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November 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 1

  1. Can a 40 feet transit bus fit into a wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A330, Airbus A380, Boeing 747, or Boeing 777 as cargo?
  2. Chemical notation
  3. Intelligence failure in the technological age.
  4. Neutron photography
  5. Engineering professional registration
  6. framerate human brain
  7. How To Calculate Inductance?
  8. Which thing can resemble to atlas and axis?
  9. What actually rotate around what?
  10. Carbon surface chemistry

November 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 2

  1. What kind of bee?
  2. Sweating horrendously on demand
  3. Can one believe that the Moon’s ocean disappeared inside the Moon?
  4. Cytisine
  5. Word for "other member of the same species"
  6. Glowing vapor/fume

November 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 3

  1. Do fibroblasts contain fibrin?
  2. Famous scientist who used prostitutes?
  3. Know any good links to convince my dad of evolution?

November 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 4

  1. high concentration of sugar and salt outside the cells
  2. Destruction of medicinal articles
  3. Flashes preceding blasts in opencut pits
  4. Two questions about the vertebrae
  5. hiv transmission

November 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 5

  1. Does this concept describe virtual reality, or does it describe 3-D movies?
  2. Australian Spider Identification
  3. Age of the Universe
  4. estimated time to cure hepatitis A infection
  5. Where can I get information about the the rotation degrees of the Atlas around the axis?
  6. Finasteride mechanism.
  7. Homoromantic Asexual Men and Chocolate Allergen?
  8. Why do feces contain more dangerous bacteria than vomit?

November 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 6

  1. Is it possible to say that one dimensional is one axis?
  2. Neutrino blackbody radiation
  3. brain vs computer damage
  4. Weak points in/of a human body
  5. Where can you find whole grains?
  6. STD Transmission
  7. List of tallest elevators?
  8. Do chemists tend to memorize solubility guidelines?
  9. Has anyone ever installed a swimming pool on an aircraft?

November 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 7

  1. I will be correct if I say that the definition of “dimension” is “something that we can measure” ?
  2. Question about bees
  3. What is the difference between axis and vector?
  4. Transformer Core Lamination Thickness
  5. Chairlift height and accidents
  6. Which of this definitions is the correct with respect to this axis?
  7. The acceptable names for the axes
  8. How to describe 2D
  9. Silicone sealant for DIY waterproofing.

November 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 8

  1. Any good scientists to convince my dad of evolution?
  2. What is the relation between "coronal plane" to the crown?
  3. Wild horse and horseshoes
  4. Are distal and proximal in anatomy are used for appendicular system only?
  5. Can the circadian rhythm adjust to days longer than or shorter than 24 hours?
  6. Which flower is this  ?
  7. Normal force in car
  8. Radiation resistance

November 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 9

  1. Asymmetrical airplane seating.
  2. Cancer in inverterbrates
  3. Survival: Humans Unable to Eat Leaves for Nutrition. The Whys and Hows. ?

November 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 10

  1. First Nations/Native American peoples in the Americas
  2. Blue not blue
  3. is so that the earth was 2000 times greater than now first time when it was formed
  4. How many hairs does a human have on its head?
  5. Did early humans have longer periods of gestation?
  6. Mice or rats swimming in a bucket for researching how hope influences behavior
  7. Water film thickness
  8. Stinky chunks

November 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 11

  1. Space Question - "Stiff" or "rigid" motions in zero/low-gravity
  2. What is the biggest and smallest skull bones?
  3. Venlafaxine & blood pressure
  4. Antenna theory

November 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 12

  1. Basic DNA sequence alignment problem
  2. Zoom creep
  3. Drone attacks on killer bees (and vice versa)

November 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 13

  1. Why is the speed of light called the speed of light?
  2. Common genetic material
  3. Photography Camera History-1945
  4. Why are plastic toys/tools/devices cheaper than metal toys/tools/devices?
  5. Adam's apple and voice deepening
  6. Decelerating universe
  7. Facial recognition
  8. Heart pounding
  9. What looks like a wedge in the sphenoid bone?

