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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 1

1. Caterpillars
2. Predation question
3. Bending moments
4. Digestive enzymes have anything to do with Obesity?
5. Alloy with electrical resistivity sharply increasing over a certain temperature
6. Does anyone believe that dinosaurs still existed at the time of Jesus?
7. Tidally locked planet rotation?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 2

1. Geography of glioblastoma multiforme.
2. "Coffin corner" flight ops
3. Immune system and infectious disease
4. Hi
5. Sound of freezing rain
6. BeFeC
7. Is the ARKYD Kickstarter satellite telescope in orbit now?
8. Aquifers

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 3

1. Blood donation risk factors
2. Human body parts that we have more than 2 of?
3. Oxygen

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 4

1. Trumpet mouthpiece discolored?
2. DNA testing and meiosis
3. Missile Command
4. Explaining the existence of molecule with MO
5. Hospital evacuations
6. Water bond angle, snake oil
7. Why do people appreciate panoramic views?
8. Laser hair removal
9. Shrink-fitting
10. Future power supplies

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 5

1. metamorohic rocks may have colored bands
2. Why to sit on the Internet?
3. Are "Summa Technologiae" and "Profiles of the Future" outdated?
4. Unopened long life juice
5. Angiogenesis inhibitors
6. Structural engineering question

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 6

1. Soil Quality
2. Vaccinations

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 7

1. How do whales control their depth?
2. The reaction between concentrated HNO₃ and some metals
3. Teaching myself General Relativity
4. Is this cooking instruction correct?
5. Engineers in industry

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 8

1. Prince Rupert's Drops
2. Name of the juncture between the leg and the pelvis
3. What does the letters Mw stand for?
4. Mining, rails and wheels made of steel and/or iron.
5. Could matter fusion itself generate the additional gravitational attraction that we call Dark Matter?

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 9

1. Likely Error in Microphyte Page
2. sinuses and eyes
3. Education : Blacksmithing, Goldsmithing, Gem-cutting
4. MSG and obesity
5. Acceleration of human evolution during Holocene

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 10

1. Early-diagnosis pancreatic cancer
2. Finding academic reviews of Murry Salby's published work
3. Remembering things only in a sequence
4. discoveries of nasa space station
5. Moments

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 11

1. Ftc #104 ( Group Q's 1-8 )
2. Maths in civil engineering
3. Detecting debris from flight MH 370 from satellite pictures
4. Organising colours

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 12

1. Soya and manliness
2. Epoxy resin around capacitor
3. Cosmos - Moon formation up to date?
4. Single reel or double reel cassette tape
5. Banded Iron Formations

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 13

1. Bubbles
2. Tree identification
3. Main Battle Tank
4. St Lawrence Lime exact species
5. No scientific body of national or international standing
6. Large scale disasters
7. Structures with different values of g to 9.81 in load calculations
8. Groundnut limit
9. Nutritional web site ?
10. Soldering Iron Tip Tinner
11. under water radiation
12. Distances between moons, planets, and stars

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 14

1. Polyethylene Glycol
2. Freezing water
3. Human instinctive behaviour in nightlife
4. Cardboard
5. Metals Fusing in Space
6. Plurals of Abbreviated Words
7. Hot water
8. Body painted blindness
9. What is this

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 15

1. Mass and space and nothingness
2. Coffee to help you sleep?

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 16

1. Practical magnetics problem
2. Philip experiment
3. Self-defense
4. Waist–hip ratio
5. Aircraft wing deformation
6. Which plant is this ?
7. Which insect is this ?
8. Main Battle Tank (Maintenance)
9. Two Port Network
10. Visual acuity in the human retinal periphery.

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 17

1. Do other armies besides the Israeli's also wear Mitznefet?
2. Cockpit pressurization
3. Body mass index
4. Cold Fizzy Drinks

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 18

1. The meaning of SMAC
2. Main Battle Tank
3. Sucrose solution freezing
4. How do they encase cheese in wax without bad stuff from the wax getting into the cheese?
5. Shelf life of electronics products?
6. Thermal Imaging

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 19

1. What is the scientific consensus or emerging consensus about whether homosexuals and bisexuals were born that way?
2. Smoking alcohol - how does this work (if it does)?
3. Secondary alkyl halides do not undergo SN1/ E1 reactions?
4. How to refer to an antibiotic which is used to select against eukaryotic cells?
5. Research project ideas for civil engineering
6. The Small Shrink
7. Toothpaste on burns: reality and myth
8. Behavioral epigenics
9. Cutting dead leaves off plants

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 20

1. Mass in Planck Density
2. Bridge columns
3. Yeast and air
4. Light (wave) Interference. Where does energy goes ?

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 21

1. Hyperinsulimenia-like conditions
2. What is the difference between the terms allergy & anaphylaxis?
3. Cuteness

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 22

1. Capsaicin half-life?
2. Is it true that all human embryos are initially female?
3. Moon winch
4. Abiogenesis mark 1
5. citric acid Extracellular/Intracellular?
6. X chromosome inactivation in male mammals
7. Claudius Ptolemaeus on the year
8. Bowel cleaning
9. What is the SI definition of 1 litre?
10. Do any kind of vitamin/mineral/nutrient overdoses cause tics/muscle spasms ?
11. Another gravity "related" question

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 23

1. The Universe
2. Coherent radar
3. How much greater is gravity on the dark side (away from earth) of the moon than on the light side (facing earth)?
4. Alcohol flush reaction
5. Another problem related to thermal imaging
6. Nucleosynthesis
7. agent orange
8. Bizarre question regarding McDonalds French Fries
9. Does space occupy a train carriage as a train carriage occupies space?

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 24

1. Excess weight being more dangerous for men than for women
2. sum of a position wavefunction and its conjugate
3. Factors affecting pyloric sphincter distension
4. Erasers
5. Filling bubbles

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 25

1. Heart disease
2. What might happen in a wall wart if connected across a battery?
3. Magnet motor
4. Amber-colored vertical displays

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 26

1. Kessler Corporation? A background check.
2. Dowmo alloy electrical resistivity vs temperature
3. Light bulb brightness in circuits
4. Military careers
5. What did Folding @ Home accomplish?
6. Eating nitrocellulose
7. Is it possible to return the pulse by CPR when having asystole in the heart?
8. The masses and tensions of violin strings
9. Clean burning
10. Reversible cycle

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 27

1. Meth addicts
2. Angle of penis
3. How do coil cords get kinked up the way they do?
4. Weights and rest
5. What's the point?
6. Can right handed living organisms be created in the lab?
7. Paid mourning

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 28

1. Shark tooth to ID

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 29

1. Monitoring CNS activity in fine detail
2. Significance of a Term
3. Complex Frequency
4. Component of a force
5. Dispersion
6. Inorganic chemical synthesis
7. What's the purpose of this ring on the hard drive motor?
8. Lowest temperature during last ice age
9. Bioinformatics
10. Cantilever bridges

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 30

1. Frog tails
2. need help on this
3. Free floating arctic ice cap - what happens?
4. Hbv indirect transmission
5. realization of the pleura...

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 March 31

1. tillage radishes
2. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people
3. What is the color of the pleura (membrane)?
4. an ordered list of cases when having myosis or mydriasis
5. Is this what we sound like to them?