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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 1

1. What Are Some Things All Things On Earth Have In Common That Are Living Or Non-Living?
2. Contradiction in mass-to-energy equivalence?
3. Medical question
4. Big Bang
5. "Superlinear"
6. Do all the biochemical reactions happened in our body have a negative free energy?
7. Blood phobia
8. constraints based on age
9. Exercise/muscle Pain
10. Water - Oxygen redox?
11. Michelson-morley experiment
12. Game of life
13. Gleason score image
14. 5-digit "telephone" numbers
15. Particle geometry
16. Electrical path
17. Unlimited source of free energy?
18. lab procedure- AP Chem exam style question
19. Medical question

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 2

1. m203-uses
2. Fe0
3. round earth and gravity related question
4. Artificial Intelligence
5. Cholesterol
6. Is this Physics problem even possible to solve?
7. Total energy
8. water (and oil) balloon in zero gravity
9. What's wrong with global warming?
10. Catapults
11. How long does it take for a sudden cease of gravity to be felt?
12. Is there an acid so strong that it behaves like acid is usually depicted in movies/tv?
13. endothermic vs. exothermic
14. atomic size constraints
15. Spherical wheels on cars?
16. Where did the energy go
17. Antonym: Congenital?

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 3

1. How to disappear completely
2. Artery defurring
3. Dissociation
4. use of superbugs in oil slicks
5. The night sky, stars, and galaxies
6. motor tracts from the cortex
7. Cocaine
8. Atomic movement
9. Glue board adhesive composition
10. X-inactivation and color blindness
11. Detecting nuclear blasts
12. Any clues as to this equation?
13. Two locomotives
14. Computers and adverse health effects
15. General relativity: gravity Doppler?
16. Radiative Forcing

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 4

1. Cognitive and socio-cognitive developmental psychology
2. DNA related question
3. Europa
4. Pyramidal neurons and the extrapyramidal system
5. phone calls
6. reverse-reverse engineering
7. QUESTION: Can someone help me locate "one stop" lists of animal species on-line?
8. Lawns versus parks
9. megapixel claim
10. weird clock
11. Charged Black Holes
12. Question about black headed gulls

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 5

1. classic (cliché) explosive detonator?
2. Magnetopneumodynamic Drive?
3. archeology question about Magan, Sumer's source of copper and diorite
4. deoxidizing
5. How do you control snails in an aquarium ?
6. question about erotic asphyxiation-a mirror effect?
7. Dilmun and Bahrain,Sumer's apparent Garden of Eden-like myth and paradise for Utnapishtim
8. decomposing
9. bicycle transportation system
10. Beyond the universe theories.
11. Could fat cells be originally, very long ago, cancer cells that made a deal?
12. Helicopters in the rain
13. Think mechs will ever be used on the battlefield?
14. theoretical yield
15. Amazing little horned garden spider
16. Which is the best alternative to gasoline for cars, hypothetically
17. Stiff neck
18. about IR
19. is the california fire still burning?
20. Down insulation
21. How do I tell white gold or platinum jewelry from stainless steel?
22. Oil consumption versus oil creation
23. Photon Energies
24. Tapeworm

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 6

1. Hearing own voice
2. Olestra formula
3. DNA polymerase requires a "primer"?
4. Magnetopneumodynamic Drive - I'm gonna build me one! (Maybe)
5. Artificial oil production
6. Global warming
7. Choice
8. electric vehicles for the post office
9. seeing blood vessels
10. Astronomy, living far north
11. space diamonds
12. Can chewing your lips cause cancer?
13. Selection of yeast by growth media
14. Axial muscles
15. Why do we call alcohol, ethanol when talking about fuel?
16. If we can drain lakes, why don't we drain Loch Ness to see if the Loch Ness Monster is there
17. Diaphragm
18. Nuclear Ingredients
19. What's the name of that multicolored thing on TV?
20. Could a parasitic twin lead to an evolutionary change?
21. Altruistic act? I dont think so
22. In vitro mitochondrial respiration states

