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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 1

1. Center of mass question
2. Methanol in water
3. Sodium acetate heating pads
4. The Relative Passage of Time
5. Simvastatin toxicity
6. Huge sinkholes in Guatemala
7. Crayfish
8. tendinosis or tendonitis?
9. What's a "Twin Cylinder Reversible Turbine"?
10. force
11. Sima Martel and Sima Humboldt
12. Mafeking Oil - obsolete veterinary preparation
13. Live bacteria in food
14. Gull wings
15. Stukas
16. Sinkhole

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 2

1. Decaffeinated coffee acclimatisation
2. Different kinds of cold?
3. "Dirty dozen" fruits and vegetables
4. Terraformation of Mars
5. Linde's chaotic inflation: why only one level of bubble universes?
6. Lake Okeechobee
7. Reverse jet filter - pressure drop
8. mortality percent
9. Oxidation of copper by iron(III) chloride
10. drug interaction checking
11. Remote sensing and GIS
12. History of Science: What did Islamic Science invent or discover?
13. density of liquid mixture
14. plumbers putty
15. Trigonal Bipyramidal Molecular Geometry
16. What are we seeing when we look at the sun?
17. Contents of Organic Pesticide

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 3

1. Propagation of bloodline
2. Chemical solution for producing infrared liquid.
3. Cooking oil contamination?
4. Water boiling question
5. Weller soldering
6. cold fusion
7. variations of h2o
8. interactions of colloidal gold
9. Reduction potential of selenium
10. cell phone

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 4

1. How does a battery-less moisture-meter work?
2. Does Synthetic Vanillin / Vanilla contain Alcohol
3. Mercury and Dental Fillings
4. Technological family tree.
5. RESOLVED! -- Houseplant identification please... -- RESOLVED!
6. Oil floating under water
7. Doorbell Continually Hums or Buzzes
8. The difference between fire and plasma
9. Archimedes principle???
10. Why did my bonfire burn 'blue'?

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 5

1. Reduction potential for nitrate
2. Who first hypothesized/discovered/elucidated gluconeogenesis?
3. Brass
4. Asa Gray and John Edward Gray
5. Brass (30% Zinc and 70% Copper)
6. Information on Planting lilies in green house
7. Deepwater Horizon valves
8. Nature/environment/biotope
9. Energy efficient of distillation
10. Beer question
11. Vegetable cooking oils - two groups of questions
12. Standard Atmosphere...
13. tobacco

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 6

1. Can the Deepwater Horizon oil spill slow or even stop the ocean conveyor?
2. Plugging holes in ducts
3. Lee Smollin: author of "baby universe" book, adversary of multiverse? huh?
4. BBC Report
5. Space travel
6. How can using algae to make fuel be net energy positive?
7. Iron(III) acetate
8. chloroform mishap
9. Size of Rhinovirus
10. Private Moon base...

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 7

1. Avalanches
2. Lithium phosphide cell
3. Elder people
4. Neural basis of learning
5. CNG engines and simple engines
6. Eye Structure Of Toads
7. gravitation
8. ph
9. Twin Paradox - How will be the pulse count of the traveling twin?
10. What determines the frame of referance for spinning?
11. Production of phosphine and glow from white phosphorus
12. Why can't we get energy for free from a magnet?
13. What are corn syrup solids?
14. Straight lines in Nature
15. How could moth sleep in day?
16. Columbia nuclear fission vs. Chicago Pile-1
17. whitening armpits
18. Mystery not-quite-electrical component
19. Unable to focus camera beyond certain zoom
20. why don't tertiary amines react with acyl chlorides?
21. Pendulum
22. Melting points of various ionic solids
23. Fusion reactors... what the hell.
24. hard wood floors
25. Spaceship without windows

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 8

1. Sparrows are Lousy Parents
2. NFPA 704
3. Bicycles and biomechanics...
4. how does water eat thru polyurethane thou?
5. titanium
6. color of elements
7. Fox mauling baby - motivation?
8. Annihilation
9. Hexamminecobalt(III) ion
10. Clay
11. Sapphire Windows
12. anyone familiar with saccharides and gold nanorod aggregation?
13. Electrical Doubt Clarifying
14. Eating rotten eggs
15. Rhino Virus and Nanometers
16. Molecular compexity
17. Naturally Occuring Dendrimers
18. Pikachurin
19. Cobalt(II) hydroxide solubility
20. Extract From Dry Ingredients?

