

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 9

1. Sunken Nuclear Submarines in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean
2. Explosive liquifaction
3. snake bites
4. Talk.Origins
5. What is this specification standard?
6. Battery in digital camera
7. Astigmatism
8. hurricanes in Puerto Rico
9. Compound eye and focus
10. Allergy towards x

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 10

1. particle trails
2. Mold on bread
3. sc
4. How to get rid of mice
5. Toricelli-style barometer liquid height vs. basin area
6. RED RAIN
7. What are elementary particles, really?
8. 1/6 mv^3
9. Orbital acceleration
10. Pharoh ants

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 11

1. Influenza
2. Airport and weather station identfiers
3. florida homes
4. need some explanation about electrical transformers
5. How is commercial-scale vacuum-sealing done?
6. constellations and their relationship to spiral arms.
7. Badger Diet Question
8. Tides
9. Black hole and stellar evolution
10. state of a dissolved solid (chemistry)
11. energy savers

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 12

1. Pogo stick on trampoline
2. Hard sandpaper grinding wheel
3. Anti-aging
4. Circuit training
5. relativity of time
6. Instantaneous travel
7. libya
8. Rationale against antistars and antigalaxies
9. Not seeking for answer, but explanation
10. small desalinization plant cost
11. The hourly cost of second-hand smoke?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 13

1. Space shooting
2. Potatos strapped to the wrist
3. escape velocity
4. Measuring atomic mass
5. Barycenter
6. Compound movements workout
7. predicting toppling
8. Stomach anatomy
9. 200 proof alcohol sale and consumption
10. Cute little Israeli Rodent which I cannot identify
11. Does it exist a Pyrenean Isthmus?
12. Origin of viviparous fishes
13. Leptictidium Cretaceous
14. Deep sea fish and rupture of something (I guess)...

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 14

1. Brownian ratchet (again)
2. Are hummingbirds territorial?
3. Using gene therapy to change physical characteristics
4. How massive?
5. Time it takes solar system to orbit around the galactic centre.
6. Identify (?) bomb
7. Fly stickers - do they work?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 15

1. Why are humans physically weak?
2. Guinea pigs and motion sickness
3. What leaf is this?
4. Quantum mechanics/many-worlds
5. Growing catnip
6. manual
7. transformed circuit drawing for all electrical component
8. Human survivability envelope on a newly discovered planet
9. How can I get rid of Acetone in my car
10. what is the function of the iPhone's 3GS 6R8 coil?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 16

1. Relativity and Bernoulli
2. Strength of Immune System for healthy adult from 2010 versus 1810
3. Heat and salty taste perception
4. energy and matter
5. Uterine fibroids
6. galactic orbits
7. Dishwashers and salt
8. Diabetes and low blood sugar
9. 21 cm line of Hydrogen
10. The "Chupacabra" of DC
11. Aircraft with rectangular wing profile
12. Why are there two kinds of screws?
13. Surviving on raw food alone.
14. Mind uploading and transactional integrity

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 17

1. Ampicillin rash
2. Colony of ants solves Travelling Salesman math problem?
3. Multiple birth rates over time and in different countries
4. Quiz
5. Lunar eclipse
6. Fruit nutritional components
7. lovaza
8. Does Ramada[n] select against diabetics?
9. Protein synthesis and Mitosis

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 18

1. Fly stickers redux - 'hazardous to bees'
2. Hydroflouric acid in Breaking Bad
3. Grave question about violins
4. Adding thermodynamic and statistical physics rules to gravity field equations
5. Dogs playing tug of war
6. RE: Have you seen this flower or fungi
7. nicotine patches
8. Critical angle and the refractive index
9. Problems when connecting HTC Trophy with PC
10. aspirin
11. Autism and restaurant chains
12. Immunization from HIV?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 19

1. Concave lens and a "projection" of a virtual image
2. Battery & Aerogel
3. Are there algorithms for numerical partial differential equations that are implicit in time and in space?
4. newtonian question
5. Looking for a plastic strip for a DIY project
6. How does the human brain process the failure to grasp/loss of Abstraction; or how does it process concrete interpretation of metaphors/symbollism?
7. Galvanic anodes
8. bond order
9. Pls help me (what does valency mean?)
10. US presidents in the military
11. Trying to remember the name of bioinformatics / computational biology researcher [SOLVED]
12. Why is the moon (a) red and (b) missing the top?
13. Gas and carbon monoxide poisoning

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 20

1. Flying in a whiteout
2. Firefly range
3. body of Jovian outer planets
4. basic difference between ac and dc
5. Bird of prey, Lake Washington, Seattle
6. Stripes on a battlehsip
7. Magnetic Field
8. More reliable helicopter?
9. Stable
10. Identify the bug, if possible?
11. Uncertainty principle

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 21

1. Are individual photons visible to the dark-adapted naked eye?
2. How do seeds know which way is up?
3. Total lunar eclipse at December 31
4. Information on linitis plastica, a form of stomach cancer
5. Tossing and turning
6. phenobarbitol/ataxia
7. Soymilk makes boobs bigger?
8. nova & dwarf nova difference?
9. Does JPL's default simulation accurately depict the orbit of asteroid 2010 SO16?

