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September 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 1

  1. nature cure
  2. Unknown green insect
  3. Hoodia Gordonii
  4. neutron star
  5. medical
  6. Difference between PRECISION & ACURRACY?
  7. Cattle in a feedlot
  8. Acetone as an additive for gas and diesel?
  9. genetics
  10. Article in Dec 2000 Cleo
  11. potentiometer
  12. mosquito
  13. Petrol additives
  14. World spin
  15. Zoosex
  16. Citric Acid
  17. Moon moons ?
  18. Private Hospitals in Altanta, Georgia in existence 1967
  19. Free software to make contour maps from spot heights?

September 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 2

  1. Self CPR
  2. Viral Marketing
  3. When was redial invented?
  4. Karl von Goebel
  5. refrigerator vs. environment
  6. Seminar report
  7. Memory Metal for Cars?
  8. Special relativity
    1. 'Moving' source, 'stationary' observer
    2. 'Stationary' source, 'moving' observer
    3. An easier answer (or so I hope)
  9. Infinitly improbable events in infinite time
  10. Iron
  11. Quite simple
  12. Northern Cardinal question
  13. sun slowing down

September 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 3

  1. Genetic Engineering's impact on Plant Biodiversity
  2. Interstellar travel
  3. Product Success
  4. rubella virus
  5. Time dimensions
  6. Weird sky
  7. Fat or Muscle?
  8. Insect
  9. Circumstances for watching polarized light
  10. STI's
  11. HSV 2\HSV-2
  12. Why does this edible oil mixture taste bitter?
  13. Bicycle seatpost has rusted into frame
  14. complex carbohydrates
  15. Slow decrease in weight at sub orbital velocities
  16. Nikon D70 question
  17. Spiral path of a Hawk
  18. drawing molecules
  19. 600/1000V
  20. Question about getting fluids Intravenously
  21. TFTs v CRTs
  22. Fructose - how much is too much?

September 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 4

  1. Just been reading about SMART-1
  2. Beer-- why is it fattening?
  3. War between humans and another species on another planet in the solar system?
  4. Abingdon Island tortoise
  5. Tracking down original references
  6. Scientist - Enrico Fermi
  7. 3d effects
  8. MAGLEV
  9. Black-holes
  10. bio project question
  11. i want to be adoctor
  12. Death of Jupiter
  13. rubella virus
  14. Editing problem?
  15. How do the unintelligent think?
  16. Apples and Saliva
  17. How natural cherry flavor is made
  18. How does human body maintain ph?

September 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 5

  1. Discovering an alien probe
  2. separation of chemical compounds
  3. California Moss Genus/Species
  4. satellite imagery maps
  5. Do you smell burning toast?
  6. burnt toast
  7. Blindness and circadian rhythm
  8. Mantle
  9. Small writing - should it be allowed?
  10. Is it Bad to run PC without proper Earth supply?
  11. Memory and aging
  12. Phloretin, phloridzin
  13. How processors work ?
  14. Smelling things that aren't there
  15. Plane speed
  16. Keep your bowels fit?
  17. How does retinol kill?
  18. request for location of manuals and papers
  19. backlog?
  20. Gourami identification needed
  21. Simple Law of Motion Question
  22. Strange insect identification
  23. Construction of Light Emiting Diodes (LEDs)
  24. what kind of mirror has best reflection of visible light ?
  25. What would happen
  26. genetically modified foods
  27. What is the process of liqiudizing Oxygen?
  28. Reference voltage for decibel measurement
  29. canine dental

September 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 6

  1. Ejaculation
  2. Mouthwash, alcohol, toxicity, &c.
  3. Genetic Gender
  4. Sleep
  5. Sn1&Sn2 Reactions
  6. A car for $1
  7. yDNA Mutation Rates
  8. Recognize this optimization problem?
  9. Dogs and people
  10. William Gray (Meteorologist)
  11. Trying to get glasses

September 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 7

  1. Value of chemical elements
  2. Weight versus elevation.
  3. Carbon dioxide
  4. pray mantis
  5. Water Ananlysis
  6. Cyclone/Tornado
  7. Molecule Diagrams
  8. donations to medical science
  9. Why [is] glass transparent?
  10. Sailors' Dead Winds
  11. Handwashing
  12. Portal to define pictures of plants or animals
  13. Kuiper belt
  14. One lung breathing
  15. Can guinea pigs eat lettuce?
  16. How can I, as a white man get natty dreadlocks without having to pay for them?
  17. Sodium vs sodium chloride in foods
    1. Follow up
  18. Mutism

