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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 1

1. How delicate is the universe?
2. How much would an outside observer (an alien scientist, if you like) be able to determine about life on Earth as a whole...
3. explanation on tensors
4. books on physics theories
5. Hey, how do they know they've discovered methane (tm?) gas on Mars?
6. Clearing Brush
7. About the cooling and heating of the air as an affect of clouds
8. what is the detail standard of MS20995AB32 or NASM20995AB32
9. Clones and lung problems
10. Day with the most number of deaths
11. information in Dutch about Cryptosporidium parvum
12. Should my adam's apple be perfectly symmetrical?
13. Sound in Water
14. Setting up a temporary "cleanroom" at home
15. Identify plant?
16. what are the best arguments for there being no objective truth?
17. Electron configurations
18. Gaur image
19. Testing for air tightness

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 2

1. Blood tests
2. Snow fleas
3. Dwarfism due to gas attack?
4. Wind powered
5. do insects have kidneys?
6. Do not expose to direct sunlight
7. wind power
8. People who "Don't like music"
9. Earthing
10. Would lens flares ever have motion blur?
11. [medical Q] identify a tool
12. Black dwarf sun and planets drfiting

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 3

1. Front and back
2. Breeding budgies and cockatiels
3. Antidepressent
4. Brain wave crosstalk
5. Islam ... previous article
6. Map projection where area is proportional to a statistic
7. What the weather feels like
8. Which is more prestigious as an honour;FBA or FRS
9. Protein Supplements in diet
10. Boolean logic
11. Gluing MDF
12. Space
13. Electric motor speed
14. Photons having momentum
15. How long will it take to go to Mars?
16. Melting tarseal
17. Bathymetry

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 4

1. Speed of light, sound
2. Time Travel and Fate
3. Isaac Newton's scientific fraud
4. Breast enhancement scams
5. Free will doesn't exist
6. A hell of a question...
7. Showing CO2 => global warming in a lab
8. Effect of snow on rails
9. Bird on wire not getting zapped

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 5

1. Prism's and white LED's.
2. Sinkholes - Geology
3. Science related to Neuorlogy
4. Calculating Molality
5. Chemical Content
6. Alkali = ?
7. Membership of American Academy of Arts and Sciences as compared to Royal Society
8. Parallel Universes
9. English language
10. Cork taint
11. "drawing" letters and words by moving your eyes
12. Wine aging
13. mass-energy equation
14. Water flouridation and the crank estate
15. Life without plants
16. Eggs in candleflames
17. Homeopathic medicine

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 6

1. Is there a problem if a blood sample for indirect coombs test was taken on EDTA not serum tube?if so,what should I do if I can not reach the patient?
2. Chemical vapor deposition
3. Absolute velocity in SR vs. GR
4. Electrical variation on chicken and egg problem
5. Robert Millikan and the Oil Drop.
6. Was evolution first described by Islamic scientists much before Darwin
7. Voice-to-computer device
8. Feed the lions
9. Oldest ice ?
10. Euthanizing turtles
11. Corn for sugar? Why not apples?
12. Rock salt on the ice
13. Chemical element
14. Ants
15. Immunisation through constant exposure
16. Electrons and magnets and monopoles

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 7

1. Red Alert!
2. Greed not genetic?
3. heavy menstrual cycle
4. Colour vision
5. So, like, ...what's been happenin in science lately?
6. And when are they gonna update the periodic table!?
7. Radioactive Decay/Bombardment
8. Solid when warm, liquid when cold
9. Mater to Energy conversion (Moved from [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing&action=edit&section=52 Reference_desk/Computing]
10. Move Earth rocks to Mars
11. These Questions are doing my head in
12. Pancreatic Cancer

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 8

1. Where can I find information about NLP?
2. effect of pulse polio programme on scheduled vaccinations!
3. Colour of the Sun
4. Sleep
5. what is a time that is CERTAINLY too short for a person to displacce their hand by 1 meter ?
6. tips to enthuse proto-computer scientists
7. TV Noise

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 9

1. Decomposition of Styrofoam and Plastics
2. is there a difference between: 1) water that has been frozen + melted 2) water that never was frozen?
3. UFOs
4. Philosophical differences between Ayurvedic and Unani medicine
5. Why are black people better dancers/athletes?
6. Instruments that don't start at zero
7. deflection
8. Frequency of Earthquake Waves
9. Swarf
10. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
11. Anaerobe anatomy
12. stem cells
13. Alprazolam vs. Diazepam

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 10

1. How come this image says that the galaxy is impossible?
2. why are branched hydrocarbons more thermodynamically stable than unbranched ones?
3. Genetic Modification potato
4. Curious shadow over Moon - cloud, or not?
5. Medically qualified people with main contribution in physicsmathematics
6. Why is the death toll so high in the 2009 Victorian bushfires ?
7. Be a good egg and answer this Q...
8. do French and United Kingdom has same watts plugs?

