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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 1

1. Levitation material
2. Lockout Hasps
3. Something about igniting salt water with radio waves - our energy savior?
4. Getting arsenic out of water
5. Planetary Satellites Book
6. Using lasers to melt snow
7. Laser dazzlers
8. Dreams
9. water
10. Unknown bullet case
11. Why can neurons only use glucose as an energy source?
12. Bread-maker diagnosis

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 2

1. How do microorganisms cause mutations?
2. Snowstorm
3. Opaque universe
4. Fast cold
5. Legend of the frogurt's curse
6. Schizophrenia with catatonia
7. Scientist Qualifications
8. SS United States

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 3

1. gravity was not the only force that formed the universe
2. Help identifying mineral
3. Insoluble sodium compounds
4. Tesla Roadster
5. What is the Emergency oxygen system bag for?
6. I2Cl6
7. Strongest Allergy Medicine
8. Hamilton, Ichthyologist, active in 1822
9. single hydrogen atom emitting light
10. Magnets- where's the potential energy?
11. Land
12. Slimming tip
13. "WHY" does diamond form out of graphite?
14. not a medical question, but if something smells very moldy and you're near it, is that comparable exposure to mold as the stuff people get sick from?

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 4

1. Sky Dome Bending?
2. How do Lakes affect temperature?
3. Again .. please help
4. Diabetes and sugar !
5. Internal combustion engines
6. tramodal
7. Are Black Holes part of the "Observable Universe?"
8. Producing a blonde offspring via gene therapy
9. butyl rubber
10. North Korea
11. Fusion reactions and aneutronic fusion
12. Bond Polarity or Magnitudes of Partial Charge Vectors

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 5

1. Homogenized Milks
2. Hydrogen bonds
3. bones
4. Ceramic
5. injection moulding
6. "Is it really so..."
7. Help identifying a spider
8. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
9. female an dmale squirrels are they different colors
10. What's up with Yellowstone right now?

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 6

1. Beautiful sunsets
2. Reducing noise pollution
3. Gases
4. Specific heats
5. Tank filling on a cold day
6. Magma
7. Refilling the Ogallala aquifer
8. How deep is the deepest parking garage? Could one ever be built deep enough to reach Hell, like in this commercial?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 7

1. What happens when black holes collide?
2. Scientific name etymology
3. Why don't we have pneumatic tubes?
4. How do the birds "print" spots on their eggs?
5. capillary
6. the environment.
7. density
8. Motor oil LD50
9. Veinal sins
10. Dicrocoelium dendriticum or Dicrocoelium dentriticum?
11. Chromatid is to sister chromatid as chromosome is to what?
12. Life span of cut dogwood

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 8

1. Pinhole
2. Anti-Histamines + Zantac
3. What causes you to want to stretch in the morning?
4. A rifle with a barrel made of heat resistant ceramic
5. Hot body in vacuum
6. Homemade cavendish experiment .
7. The straw that stirs the drink
8. clouds
9. Sanitary drain(industrial sewer) sizing and design discharge flow rate estimate
10. Kilos instead of larger units
11. Help understanding Parsec illustration
12. Trampolining gives you muscles?

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 9

1. What's a good nonpolar organic solvent?
2. Flight control surfaces on modern airliners
3. Homework question on momentum + pendulum
4. are
5. If the universe is not spherical...
6. Why would faster than light travel mean going back in time?
7. Orbits and angular momentum
8. Straight line contrails
9. is it a scientific fact that there is never a miscommunication between the tides and the moon that causes them?
10. Is natural non-grey hair possible in old age?
11. Quality of 2011 transistor radio v. 1940s top of the range valve radio?
12. largest bird egg
13. why is AIDS so hard to cure?
14. high protein consumption and kidney damage in humans
15. Dirty talk
16. Teleporting particles
17. Other phases of ice at room temperature
18. Natural hazards and natural disasters humid continental climate
19. Metabolism of alcohol
20. Largest phytosaur
21. Why does snow melt on cold days?
22. Where should post this? I am NOT happy with the physics sections of wikipedia.

