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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 1

1. Using LC-MS to test purity of water
2. Bird Identification
3. software bug
4. Why are autopilots not better at landing?
5. Head Injury Symptoms
6. osteopathic vs. allopathic medicine
7. 5-HTP
8. Guanine analogue antiviral drugs and caffeine
9. Cyanide and almonds
10. chlorine damage to bathing suits
11. Isopropanol dehydration
12. ALbedo.
13. Characteristics of living things
14. autogyro backpack vs. backpack helicopter
15. About the electromagnetic spectrum

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 2

1. Hydrogen Compounds: Ionic or Covalent?
2. nitrogen AgAin!!!
3. milk removing stains
4. Biome Biotope Ecosystem
5. Blood
6. Activated Carbon
7. Electricity
8. Robotics
9. Cooler temperatures help in fighting wildfires
10. Some of the king's pigs and some of the king's men put Humpty together again?
11. DNA paternity tests
12. pKa (dissociation constant)
13. Mobile phone communication
14. Transposons
15. Food ingredients

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 3

1. Chemical unbalance in clinical depression
2. Bean Alcohol
3. Longetivity
4. Rolling
5. Naga Jolokia
6. Can you see colour in the dark?
7. Explain Jargon: 'decay'
8. What is meant by "a void has a time dimension"?
9. Circular Motion
10. Finding DNA of Jesus
11. mechanical nasal congestion relief
12. Self operation
13. gravity within a heavy body (Earth)
14. Science in crisis ?
15. Visual question
16. Dry season

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 4

1. Blue and green eye color in Africans
2. A four-hour day
3. What would a YY chromosome person look like?
4. Time Travel is Impossible
5. Does any one know what this is
6. Constructing a lunar orbital station by firing materials from the moon
7. The Solid
8. gf has atopy
9. The science of baseball
10. Water table in natural pond.
11. Spider

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 5

1. Aresol Can
2. Other "dry ices"?
3. Power to weight ratio
4. Does an Electron Occupy Space? Why?
5. Question regarding electricity
6. GMT and UTC
7. White teeth
8. Henry IV of France and gonorrhoea
9. tuberculosis (moved from WP:HD)
10. Gondwanan distribution and Laurelia
11. engineering question
12. Atomic vibration

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 6

1. Dino-mite question
2. About NARCOTICS:
3. Genetic code
4. Washingtonion Palm trees
5. Alaskan Mosquitos
6. plastic containers
7. IMAX type 3D Camera doing time lapse photography!!??
8. The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
9. Re: Pronator quadratus muscle
10. The Law of Gravity
11. Infinity
12. What does "qsp" in reference to gelatin or perhaps other polymers mean?
13. Swinging
14. Bicycles
15. Anatomy and physiology

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 7

1. degree of benefit
2. Infinity of space
3. chemical, mineral, vitamin make-up of menstrual blood?
4. A new Vector Energy Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - what to do?
5. Amount of zinc gluconate in Zicam
6. Could time be expanding?
7. The Doolittle Raid
8. Proving Technology for Aerospace Applications
9. Biology
10. Swings and insurance liability
11. Are old-growth forests being cleared faster than they regenerate?
12. Question: What is the compound/name of the chelate of calcium produced by plants?
13. Conservation of angular momentum
14. Momentum of a photon
15. centripetal motion of car

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 8

1. Taste vs. Smell
2. Decibels
3. Expanding Universe
4. Centrifuge
5. Pls, helping to answer this question !?
6. Organic Matter
7. Pic
8. Gingiva Recession
9. subliminal masseging
10. Validity of Sigmund Freud's work
11. Stereographic projection
12. Nuclear Bomb Powered Rocket Project

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 9

1. How many nucleotides are found in all of the exons of the CFTR gene?
2. Voyager Spacecraft
3. Springtime for France
4. what is the term that refers to the earth's surface features?
5. Cancer
6. Book-name
7. Meaning of a species name
8. Acute chest pain
9. Exothermic reaction
10. CO2 of fans
11. Sensitivity of Taq polymerase to heat

