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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 1

  1. Why is blood pH 7.4
  2. Botany: Can you help me identify this plant spotted in my mum's garden in Switzerland?
  3. July 2018 lunar eclipse - visibility
  4. Why do flies often walk in a saltatory manner? (at least the species I see)

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 2

  1. Explain why these 2 statements are not contrary to each other

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 3

  1. Material that generates ultrasound, and not sound, when hit

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 4

  1. the process of communication between the insects of same species
  2. turtle id in today's featured image
  3. Thermal contraction of helical spring

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 5

  1. What's the mechanism that allows water and steam to co-exist together, room temperature?
  2. Cats and canine questions.
  3. Ashtabula chemical site

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 6

  1. Wind speeds on gas and ice giants
  2. Inverse flight
  3. Use of millimeter paper
  4. Why are all notable nearby stars getting nearer?

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 7

  1. How long does it take for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to scramble the weather?
  2. Shortest person
  3. Mars and Moon
  4. bisexuals, heterosexuals, and tall women
  5. What's the approximate height of the world's tallest building that can fit on 20x100 feet of land?
  6. RfC Announce: Should the EmDrive be labeled as Pseudoscience?

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 8

  1. Chemical formulas (C25H35NO5)
  2. Can anybody identify this insect?

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 9

  1. Please explain this power plant availability formula specially the summation part
  2. Drowning

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 11

  1. Consequence of the ideal gas law?
  2. weather averages
  3. Element/Fire Stryker fire extinguisher

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 12

  1. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 27-2 [https://s.sender.mobi/u/image/2018/8/12/vPoB3Cdpq/-.PNG PNG]
  2. Aiming for planets
  3. Black or white?
  4. Decreasing light pollution as night progresses

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 13

  1. Float gauges
  2. What place has the shortest average wait for sustained hurricane wind from tropical cyclones?
  3. What's the last vegetable here?

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 14

  1. Glyphosate use by country
  2. Alastor angulicollis

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 15

  1. Capacities of Chemours titanium dioxide plants
  2. Existence of drug 'Mideral'
  3. iiser post allotment
  4. Academic research in engineering in the UK

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 16

  1. Seeing the brightness of a city in the horizon from the sea

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 18

  1. Animal mates
  2. Could the Universe have been different?

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 19

  1. Why cant you hear the jet engine anymore before the jet takes off?
  2. Speed of electrons
  3. Helpful Parasites?

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 20

  1. Ni-MH batteries
  2. Characteristics of common wasps and bees

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 21

  1. Fat pads on palm at the base of fingers
  2. Having trouble finding normal and shear forces

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 22

  1. Maxwell's demon
  2. Why is the letter 'G' used to represent Conductivity ?
  3. What's the best estimate for Mauna Kea's all-time high height? How far in the future or past is this?
  4. Sapphire
  5. Rice foamed after being soaked for a couple of days, probably less

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 23

  1. WP:LOCALCON and WP:TPOC
  2. Varicoceles

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 24

  1. Fertility question

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 25

  1. Source of a basemap
  2. Range of Likely Rise in GMST

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 26

  1. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 27-8 [https://s.sender.mobi/u/image/2018/8/26/LQISNwTPd/-.PNG PNG]
  2. Lines of magnetic flux
  3. Leccy dlux

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 27

  1. Why do ants avoid salt? How does salt affect ants?

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 28

  1. Nomenclature for Vitellaria paradoxa
  2. Cations and HDPE
  3. Autonomic block
  4. minnesota starvation experiment

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 29

  1. what makes atoms bond
  2. Fields of study whose mere existence offend a certain group(s) of people
  3. Can cats see red?

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 31

  1. Oldest functioning human body parts
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