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 9

1. Lightbulb question
2. Nodules on high tension lines
3. Red liquid in sprinkler
4. Titanium Cup
5. Muntjacs
6. Curved horizon?
7. Vernier calipers
8. Photons
9. Mushroom cloud
10. Endurance of an unused automobile
11. how to functionalise a carbohydrate with acetylene?
12. Blue and red cobalt(II) hydroxide
13. using a car 12 volt alternator as a generator when its removed from the car
14. Question about birth change
15. Sinkhole debris
16. Cobalt compounds yet again!!!
17. Phenol

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 10

1. Crystal Glass
2. Growing fruits & vegetables indoors...
3. Pikachurin 3D structure
4. What if... we're the only intelligent life
5. Interesting properties of acetic acid
6. Tiger question (not about the big striped cat)
7. baking soda
8. question on cars and automated transmission...
9. Sapphire Question
10. indoor door frames
11. glycemic load determination
12. the best it could be?
13. nothingness
14. Can we have more Lay explanations for phenomena under the physics heading?
15. Do fish get mardy?
16. Chloroform

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 11

1. hollow core door
2. Katla eruption VEI
3. Energy numbers to open a black hole
4. if someone is scared into not riding in automobiles OR scared into not smoking, which would improve their mortality more?
5. Infra-terrestrial species
6. Gyromagnetic ratio of mesons
7. Sentience/consciousness
8. Spoof SETI
9. Etching on the cheap
10. Windmill on a car ?
11. Protein breakdown for energy... trigger?
12. Right Handed Dominance
13. energy harvesting is so stupid
14. Ant stamina

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 12

1. Atomic mass unit
2. Tornado recurrence rate
3. Female Survival
4. A transverse wave
5. Computer components from petrochemicals
6. heat
7. BP gulf oil issue: Geology question
8. Cats and mirrors
9. Breathable boots
10. Grass in flower beds
11. gear box vs belt pulley
12. Vellus hair
13. How to get a sponsorship
14. Using sea water in toilets
15. Watering plants
16. brushed nickel
17. Rechargeable Battery: voltage rebound
18. Cauterization as an emergency measure

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 13

1. Flaming blood
2. Wouldn't humankind be capable of surviving an overacting solar flare after all?
3. virus more active during rainy season?
4. Maximum/Minimum Irradiance..?
5. is risk from smoking linear with amount smoked?
6. Primary afferent axons
7. Ruth's Chris Steak House
8. Allium Care
9. Dog whistles.
10. Nuclear fusion physics and tokamak reactor design: from the ground up.
11. formaldehyde
12. Body hair
13. Ploughing a field with dogs

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 14

1. Synthroid versus Armor thyroid
2. Rifling and slower bullets
3. Why did SI standardize the mole?
4. Old medical terms
5. why water form fountain as it goes up?
6. B₂O₃
7. Sliver nano
8. (Cr - Pt)
9. Relativity
10. C L I
11. The web page below needs to be updated with the correct new information regarding the list of SVHC's.
12. How does pre-birth gender selection work?
13. Birdsong Study
14. How hot am I ?
15. Explosion
16. soy
17. Definition of Horology???

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 15

1. Help resolve date discrepancy of an event by finding contemporaneous citation(s)
2. laxatives
3. Digital Camera
4. Nanostructure induced flavorings
5. Blackberry Vs I Phone
6. meringue food technology
7. Instability of Manganese(III) fluoride
8. Bats, birds and convergent evolution
9. question about the supernova
10. Beer nutritious
11. Transplanted lungs
12. clump of matter
13. Definition of "Earth's surface" for purposes of defining meteorites
14. Memory
15. matter versus spirit
16. "Microrefineries" in the Gulf states
17. Carbon-based life more plentiful if system richer in Carbon?
18. Hummingbird feeders
19. why doesn't centrifugation do some major damage to live cells?
20. Isolating elemental silicon
21. reducing agents milder than NaBH4
22. using one aldehyde to reduce another aldehyde (product: alcohol and carboxylic acid)
23. Unknown concentration of NaOH

