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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 1

1. Electrical generation via the urban heat island - mesometeorology
2. Range of a liquid fired from a hose related to pressure
3. North-South flying jet lag?
4. Current limits in different thicknesses of wire
5. Jupiter's role on changing uranus axis
6. Trichloroethylene residue
7. drywall mud
8. Was Ernst Haekel really that ridiculous?
9. Cluelessness (battery life)
10. Color of flame
11. Phalanx versus Tercio

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 2

1. Unidentified moss
2. Classified US space rocket launches during the Cold War
3. Atoms
4. Sea Level Rising
5. Unidentified Cricket
6. Catalase
7. orbitals...
8. Mitosis
9. Late C19—early C20 British diplomat and entomologist named Alfred E. Wileman
10. Melting plastic
11. Heating with an electric heater
12. Diameter of an electron
13. Galilean moons and longitude

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 3

1. Flame without combustion
2. Titan lakes
3. Is Wikipedia a conscious entity?
4. Quasar distance, time and the speed of light
5. Yet another animal factoid for discussion - swans this time...
6. Difference between ram pressure and friction?
7. Incorporating sounds in dreams
8. Sound Frequency and Hearing Damage
9. Einstein's thought experiment about simultaneity & detection of absolute motion
10. Gauss 651
11. Using cellphone in Atlantic

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 4

1. semi-starvation and multivitamin supplements
2. Request for identification
3. one piece CP9 abilities?
4. Article on environmental impact of production of electronics
5. Cricket Feet
6. magnetic influence on water molecule clusters
7. What's more dangerous propellant or the explosive warheads?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 5

1. Has the mass of our sun or things in our solar system ever been measured with gravitational lensing?
2. Rate equations
3. Wind energy and health
4. The annoying ambivalence of domestic cats
5. Heat Transfer (Hollow Fin)
6. Mass of chick and egg
7. Which program prevents sexual harassment the best?
8. exact meaning of unit phon
9. How to progress ...?
10. What Vehicle is this?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 6

1. Ford Model T
2. E=MC² and wind up alarm clocks
3. Unofficial record temperature
4. How to fit Dfd, Dwd in Trewartha climate classifications
5. Mung bean
6. Noise pollution
7. Microwave oven frequency
8. Poor inventors who don't get the money/recognition they deserve
9. Weak interaction
10. How do we know the speed of light is constant? Part 2: Gravity Wells
11. Killing me softly ?
12. Cat's Eyes

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 7

1. Isn't sputum full of proteins?
2. Copernican Model
3. Powering civilization with something other than electricity
4. Soybean protein
5. conservation of momentum in inelastic collisions..
6. spin is taken as a quantum number
7. capilary rise
8. Pulling Teeth
9. contact lenses and acid
10. Water collecting on paper towels

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 8

1. Why would you tell yourself the obvious?
2. Proximity of modesto california to san andreas fault
3. Gallien Kreuger
4. Northern/Southern Leaf Blights?
5. Blackberry color

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 9

1. Macro communicating with a running plugin in ImageJ
2. Quality of soy protein
3. Sort of a Science history question
4. Does heating milk affect calcium and vitamin D content?
5. Fusion power
6. How would the 8 rotor Enigma machine have changed WWII?
7. Full moon
8. Synthetic honey

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 10

1. Coherence Length of Lasers / Lunar Ranging Lasers
2. Plants and LEDs
3. blood groups
4. Liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor
5. Killing dust mites
6. jj thompson's third experiment
7. Blood transfusion
8. Light bulb dimmer switch

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 11

1. Load bearing capacity of 2x6 box beam
2. Purple sky
3. EKG question
4. the mininmal age for gender nonconformity in children?
5. Layers of North Pole Ice for Google Earth?
6. formula unit ions for sodium hydroxide
7. hydroxide similarities to fluoride
8. occam's razor
9. Radiation guns

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 12

1. Started with the big bang
2. Regression to the mean
3. Jehovah's witnesses denial of blood and Hippocratic Oath
4. Soybean and male infertility
5. Non-placebo effect?
6. un-work hardening
7. Most dense ceramic
8. Elvis monkey
9. Method of image charges

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 13

1. drywall mud
2. Demixing of gases of different density
3. First-line, second-line, third-line defense against cancer... What's the point of this?
4. US scientific association membership for teenagers
5. radiation
6. Born's Proof of uncertainty principle
7. Radio around the world
8. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease help me
9. Kennedy's Disease
10. focal length and depth of field and wavelength-dependence

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 14

1. Earth with Rings?
2. Appearance of Moon - geographic variations
3. Groung water tannins
4. bonferroni correction
5. Boulder clay?
6. Geodesic for thrown body
7. How do photons know the type of charge they are interacting with?
8. Standard gravity and huge objects
9. Rage-induced blackout
10. Common Method Variance
11. feynman
12. Strange animal behaviour
13. USS Constitution commander glass rooms
14. Determining the polarity of the anode

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 15

1. Blood Pressure differential
2. Exploding electrode
3. how can i get :- a)ammonia gas ---- b)potassium hydride
4. Gasoline fuel cell
5. In what way is the Higgs mechanism not a fundamental force?
6. Odd math

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 16

1. principal stress
2. the meaning of isogene and examples are welcomed
3. Gas cloud entering black hole in milky way
4. how are promoter sequences discovered?
5. Celsius vs. Kelvin
6. Looking for details behind a Mr. Wizard science trick
7. Damastes--redirects to Procrustes, but recommends "Huntsmen Spider"
8. Extracting work from a positive current