September 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 8

  1. How large are the Mars rovers?
  2. Useful fictions inside of science
  3. Help to identify spider
  4. diabetes in cats
  5. ribose sugar
  6. Paraffin lanterns & alcohol
  7. Burn!!
  8. Aldol Compound
  9. American passenger rail profitability
  10. grasshopper
  11. Length of Time To Circumnavigate Globe

September 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 9

  1. Sandalwood characteristics
  2. Mechanism of thermoception
  3. Dangerous Combination?
  4. Physics problem - not homework
  5. cholesterol reducing spreads.
  6. Flash cubes
  7. clicking rat
  8. SI unit
  9. Is it possible to see the change history of a definition
  10. Copper tubing
  11. West Nile Virus
  12. heating my house
  13. Rats wanting to be held
  14. LED usage
  15. Eye burns
  16. EMP's

September 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 10

  1. Insect Costa Rica
  2. What do snake eggs look like?
  3. Salty Fish
  4. How do I tell the difference between male and female gulls?
  5. SPSS graph
  6. Songs that break music theory rules
  7. Interior Plains of the United States
  8. irrigation engineering
  9. dynamic hermaphroditism
  10. Cell phone batteries
  11. An amp's power consumption
  12. gravitational waves and propulsion
  13. We're out of transcluded pages
  14. Sexual Advice
  15. Curvature of space and time
  16. Direct gene transfer using PEG and Calcium chloride
  17. Helium Balloon questions
  18. Question about Sinusitis
  19. What is insect hair largely composed of?
  20. How to tell if watermelons are ready to harvest?
  21. Are full moons always in the east?
  22. Chocolate allergy?
  23. Satallites in orbit
  24. Is this how to convert moles to grams?
  25. Real Talking Animals
  26. what plant is this
  27. copyright, publication, volumes, and authors

September 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 11

  1. Identifying mission patches
  2. The ship in the movie Virus?
  3. Microscope Eyes
  4. the famous salt problem
  5. Time to freeze water?
  6. olympic and islam
  7. Why did nobody die of a heart attack before 1923?
  8. satellites
    1. Deceleration
  9. Tfl Oyster system
  10. .flv
  11. Solution of vessels
  12. Need full citation for Gibbard and Kolfschoten chapter (glaciation timeline ref)
  13. Portal Paradoxes
  14. 700ml liquor + sertraline
  15. amyloid beta
  16. Highly enriched Uranium
    1. Critical mass of U235
  17. Instantaneous Speed
  18. further gravitational wave questions
  19. Robert Boyle

September 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 12

  1. Organ Transplant...
  2. Sinusitis
  3. What did I see on September 10?
  4. I want to know that .....
  5. Conversion of units
  6. Construction
  7. Water
  8. toilet flushing on the equator
  9. Bird's Sight
  10. Elasticity
  11. Acrylamide in sultanas and other dried fruits
  12. Myocardium (heart muscles)
  13. Inertia
  14. Newton's laws
  15. velocity
  16. Inorganic Chemistry
  17. Question about energy states / emission spectrum of hydrogen
  18. "Cause of Death"
  19. Io MOTH
  20. PSS World Medical
  21. Stroking a parrot?
  22. Getting my head shaved - pros and cons?
  23. Small bass cab

September 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 13

  1. Blood-brain barrier
  2. How do you define Pica?
  3. Psychology and Human Viruses
  4. Sinusitis vs. Migraines
  5. Preserve human tissues
  6. 'Sulfisomezole Sodium'
  7. Why isn't a Kerr ring singularity a string?
  8. science
  9. How thumb drive work?
  10. Circular motion
  11. Questionable stuff in Endoplasmic reticulum
  12. Gold-xenon compound
  13. Bacteria question
  14. dna
  15. Woman/man physiological difference in body structure and movement
  16. photo review
  17. Help with Science Fair Project Topic
  18. KW Vs HP

September 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 14

  1. The Rooster of Bankiva?
  2. Northern Hemishere
  3. Speed Of Light
  4. Eye exercises
  5. Gravitational pull between moving objects
  6. Sulphur
  7. earth science
  8. Housefly
  9. Fordson tractor
  10. Is this a Dracaena?
  11. looking for medical word ...
  12. Colours
  13. Expanding universe
  14. brain disorder

September 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 15

  1. To the ends of spacetime itself!
  2. Why is glass clear?
  3. Drinking Electrolyzed Baking-soda Solution
  4. Battery Capacity
  5. Computer Software
  6. ppDDT and opDDT
  7. diet coke.
  8. Digital camera image size ratio
    1. Aspect ratio of pictures etc
  9. Impregnating the female population of Europe
  10. msin i
  11. Cystic Fibrosis
  12. mesotechnology
  13. vitamins and supplements
  14. Seagulls and slightly past-the-date sausages?
  15. Recharging NiMH batteries
  16. Brille, plural
  17. Global Warming: ice core question
  18. Coins
  19. momentum transfer and air molecules