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 10

1. clay
2. crude oil
3. Price for quantitative analysis of chemical elements
4. biology
5. Cells in chicken eggs
6. Human beings and ecosystems
7. Speed of sound faster than speed of light
8. Reverse sex change operation
9. Are eyeballs always perfect spheres?
10. Is human saliva alkaline?
11. Roundness of the World
12. Amphetamine in Aspirin
13. Instinct

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 11

1. Depth of soil
2. When was astigmatism first detected and corrected by spectacle lenses
3. The Sun during solar maximum
4. Effect of damaging the Earth's core
5. Castrating cats
6. differentiation by first principles
7. Extra 4 minutes
8. Radio power
9. James Watt steam engine patent
10. Bengal fire

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 12

1. Boa constrictor scientific naming...
2. when the earth was shining
3. Borosilicate glass
4. capacitance
5. Radio activity
6. Legal chemistry
7. Changing the length of a second/minute/hour/day/year
8. Physics Entries in General
9. Salaries
10. Relationship between island size and its freshwater supply
11. Odd One out of n Resistors

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 13

1. Hill, James B. (1945). Autobiography
2. Time when Sun is highest in the sky
3. agate spatula
4. Name for an auction method
5. Smallpox Vaccine
6. Vasectomy: Potential post-operative hormonal changes
7. Temperature and wavelengths
8. which software
9. physics
10. Pig feed
11. What is this plant?
12. Low-density solids/liquids?

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 14

1. Sulfur hexafluoride boat
2. Youtube video - mechanical glitch, other artifact or mysterious unreflective object?
3. Antibacterial gels vs iodine
4. Atomic structure
5. The Ever Eluding Question
6. Time dilation measured by radioactive decay
7. Magnetic confinement fusion
8. Watson the computer system

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 15

1. California power plant's NOx emissions
2. Decompressing the spine
3. SPEED OF LIGHT
4. somthing about the creation theory of earth
5. Tidal Force
6. Quark + Gluon plasma - Evidences
7. Schwarzschild Metric
8. Discontinuing a vaccine
9. Chemical equation
10. Immunology and parasites
11. Guadalquivir - second or fifth longest river in Spain?
12. Chemical thermodynamics vs. Thermochemistry
13. Black holes
14. Science and Miracles

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 16

1. Scsbot & SineBot
2. Storing DNA for decades
3. perm press clothes
4. Placebo effect question...
5. Proton mass - How standard model can explain ?
6. The Year of the Higgs? A Live Webcast From NSF
7. Is milk disadvantageous?
8. Shinkansen
9. Chemotherapy drug
10. Electron Capture
11. Hydrocarbon chemistry
12. Transmission question
13. Electron Capture and Quark Interaction
14. Top speed of TRA TEMU1000
15. Adults catch between two to four colds a year and children up to 10 a year????

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 17

1. Organic chemistry nomenclature
2. mDNA
3. Spinning knob, BMW iDrive question
4. What is this?
5. Spin Integer
6. yogurt
7. Nonvolatile, Nonflammable oil ?
8. Chemistry and Lifetime
9. Time in a shuttle launch video
10. Gazelle
11. Undulatus asperatus

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 18

1. NMR is a kind of flouresence?
2. L-Glucose
3. Particulate Matter and Heat Convection [?]
4. Aldehydes and ketones
5. Organism that acts as an air pump
6. Permeability
7. fridge
8. biochemistry
9. Blocking gravity?
10. Atom
11. Cost of Driving
12. Food spoilage - refreezing meat
13. Do other apes have problems giving birth?
14. Virtual black box
15. Commercial airplane satellite navigation
16. Mental illness and responsibility of other for own thoughts and feeling
17. Tappan zee bridge cost
18. Solar mass loss and orbits
19. Effects to an Earth Human upon entering a parallel space-time continuum via a higher space-time continuum.

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 19

1. Explosively formed penetrator efficiency
2. Relativity
3. Carbon black
4. height (and body size, really) variance in animals besides humans -- or the lack thereof?
5. Dog mortality and longevity
6. Milk of Magnesia/Mike and Ikes
7. Why is the sun not purple or why is hydrogen plasma not yellow?
8. Common hazel (Corylus avellana)
9. comments on this experimental design to test homeopathy?