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 7

1. my girlfriends disorder?
2. Diversity Antenna?
3. Sun and moon at midday
4. Bindeez to GHB??
5. The Counterpartness (Not a Real Word, But You Know What I Mean) of Human Races and Animal Breeds
6. Material Properties in outer space
7. Two Questions about Gravity.
8. Omega-3 fatty acids in water-inhabiting animals
9. Correct design?
10. derivation of phrase sex maniac
11. Chicken-eating spiders
12. OP-AMP LM324N
13. Civil engineering: Factor of safety?
14. Too obvious to be realizable?
15. Psychology: person A evaluates B by the evaluation of C, D, E.... for person B.
16. Energy
17. The way intelligence grows on the "nurture" side
18. Human Evolution
19. Special Wheel Supported on the Lower Rim
20. Why is the waste disposal system the same as the reproductive system?
21. series of vaccine for rabies
22. Are other mammals attracted to female mammary glands?
23. a reaction is either oxidative or non-oxidative, never inbetween
24. Amnesia
25. effect heat has on rubber

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 8

1. cells
2. navel
3. Reception of off air frequency standards
4. Minerals
5. microwave hyperthermia
6. Why is water transparent?
7. Tectospinal tract
8. Point and shoot digital camera
9. Inelastic collision
10. camera pixel resolution
11. Old cars carbon emissions
12. Ladder to Space
13. The effect of stars on Earth
14. growing crystals of copper sulfate
15. Viruses
16. ecosystem
17. nuclear energy: a given
18. Reichsbrücke

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 9

1. Robinson projection
2. Muteness
3. asbestos -microencapsulization healing?
4. Time
5. absorption refrigerator
6. paleontology & neuroscience
7. How would one find out about the kind of society of prehistoric humans?
8. First Solar
9. gryroscopes
10. LEL and UEL of gases.
11. methylphenidate Q.
12. SILVER RINGS
13. the scifi kitchen
14. Ever heard of "ear music" heard by hearing impaired people?
15. Why is chicken, rabbit and pork meat a different color from cows, deer,elk etc?

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 10

1. What is the oxidation number of carbon in methanol?
2. Slowing time
3. Greenhouse Gases
4. Battery charge
5. Freezing Water Question
6. anti inflammatory
7. Bullets
8. Gold-labelled antibody = "fusion protein"
9. Neurotransmitters
10. DNA sequence around integrated HIV viral DNA attachment site?
11. Rocket speed
12. Robot Cars
13. Jupiter (the planet)
14. The planet Mars
15. Cause and Effect

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 11

1. Physics and Ancient Greece
2. does inhibition of PKC-β activity decrease pigmentation in vivo?
3. Feces - taste like what?
4. commercial radioisotope
5. asteroid belt
6. Aldol
7. Heisenberg t-shirt

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 12

1. Seriously hurt in the news
2. Jupiter's moon Io
3. stpm trial exam question
4. "brush harder, not smarter"
5. Bamboo nomenclature
6. Laxative agent in apple juice that's not in pear juice?
7. Pseudo-stable isotopes
8. Penguins in the Arctic? Polar bears in the Antarctic?
9. Wrinkled face
10. medical ebooks
11. how does our organism recognize foreign tissue?
12. Potassium chloride and seeds
13. Mobile phone buzzing
14. A designer wishes to calculate the thickness of a steel cable for suspending a passenger lift
15. Percent solutions
16. Running cool water over frozen drink defrosts. Why?
17. Melted ice contains white particles, even purified water.
18. E = mc2 - how does c relate to the weight and energy units?

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 13

1. Technology and Depression
2. Reduction of Fe(III) in FeCl₃(aq) to Fe(II)
3. horizontal component of speed
4. stars come down
5. What snake a specific book refered to
6. Condensation and Deposition
7. Biofuels
8. PMTs, APDs, DUV, and other exciting acronyms
9. Free-falling
10. Length of US State Coastlines
11. Squinty eyes focus better
12. Hard Coupled Forces Problem
13. Is there a landmass under Antartica and the Arctic?
14. Hard disk
15. Antenna length
16. Simplified Electromagnet Math
17. BINDEEZ
18. Two identical humans
19. Blade metallurgy chart