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 16

1. What value is associated with "low impedance"?
2. Atom with some muons
3. overcharging a handycam or mobile phone battery
4. yawning + stretching euphoria
5. Will poppy seeds in processed horse feed test false positive for Synephrine in the urine or could slippery elm bark powder contain Synephrine.
6. Volume of a drop
7. ~ (Tobacco vs. other illegal, recreational drugs)
8. Regrowing of human skin and its color
9. A display that doesn't suffer from glare
10. Conservation of energy
11. Spider indentification
12. Protein percentage in muscle by mass
13. Stronger reducing agent than azide
14. Strongest base
15. How can I make it not possible to throw things
16. The telomeres of Turritopsis nutricula
17. Number of deep sea oil rigs worldwide
18. Cumberland Slider Turtles
19. Is it fair to say that Nuclear Power plants are environmentally friendly?
20. star classification

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 17

1. Lapping water
2. tuna as cat food
3. Rigid airships vertical control
4. How do they test for performance enhancing drugs in an atheletes urine?
5. Alumin(i)um
6. Metals used by the human body
7. Plasma weapons
8. papers
9. Antimatter
10. help with Gaussian fitting and airy disks
11. IP Address
12. EMP
13. (where) do humans fit in?

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 18

1. Angle grinder -lidl/aldi/netto
2. conservation of PH
3. Mobile phones in supermarkets
4. Life on mars
5. Radio Interference on a 'dead' radio.
6. breasts full of milk
7. Why are there no Herring Gulls in Hampshire?
8. Immunosuppression drugs -> skin like tissue paper?
9. Sodium bromide as salt substitute
10. Windmill on an airplane
11. Does abstinence cure any addiction?
12. 'natural' alkyl halides?
13. Amino acids in a vegan diet
14. Natural sea salt
15. Organic Materials
16. Blossoms and leaves: coming and going
17. Why is the speed of light relative to an observer constant regardless of the velocity of the source of light or of the observer?
18. Paper cuts vs. "normal" cuts
19. semiconductor doping

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 19

1. Ammonia
2. Production of carbon tetrachloride
3. Potato Chips
4. sperm sorting
5. why do gas (petrol) stations have the same characteristic roof over the filling area?
6. Spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma
7. Simulator
8. Radioactive minerals on other planets?
9. Purpose of Addiction
10. Experiments in quantum mechanics?

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 20

1. Oxidation of antimony
2. Why don't Harleys ever have headlamps in other shapes?
3. smelly vitamins.
4. butterfly / moth
5. uv / urine
6. Risk of catastrophic methane explosion in Gulf of Mexico
7. Why is the power output of a series-connect array of solar cells so affected by partial shading?
8. Remote video camera
9. Seeing the past
10. Ammonia-based life

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 21

1. How the planet and why is divided to different countries; who made this? God, humans or nature?
2. Exploration of the ocean bed
3. the supernova
4. No antimony nitrate
5. animal tool use
6. if I sterilise my kitchen knife with the flame from my gas stove, will I ruin it?
7. Tin(II) hydroxide and related compounds
8. is it possible to fool a plant cell into thinking a gold nanoparticle is a starch particle?
9. effect of color of iris on image formation
10. wood
11. Cell disruption, movement proteins and apoptosis
12. Amount of water that "sticks" to dipped object.
13. Operating of Transverse flux motor
14. CALORIE BURN RATE FOR EXERCISE
15. Faraday cage from water?
16. Bacteria in Spoiled Milk

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 22

1. basic physics question about inertia, riding the bus, balance, etc.
2. A few more questions on quantum mechanics.
3. Fossil fish
4. Geophysics survey
5. Potato battery
6. monofilament cutting string
7. Inner asteroid belt?
8. Ferrofluid heart assist jacket?
9. Metal mesh interfere with WiFi signal?
10. power electronics
11. Cheetah attacks
12. saltation velocity vs choking velocity
13. Dense phase flow vs dilute phase flow
14. Petroleum detergent in Dawn
15. any way to get plant cells to grow along a surface?
16. terminal velocity of flour?
17. Latitude
18. RDA percentage for calories
19. The psychology of hog drivers
20. Absorption of sugars and carbs
21. what is a "thin cell layer explant"? (TCL)
22. human brain and language
23. Fiber Optic Duplex Communication
24. culturing pollen tubes
25. Does sulfuric acid ignite matches?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 23