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 20

1. gas central heating
2. Lab rats
3. Measuring orbital and rotation periods
4. Donating blood, good for health?
5. Radiation
6. Calculating Jerk in a BUS...
7. Upper bound of the size of the universe
8. Decay constant and half-life
9. Quark Gluon Plasma Experiments - trillions of Celsius degrees ?
10. cell wall in plant cells
11. Gholson, Mississippi
12. Why Doesn't the recoil from Handguns hurt?
13. Basic Phsyics
14. Light waves/photons
15. Faking cold fusion
16. Collapsing pyramids?
17. General Relativity and Conservation of Energy
18. Electrolysis of urine/Urine powered cars

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 21

1. Conservation of (angular) momentum
2. Infinite universe and probabilities
3. Diving: max. depth without minding
4. DNA and RNA
5. how much of an effect do daily multivitamins really have?
6. Cold
7. Plants
8. Deeply ingrained superstitions...
9. Gasoline Octane - can you FEEL the difference when you drive?

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 22

1. checks
2. Convolutor worm?
3. Running an ordinary gasoline powered car on ethanol
4. World oil consumption
5. masonary
6. atom
7. Internal state
8. Etymologies of methane, ethane, propane, and butane
9. Bacillus cereus and alcohol prep pad contamination
10. is there a link between gender orientation to sexual orientation?

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 23

1. An interesting physics problem
2. Pepper seed
3. Keeping soda carbonated longer
4. Stripping all electrons from metal
5. Effect of atmospheric pressure on reaction?
6. Electrical Circuit Analysis

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 24

1. What is the effect of alcohol and drugs on non-human animals?
2. Question on collision between hydrogen atoms (momentum / energy question)
3. What is this compound?
4. Consequences of (admittedly magically) preventing every cell in your body from ever dividing again?
5. Battery rack earthing
6. Electric Field strength at a distance x from an infinite charged sheet
7. Semen omelet
8. Focusing camera mounted on biological gel imager
9. Where is KT?
10. Uncertainty Principle - Doubt
11. Voice perceiving
12. Electric shower temperature fluctuations
13. Pulsar Dyson ring
14. 100 Oct LL Aviation fuel in car engines
15. The fate of Voyager 1
16. Pioneer Anomaly
17. Natural gas
18. infra red radiation

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 25

1. Shine-Dalgarno sequence
2. Greenhouse effect from producing methane
3. Rest mass
4. medicine gaity-400
5. pvc
6. Surge Protection
7. how to find hot and cold temp
8. EM wave and magnetic field
9. Malaria - could I be infected with malaria and not know about it?
10. water survival
11. Round and round the cell pellet goes.... how fast do you spin yours?
12. Carbon dating
13. Singular Value Decomposition and prediction

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 26

1. Entropy Quote
2. Sucking the wind
3. Availability of the generic Adderall XR
4. Humbucking pickups and 60Hz hum
5. What's the problem with non-native species?
6. Converting % and ppm to g/kw-hr
7. Victoria waterlily
8. Electrons circular orbit frequency
9. Ruhmkorff lamps
10. Tricky physics problem
11. Is there a documented possible link between gender identity to sexual orientation?

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 27

1. Why is blood iron test taken from finger?
2. Destroy secret papers
3. Ability to understand accents
4. Flavored condoms and infections
5. polycarbonate
6. Weak interaction: figures
7. cloud formation
8. mass & motion of earth
9. Bond angle of water
10. Decay products (further questions)
11. Circuit of Unique Equivalent Resistance

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 28

1. Spaying and neutering of feral animals
2. where do aliens come from
3. Pureed Food
4. UV-A, UV-B, UV-C of metal halide lamp
5. Birds and eyelashes
6. Can holograms work in broad daylight?
7. MOND or MOG theory
8. Snake venom myokymia
9. Christchurch volcano
10. Chromosome numbers and speciation
11. Toxorhynchites?
12. Relativity and nuclear bombs