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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 1

1. Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
2. A question about the lead section for the article quantum state
3. Is it possible to heat granite by using dielectric- or induction heating ..?
4. Magnetic field vs various computer parts
5. Does flashing 12:00 damage the display
6. Batch image merge (microscopy software question?)
7. Is there any known plant that is pollinated by the predators of its parasites?
8. "Hurricane" vs "Post-Tropical 'Super Storm'"
9. Slowing neutrinos
10. Sun's magnetic field
11. Capacitor charging question
12. spiders
13. Question regarding the conversion of one Tesla to one Earth atmosphere
14. Is there a name for "hating forks aiming for someone"?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 2

1. Gravitational collapse
2. Avalanche rescue
3. Mushrooms and mycelium
4. 3d tracking tic-tacs
5. Heat transfer and temperature
6. people mover using air pressure
7. Ball point pens and pull-cord light switches
8. Fat soluble medicine
9. Why does a dead body float on water ?
10. Cell Biology

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 3

1. Time is an illusion
2. A tidal dam for New York?
3. The best enzymes for ligating DNA:
4. How would you do this?
5. Inoperability of back-of-neck skin?
6. Ko's
7. I have a semi precious stone and I want to know what it is.
8. What is it the
9. Gravitational potential energy
10. Maximum Age for Becoming a Father

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 4

1. Syria Rebels
2. Oxidative stress and immune system
3. Black holes at the speed of light
4. So why is the nootropic market kind of small?
5. engine diagram
6. Confusion about how telescopes work
7. Light slow motion

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 5

1. Impulse (physics)
2. Mechanism from DNA to proteins etc?
3. Maybe not a science question?

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 6

1. Dichromacy and Trichromacy colorblind
2. Reason why we don't fall through the floor
3. People talking alone
4. Nature of sound
5. protons
6. Worried to death?
7. how to be more powerful (literally, not philosophically)
8. Air quality in Prometheus
9. Alcoholism - Biological process
10. Death determination in Sherlock Holmes
11. Cloning in animals Vs. plants
12. American Bison Furs
13. What is a major disadvantage of PCR compared with in-vitro replication?
14. Science fiction question regarding physics
15. Mixing Oort clouds
16. IQ/social group
17. Tipler Cylinder
18. Does a full moon cause higher tides, and if so, how much higher?

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 7

1. Making eggs on an industrial scale
2. The Sun
3. about electron configuration
4. What about sound in vacuum ?
5. Hover
6. G-Force
7. Generating energy without losing fuel
8. Who created this picture of the thermoscope?

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 8

1. Melatonin
2. Proposed Essay on zealotry and non-science
3. Law of Conservation of Energy
4. Jeuming tree
5. Please help a new owner of a United Motors Matrix 150 motor-scooter?
6. Process, Protuberance, Condyle
7. Is global warming necessarily bad for us?
8. Perfect circles
9. Could dark matter be individual quarks?

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 9

1. Antimatter meteor/comet
2. Lead poisoning
3. What was the purpose of the Galileo thermoscope
4. Converting candela per square metre to "photon density"
5. Deer

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 10

1. where do new layers of earth come from
2. Twin follicles in horses
3. Cycling drugs
4. How would {100} monocrystalline semiconductor grade silicon be made using common materials and no specialized machinery?
5. Radiation from wifi
6. Abiogenesis
7. Genetics question

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 11

1. Could you collect all the CO2 that a vehicle emits?
2. If something "increases dopamine receptor sensitivity", is that good or bad?
3. Liquifying francium
4. Would dogfighting spacecraft need to bank when turning?
5. Bicycle wheel question
6. Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
7. Good physics simulation sandbox?
8. Psychology
9. Self-help books
10. Behavior while drunk/under the influence
11. Colour black

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 12

1. Size of Eliminated Dendritic Spines
2. IQ and artists
3. Do we have any substances or pills that are the opposite of anti-depressants?
4. Transmission of radioactive and electromagnetic rays through glass
5. square ring falling through magnetic field
6. Mil Mi-24
7. What is "matter" according to modern physics?
8. Getting a given wavelength radio signal given an antenna with real-world constraints
9. Long time effect of drugs
10. Evidence of filamentation of the milky way
11. plastic PE discoloration
12. cornstarch and water experiment
13. Off label use of drugs

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 13

1. my camera for my experiment recorded video with a 0.80x resampling factor. When calculating centripetal acceleration and curvature, how do I scale?
2. Chemistry problem
3. Momentum
4. "Do You Feel Like An Insider Or Outsider?"
5. electrons and time-varying electric fields
6. 0.45 vs 0.2 micron filters (for life sciences)
7. Dyson sphere - "Gravity"
8. Fatigue=drunkenness?
9. Why are flat screens not flexible?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 14

1. Observation in quantum mechanics
2. Perfect number
3. Heat energy vs thermal energy
4. Vitamin D
5. Forest fire vs candle flame
6. Parrot Drone or Quadrotor
7. chemical / molecular cross-section
8. this is what is the compuound of Splenda, sugar and cloro form this, can we understand if it is a natural usefull compound for the human body?
9. Artificial 2-toned lobsters
10. Named particles?
11. gravity = side effect of vacuum?
12. A question on economics.