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 17

1. Transatlantic travel
2. Deploying lifeboats
3. How far can you pull quarks apart
4. Why is traffic on long open roads "lumpy"?
5. Implications of the Higgs boson?
6. How does the GRW theory in quantum mechanics handle multiple hittings?
7. Angle of the shadow across the moon
8. Galactic collison
9. DIY antenna, starting from a USB adapter
10. Physiology of getting warm
11. Can an EMP shut down a diesel engine?
12. Angular momentum of the observed universe
13. How much leaf-area does it take to support a human being?
14. Violating the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 18

1. Electricity from water
2. "less than 5 kDa by molecular weight"
3. Quantum measurement problem
4. Patient-specific tumoral vaccines
5. Ethanol expiration date
6. Pepper and salt mills
7. Dying in an elevator
8. Electromagnetic radiation and their relationship with electro magnetism
9. Duality
10. Help finding source on Chicken vision
11. Ayds
12. Manuka honey health claims - quackery?
13. Pauli exclusion principle and speed of light

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 19

1. Oh, you scared me!
2. Bumping your head
3. Dutch National Science Quiz 2011
4. Probability
5. Elasticity
6. cities in southwest Greenland
7. Anchorage and Northern Iceland in Trewartha climate class
8. Animals with humor

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 20

1. T of E
2. Efficacy of toilet tank tablets?
3. Technology trees
4. Winter effectivity????
5. Blood variation according to region???
6. power amd energy consumed
7. Lagrangian when contact forces are involved
8. How many bones in the ear are there?
9. Is it true that all redox reactions involve hydrogen in some form?
10. Geosynchronous orbit

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 21

1. vasaline
2. How many muscles are there in the ears?
3. boiling point of blood
4. Size and cats

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 22

1. Contact lenses
2. Nose blowing
3. Incredible calculation
4. Where does the higgs boson go?
5. area vector
6. hypothyroid
7. Taste of pills
8. space balls!

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 23

1. Standing on a satellite
2. Wanted: Uranium asteroids?
3. "prealloy"?
4. motion in speed of light
5. Could Solar roadways also reclaim the energy of vehicles pressing down on the pavement?
6. Kinetic sidewalks: How viable are they?
7. Whey
8. Time Dilation
9. which colour light travels speed and for long distance?
10. LED v/s CFL?
11. Why does a tubelight does not start as soon as it is switched on?
12. Sugar = non-aqueous
13. physics
14. Hospital admission procedures
15. Quenching and tempering
16. Aspirin and gastrointestinal bleeding

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 24

1. what travel is?
2. Differnce
3. Is it true that electricity was originally used almost exclusively for just lighting?
4. evolution

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 25

1. Help identifying plant pest
2. Neurofeedback in time management
3. Whereas a Defibrillator was invented to restart hearts, what needs to be invented to restart brains?
4. Is there a brain EKG?
5. Animals don't like the taste of humans?
6. Pneumoencephalography in The Exorcist
7. "Double" organ transplants
8. Fear of horror movies
9. Starwisp
10. Christmas related question (sort of)
11. Bed bugs and skin problems that are, conceivably, sometimes, autoimmune in cause

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 26

1. Plate tectonics: When did America and Asia collide?
2. Parallactic mount
3. Complex exponentiation
4. Sex in space
5. Neanderthals
6. Bike

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 27

1. Snake handling evangelists
2. What's the big deal about the OPERA neutrino anomaly?
3. Why wasn't the Alleghenian orogeny simply an elastic collision?
4. Drafting (aerodynamics) in the rain
5. What is this?
6. Ballistic vest in films
7. Are the Quarks that make us as old as the universe.
8. Do heavier objects fall faster?
9. Marsquake
10. i don't get fracture mechanics, the orientation of J1 joints of the Appalachians, and the stress field 315 mya
11. Is there a name for this effect?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 28

1. Deciding what drugs are OTC
2. I wnt to know the basic requirements to repair electronics equipments.
3. Does sleep sex leave a bruise patten similar to that in rape?
4. Introduction to astronomy as an ebook?
5. Temperature sensing mechanism in skin cells
6. Landsberg efficiency
7. Equations for a falling body with relativistic effects
8. Have laptops stopped improving?

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 29

1. ClF₃ vs. (CF₂)_n
2. life
3. Natural phenomena after Kim Jong-il's death
4. Skin regeneration
5. Bedroom window
6. Sugar Thermite?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 30

1. ? on finding syndrome name
2. Fractional Uncertainty with Zero Sloppiness
3. Pointed bullets
4. Oddly strong magnetic force
5. Maximum sustained G-force a human can endure for long periods?
6. What'll it take to upgrade landline networks to allow texting to and from landline phones?
7. Formaldehyde#Interstellar_formaldehyde
8. Cross-Coupled Oscillator Driving Induction Heater
9. How far away could Seti detect us?
10. Beyond the speed of light

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 December 31

1. How -or why- do interleukins produce fever?
2. Shaving with boiling water
3. Prescription first aid kit
4. What fraction of calories in food are typically needed for digestion, e.g. to produce digestive enzymes ?
5. Lower resting O2 saturation in endurance athletes
6. Are lotteries time travel proof?