November 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 14

  1. How do medical professionals treat transgender people and gender-variant people?
  2. Do the human body break down salt?
  3. MacLeod prints
  4. Is this the place to ask about an outer vest made from coyote fur?
  5. :File:NewWHS.png
  6. Historic elements
  7. Agile wallaby? See Dingo

November 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 15

  1. What is the differrence between foramen and canal (anatomy)?
  2. How thick of a layer of ice could every ship get through?
  3. Gasoline powered electric car

November 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 16

  1. Anticonvulsiveness as a side effect
  2. Cursorial marsupial herbivores?
  3. magnet motor
  4. Portable energy storage
  5. Time reversal signal processing
  6. Unreasonable Warning?
  7. Species ID request, :File:Tree in Chile.jpg

November 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 17

  1. Neuroscience: Is my "Sympathetic fight response" axis accurate?
  2. Dehydration and swelling
  3. Gorse brush prickles cause a rash but what is the active agent?

November 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 18

  1. Using the 9 kcal of energy per 1 gram of fat figure to calculate weight loss
  2. Chimerism in criminal evidence
  3. Wormholes and entanglement
  4. what defines a thila, the marine biome with instances found in the Maldives?
  5. Mayan eyelids

November 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 19

  1. Onset of function of prostate and testes
  2. Earth's magnetic poles
  3. How do I make my own Nutrition Facts label?
  4. if the crab supernova had planet
  5. Does keeping plants inside the house have any meaningful impact on the oxygen concentration in the home?
  6. Electric Dimmer

November 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 20

  1. The taste of salt
  2. Candle pot heater
  3. Contamination by hammering
  4. What's considered as biggest or smallest skull bones?
  5. Perpetual motion

November 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 21

  1. Free electron density
  2. Is there more than two caves in an human skull?
  3. Fruit Preservation

November 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 22

  1. Steel mill type
  2. preserving ornamental squashes
  3. What would it feel like to stand on a planet with a really high speed of rotation?
  4. If there was a cat orbiting the sun, what would its name be?
  5. Swcharzschild limit
  6. Serrula, Rastellum, Fovea; What?

November 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 23

  1. The difference between cavity and sinuses
  2. Is a bone considered as an "organ"?
  3. Does rust accelerate corrosion?
  4. Physical equivalent of asymmetric key algorithms
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  6. Obtained electricity or heat as result of a chemical reaction
  7. What is this electronic component?
  8. Lack of large marine browsers
  9. Another electrical device needing identification

November 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 24

  1. What causes certain pathogens to be only transmitted orally or nasally or topically or urogenitally?
  2. Dark matter "hairs" (gravitational lensing of distant dark matter sources)
  3. Fossil crinoids of Ireland

November 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 25

  1. Induction cooking, and induction charging
  2. Gaining/losing weight too fast
  3. Orientation of solar system ecliptics to galactic ecliptic
  4. Little Boy and Fat Man detonation timings
  5. The Linear thermal expansion of technetium
  6. Why do humans live so long?

November 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 27

  1. Genetics of the Kalash people
  2. Scientific, especially biological refutation of racism

November 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 28

  1. How do pneumatic quick exhaust valves work?
  2. Human biochemistry
  3. Other species throwing a football...
  4. Medical career paths
  5. How do people get enough exercise if their jobs force them to sit all day?

November 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 29

  1. micro coils
  2. Aircraft in weightlessness
  3. Blood pressure and exercise

November 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 November 30

  1. Estimating arm diameters using heights and weights
  2. 110 AC & 220 AC
  3. Quicksand: Shear-Thinning or Shear-Thickening?
  4. Measuring Solar Radiation Pressure
  5. the temperature in the "outskirts" of the sun
  6. String Theory
  7. What is it "Gaseouse atom"?