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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 1

1. Is there a list of unhealthy ingredients, in order from most to least common?
2. If you have untreated onychomycosis, but use athlete's foot prophylaxis daily, is swimming OK?
3. Latex condom
4. Are dark cars hotter than other colors?
5. what is worse, frontal crashing at 100 mph against a car exactly like yours driving at 100 mph or crashing at the same speed against a non-deformable wall?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 2

1. resistors
2. Fully hydrogenated vegetable oil
3. Where does Rainier end?
4. flower
5. Does whole Chia Seeds dismantled anywhere in the Digestive system?
6. HBV
7. Help wanted at the Entertainment desk (botanists, arboriculturists, etc wanted)
8. Untreated cancer survival rates
9. Climbing steps for exercise

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 3

1. Is success of countries due to better human biological capital?
2. Getting up
3. Cats and Kittens
4. How are instincts encoded in genome and get converted into information in the brain? Is the process known?
5. Aerobic exercise
6. Concurrent properties in materials?
7. pelvic hip question
8. Medicine: non mainstream therapies
9. Classification of various things.
10. Electric weapons
11. Did men really become feminized 50,000 years ago?
12. Thermolysis

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 4

1. Are Mathematical Dimensions incorrect?
2. Effects of faking muteness
3. Can a person get Ebola if they have sex
4. Exercise and immune system
5. Objects hitting the Moon?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 5

1. Quantum vacuum plasma thruster
2. Cooking with car exhaust
3. Energy and momentum of refracted light
4. Yawning pulling muscle
5. Lithops plant withering

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 6

1. Pain and alcohol
2. Shortest-lived tropical cyclones
3. Weather forecast accuracy
4. Frost Airship Glider

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 7

1. Human race
2. Biodiversity of suburban gardens vs farm fields
3. Automatic, non-poisonous mosquito deterrent
4. Antagonistic interactions
5. dog sense of taste
6. What test?
7. Sci fi vs real science

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 8

1. Bone marrow biopsies
2. Transport careers
3. Wood-burning cars and steam engines
4. Abdominal fat
5. Extraction of insulin from animal pancreas

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 9

1. Beckman's Internal Medicine
2. WARF testing lab
3. Sabaton (not the band)
4. Light reflection
5. Bird id
6. Vortex rotational profile
7. Rest & relativistic masses
8. If two metals contact in space, do they blend, simply as that?
9. Earth gravity and animal speeds
10. Speed of magnetism

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 10

1. Blackbody propulsion
2. Deep ocean internet lines
3. Wall plugs that look like a nail/screw hybrid

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 11

1. Locking pin
2. Footprints in streambed
3. White Kidney Bean extract - is it cooked?
4. Kidney activity

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 12

1. Nutrition question
2. The feature of electrification of the USSR
3. Orders of magnitude (viscosity)
4. Innate propensities for certain living conditions?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 13

1. Gravity lensing of gravity
2. the smell of approaching rain
3. Nd:YAG laser question
4. Add a sort of Emotion to main Article

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 14

1. Graphene as armor
2. animal brainwaves (Delta waves)
3. End of power-of-2 cell division in human embryos
4. Plateaus in sports science
5. Invisible ink
6. How did Prince Harry end up with red hair?
7. stress hormones

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 15

1. Candida Fungus
2. Light scattering
3. Margaret Mead in Lake Papakeechie

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 16

1. Spider Gender
2. Molecular term symbols
3. How does a Cross Vacuum Scale work?
4. Testing for alcohol in food
5. Cordyceps

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 17

1. A properties of acids and caustic alkalis
2. Medical test result human error statistics

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 18

1. Conclusions of an autopsy
2. Mayer bullets
3. Nuclear contrail thingies
4. Water jet cutter as a weapon
5. Kidney function questions

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 19

1. Lowest Possible Temperature
2. Atoms as fact
3. Can you accelerate the decay of radioactive material?
4. Decline of large aerial predators

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 20

1. Wheel base anf friction
2. Velocity of Saturn's moons
3. Can a shooting cause gradual brain death?
4. Question my nephew asked me to pass on
5. Plastics oxidation
6. Opera singer vs bulletproof glass
7. Feral estrildid-like finches-- ID needed

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 21

1. Hydrocolloid techology (plaster)
2. Explosive gel/foam

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 22

1. MO diagrams and term symbols
2. Solid state flight
3. What do you think the cushion is made of?
4. What is a phone number?
5. Using nukes to create graphene

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 23

1. Furnace cement
2. Song identification after one musical note
3. Whey protein
4. Measurement of a standing object's stability
5. houseplants peperomia obtusifolia trouble

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 24

1. Maxwell's equations
2. Electricity

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 25

1. Formula 1 steering wheel

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 26

1. Is plasmid supercoiling sequence dependent?
2. Purpose of naming new chemical elements and small moons
3. Reliable source for vitamin dose suggestions

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 27

1. Are fusors dangerous?
2. In simple words please - Mitochondrial DNA
3. mass &weight
4. What is meant precisely by "structure" in materials science?
5. Intellect of human
6. Lasers that curve

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 28

1. Anaplastic thyroid cancer and suffocation
2. Microscopic blackhole vs. Sun
3. Much powerful induction
4. Link between the MMR vaccine and autism
5. Antarctic Peninsula melt

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 29

1. Fission matrix
2. "Shock" feeling in forearm while doing pushups?
3. The stability of thorium and uranium
4. Importance of great white sharks to the marine ecology ?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 August 30

1. Recycling
2. The ideal cases in mathematics, physics and chemistry
3. Exterminating virtual particles
4. Elevation and temperature

August 31

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