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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 1

1. NGC identification in Veil Nebula
2. Plastic-mirror
3. Laser distance meters
4. Global Warming and Ice Age
5. Cats and chocolate
6. That little black strap that depends from the backs of cars and scrapes along the road?
7. bladder-caused sleep interruption
8. white poop
9. Bismuth reaction with acid
10. Drinking seawater
11. NASA astrobiology news
12. Synapse structure
13. Christmas lights
14. Dinosaur Combs and Wattles
15. Is this for reals?
16. Circuits with LEDs

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 2

1. Scientific Child Rearing
2. The Marshmallow Trick
3. Chemistry Laboratory technique
4. Question from ANI
5. Birds = Dinosaurs?
6. Draft
7. Evolution of the wavefunction
8. Can you safely drink rusty water?
9. Objective scientific evidence for PMS?
10. Intelligent prey
11. Split down the middle
12. Forces in space

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 3

1. Drinking from a lake
2. Better than ice bottles
3. UPS watt, volt-amp question
4. Getting a guinea pig to drink from a bottle
5. Purifying Iron
6. Cat's nipples
7. human hunting
8. Bismuth(III) iodide dilemma
9. Parrots cracking bones to get the marrow...
10. is it a coincidence that there are 12 months and 12 hours?
11. Sail and oar power
12. if all small arms and heavier munitions disappeared, would the world be a safer place?

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 4

1. Camera error
2. What kind of SIMUTANEITY make sense?
3. time dilation
4. on p block elements
5. Time travel question
6. Cars/trucks with fixed axles
7. problems with WWVB NIST time radio broadcast
8. Step-by-step method for writing the electron configuration of an arbitrary atom

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 5

1. Do other animals have blood types?
2. Questions about Light: 1. Why 186k miles/sec? 2. What would a "photic boom" look like? 3. (see for yourself)
3. How DID I lose 3 pounds while I sleep?
4. Boiling water
5. traction between the wheel and the tire
6. Dream time vs. real time
7. Zincate
8. A hot water will cool faster or a cold water will heatup faster.......?
9. How can I design a gearbox (geartrain) to rotate a 2ton load using airgun.
10. coffeciant of friction.......i really don't get it...practically...
11. Why N2 is used in bladders for curing rubeer in tyre industry...?
12. alcohol + water = less?
13. Light pipe into fibre optic cable
14. dreams predicting the future
15. The problem with chocolate milk
16. Rainbows around light
17. (Hypothetical) Gravitation in the Center of the Earth
18. Health effects of reflective heater
19. Help with electricity (mAh calculations and whatnot)

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 6

1. Restriction endonuclease - etymology
2. Bladder - when you're empty, are you really empty?
3. Is there even such a thing as a hybrid motorcycle?
4. I'm CLEARLY alive-and-well. Why am I STILL barred from donating blood/plasma?
5. Normal decibel level in an office?
6. Brine instead of broth
7. Eyeball judder
8. Bismuth oxychloride appearance
9. Sources of gas and electric in the UK
10. :simple:Halophile
11. Color in anodization
12. Why Lorentz Transformation (LT) is correct?
13. Physics Textbook
14. Chicken meat and pork
15. Perfect machines?
16. Relativity and Time Dilation
17. The Ariel Sharon Diet

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 7

1. How to identify something I had photographed in the sky this morning?
2. LED Street Lights
3. Testing for tobacco use
4. michael douglas
5. Climate change
6. Railgun vs. Coilgun efficiency
7. Standard practice rounding significant figures
8. Transduction, transformation and transfection
9. Sun-Jupiter Barycenter
10. Bermuda rigs

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 8

1. tonneau cover areodynamics
2. Why are the planets almost spherical?
3. Volcano benefits?
4. Pseudo-morning sickness
5. Dreams
6. Dark matter: black holes
7. Cheapest source of ethanol for sterlisation
8. Synthetic Organic Schemes for Pharmaceutical Compounds
9. Alternatives to silicon for computers?
10. volcanoes
11. Multiforce members (statics)
12. Acid with nylon