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 14

1. What is a Dye Front?
2. labrador coat
3. Chemtrail Crazies, why is the bandwagon so big?
4. Polystyrene cups
5. chemicel contents of ferro titanium
6. Help on the Antlion
7. Plasma rockets
8. Gold Detecting
9. Dried Banana Chips
10. Why don't they make bullets out of steel instead of lead/tungstun?
11. Mystery of the freezing water
12. Levitating at the center of the world
13. Why do raw carrots taste like soap?
14. Potassium/Rubidium-filled bullets?
15. Sodium bicarb and ethanol turning black

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 15

1. Criticality weapon
2. Emergen-C etc
3. in vitro-fertilisation
4. Human Eating Habits
5. Principles of plasmid dna isolation
6. principles of plasmid dna isolation
7. Most probable method of attaining pure fusion?
8. How do whales drink water?
9. Zinc restoration

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 16

1. Theory of Everything Solved?
2. Vanadium
3. Burning track in the sky
4. Can you tell if a movie was made in colour if you watch it on a b/w TV set?
5. Solar Energy Radiation
6. Chemistry tool
7. Genetic Algorithms
8. Heinz Tomato Ketchup
9. A dog in motion
10. Universe ending next May?
11. TV satellite downlink antenna shape? Datasheet?
12. Horton GO229 German WW2 All wing fighter
13. Do Variations in Earth's Gravity Field Cause Variations in Air Pressure?

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 17

1. scenario - the best type of telescope?
2. CGPM news; possible redefinition of the kilogram
3. Some very old technology
4. physics
5. enerhiya
6. GAA triplet repeats
7. Waterboarding
8. Friedreich's ataxia
9. Nazi freeze/atomic bombs
10. Construction of a tower
11. Is there a difference between a sunrise and a sunset?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 18

1. water, ethanol, and dehydration
2. A hole in a rib?
3. TIME
4. Coenzyme Q and statins
5. Space Folding
6. Economics
7. What is E-rosetting?
8. Keeping eggs in the fridge
9. Douglas Adam's computer called "Earth"
10. Cancer Funding- Treatment valued over Cure?
11. Atomic orbitals
12. Automotive question

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 19

1. Are clearer lakes necessarily more "healthier" than less clear ones?
2. Error with finding the elasticity of rubber?
3. Curved Frizzy Hair
4. Brain Power Limited or Unlimited??
5. Compared to other animals, are humans physically strong or weak for our mass?
6. If you put food in a total vacuum, will it last forever, and still be edible?
7. What is the fastest form of propulsion through water?
8. Researchers ignoring other researchers
9. If an asteroid/meteor killed off the dinosaurs, why didn't it kill off the other animals too?
10. Science
11. genetic engineering
12. Power Production
13. what comes out?
14. Carbon dioxide and water

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 20

1. Could gold jewelry, such as a necklace, have toxic amounts of mercury or other heavy metals on
2. Is Universe expanding or deflating?
3. How sharp is that knife?
4. Growing up in zero-g
5. Sound from Jupiter
6. physiology
7. Can nanomachines potentially cure RNA viruses?
8. interaction of infrared with skin
9. If you had a gallon of pure white blood cells would it look white?
10. Can radar detect organic flying creatures?
11. Why do cows moo?
12. Why hasn't the Polar Bear been reclassified as a subspecies of brown bear?
13. Extinction
14. Being sliced
15. molecular weight help
16. whole breast tumour samples
17. Density of nerves as the body grows
18. Good Viruses?
19. Amoeba have more DNA than a human?
20. Anyone know what this is?

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 21

1. Sociology
2. Psychology
3. information technology in 21st century
4. Arsenic Level in Diet
5. Fertilization
6. Facultative Aerobes
7. Airplane movement
8. Hypochondria
9. collagen/gelatin
10. What is coulombic interaction energy?
11. Does lava/magma conduct electricity?
12. Outdoor warm-weather ice-skating rinks
13. Regaining consciousness
14. particle - antiparticle pairs

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 22

1. Cooling down -- drink or pour?
2. physics
3. Zoom lenses
4. over working the kidneys
5. Anti-aliasing in human vision
6. String theory and the shape of the Universe
7. piezoelectricity
8. Glassware for baking

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 23

1. Apoptosis
2. Michael Faraday established that magnetism could affect rays of light?
3. Spacetime and FTL
4. Shared blood system
5. definition of latitude