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 10

1. Could magnetism be said to warp space-time in a similar way to gravity?
2. Dogs and cats
3. Conditioning
4. sauna temperature control
5. Rube Goldberg pendulum
6. What is a "geographic feature"?
7. Screech of Chalk on a Blackboard
8. determining the sugar content of grapes
9. Aircraft as flying disc
10. Accelerated Thought.
11. Photon energies in cosmological redshift.
12. Proving alcohol
13. aurora borealis from space
14. Why are magpie's tails so long?
15. machine that destroyeds itself
16. airport security system x-rays (part I)
17. airport security system x-rays (part II)
18. rechargeable batteries
19. Soil moisture measurement (copied from Misc. desk)
20. What's the name of the fish species...
21. Ridiculous genomic databases and their stupid lies
22. Seagulls

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 11

1. absolute zero
2. Why does this microwave have electric-plug-shaped ventilation holes?
3. Concentrate Juice vs Non-Concentrate
4. Platinum
5. crystals
6. Nutrient needs of brain
7. ionizing radiation
8. Dark matter
9. math and physical difference in mental ability
10. Concentrated Blackcurrant Juice
11. Why was I born to my parents in my town at a specific time?
12. Taste of apple seeds
13. Aluminum chloride
14. Hardness of water
15. Pressure and altitude
16. Energy sources
17. Which genes flank TJP1
18. How does something vibrate in 10 dimensions?
19. Dogs in heat
20. Chemists: solvents for spot cleaning carpet?
21. Emission line

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 12

1. Guinea Pig head bump
2. Maps and Time lines of plants, insects, sm. animals, and terrain.
3. ARUN SINGH BAGH
4. telecommunication-microwave survey as used in network establishment
5. Insanity
6. Entropy and Creationism
7. Michelson Interferometer
8. Aloe Vera
9. Plants
10. Global warming
11. Protoplast fusion
12. Finding CpG islands with genomic databases
13. Widely-distributed, semi-technical history of moon shot?
14. Oceans, Lakes, and Seas
15. Earthquakes
16. Paleontology
17. Male to female ratio
18. Does the universe spin?
19. Cloned fingerprints
20. shortwave radio
21. Sociocultural evolution
22. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 12#Brown versus green (fuel/CO2 versus O2 production)
23. Ergonomics of press-up exercise

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 13

1. Can my macaw breed with his macaw?
2. Animal stripes
3. Push/press ups with equipment
4. help in cleaning up a dog's skull
5. hydrocarbons
6. Current in capacitor and nature of magnetic fields
7. Darwin
8. kitty's diet
9. Thailand food production

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 14

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 14#MnO_{2<.2Fsub>|MnO2]]}
2. Natural vibration of solids
3. PHYSICS- "FORCE"
4. technological pudding
5. Auntie, what's the matter?
6. CO2 + energy = fuel. But how?
7. Where to get the CO2 from
8. WMD
9. Masturbation
10. STEAM
11. Inductor on a bike wheel
12. Diabetes and the treatment of warts
13. healthcare Infomatics
14. Avoidance of other people embarrassing themselves
15. Does stars have that divine light , the reason for creation? Which guides humanity and other creatures? if so, where are they channelized?
16. Tapeworms as a weight-loss aid?
17. Trees in paper

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 15

1. Identify the spider
2. Inventions & Inventors
3. Sinking of London
4. Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps used as Backlights in LCD computer monitors and televisions
5. Heel on wooden floor
6. Discharging a capacitor on a metal sheet
7. Mice and candle wax
8. spectral lines of helium
9. Joules, Newton Meters, and Foot Pounds
10. Area of cathode in an MFC
11. Particle deceleration
12. Dandelion invasion
13. Does light attract itself gravitationally?
14. Suspensions
15. greenhouse gases
16. density of paraffin wax
17. Trees vs Lamp posts
18. A few questions about neurotransmitters
19. Squirrel feces
20. I have a science project that I am allowed to get help for some information
21. Benzene resonance

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 16

1. Transformer configurations.
2. I was reading FANCD2 article.
3. Higher frequency mean more bandwidth
4. Endangered Species- Polar Bear
5. PAUA OPALS
6. flame test
7. Airport X-rays
8. Bush Stone Curlew
9. Exercise pill
10. Rolling
11. Eating freshly harvested grains
12. What if the Ice Age never happened?
13. Indefinite Viral Carriers
14. CO2
15. Effect of salt on blood ADH concentration
16. Speed of Thought
17. biology
18. Twaron subject to UV degradation?

