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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 1

1. Cholesterol Level/Temporal Arteritis
2. Seeing a blue tint for a minute - overexcited photosensitive ganglion cell activity?
3. Young's double slit experiment
4. Technicians on planes
5. Output Formula question
6. Adderall vs. recreational speed
7. Inorganic chemistry
8. Inorganic chemistry
9. human body
10. Does crumpling a piece of paper increase its density?
11. Damaged parrot mandible
12. Sun limb - how to make sense of the direction
13. Turing test
14. Easiest cell to extract DNA from
15. Untreated Cancer
16. Cosmological units

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 2

1. What are the "tubes" on USB and similar cables?
2. Coughing and sneezing while unconscious
3. GPS in plane
4. Evolution denial & genetic engineering
5. Output per man per shift
6. what is the name of the little crab animals that live in the sand that you see when a wave uncovers them
7. Missiles
8. What do flu virus names mean?
9. Organometallic Compound
10. Bees
11. Resonance and Delocalisation
12. Grignard Reagents
13. about water quality.
14. Cactus Question
15. Does this article sound feasible at all?
16. vapourised alcohol after flaming sambuca?
17. Phosphorus in Evolution
18. overpressure wave calculation
19. global warming potential
20. Ultimate Fate of Mankind

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 3

1. Earth is seriously moving away from sun?
2. MM Experiment
3. Smallest number of neutrons
4. How to cure fungal plant pathogens
5. Understanding another part of the MM experiment
6. Lens and mirror placed in water
7. Sperm Count
8. Three Step Process Of Lethal Injection
9. Pushing a helicopter
10. Monitoring blood glucose levels
11. Energy of a point charge
12. Is it possible to set your own innards on fire?
13. What is VCR doing to my TV signal?
14. Is there any connection?
15. Space inside a Black Hole
16. Applications of invisible light frequencies

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 4

1. NDE recovery, fiction vs real life
2. Penile's Erectiom Angel
3. global warming and human water retention
4. Why are washers so called?
5. Do facial products work?
6. What happens to toxic sewage sludge?
7. Frozen peas float when cooked
8. What happens if I drink five-year-old soda?
9. Capturing a warm bath's heat
10. gravitational equations
11. DO GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY OF EARTH REDUCE BY TIME?
12. problem of race
13. Labour and multiple births
14. helium balloon
15. Falling for infinitly long.
16. A structural designation
17. Understand weak interaction and beta decay

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 5

1. Distribution of stellar classes
2. Q about lovebirds
3. largest possible Black Hole
4. zinc cloride
5. Lame flight data recorders
6. Radiocarbon and DNA evidence on Voynich Manuscript
7. Electrical power usage of computer
8. Satellite photos of London from today (5th June 2009)
9. Is it really true that Planes which cruise at high altitude get hit by lightning?
10. Is 2 + 2 = 4 in other universes
11. Peacock and Peahen
12. Egg protein
13. exit polls
14. work

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 6

1. Jellyfish as pets.
2. Physical strength requirements of Formula 1
3. Higgs boson
4. Electrical arc
5. Unknown garden plants for identification
6. what kinds of companies use corporate astrologers?
7. The Mouse vs. Elephant Effect
8. what would convince you of my ability to remote view?

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 7

1. bound photons
2. Many-worlds Question
3. Speeding up formal education
4. Magnetic force based "black holes"
5. Muscles + Oxygen = Energy
6. Intelligence as absence of stupidity
7. Heat death, temperature and entropy
8. Wet matches
9. Human blood
10. Surgical memento
11. Inertia on the bus(non-technical explanation preferred)
12. Twins conceived on successive months
13. Submersed in Water
14. The need to urinate
15. electrical generator

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 8

1. Plant without soil
2. Alternative earphones with remote and microphone for iPod touch
3. Which vegetable oil is most healthy for vegetarians?
4. Does cooking linseed make its oil accessable?
5. Death by hypodermic to the heart?
6. heat into electricity
7. How far do iron ore Lake Freighters travel from Minnesota or Northern Michigan, through the Soo Locks & past
8. porcupines
9. Name of those polystyrene packing forms?
10. All matter Black hole

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 9

1. Strange photometer problems
2. Plant species identification??
3. dynamics
4. Surprising BBC statement about type 2 diabetes
5. Reduction Potential in Pourbaix Diagrams
6. Look-and-say sequence (now asked at WP:RDMA)
7. Dead arm while sleeping
8. Logic Gate Amplifiers.
9. Help Me Preparing My Work
10. Internet over radio (not internet radio)
11. endangered animals
12. Speed of light...
13. Limit to Acceleration?
14. How to safely hang a suspended sign like this one