1. Dingman mouth gag
2. Alkyd Resin Paint
3. Temperature of water in Kettle
4. Photon exists? or just a Concept?
5. Probability in Quantum Mechanics
6. Cr-V
7. Zombies
8. Bioavailability of iron
9. Attracting flies to my fly paper
10. A type of memory disorder
11. sodium borohydride and hydrogen peroxide
12. Delayed death after serious injury
13. Identify wasp or insect

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 24

1. Thrust vectoring
2. Difference of animals
3. Grebe
4. Piezoelectric body armor?
5. TO220 heat sinking
6. astrophotography with the webcam
7. Strange parrot behaviour
8. finite element
9. Spacetime and diverging timelines - not really a question, just a request for more information
10. how many g's can a gourmet salad be subjected to without being ruined?
11. breakup/thinning of plant calluses into solution via ultrasound/high-frequency sonication
12. pros and cons of immortality

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 25

1. Probability distributions in Quantum Mechanics
2. scientific name of the plant( ?or substance?) called "Lapland sesame" in the Wikipedi- article about hand of glory
3. Measurment change by interacting
4. DIY inspection camera
5. paint and primer in one
6. Is it possible to clean a pool with just Baking Soda and Bleach?
7. query regarding B.TECH
8. Big cases of correct theories largely ignored because they came from amateurs
9. Ants in my vacuum cleaner
10. Urologists
11. Memory
12. Silicone solvent?

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 26

1. Cobalt (III) oxide
2. Alpha Centauri at 1 G acceleration
3. Production of Mn oxide
4. Ion nomenclature
5. Eating late leads to weight gain?
6. Sensing colours
7. toxic to fish ?
8. Life expectancy in the UK
9. Calcium Hypochlorite
10. Relatively high incidence of lactose tolerance in Spaniards
11. automotive question
12. Opal vs clear in old incandescent bulbs
13. Power supply to the town sewage works

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 27

1. endocrine disruptors
2. Fan curve derivation
3. 'Metallic conduction' in non metals
4. Metallic appearance
5. Can woodlice breath underwater?
6. oysters
7. Switching mobile phones while flying.
8. Superoxide reactivity
9. Ants
10. Scientific term for species who don't take care of their young.
11. Flying wings

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 28

1. Listed ingredients
2. Sigma additivity in quantum mechanics
3. Signal processing
4. Quantam Handwaveing
5. Wind chill and perspiration
6. Pitot tube constant
7. Contents of Cold Pack
8. documentary
9. Do OLED displays degrade with UV exposure?
10. Most toxic element
11. High level nuclear waste
12. wormholes
13. Battery chemistry labs
14. Photonic computers
15. Least dangerous compound
16. Applications of Wormholes
17. asteroid mining
18. Getting rid of freezer odour
19. On swallowing food items larger than one's own head...
20. NFPA 704
21. evolutionary history of apoptosis and vertebrate immune systems
22. anywhere I can buy movement protein?
23. Ancient lead

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 29

1. Polaroid film powered radio...
2. Double slit prob
3. Einstein twin paradox confusion
4. Sumo
5. "Chronical outfit of disposition" - jargon or gibberish
6. Blended wing bodies
7. Are dogs capable of love?
8. free radicals
9. Manganese
10. Making Fatty Acid Methyl Esters
11. General anesthetic
12. Tin(II) sulfide formation
13. Mercury(I) oxide
14. what are these strange holes in the ground in afghanistan?
15. Soreness from a Shot
16. Where did this stupid idea that investment is a trade-off between risk and returns come from?
17. Name these plants?
18. Stopping time in a fall on concrete
19. What are the worms that create this red moss formation

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 30

1. Are sodium chloride crystals always square?
2. Drugs
3. why does my sink solution turn cloudy when I add baking powder to it?
4. reason of raining
5. V-tails
6. Chromosome Location
7. Telescope Eyepiece
8. Make more time
9. Fabry-Perot filter
10. Why do cars go slower in reverse than they do going forward?
11. Acidity of warm water
12. I tried to sanitise my potato peeler by sonicating it in acetone
13. Parasite?
14. how to remove cuticle from a leaf?
15. Extinct Volcanoes in North America and Asia.
16. which type of plant cells (and species) tends to have the biggest / most permissive plasmodesmata
17. Do any nonhuman animals possess a conscience?
18. Neutron star vs. quark star vs. black hole