September 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 16

  1. Gull
  2. Onions going green
  3. How to Build a Catapult
  4. Effects of using spent perlite as soil conditioner to improve yield of corn
  5. Black Rain
  6. we have heard of 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , 32 and 64 bit processors .why not there any processor that is of odd bit number?
  7. help me to know more about the colour of the urine
  8. lexapro
  9. Luminosity
  10. Weird strings during nuclear explosions
  11. name of species - or common name
  12. On Glass Cleaners, Ammonia.
  13. Cancer stats
  14. Psychopathy prevalence
  15. Project management
  16. Micro-climate in Nigerian houses
  17. ABS with a manual transmission?
  18. histologia

September 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 17

  1. Geochemistry of ultrabasics.
  2. Lactic Acid in Yogurt
  3. How does radar work?
  4. Chemical, Molecular, and DNA Computers
  5. Kids, help
  6. energy
  7. Time
  8. twin paradox - curved space?
  9. Do animals prefer raw or cooked food, and can evolution cope with cooking?
  10. Speed of Radio
  11. Faster than light???
  12. Tree identification
  13. Burmese Python
  14. Fact check me?
  15. DAB Broadcast Range

September 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 18

  1. Future of plant genetic engineering
  2. Turpentine
  3. Metals, non-metals, and semi-metals
  4. distinguish between network bridge,repeaters,routers,ethernet hub,bluetooth and gateways?
  5. Questions about allergies
  6. Fishy coincidence
  7. Flies
  8. indium oxide
  9. spot goo
  10. SOLAR PANEL PROJECT
  11. egg drop
  12. Speech to text conversion
  13. ID Card size
  14. Hot and Cold as Sensations...
  15. Solvents
  16. watts into kwh
  17. butterflies
  18. Why Do Men Have Nipples?
  19. Info on an american polar-expedition...
  20. fluid behind our cats ears

September 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 19

  1. Work, lifting vs walking - 7th Grade Physics
  2. Tylenol Overdose
  3. MPTP article image
  4. Freezing to death
  5. Space travel
  6. Global Warming/ Ozone layer
    1. Perspective viewpoint
  7. Magma
  8. Fidel Castro's eyes
  9. the magnetic field can effect to FO ( mazut oil) using in burner
  10. Contact glue
  11. Rows of teeth...
  12. Ear Throat connection - Eustachian Tube
  13. Gold reacting with Mercury
  14. Satellite
  15. laws of motion
  16. "Protein molecules of the ninth configuration?"
  17. Science Projects on the Titanic
  18. redox reaction help
  19. car

September 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 20

  1. Health Care Supply in Canada 12 years ago and today
  2. Breast removal
  3. about non watson and crick base pairing
  4. Can you prove existance of colors if you can only see B/W?
  5. Surface area of a pin
  6. Piano tuners
  7. What kind of bug is this?
  8. Energy when cycling
  9. Glycemic response
  10. a question about seed
  11. ANSWERED -> Capacitance Time Delay Circuit
  12. A Question Of Bread
  13. Water window ph4 - ph 9
  14. Micrometeorites and radiation
  15. Em momentum transfer
  16. Basic Law of Electrostatics
  17. Human evolution
  18. Sound waves and momentum transfer
  19. Has anyone ever held a seagull?
  20. Calling The Future

September 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 21

  1. Hurricanes and Tropical Storms in Europe
  2. Rubbing Alcohol and Blindness?
  3. Shape and Finish of granite rocks in Texas Canyon in Arizona
  4. Antimatter
  5. Do herons swim?
  6. matter
  7. Copper sulfate
  8. Hepatitis?
  9. shark's name
  10. empirical formula
  11. Advantages of skimmed milk?
  12. Point light displays
  13. unidentified insect, need help
  14. Milk --> cheese?

September 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 22

  1. Animal Respotory System
  2. Worms
  3. Does it?
  4. Do Bugs "Hybernate"?
  5. M>S in Engineering from your University
  6. genetics
  7. What is the word that means 'linking a memory to a smell'?
  8. Thermometers
  9. Is fire plasma?
  10. conception/ovulation
  11. ID Card size2
  12. Submarine Periscopes
  13. Involuntary/Voluntary memory
  14. Blood Physiology
  15. Do gulls swim?
  16. AIDS after WWII in Europe
  17. Battery life
  18. light acting as waves
  19. Limestone vs Siltstone for aggregate
  20. Is it possible for a man to have multiple penises?