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 11

1. Magnetic perpetual machine
2. how to make a magnet
3. A medical emergency that could lead to a diagnosis of anemia
4. Engine silencer
5. Missile range
6. Degree of Relatedness
7. Will Ultraviolet A or B rays kill the vibrio cholerae bacteria?
8. Was William Harvey realy the first person to describe blood circulation?
9. CIVIL ENGINEERING
10. what happens in the fractioning column (in the lab) as ethanol-water mixture boils?
11. Wireless invention;Bose or Marconi!
12. Migraines and Auras
13. Eyeglass prescription
14. Checking that loading of wells in SDS PAGE is comparable or whatever
15. mirror paint?
16. CO detector going off
17. Metamorphosis

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 12

1. First Ionization Energy
2. Real D glassess
3. milky way in the sky
4. What is the largest academic journal in the world
5. Authoritative anatomy terminology
6. Darwin mechanism of evolution?
7. Bodyhair
8. Cognation Memory
9. Same-sex gametes combining to form a zygote?
10. universe expanding
11. will my clothes rot / otherwise become damaged if I leave them unwashed for a few weeks?
12. Uranus and Saturn's gravity
13. what is Steve Baker's IQ? Why does he know so much?

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 13

1. Post-It Note adhesive Thickness
2. Tesla, Edison, Einstein and Asperger syndrome.
3. comb attracting little pieces of paper
4. Syndrome or Disorder?
5. asexual reproduction
6. Fingerprints
7. Snowflake symmetry
8. Was Banting really the first to discover insulin?
9. Freemartin
10. Faster-than-light communication idea
11. PROPELLER ENGINE VS JET ENGINE AT HIGHER ALTITUDE
12. 2009 satellite collision relative velocities
13. Have scientists tried mixing every combination of chemicals, elements, etc. together?
14. Imagination "like becoming someone else" to some people?
15. Error measurement question
16. Isaac Asimov quote on the fractal nature of discovery

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 14

1. Questions about catnip
2. Neanderthals, Humans and Chimps
3. Scientific name
4. Mental illness and "colorful" writing
5. Is there any way to repair a cracked DVD?
6. so cola is TERRIBLE for your teeth. Does swishing with water immediately afterwards help?
7. Verifying that a CO detector works
8. Mysterious Dead
9. How fair is a coin?
10. Energy vs mass
11. Runaway propeller
12. Can we create giant insects like those that lived during the Carboniferous period?

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 15

1. How do I genetically engineer the world's best sports team?
2. speeding up human gestitation
3. Yellow Sodium Light
4. science/geology---tides!!!
5. ENGINEER'S HELP NEEDED
6. Is there any Green Agency at India
7. Past weather data
8. For specialist only...!
9. is it a coincedence too
10. Question about the nature of the expanding universe
11. Boiling to Death
12. Cream Smell
13. The night sky

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 16

1. Time
2. When does 12 a.m. mean noon?
3. Academia at present
4. quantum mechanics(a particle in box)
5. Terpenes
6. Vision, light pollution, and the Milky Way
7. hydroponics
8. sudden freezing
9. Water freezing up in an ice cube tray
10. Percent of people infected by the "common cold" each year in US
11. Sex hormones in ham?
12. New colours

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 17

1. New colors...Editing Break
2. CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram equivalent tending towards black
3. Matter and Anti-Matter creation from energy
4. protein to build muscle mass
5. Most complex formula in Physics
6. Microsoft Office Live Workplace for Linux users
7. Liquid density
8. Event horizon and neutron star crushing question
9. Nuclear submarine crash
10. The road to Xibalba
11. Health: green tea leaves v. cabbage leaves
12. Gold in volcano
13. sort of alchemy
14. Why is there a high concentration of catalase in the liver?

