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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 1

1. Question 9, part (d)(i)
2. Identical twins and children
3. Where is the center of the universe?
4. Placebo Questions
5. Computer-controlled cars
6. few question about glycolysis
7. What is convergent evolution?
8. can loud music (esp. prominent electric guitars, drum, bass) kill cells on a microscope slide?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 2

1. Units of Time
2. Precambrian rabbits and natural fossil exposure
3. Depression Medication
4. Contact between shaft and bearing
5. Electrolysis
6. Fennec Hare
7. documentary
8. Real life lightsaber
9. Hematite color change
10. Wind Erosion on Venus
11. aspartame
12. Human consumption of uncooked cereal grains
13. wasp-like insects
14. Queen Ant
15. Fluid balance - production of water by the human body throu metabolism
16. Silicon Bakeware
17. Tipler Cylinder
18. What sort of mood disorder is the following?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 3

1. How to attach ceramic capacitor to solderless breadboard?
2. What benign medical conditions are easily misdiagnosed as a deadly incurable condition?
3. Interesting problem with AM Radios...
4. Brand name drugs vs generics
5. Cold object
6. sulfonates and cells
7. stochiometric tests for hydrogen peroxide
8. Not eating with tablets
9. what happens when PBS cell buffer is exposed to air?
10. Traveling to nearby stars

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 4

1. Special relativity and Ender's Game
2. High levels of elements in the blood related to skin and eye color
3. Mysterious movement of sediment in a wine glass
4. How much smoke and smog would harm an engine?
5. Spark plug disrupter ray
6. Cloning Einstein
7. Diamonds are forever (?)
8. Eyeglass prescription
9. Positive and Negative Overlap
10. Expense of oscilloscopes
11. "Eco" water bottles have more BPA?
12. Retrieving sound of the past
13. Weird Bug Redux
14. Recent CMEs and auroras
15. Number/measurement system

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 5

1. history of skin cancer?
2. what is the difference between cytonemes and filopodia?
3. Chimney
4. gas central heating
5. Fuss about Blackberrys and National Security
6. Reason for adding synthetic colors in medicines
7. Sides of leather
8. Mathematical Tools for General Relativity
9. chemistry
10. Why can't Quantum Teleportation transmit information faster than light?
11. lunar eclipses and "blood red moons"

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 6

1. Scent + washing
2. microscopy terminology in a formal paper
3. resin
4. Bacon Cheeseburger Armpits
5. oil paint
6. Type of engineering degree
7. Chronobiology of sunsets
8. Surface tension
9. I got a new water heater
10. Voltaic pile question
11. Sub-woofer orientation

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 7

1. Katha from acacia catechu tree
2. Uphill running
3. Drinking diethyl ether
4. what is this plant?
5. Sickness
6. Scientific names of hybrid species
7. Why don't scissors work upside-down?
8. I saw this 50% chance dwarfism gene on some medical documentary years ago. What's that condition called?
9. musical memory
10. skin
11. Processing multiple voices
12. Identifying trees
13. Soldering iron tip compatibility
14. Evolution
15. Building an insulated cabinet

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 8

1. North Pole?
2. The Neurons or the synapses
3. When is a heat sink necessary for a 7805 voltage regulator?
4. Maximum knowledge
5. Tetra Fish Fins
6. SOx cooling atmosphere
7. St. Bernard dog
8. wave analyzers
9. Yoplait has a fat-free Greek yogurt.
10. How does a car's wheels get out of alignment?
11. fridges
12. Energy
13. Jumbo Jet vs. Mortal
14. Food poisoning, even after cooking?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 9

1. What manner of turtle is this?
2. Conservation of matter argument for Climate Change and Alternative energy?
3. Present day radiation levels at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4. The Marangoni Effect in a wineglass
5. Cricket type
6. pollution
7. Cement
8. Waking up
9. Q: Today's featured pic
10. Crayfish in New Jersey streams
11. Looking for reference for an experiment about expectations and performance
12. Three meals a day?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 10

1. What's the prospect of scientists creating enzymes that can treat prion diseases?
2. Why did they change the iphone's antenna?
3. is this text to speech or just a nerdy guy?
4. Frogs!
5. Cycle helmets - do they reduce vision and impair hearing?
6. paint stirrers
7. Transforming a principal stress tensor to maximum shear stress tensor?
8. Chemistry/Software question
9. What is a tensor?
10. satellites.
11. Most intelligent bird