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 9

1. Math problem
2. Reproduction and rate of erythrovirus B19
3. Potential and kinetic energy
4. technology run wild stories
5. Earliest driven wheels
6. swiss watch
7. Evolution
8. Cube planet
9. Yogurt
10. Makeup for the eyes in the form of airbrush
11. Nasal saline solution
12. Tapiridae (Tapirs)
13. Another improbable planet question
14. Uranium star
15. touchscreen technology
16. do magnetic interactions EVER change the magnitude of velocity of a charged particle

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 10

1. Dear New Yorkers, why haven't I seen buildings built ABOVE your streets?
2. Physics trouble
3. Turbocharging in motorcycles..
4. Transporting Gases....
5. what percent of people are using 3G technology.....in world..
6. Hawking Radiation and negative mass
7. La Nina
8. airplanes that run on car fuel
9. What should I do with this jelly?
10. Plateosaurus and bipedal walking

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 11

1. chlorine dosing
2. circuit idea
3. Mercury sulfate
4. ..BURNING DIMOND....
5. Musical volume
6. Unidentified Mineral
7. Examples of specific halophiles
8. High pressure = good weather
9. Mass Energy and Black Hole evaporation

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 12

1. squirrels
2. Sunflower seeds changing colour
3. why do people say MSG is bad for you? Is it true?
4. On psychology
5. Balls
6. black slime on dripping taps
7. Nutrition
8. Compound identification
9. Planet Brightness
10. The act of observing an object affects the object

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 13

1. Burp, hiccup, sneeze at the same time
2. Neutrinos
3. Power cable doesn't heat up with surge protector, why?
4. Two scientific/medical review articles
5. Problem with ChemSketch
6. Opening a .mol file in Accelrys Discovery Studio Visualizer
7. Appropriate way to describe the breaking of the neck
8. Taste
9. Meridiungulata out of Xenarthra?
10. Interfamiliar hybrid
11. Thallium production

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 14

1. Native Americans
2. The Continents of Earth
3. The Eyeball
4. Highly troubled, self-acclaimed saint of logic seeks epiphany
5. Repeat pneumonia
6. How many brain cells do gasoline fumes kill?
7. crude oil, a part of earths design
8. Anodes, salts, and cathodes for water electrolysis
9. pure rotational spectra
10. Are mad people always mad at something?
11. Would terraforming the Moon have any effects on Earth ?
12. blue light/energy from gummed envelope
13. What does nothing look like?
14. Can inaudible "noise" cause physical damage to people?
15. Noble gas compounds

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 15

1. computable universe
2. Full name for "Issiki", Japanese Lepidoptrist active ~1930 - ~1960
3. Milk Powder
4. What if Newtonian mechanics were the correct model of reality?
5. binary stars in Centauri system
6. Earth Rotation
7. Siping rubber soles?
8. Thallium(III) hydroxide
9. Grass as edible food source for humans
10. building on buoyant coral

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 16

1. What is a Hill sphere of Sun?
2. A poem and its related biological/neurological functions:
3. Current electricity
4. Prison Riot
5. Whip scorpion
6. Boat movement problem
7. Paul Dirac Equations??
8. A bomb’s flash, Why would it happen?
9. Does the volume of cylinder affects Pressure
10. Why fog is mostly seen in morning ?
11. Why on every Wathc they write Quartz ?
12. Thallium(I) oxide production

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 17

1. Pterodactyls
2. Untreated ringworm does... what?
3. Tiger cheese
4. Crazy kid again... with more subjective thoughts that y'all will hopefully objectify
5. About Styrofan (construction Chemical from BASF )
6. Maxwell's demon (MADE IN JAPAN)
7. Cryogenic revitalization
8. Error in Image
9. What percentage of the air expelled rearward from a jet engine actually thrusts an aircraft forward?
10. Does gravity slow down time?
11. My fuzzy potatoes

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 18

1. Maize recycling...
2. MCAT en Français
3. Why does warm air hold more moisture than cold air
4. ACMA blacklist
5. A lead on leads
6. The Degradation of the Human Race by Doctors
7. Night vision of seagulls and other birds