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 24

1. Supercavitation
2. IUDs and large penises
3. Is suicide unique to our species?
4. Genetic possibilty of genius IQ
5. Antisocial personality disorder
6. BOOLEAN OPERATORS
7. Pluto
8. Path integrals and lightcones
9. Orbitofrontal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex
10. Another question on the prefrontal cortex
11. Symmetry of animals
12. Lunar warfare
13. a cardiac procedure called mase
14. Artificial gravity
15. It's not a your mum joke, promise.
16. What is the best way to self-study string theory?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 25

1. Can chiropractors prescribe scheduled medicines?
2. Illegal Plant - USA
3. Does my sun conure have another name?
4. Identify this plant
5. Another identification, please
6. Ammonium chloride
7. Lysogeny
8. Respiratory Acidosis
9. Rodents
10. Tornado's
11. Stars on moon

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 26

1. Fire Accelerants
2. Balancing a chemical equation with silver nitrate copper and water
3. Kinetic energy released by expansion of space
4. Two Point Function
5. Query related to Urine
6. gide us
7. GREATMIND Q ABT. DOG
8. Does being cold and wet, increase your chances of getting a virus like a cold or flu?
9. Reflection of voltage/current ???
10. Possible to destroy a virus by smashing it?
11. Why do I get cold after I eat?
12. Metal case enclosure heat transfer coefficient
13. What metal is the worst conductor of heat?
14. Quartz
15. Spacetime Dipping
16. Calcium carbonate from breathing into a solution
17. What is the biological basis for appreciation of music?
18. How do you derive the properties of chemistry (ie, flowing liquids) from physics?
19. Failing audio cables

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 27

1. Lighting yourself?
2. Beta decay and W bosons?
3. What did I see?
4. Rechargeable batteries
5. Endosteum: soft tissue?
6. Cats, the hunting instinct, and feline psychology
7. acting out of character
8. Building services
9. Gadget Show phone comparison
10. Why do amps kill you, but volts don't?
11. Big Idea of Particles, Mass Conservation
12. Inability to Scream
13. What happened to the Michael Pursinger page?
14. Accessory cell (immunology)
15. Liquidfy Diamonds? Solidify oxygen?
16. Why doesn't lightning damage antennas when it hits them?
17. Theropod dinosaurs and birds
18. Why does Carbon nanotube have stronger properties than buckyballs?
19. How much would someone weigh on mount everest

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 28

1. Nasal cauterization
2. Electrochemistry
3. Brain activity: reading vs TV
4. whey protein
5. Chemicals Released while burning...
6. N-glycosylation
7. Thermodynamics of heating your house
8. Trust the mass on a bottle label?
9. Power lines, and electric shock
10. Future of Everyday Travel
11. What happens during the cooking process (and what are those black bits)
12. Eating just before bedtime
13. Machine lubrication oil contaminates kitchen...

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 29

1. How many SigFigs?
2. Particle Accelerators use electric fields to accelerate and magnetic fields to bend particles?
3. Extended/Extra Optical Zoom?
4. Time to fall
5. Drunken vampire bats
6. Using carbon nanotubes to transport electrons?
7. If you fill an airtight car with helium, will it become lighter?
8. ionic,covalent,coordinate bonds
9. ornamental millet
10. Largest marine animal in captivity
11. How big would your arms have to be in order to fly/glide?
12. Why doesn't boyancy work in solids?
13. Natural and Phenomena and Natural Resources

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 November 30

1. MO theory
2. Light green slime
3. Planet Venus
4. Can dolphins and whales REALLY talk in some way that humans do?
5. Long acting injectable drugs
6. Vandalism?
7. Why does poliovirus preferentially infect motor neurones
8. splitting atoms
9. Why does lightning shock you even if you are ungrounded?
10. how tall is the talest dwarf
11. Bone marrow transplant and DNA
12. What's the largest galaxy that we know of
13. Zero-point energy and manipulating objects
14. White holes attract matter?
15. The most destructive thing in the universe?
16. Is it possible for a Terrestrial planet to be as large as a gas giant?
17. Manipulating objects without touching them
18. Andromeda-Milky Way collision
19. Supposing that vampires existed and had the same basic daily calorific needs as regular humans...