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 10

1. Long term stability
2. Quantum physics paradox
3. Telecommunication in ships
4. Head on crash?
5. Bcf v Bcfe
6. geographical location 0°,0°
7. Melting point of granite and silica
8. DivX, avi, mp4, Xvid
9. Explosive friction
10. A problem of Doppler effect
11. calculating gas viscosity
12. Suspend a weight between two poles - how strong must the cable and poles be?
13. Matter and antimatter would be a subset of what?
14. Relativity, exponential curves, infinity of time(ish)
15. Top Speed
16. Bacterial Infections
17. Grandma's cold treatment

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 11

1. Balloon on bus accelerating forward.
2. Y Chromosome
3. How can you make black through mixing colors?
4. Is this person mentally challenged?

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 12

1. Cancer in Whales
2. Tidally lock
3. Question about polish people
4. tennis
5. Adolescent development
6. Cutting Limes
7. warm "blooded" plants

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 13

1. What is this bug?
2. Carnivoran trait
3. Walking dinosaurs
4. How hot is boiling water?
5. Suicide Question
6. Cancer rates in mammal species including humans
7. Air hunger / winded when stuck in lungs
8. What is the nature of the big bang?
9. Running a Race
10. about death

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 14

1. Betalgeuse + supernova
2. Artificial breeding to save endangered species
3. Critical velocities for Lockheed Electra 10-E?
4. Weed seeds and compost
5. Volume of all the water on earth
6. Is an unicellular organism a tautology?
7. bioplastics
8. Metric expansion of space
9. Is it possible to deliberately lose weight without feeling hungry?
10. How amount of UV in sunlight differs between time of day, season, and various places in north or south Britain
11. Thermodynamics chemistry
12. Household science-themed activities for 18-26 year olds
13. Falling from a motorcycle
14. Curvature of Space

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 15

1. natural refraction of sound?
2. Should I turn on the lights at night when using my computer?
3. supplier for polyvinyl alcohol & dextrin adhesive
4. QUANTUM MECHANICS -AS POPULAR SCIENCE
5. Computer Keyboard
6. scientists own writings
7. Number of Synapses in Newborns
8. Weird Street Drug
9. Sun's gravity on Mercury vs Pluto
10. Recoil Upward Motion - Firearms
11. question about stability of ecamsule
12. post-splenectomy immunication schedule
13. How do I give a ferret an orgasm?
14. parasitic worms
15. Smoked cylinder
16. immovable object and irresistable force - revisited

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 16

1. centripetal acceleration
2. Humans as Krikkets
3. chemical potetial
4. Insect identification?
5. Aches after exercise
6. What is RVS Steel?
7. Can the Lotus position be bad for your knees?
8. Why are damselflies bright blue?
9. Word, botany
10. When is the Pleiades meteor shower this year?

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 17

1. Does TeVeS or STVG explain LIGO?
2. What is the resonant frequency of fingertips? Is it in ultrasound?
3. Why does so little of the energy become sound when objects strike each other?
4. Maximum possible impact of one person
5. Is telepathy possible through technology? What is this called?
6. Oils and fluids
7. Determining the Credibility of Research Journals
8. Quarternary Structure
9. why do hurricanes slow down?
10. Sticky situation
11. human weight
12. Prediction market and sport betting
13. White dwarf stars

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 18

1. Question on the Scientific Method
2. surface tension
3. Battery. 2.3Ah, 3.3V. How many Watt-hours it could hold?
4. Points on a plate ...no idea????
5. Hepatic filtering
6. Lightning & thunder
7. Earth sized cyclotron/rail-gun for human relativistic stasis?
8. mechanical device
9. Need additional scientific quotes
10. Fan Displacement
11. Examples of Thermodynamic Laws
12. why is carbamic acid unstable?
13. Solar radiation

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 19

1. Coefficient of thermal expansion...
2. remedy or something else?
3. Sustainability
4. On Hawaii
5. Big Bang
6. Nudibranch (or something)
7. ADD and stimulants
8. kineto-baric?? what is this?
9. Black rope has musty mildew smell. How to clean?
10. Fishing in Ontario lake
11. Question on J.J. Sakurai's notation

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 20

1. Consistancy and Acceleration.
2. Which wikiproject would best encompass an Electrical Pollution article.
3. Getting cancer and our destiny
4. mecca
5. niper-2009
6. Sigfigs
7. How big a population is needed to sustain the current technological society?
8. Heating canned goods directly
9. "Homeopathic"?