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 15

1. the material rising in the thermoscope thermometer
2. Electromagnetic radiation
3. Recharging smartphone
4. Doppler effect: two moving objects at an angle
5. Origin of the Nebraska sand hills
6. Bok choy is the same species as the common turnip, really? It resembles nothing like a turnip

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 16

1. lepton
2. W and Z bosons
3. How's this bird called?
4. Curiosity image
5. Is natural folate metabolized to 5-MeTHF?
6. What happens to the brains of the enlightened?
7. Sleep more to grow more
8. Acceleration and time dilation
9. Neurons in the cochlear nuclei

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 17

1. Two problems involving angular motion
2. civil engineering related
3. if the eye changes focal length to focus on an object, why isn't our visual perception like a zoom lens?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 18

1. Where is the Heisenberg cut article?
2. Voltage across an inductor
3. URGENT INFO NEEDED
4. When did dark energy start to dominate?
5. What happens if someone were to be struck by something like the Oh-My-God particle?
6. The Philippines and total plastic bag bans (again)
7. Electroshocking people
8. How many people are dying in Gaza?
9. Asbestos in the WTC
10. Lump of fat close to the heart — in roe deer in the winter season — What is it called?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 19

1. manual lenses in bridge cameras
2. pneumonia survival rates
3. Element transmutation
4. Is this a fallacy? Classifying people from a psychological perspective
5. Impact depth
6. Iron Dome
7. Universal milling machine or turret milling machine....

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 20

1. What's the solution to Haldane's dilemma?
2. Bear pig
3. How can I separate mixture of water and ammonia?
4. 9th period
5. How much more diverse would the species be if we hadn't gone through the Toba catastrophe?
6. free electrons per atom
7. heat capacity of a plasma
8. Isolated systems
9. Fuel consumption of engines
10. Momentum transfers
11. Recycling 10, 20, or 30 year old paper
12. Area of land required to feed working horses on arable farm

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 21

1. Automated mini boats
2. Pork v Chicken
3. Why don't they just test if cellphones actually do cause interferences in airplanes?
4. Dot matrix printing on irregular surfaces
5. Why are space probes so slow?
6. Vitamin K
7. LED bulb
8. UN hypocritical
9. Broadleaf Evergreen Tree Identification
10. Custom weather warnings for UK?

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 22

1. Freshwater Aquarium Parasites and Human Reactions
2. Robotic Armor
3. Atomic/molecular blades
4. Angler fish raised in aquaculture farms ?
5. Clinical Significance of Spike Frequency Adaptation
6. Fears and placebo
7. Is chemotherapy only against cancer?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 23

1. Ammo weight
2. E-boats
3. TQ
4. What to do with this image
5. Vehicle propulsion name?
6. Beryllium
7. Diet Related to Mental Decline
8. Change in real mass or not
9. Diamond plate armor
10. What peak pressure from a explosion in joule and required ground depth?
11. Gunshot

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 24

1. Women nagging from a scientific or psychological point of view
2. Newton's Second Law
3. Mayans
4. What is this formula depicting?
5. "chocolate is packed full of glucose"
6. Drive shaft feature identification
7. Why is the equator not a large desert?
8. Human humerus
9. Sensor Array http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_array
10. micro wave shielding methods and materials
11. What is the current energy usage of the Internet

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 25

1. A question in biology of Retroviruses (physiology and ecology)
2. Plant identification in opening credits of Downton Abbey
3. Question about subwoofers
4. Background photon emissions
5. Did the aborigines use dingoes as hunting dogs?
6. Final angular velocity after combining two disks
7. Gas bubbles on side of plastic container filled by chlorinated water
8. Is being HIV positive comparable to have diabetes?

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 26

1. stereo amplifier output impedance
2. Which caulking should I use?
3. Power spectral density of speech
4. relativistic kinematics: the solar sail
5. HIGGS BOSON
6. V-1 flying bomb
7. Insect
8. Reason for type of emotional response to music and poetry
9. Common emotional response to specific colors
10. 100% electric spacecraft engines
11. Length contraction
12. average intensity of three vibrations on a string of constant frequency and individual amplitude, but random phase of pi or 0

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 27

1. forest extent in very ancient India
2. Problems about determine habitable zone in 7.5 billion year future sun
3. Neutron binding
4. Diamond (thought experiments)
5. Hassocene
6. walking vs running
7. Mattress pad science
8. Can separate universes be causally connected?
9. Is a covalent bond a cooper pair or a magnetic link?
10. Direct Evidence Against Sodium Channel Inactivation in Spike Frequency Adaptation
11. Bombarding proton with neutron
12. Stability of neutron and proton
13. Why poisoning with ²¹⁰Polonium?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 28

1. Bathing
2. Fluoroauric acid
3. Did Carl Sagan know the intended use of his calculations and still willingly participate?
4. Harold White / NASA research on warp drive
5. Size of bubbles in weightlessness
6. Cooling of Air-cooled engines

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 29

1. Where do drug names come from?
2. The Mechanism of Coldness and sore throat ?
3. Computer in Matrix movies
4. Excipients and generics
5. electronic multivibrator repetion rate
6. Unidentified Bird in Neighbours
7. On line degree of medical science

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 November 30

1. polywell
2. What are the globalgeneralbasic ingredients of sand "regular" earth?
3. Without NASA we wouldn't have computers
4. blocking in experimental design
5. Electrical Properties of Tubes
6. When did the last visible (with naked eye) star appear in the sky?
7. Small angle formula