September 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 23

  1. Fate of the Universe
  2. Covering answers on a worksheet
  3. Science Question
  4. Sliding...erm, thing (physics)
  5. Potential energy and mass
  6. Center pivot irrigation
  7. Nostrils--how long and why?
  8. Why does some hair stop growing at a certain length?
  9. Nuclear fusion in stars - iron
  10. Order of magnitude values
  11. User:Molecular Hamiltonian/monobook.js
  12. maps

September 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 24

  1. Landmines in films
  2. Gulls vs. Magpies - update
  3. Energy Needed
  4. Bath oils
  5. Urinate
  6. air conditioners
  7. Emphysema
  8. Diffusion & Concentraton
  9. Selectively-permeable membrane
  10. Chemical composition of wine
  11. Thin Layer Chromatography
  12. dc or ac?
  13. pyrex comosition
  14. cell biology: cytolysis vs. plasmolysis
  15. Managed Care
  16. Thermodynamics
  17. copper
  18. Why do I have so much trouble picking up women in bars?
  19. static and dynamic lung volumes
  20. plasma (4th type of matter)
  21. A source for bimetal strip coils
  22. Castrated ejaculation?
  23. Treatment of MCAD

September 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 25

  1. Aeroplane advertising
  2. Very high SPLs at bass frequencies
  3. Force Dynamics
  4. Relativity theory
  5. Engine behaviour (with film)
  6. Past experiences effecting future perception - psych reference wanted
  7. Creation week (moved from misc)
  8. Electrical resistance caused by gravity
  9. permethrin as it relates to sulfa
  10. Fresh frozen plasma (FFP)
  11. Pressure lost from air flowing through a pipe
  12. why does me knee go crack
  13. Adventurist Theory
  14. Most radioactive element

September 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 26

  1. Gasoline and Fire
  2. Down-grading of serotonin receptors-prevention
  3. Palpitations
  4. My heart (nearly) stood still (Rodgers & Hart)
    1. Progress statement #1
    2. Progress statement #2
  5. Flu vaccines
  6. Heart muscle
  7. Speeding up iron oxidation
  8. Liver transplant
  9. Silver cars are safer
  10. Climate Change
    1. Examples
    2. References and footnotes
  11. Appearance of lights when short-sighted
  12. Psychology question: name of syndrome
  13. Vision at speed of light
  14. Movement at the speed of light and beyond it.
  15. Cellphones and Cancer?
  16. How long is a moment
  17. Brain injury
  18. Oh god, not another speed of light question... :(
  19. Climate Change and the speed of light
  20. Hmmm....
  21. Speed of light =)

September 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 27

  1. Destroying the earth with high speed object...
  2. Pseudoscience
  3. How many digits of pi for the known universe?
  4. What pressure is Hydrogen stored at?
    1. Answered
  5. natural bleach source
  6. earths motions
  7. Tarsola
  8. Medical
  9. Solar wind/Gamma rays
  10. do you metabolize trans fats?
  11. Relativity-: Theory, hypothesis ,conjecture or philosophy?
  12. spirulina
  13. velocity
  14. Speed of light
  15. Negative Kelvin Temperatures?
  16. belostomatidae or giant water bug (or beetle)
  17. Wetness
  18. When the sun goes red giant...
  19. Brown noise
  20. How many humans have ever lived?
  21. Where are the "Fulcher bands"?

September 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 28

  1. Corynebacterium and sweat
  2. Edible glowing things
  3. Gender??
  4. Wrist
  5. Largest Dinosaurs
  6. Null-G Manufacturing?
  7. pathology
  8. Lactose and blood glucose
  9. Cold and Flu viruses
  10. glutamine
  11. white oak tree
  12. Speed of molecules
  13. Increasing the volume of my ejaculations?
  14. NMR Spectroscopy
  15. Ringtones

September 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 29

  1. magnetic north
  2. leptin???
  3. Rib Removal: 11th and 12th: Why?
  4. Albratrosses and gulls
  5. Daleks vs Magpies vs Gulls
  6. Nuclear density
  7. Nuclear Fusion
  8. Case of the Missing Printhead
  9. Bathing after meals
  10. How much pot is too much?
  11. Largest sensor size in compact digital cameras
  12. top of the world?

September 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 30

  1. Singing parrots?
  2. STAFFING A POLITICAL LEADERS OFFICE
  3. Farrukh (nursing and heart transplants)
  4. Electrical power
  5. illness
  6. Nutritionist
  7. Aircraft Turbulence
  8. Chemistry Help
  9. Trouble Identifying Cactus
  10. Simple AC circuit?
  11. Kinetic energy's dissipation in vacuum
  12. Moving charge
  13. Steering trams
  14. How much sleep
  15. Valium + caffeine: Why does it make me feel like Jesus' son?