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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 1

1. Garfasil DNA contamination
2. World after 100 years
3. Oh-My-God particle & force
4. Imaging ripples
5. automated blood draw
6. Water-added chicken breast
7. Why do vegetables cooked quickly in Pressure Cooker
8. Miller indices and reduction to lowest integers?
9. Reproductive isolation of humans?

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 2

1. Does it hurt getting shot?
2. Photon-tachyon interactions
3. Weighing the atom
4. Bacteriophages as antibiotics?
5. Terrarium vs. tank
6. AK47 vs. Bulletproof glass
7. Global warming and future
8. Wind instruments
9. Inflation-Adjusted Cost of Electricity?
10. By which methods and how accurate can we predict the properties of an unknown isotope?
11. future binary solar system?
12. Antimatter vs. black hole
13. Exothermic reactions in warm-blooded creatures
14. Newton's laws of motion
15. Infinite Regress and General Relativity
16. Worried about eating gnats
17. Alcubierre drive vs. black hole
18. Shot three times
19. Radar display updating in "real-time"
20. Confining the electron
21. Building "life expectancy"
22. Angle of repose
23. N-terminal signal sequences in Archaea

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 3

1. Dark Matter as molecular hydrogren
2. What kind of worms are these?
3. Lower size limit on mammals
4. Greame Bartlett
5. Losing weight
6. Potato fruits
7. Petroleum value and chemical uses
8. Mean swell wavelength in the open ocean
9. My cat pees on a power socket. Why? How can I stop it?
10. Are smart meters evil?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 4

1. High protein in chicken noodle soup
2. Egg white vitamin content
3. seeing our scalp
4. Acrophobia and attachment to the ground
5. What are big open questions in Science?
6. Maximum weight per unit surface area that water can support
7. Class warfare question
8. Copper(2+) v.s. copper(1+)
9. What species do those fungi belong to?
10. firing a blank
11. Strength of glass vs aluminium
12. What makes a material tough from a molecular point of view?
13. Irish winters
14. thunderstorms
15. Electron probability distribution
16. Wardens

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 5

1. Why are impact craters on Moon all circular?
2. Visibility of 1-atom-thick Materials
3. Height Increase

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 6

1. Nepeta cataria
2. induction motor
3. homology / analogy of env viral coat proteins, across mammals and Drosophila
4. Eating "unpleasant" foods
5. Centipedes
6. Day Length and Seasons
7. oxidation no. in halogens
8. Dark energy and the local cluster
9. More information on the Marbled Lungfish's genome please
10. Damped oscillations in real life
11. Gulf stream
12. Spin–lattice relaxation of different substances
13. Is there software that can animate chemical reactions?

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 7

1. Largest arthropods: land versus sea
2. Official level of radioactivity in Japan
3. Genetic Population Statistics Question
4. rabbits and radiation
5. 2D creatures in a 3D space - could not resist taking it up again
6. are stars visable from space.
7. Petroleum Refinary

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 8

1. T power?
2. Cosmology fact checking
3. Why must it be this set of solutions?
4. Defibrillation
5. Study claiming immortality bad for evolution
6. Hearing loss
7. Can Mount Teide really be seen from the African coast?
8. Egg ID (snake?)
9. "choked with a board"

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 9

1. Mucokinetics
2. Immune system strength
3. Weight-guessing
4. Integrity of the Cryogenically Preserved Brain
5. arthritis
6. coin drop

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 10

1. Lightning and auroras
2. Modified HIV-based cancer vaccine
3. Human Sensitivity to IR
4. How a Latino could not be a Caucasien?
5. hydrogen peroxide
6. Timing of natural death
7. Animal sadness
8. How do bats avoid bees and wasps?
9. About satellite communication
10. Push-ups and the "funny bone" nerve
11. Drunkeness
12. Etymology of gestures, difference between intented and unintended gestures, and animals
13. Woodpecker facts I've been told - true or false?
14. Drop impact absorbtion
15. time travel

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 11

1. Neutrino
2. What is the function of the long carbon tail of Chlorophyll a(and b,d also)?
3. A speed debugger?
4. Fanning and temperature
5. Magnesium based leavening?

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 12

1. menstrual taboo
2. Aboriginal North Americans and alcohol
3. About the alleged FTL neutrinos
4. Knappable stone in Southwestern CT
5. Power Input vs. Voltage Output.
6. Surrogate instead of abortion
7. How long does it take for acquired immunity to form
8. Sun seen from space
9. Water on Earth and the physical properties of water in ocean
10. Species identifcation (flower)
11. Can a Chihuahua survive in the wild?
12. Electron configurations
13. Species identification (beetle)

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 13

1. Why are multiple personalities a disorder?
2. Microwave oven safety
3. Chemical formulae: technical term for subscripted numerals
4. Collapsible earth embankment
5. Is it true that a normally healthy person can get cancer from the normal background radiation on this planet?
6. Species Identifcation
7. Bucket brigade efficiency ?
8. Online obituary
9. Astrologist Claims
10. RBC Indices
11. What kind of snake is this? (US Rockies region)
12. Household Bleach
13. Types of fermentation
14. Muon positron annihilation
15. Silicon based life
16. Arbitrary digital record of sound
17. Global observation of the Miracle of the Sun
18. Is the science in The Subtle Knife correct?
19. Becoming ambidexter
20. Shock wave and blast wave

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 14

1. Is this a viable method for calculating two-body tension?
2. Will the two giant stars of Capella merge?
3. Neurosurgery questions
4. Levers
5. Transplanting external human body parts
6. Photons in an empty universe
7. Dingoes vs. rabbits in Australia
8. Shuttle launch camera footage
9. p53 damage and its frequency in cancers
10. Prions
11. Jerks and mental illness