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 17

1. fossil fuel
2. DNA in multiregional model of human origins
3. How Geology & Material Science are related?
4. Television screens
5. Forest
6. Distribution restriction
7. how to determine the rate of reaction of haloalkanes?
8. Hydration in chemistry
9. A well defined demographic barycenter

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 18

1. Toyota Truck Ad off Cliff
2. Do I just suck?
3. Possible Fuel Alternatives
4. Weight of the Universe
5. Magnetism
6. Graviton powered cars
7. DNA base letter representations
8. Gearing a wind turbine?
9. Optimal dishwashing efficiency
10. First Primate
11. Why do large wind turbines have only a few blades and turn slowly?
12. Boson Bomb
13. Home generator idea
14. Neutrinosphere
15. When was Ephemeris Time adopted, exactly?
16. Measurements
17. Spontaneous activation
18. My computer will be shut down automatically every time I try to logon...Please help

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 19

1. Which genes flank TJP1
2. the brain
3. Fluffy birds
4. Solar Power - SILICON FEEDSTOCK
5. plate tectonics
6. Mastubate
7. DNA sequencing - why the plasmid?
8. non-flammable wax
9. Cost of DNA sequencing
10. why does Microsoft lags behind Apple

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 20

1. Refractive Index
2. Please explain why coefficient of kinetic friction is less than its static counterpart by referring to electromagnetic bonds
3. Question about the Alcubierre Drive theory
4. Please can anyone tell me why australia's earth is red?
5. Stellar evolution and Sun
6. Description of Human Being if last Ice Age didn't happen...
7. Fluorescent lights degrade products on shelf?
8. Can natural oil ignite at normal temperatures?
9. Weak Interaction Bosons
10. Francium reacting with water

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 21

1. Evolution of nutritious veggies
2. Peanut allergy
3. Fruits and vegetables
4. Identify the flower
5. hiv
6. black holes
7. Chemistry
8. Physics
9. Full wave rectifier
10. Aspartame
11. Stink bomb cure
12. Prognostic marker - practical implications of (non-)independence
13. POLY MERASE CHAIN REACTION (Regarding Factors Limiting Speed)
14. is this true????
15. Connecting together small generators
16. Snails and their homing instinct
17. Scientific control
18. Can BritaTM Containters Leach BPA?
19. Egg drop
20. BPA In Camelbaks?
21. What is completely collapsible personal transportation (fits flat in briefcase)
22. diketopiperazines
23. Aspartate
24. Computer Mice

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 22

1. Bug identification
2. Local mean time
3. Magnetic Moment
4. i need help finding the name of a fish
5. Truck Slipstream
6. Fleas
7. RTI International
8. explaining science to kids
9. ARUN S BAGH QUES ABOUT THING
10. Nuclear Bomb
11. oil shortage.
12. Watermelon seeds
13. Riding a Bike
14. Animals and earthquake
15. Long-Life Milk
16. Multivalent Ionic Charges
17. Weird growth on agar plate

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 23

1. How heavy should a healthy, adult male captive-bred Budgerigar be?
2. Philosophical science-related job?
3. Who where the first people with acne?
4. Plausible Theory
5. What will happen if a virus leaves its host cell for a long time?
6. Whether weather
7. Record Cumulonimbus
8. Carpet / R-value (insulation)

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 24

1. Concrete dampening and evaporation
2. Studies
3. How to deal with very recent developments? Pulser pump, mechanical mathematician, accumulating solar barbecue, dripper trackers.
4. WHAT IS THE HYPOTHALAMUS
5. Earwax
6. New portal
7. Peer Reviewed?
8. automobile wheel size
9. Studies
10. Water Clouds
11. Dosage of a Drug
12. Scientists
13. Metallurgy
14. Spin

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 25

1. Genetics: Linked genes
2. Transformers
3. Signal fade
4. Chemistry.
5. Leaky o-ring
6. How can I change reality?
7. Stephens aldehyde synthesis
8. Pronunciation of Name
9. Education & Career
10. Wonder bar
11. Evolutionary Anthropology and Psychology
12. "For shaver only"
13. Glass & Acid
14. Same protein with two names?
15. Electroelution