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 19

1. Properties of liquid diamond
2. Halophiles
3. Jet stream time lapse?
4. networking
5. physics
6. Science and God
7. Degeneration Redux
8. Megapnosaurus name meaning
9. Unusual Vision?
10. [For Concentration] ADD meds (stimulants) vs. benzodiazepines/anxiolytic meds (depressants)
11. Birds' ability to map the night sky
12. Taking high dose vitamin D supplements every 5 days

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 20

1. Add salt to hot water bottle?
2. Drinks when sick
3. Augmented Nasal Passages?
4. How does quantum entanglement / quantum mechanics "know" that you know the positions of their particles?
5. Parallel RLC network
6. embryology
7. Propsopagnosia and specific face parts
8. best thing for teeth after vomiting
9. Metallic vs. nonmetal antimony
10. Tobacco
11. Dawn chorus (birds)
12. Lunar eclipse on Winter solstice
13. Antimony trifluoride

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 21

1. Does an Alpha emitter also emit Beta?
2. Poison mushroom
3. wet dreams
4. Straight back, diaphragm
5. c
6. The colour of this morning's lunar eclipse
7. Does sleep deprivation do permanent damage to the brain?
8. radio-metry and its uses in optical instrumentation
9. why does skin on your face get wrinkled and how does cream help?
10. Basement temperatures

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 22

1. glowing embers on the road
2. Normal human body surface area = 1.73 m^2
3. Arsenite color
4. hear sine wave vs square wave
5. Space between particles
6. Arsenic trisulfide's NFPA health rating

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 23

1. ASB THE POLYMATH- opc question
2. Two questions about lightning
3. Light
4. Thermoelectric
5. Dragon's breath
6. is flow of holes called current flow?
7. Climate change and biodiversity
8. drug
9. Beer pong

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 24

1. When two metal panels with different work functions approach, what happens?
2. Why do superstrings "vibrate"?
3. makeshift loudspeaker
4. Heavy luggage in small, light car
5. meningiomas (a.k.a. brain tumor;angle tumor)
6. Testosterone levels
7. Mercury's mineral status

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 25

1. Astronomy question
2. White copper peroxide
3. Species names by C. Linnaeus
4. Arun S Bagh question about opc drum
5. earth flip
6. Ungulate reptile/(amphibian/bird/...)
7. Magnet

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 26

1. Fog
2. What is the scientific term for levels of activity by time of day?
3. Solar sails
4. has any famous scientist ever expressed doubts about the moon landing authenticity?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 27

1. Crocodile Dundee II
2. Is the earth gaining weight?
3. voilation of parity in beta decay
4. People getting fat
5. Blister
6. Materialism, Reductionism and Determinism in science
7. there was blizzerd today and it looks like a very cold winter... THEREFORE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING
8. How many years off are we from cell phones working as well a regular phones did 40 years ago?
9. Smoke when a candle blows out
10. Meter

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 28

1. What Makes A Human Voice Sound Male Or Female?
2. Kit fox or coyote?
3. Resistricted Earth fault protection for electrical Power system
4. What exactly is the "Postulate" in Newton's Laws ?
5. How much would it cost to invent & construct a solar wind hybrid streetlight?
6. Fox barks
7. Using spy satellite film to take pictures on the ground
8. What does this mean?
9. Density
10. rubber cement
11. Brie cheese
12. Saliva
13. Clover
14. would using and electric welder demagnetise a rare earth magnet

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 29

1. what makes tuning fork prongs oscillate oppositely?
2. Why do we fear or 'over react' when something falls from our hand?
3. What kind of holly?
4. Dark energy and antimatter
5. How much damage would a missile do?
6. Elipitical Orbit
7. Does cancer cause hair to fall out?
8. Animal slime?
9. Intelligence of a sleeping human
10. Oxygen difluoride

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 30

1. Wormholes
2. Sugar Maple
3. An unusual problem with viewing a 3D film.
4. Amount of Lanthanum Chloride in a solution.
5. Where are the new inventions?
6. Dry cleaning chemical
7. Measuring my PC's power consumption with an oscilloscope
8. Molybdenum#Compounds_and_chemistry

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 31

1. A question that is about 15 years overdue: What'll it take for beanies to actually fly the wearer?
2. Effects of drunkenness on physical ability
3. How can the universe be infinite?
4. Antimony trichloride
5. Best length of radio aerial