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 18

1. Hodgkin's lymphoma and GHB?
2. Ionic Strength: am I doing it right?
3. Voltaic pile chemistry
4. Bacterial illness
5. Al Jazir, Ancient Engineer?
6. Clarification required
7. Electron composition
8. RadioShack Weather Stations
9. Is there any scientific evidence backing 9/11 conspiracy theories?
10. Speculation on Glaucoma and HSV
11. Is it a coincedence 2... ?
12. conservation of energy
13. Adenoidectomy
14. The tip of a laser beam
15. Why did doctors administer calomel and bleeding in the 18th and 19th century?
16. Purple Orange

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 19

1. xkcd science reference
2. Boyle's Law
3. Eyes wide shut?
4. Weight Scales
5. Aristotelian perfect heavens and Galileo
6. Grooves (archaeology)
7. Apple juice
8. Coffee and brain
9. Time travel survival
10. Basics
11. Linear Variable Differential Transformer
12. Squirting Orgasm
13. Blue supergiant
14. Does shaking bus indicate particular type of drive train?

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 20

1. Bouyancy
2. Energy transfere
3. Does electricity move with inertia?
4. A Few ?s...
5. Archimedes' Law
6. Most [http://www.wordnet-online.com/temperate.shtml temperate] city?
7. Dates Before Christ?
8. Why did more colds develop into pneumonia in years past?
9. Lancet reputation
10. limitation of human understanding
11. economy crises
12. Chemisty Question - Silicone oil
13. Cleaning anitfreeze ethylene glycol off concrete

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 21

1. moving charges
2. by what year is the amazon rainforest expected to be completely logged/destroyed?
3. Did Ross actually deserve his Nobel in 1902?
4. Scientists with distinguished contribution to literature
5. Hybrid eclipse: both annular and total at the same place?
6. derivation of e = mc squared
7. what is "Vital fluorescent staining" ?
8. Hypothetical lifeforms on earth
9. Why does the iris have a colour?
10. Dysfunction in the instinct of nature
11. Burns

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 22

1. Cardinal repeatedly flies into window
2. Gold
3. "Audible Drugs"
4. Bubble´s prediction
5. electrical conductivity

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 23

1. Red Hot Ice Cube
2. Oil Platforms
3. battery life in laptops
4. Edison,Tesla spat cost them a Nobel !!!
5. Manual gear
6. increase of relative mass
7. wood - properties
8. Spread of Disease from America to the Old World
9. "... Irradiated the world's supply of steel"? Clarify?
10. How can I depigment hair extensions??

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 24

1. Measuring digits
2. The atmosphere on comet Lulin
3. Requirements for being published in Science Mag: Policy Forum
4. Amoebas and White Blood Cells
5. Photosynthesis
6. low radiation
7. Latent index and manifest index (in psychology)
8. Ripen my mango
9. adrenal and gonadal androgen
10. Scientist head of states!
11. a pill i found
12. Singapore history
13. Wave equation
14. Band-stop filters
15. Conservation of mass
16. Ketonuria caused by a high protein diet.
17. Tiny Springs
18. Botany of antractica
19. Sexuality being decided?
20. DC power supplies in parallel/series
21. hydrodynamic and aerodynamic
22. Water Hammer Arrestor

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 25

1. Pipe noise
2. Silver nitrate storage
3. high electric tension
4. Could someone with CIPA still die from a chest stab?
5. Colors of noise images?
6. Is (or was) Antarctica really a single continent?

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 26

1. Mousetraps
2. Constituents of InkJet Printer Ink
3. Particles or waves in radiation
4. water
5. Largest open-shelf library
6. Free university
7. derivation of lorentz transformation
8. Milky way part two
9. opened bottled water shelf life
10. television
11. Einsteins prediction regarding the "weak force"
12. Bad medical terms give me high blood pressure...
13. "Treatment" for Aspergers Syndrome?
14. Validity of Wikipedia

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 27

1. can hydrostatic testing damage household pipes?
2. Macdonald 80 Shopping Center
3. Psychological effects of norepinephrine
4. I hope this Q doesn't put you to sleep...
5. Anybody is answering it?????
6. wavefunction in quantum mechanics
7. Rear Axle
8. Rear Axle rework
9. Moth question
10. Glutathione
11. How to compare more than 5 products at biocompare.com
12. Homo sapiens
13. Bornholms Disease

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 February 28

1. Using neutrinos for communication
2. Observation of a mysterious psychological phenomenon
3. contradiction between lorentz transformation and length contraction
4. current even not grounded
5. Diagnosing asthma in children
6. Why all the various notations for wavelength and frequency?
7. Characteristic time scale for rotational motion.
8. Hormones and neurotransmitters
9. soda ash clairification
10. Why Are People So Stupid?
11. Stone-age axe-head factory.