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 22

1. How Often Do Hurricanes Hit Puerto Rico Redux
2. Weak interaction
3. Life Expectancy After Surviving Childhood?
4. Killing the brain while keeping the body alive
5. iceberg
6. Mass of all the sunlight...
7. Galaxies, solar systems and planets systems
8. electricity and light?
9. Ball screw

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 23

1. How good is Scientific Learning Corporation's Reading Assistant?
2. tomato, hot pepper - why are they toxic?
3. event horizon
4. What would happen if you injected fat into a vein?
5. Total amount of platinum
6. Online seismograph reports?
7. lizards
8. Required muzzle velocity of a cannon to shoot any target on Earth
9. Unreal Creatures in Cave paintings
10. vehicle skid marks
11. rainfall and earthquake
12. Pressure sores
13. Identical Universes

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 24

1. Dark side of a planet
2. Carrot overdose
3. Hand propping
4. Costly military technologies
5. Classification of TNOs: SDO vs. Detached TNO
6. Moon
7. Space tourism
8. Flying submarine
9. Fly me to the moon ............. and then?
10. Why do flies hit windows repeatedly without realizing they can't get out that way?
11. Hurricane Irene on Weather Underground: computer models much scarier than 5-day forecast
12. Bladder Cancer

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 25

1. Total value of precious metals
2. What makes the difference in weight gain/loss?
3. Molar concentration
4. Nuts in Chinese shops
5. Facial resemblance between parents & children
6. Cockroaches!
7. What is the EXACT name of the green birds on the photo?
8. space

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 26

1. Using bath to remove excess fluids
2. amount of space
3. First human to die in space?
4. CRUDE OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP
5. hello.
6. Hurricane Irene: hype or real concern?
7. Asian guinea pig?

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 27

1. Hurricane predictions - too far to the west
2. Squirrel Behavior Question
3. Strings and Wave Packets in Physics
4. Where do the baloons go
5. Discoloured teeth from drugs/meds
6. Shoddy reporting story???
7. space moving
8. shrinking galaxies
9. Largest LED
10. Why do most Jews not look, well, semitic?
11. Weird maple disease
12. Light reflecting off light

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 28

1. Plants in anoxic environments
2. Bug Help
3. National Weather Service storm surge map
4. Where does precision come from?
5. Fast weight loss - is it healthy?
6. Morphological Crystallography revisited from the 2007 archives
7. What species is this?
8. What laws of physics are violated in the The Adjustment Bureau
9. Darkest hour

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 29

1. An atom of hydrogen
2. Dicarbon
3. Hypervalent phosphorus
4. Inland hurricane warnings
5. How does the Esselstyn diet unblock blocked arteries?
6. Evolution
7. Are there any land-dwelling chordates with other than zero, two or four legs?
8. Silver coating that makes tarnish removable without polish.
9. Vasodilating food
10. X-ray photography
11. Rabid skunk
12. Stem cell compatibility
13. Sterling engine charger?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 30

1. Negative matter
2. Why isn't there an X-Ray Structure of Bovine Serum Albumin?
3. Dizziness caused by a somersault
4. What injuries can be instantly healed?
5. Sound transmission and atmospheric pressure
6. Exactly why couldn't Jurassic Park happen?
7. Errrrr
8. ET phone home ......... from L2?
9. Evolution in animal thinking
10. Standard model vs GR
11. Mammals physically capable of sticking their head up their bottom?
12. Helium ionization detector
13. Chocolate bars
14. Io and Pulsars.

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 31

1. Superfluid
2. Exactness of astronomy in 1602
3. Chemistry XII Grade
4. zebras
5. potatoes, catalase, hydrogen peroxide...and an oven!
6. Name of the selenium analogue of greigite
7. Artificial gonads
8. Really big mosquito. Species?
9. Citrobacter Nuclear Reactor
10. Coordinates
11. Underice explosion
12. Energy Efficiency Calculations for Waste Heat Used in a Combined Heat and Power System
13. 3066 McFadden