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 21

1. Cockatoos: are they more likely than other birds to go crazy?
2. "Enamel strengthening" toothpaste
3. "Waveguide" ultrasonic toothbrushes
4. Range data for Lockheed Electra 10-E?
5. Four towers around rocket gantry
6. should we scale down the internet?
7. NOTHING
8. Pakistan
9. Race and brain size/characteristics.
10. Brain size/exercise
11. Low doses of radiation protecting against cancer?
12. Phone sound
13. Bacteria-based stain remover

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 22

1. Binary stars orbiting a planet
2. horsepower and cc
3. Is time finite or infinite?
4. Inverted vertical tube manometer
5. Beam of light
6. Help with project
7. Wisdom Tooth Extraction After effects
8. Reaching the lowest possible temperature
9. Telescope on the moon
10. Apparent contradiction?
11. Rain in the East Coast, USA
12. Farthest blue-shifted object?
13. Colours of night sky objects?
14. Mold on mushrooms
15. chicken eggs
16. Eradicated bacteria on a space station
17. star diameter
18. Small stars/planets
19. Talk:Liquid crystal display
20. Special relativity and Emission theory

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 23

1. BDNF and Nuclear Accumbens
2. iPhone Oleophobic coating
3. Driving upside down in a tunnel
4. yawning + tone
5. office temperature requirements.
6. In Essence is a Polar Shift of Magnetic poles - capable of being caused by Man through a Ultra-low Resonant Frequency?
7. Soft drink and obesity
8. Toe-nails
9. Landing on the Moon
10. Venus Flytrap care
11. Height and Growth
12. What is the mechanism for air leaking from car tyres?

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 24

1. basements
2. Transformer
3. This Image
4. Increasing oxygen on Mars
5. What is this wood coloured Insect called?
6. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Moon
7. Do Genetically Modified Crops Have Larger Yields?
8. negative mass in general relativity
9. Does alcohol kill germs? Does silver?
10. Sabre wolf
11. General scientific magazines - like Science and Nature
12. Another Venus Flytrap question
13. Converting Contour Maps to Height-Map Data
14. Uranus dark spot
15. Alanine
16. Rice keeps sticking to non-stick cooker.
17. Happiness and children

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 25

1. inverse metal
2. evolution books
3. gravitational intensity of a moving body
4. matlab how to
5. how to optimize
6. Gasoline and water
7. Body hair and odor - Vestigial?
8. Dew point in UK
9. Upcoming Malaysian Tsunami
10. half-filled and full-filled shells
11. Why can slower cars turn in tighter circles?
12. How to produce protein homology schematics as seen in scientific journals?
13. How does the compass in the iPhone work?
14. Why do some globe willow trees have what appear to be blossoms?
15. Grow Your Own
16. Disciplining my kitten
17. Earth's core as Time Keeper

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 26

1. Homeopathic Medicine vs Allopathic Medicine
2. Total number of medical articles
3. Solar eclipse
4. spring with variable controllable stiffness ?
5. Thymol blindness?
6. Rising cream
7. acute liver failure
8. Consistent pulsing in ear.
9. Debye-Huckel lamitting law
10. placebo effect
11. polydactylism

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 27

1. Specifying a reference for US City in Infobox Settlement
2. Question about social group dynamics
3. Bamboo Growth
4. Broken Blood Vessel in the back of the Eye
5. Literature, cellular suicide, and spaceflight
6. fajan's rule
7. Impact of science
8. Purpose of the Human Beard
9. Osteopathic Medicine vs Allopathic Medicine
10. What is the mass of the Earth's crust?
11. Car trunk
12. Wave function collapse

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 28

1. Power Press
2. What in the world is this creature?
3. Virtual Gravity
4. UFOs in my bathroom
5. Digital cameras - more pixels useless due to camera shake?
6. Why do some people appear to age less than others?
7. Halogen
8. Toyota High Performance Engines.
9. Need help identifying an animal skull from northern Alberta
10. Mini hang glider
11. Evolution of desperation
12. Fresh milk
13. Calories in a pound of fat
14. Tiredness after a meal
15. Can anybody identify this beetle?
16. Can a chimpanzee really commit suicide?
17. Naturism
18. Rechargeable batteries with no shelf life?

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 29

1. God Delusion question: Infinite regress of multiverses
2. Seashells (Clam/Giant Clam) that have morphed
3. Effects of higher gravity
4. Masturbation
5. Esterification Mechanism
6. Cities on the Moon
7. wind turbine numbers
8. Ethanol molecule structure
9. Punching completely through someone

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 June 30

1. How to estimate calories required daily?
2. simulating finger prints
3. It really Works !!!
4. thermodynamics equilibrium constant
5. Hypotension
6. Nitrogen enhanced gasoline
7. Chai - laxative qualities?
8. Strange plant in northeast Kansas.
9. Diffraction of sound over a wall
10. Blue giant
11. Antartica shifting away from South Pole?