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 26

1. Alka-Seltzer Neutralization
2. Partial UV protection in sunglasses
3. Oilfield Volcano
4. Solar panels on the Moon
5. To what other uses can a water pump/ motor be put to?
6. Vesna Vulović's fall duration (pt. 2)
7. stomach
8. What is SUTWELL Nursing Device?
9. Only Black and White pictures from Mars
10. polymers
11. Article with explanation
12. Colour photos of Mars
13. Carrier concentration in doped semiconductors
14. Gravity powered electricity generator
15. flu

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 27

1. Mars rovers
2. Pathogens in body
3. Drunk animals and Marula trees
4. Tasting a meadow in butter
5. Blowing one's nose
6. You probably get this question all the time...
7. Question
8. Battery sizes
9. Questions about acceleration due to gravity
10. Car economy accuracy
11. Chemistry project Help
12. tire/wheel diameter
13. Unidentified concept car
14. Plasma TV surface hot after use?
15. Follow-up on Geographic feature
16. Strange parrot behaviour - what's really going on?

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 28

1. Can you make black holes move?
2. Magnetic Moment
3. Zero point energy
4. Can BritaTM Containters Leach BPA?
5. height and alcohol
6. Glow Sticks
7. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 28#|]]
8. Subtance that increases sex drive?
9. Cleaning a dog skull part two
10. Survivable?
11. Homing distance of snails
12. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Musical_instrument_classification_by_physics-based_organology.png
13. Current, volts, Ohm's law...
14. solar power
15. Homing Instinct of snails.
16. Chemistry: What exactly is produced by immersing steel in salt water?
17. Ethyl Alcohol
18. Terminal Velocity
19. TECHIE COOLIE
20. Water + grease fire: Why so much energy released?
21. Conservation laws and space-time symmetry

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 29

1. electrons and perpetual motion
2. antioxidants to delay ageing and damage of cells
3. Career
4. Thermo Pond Epoxy
5. Brain + Sex
6. Under a burning night sky
7. Power Generators
8. Mortality rates expressed as hazard rates
9. Horrible plastic smell!
10. A doubt
11. Optimal nap/sleep time
12. Shindo earthquake scale
13. Original rotation of solar system.
14. Nuclear reactors and fissile materials
15. Diodes
16. Electronics home project
17. Nuclear Power Plant on "automatic mode"
18. List of Physics equations
19. Logic gates
20. How to calculate minimum wind speed to cause white caps on ocean
21. Definition for trompe on wikipedia please

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 30

1. Adipocere smell
2. COOLING TOWER EVAPORATION
3. CHEMISTRY
4. Burning stomach fat with an ab machine
5. Battery question, part II
6. hens eggs
7. abreva for genital hsv2 treatment
8. chemistry - material science
9. SPACE
10. Canthaxanthin concentration in Cantharellus cinnabarinus
11. animal colouration
12. Can anyone identify this bird?
13. Uncontacted Tribes in Brazil
14. Hologram monitors?
15. Orgasms
16. Jack
17. Ants
18. EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNITY:
19. Sky color with thicker atmosphere
20. ladybug diseases and breeds
21. worm farms
22. Sciences
23. Amino acid substitutions in engineering; phosphorylation
24. Liquid

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 31

1. Fermentation in eukaryotic cells
2. EEG and epilepsy
3. Acceleration Due to Gravity
4. Ice in a Hot Room?
5. Human Biology
6. Night Luminous Pearl (Ye Ming Zhu in Chinese PinYin)
7. logic programming
8. Got Lost In One Of The Questions (I'll Post This On Entertainment, As I'm Not Sure Which Desk Is Most Appropriate)
9. Humidity and electronic equipment
10. Birds and hot chips
11. Power Quality Managment
12. Can you shoot yourself in the head twice?
13. Trapezius muscle—A doubt!
14. Pauli Equation
15. NUCLEOPHILICITY VS BASICITY
16. Properties of silk dope
17. Asthma + Other disease
18. Help with my daughter
19. Muscle Growth
20. Genome and DNA