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 15

1. Highest-temperature superconductor
2. USS Ponchatoula AO 148
3. Power of a sneeze
4. Microwave power draw: volt-amps versus watts
5. Fetuses Upside Down
6. 9/11 analysis
7. nucleotide reformation
8. Speed of a falling person
9. Free electronic (CFL) ballast schematic?
10. marine electrical engineering

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 16

1. termodinamika
2. best glue for specific materials
3. cholangiocarcinoma advanced stge IV
4. Self discipline
5. Let's get real: Could we really survive a nuke inside a refrigerator?
6. Power generation from Earth Magnetic Field
7. Is antiviral prophylaxis possible?
8. top 1000 Fan pages on Facebook
9. Neutrinos not faster than light: Do GLONASS and GALILEO have dithering, too?
10. Claims of 430 ppm CO₂ in 1940 atmosphere

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 17

1. Redox question
2. May-December Marriage -- Marriage Age Difference
3. Which is the better DIY telepresence robot?
4. Volkswagen TwinDrive
5. Generating MIST from still water
6. The psychology and science behind folk dentistry
7. Map scaling
8. Do parrots copy human mannerisms?
9. Fossils in the future
10. Hummingbird speech?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 18

1. Wiping out humanity
2. Certifying obtained knowledge
3. Duck vs. Goose
4. Electrothermal-chemical technology
5. question (coloured bats)
6. Quantum "locked" levitation
7. vandalistic cockatoos and Tabasco Sauce
8. sql queries
9. Fusion, Fission, and Iron
10. Urine albumin valid ranges
11. Electric energy from highly intensive neutron radiation?
12. beaches in shantou
13. Successor to the Large Hadron Collider?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 19

1. Does a shipping crate made of plywood pass international ISPM 15 standards?
2. Future ice age
3. how much do sound waves obey the superposition principle?
4. Dead zone (satellite) and GIS talking bus system
5. Seismic travel time graphs
6. constants
7. homology between yeast and human alcohol dehydrogenases
8. It is between fall and follow
9. How long will a 9 volt battery power an LED?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 20

1. Identify this insect
2. Shark longevity myth
3. How to clean up the Pacific Garbage Patch?
4. oxygen masks drop on planes
5. Manufacturing Technique of First Transistor Makers
6. How Long?
7. re: the man with the golden gun's golden gun
8. Faster than light neutrinos?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 21

1. Spider ID
2. does an equivalent of a SOFAR channel in the sun exist?
3. Compatibility between GPS and Galileo
4. Crohn's disease.
5. Sky box uk
6. Why human body gets heat up and cools in fever...?
7. How Phone Companies Restrict Access To Paying Customers
8. What is this please?

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 22

1. a fixed volume of gas is heated from 273K to 546K ... does free energy and entropy increase or decrease?
2. Where can I get some brown or grey
3. Mercury is more dense than lead?
4. Archery
5. More redox questions
6. Measurement uncertainty
7. Plutogenic
8. malleability and ductility
9. Minerals and radiactivity
10. Faster than light travel, causality, and time dilation
11. Effect of blood sugar on weight loss

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 23

1. Women & Yeast Infections
2. ice age
3. Neutrino interactions
4. Why not ? (RDX)
5. Molecular bonding
6. Key is stuck in lock; how to remove anyhow?
7. Center of mass of a van
8. sleep
9. 3 CRT questions
10. Seismic wave polarisation

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 24

1. Reptile heat source
2. Giant human skeleton
3. breast cancer risk
4. What color would the moon be
5. Blue sky
6. Ice
7. How can a particle be its own antiparticle?
8. bird "song"
9. kinetic theory and compression: explaining Boyle's law

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 25

1. Speed of the average water molecule at room temperature?
2. Lightsabers
3. " dissolving " water in other solvents
4. Price of airplane ticket: weight vs. volume
5. Boas vs. pythons
6. EMP effects on artificial pacemakers
7. Decapitation
8. Earthquakes and Brick Buildings

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 26

1. Phase space
2. Can just anybody get fat?
3. Photon to electron
4. Dry ice snow

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 27

1. At the time of when Islam was first arose...
2. If a proton were the size of our sun...
3. Rods and cones in the male/female eye
4. Laws of Physics
5. Night vision
6. How much heat can Asbestos withstand?
7. Egyptian battery powered lamp
8. not a science question, but...
9. Human pheromone, sextual attractant
10. metric system

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 28

1. How do human beings copulate?
2. Molecular bonding II (Repost)
3. Sequentially precipitating certain metal salts out of a solution
4. to find out a pill cant find its use
5. Red shift due to gravity, where does the energy go?
6. What if the best lie detectors only worked on people who haven't been tortured?
7. Contact lens + eyeglasses?
8. Chlorine trifluoride
9. contact lenses

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 29

1. opposite of attraction for black holes
2. Antarctic station
3. high-rise building
4. Car battery
5. uv400
6. how fast is dynamite
7. Getting rid of dishwashing liquid smell
8. Starlight
9. Calculating probabilities
10. The smell of winter

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 30

1. botany
2. Photon as source of gravity
3. Buying electronic components
4. Solar System
5. Non-stiff motorcycle/bike helmets

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 31

1. Colliding black holes
2. Scientific integrity
3. Firecracker pollution
4. Dubois and Fernholz
5. Australia's beaches
6. Accurate test for mercury poisoning
7. Scientist who controlled a bull's brain
8. Identify large structures
9. Florida building code
10. Windows of buildings: Europe vs. US
11. Adhesive connecting painted wood and Styrofoam
12. IFF: The German roll
13. Reverse Time
14. Junk food
15. Batteries