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 11

1. Dunning–Kruger effect
2. Banding during sunset
3. More finds
4. Reverberation
5. mockingbirds
6. Phage therapy
7. Mnemonic for functional groups in IUPAC nomenclature
8. Sexual Behavior in the Human female
9. Buoyancy
10. Toxins
11. Bacon crisps state 65g protein/100g
12. Cold bottles freezing
13. is this apoptosis or autophagy (cellular)? Is it even programmed cell death?
14. Burping in zero gravity
15. Impact of piping on water quality
16. Antibiotic-resistant "super bug"

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 12

1. Famous scientific hypothesis
2. Quark
3. Superfluids and conductors
4. Prince Rupert's Drop Gun ?
5. Colloids
6. Erectile dysfunction drugs
7. PROGESTERONE
8. "Smotl."
9. how can that possibly be true???
10. How much does an aluminium soda can tab weigh?
11. What did Edward Teller die of?
12. Magic
13. pizza condiments
14. Seeing What People Are Thinking
15. Ca2+ as a lewis acid
16. Pulse deficit
17. Who's good with chemical nomenclature?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 13

1. Why expend effort finding pulsars?
2. aspartic acid page
3. Bloodletting
4. Counteracting Diseases
5. So if gravity is a pseudo force...
6. Sieve Map
7. Spectrum
8. Quantum mechanics and predicting the future.
9. Frog with yellowish stripes
10. What primates other than humans are good swimmers?
11. Test on toes
12. Cheap vehicles
13. Effects of Tramadol same as codeine?
14. Floating islands
15. Finding a wavefunction

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 14

1. Will scars ever be possible to remove/are they possible to remove?
2. Drug prices
3. AIDS Question
4. Dwarf wheat
5. Phase Diagram Topology
6. isn't science a religion?
7. Darksucker Theory
8. MTech in IITs
9. student directories
10. If an icebreaker hit the iceberg that sank the Titanic...
11. Measurement system used by the US Military
12. Ether
13. Adrenaline

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 15

1. House
2. How is Hyponatremia (low sodium) diagnosed ?
3. is there soap in stevia?
4. Top human sprinting speed
5. Nasty Prickly Sucker
6. Displacement time response
7. Relay race strategy
8. how do armless people masturbate
9. Freshwater fiddler crab
10. Time
11. Dinosaurs eating one another
12. Is there a specific name for this concept?
13. Workings of a rolling mill

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 16

1. Deutz gadget.
2. planet
3. PLACEBO
4. Can you make a "fire hose" that shoots solid ice?
5. EKG Analysis- practice Test
6. pH buffer of 1 or 1.5 (out of household/edible/supermarket ingredients)
7. Gene Therapy/Hormones
8. EPO

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 17

1. HAARP Effects On Ionosphere
2. Sex in Mount Everest
3. how can ?
4. Leopard frogs
5. marine mammal biology
6. Small-scale carbon sequestration using phytoplankton?
7. Gene copy number: human genes that are rarely deleted or duplicated?
8. House revisited
9. Genes and Genomes
10. Bouncing orbit
11. is this (arch of books) real?
12. Afterburners
13. Mutation in genetic algorihms
14. What is this tree?
15. Optics: 35mm focal length equivalent
16. Identify this snake

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 18

1. Blood arc?
2. Origin of "Global Health"
3. How does an Epipen helping with an allergic reaction?
4. Voyager 2 propulsion
5. the role of condensed milk in the imbibement of coffee?
6. What is the primary purpose of the compression stage in a jet engine?
7. Life extension versus curing diseases one by one
8. Weight of one phytoplankton cell
9. Adult male cat being breastfed by another cat
10. Car mirror -- "closer than they appear"
11. How a 3-year-old might participate in sharing his "knowledge" on Wikipedia: Deep Sea Tube Worms

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 19

1. Cocaine for numbing and other uses
2. Glass Graffiti
3. Abyss of time
4. Human body fat vs. modern synthetic clothing
5. Is my brainwave re: Joining Interplanetary Federation genius or loony?
6. chemistry
7. Destroying an ailanthus
8. Effect of Humidity on visibility
9. List of operational spacecraft in lunar orbit
10. quantum mechanics
11. Mystery ship mutilates seals
12. Megaflow Heating Systems
13. Mixture of energy and matter
14. Puberty and menopause throughout history question
15. Signs > and < with tilde below
16. setting up of a SOLAR POWER PLANT to meet the requirements of a college campus
17. abyss of time
18. car key gets hot
19. Canards
20. Calculating Rising and Setting Times of Stars
21. Cats and dogs

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 20

1. Car antenna
2. Cats' whiskers...
3. Web Bot predicting the future
4. Mathematical computation, Symbol, Electrical check on circuit board
5. Cooking wine?
6. The Universe
7. I'm a Galactic Zookeeper. What are the conditions of my human habitat?
8. Why do humans cover themselves when they sleep?
9. Bad dentist?
10. Nootropics, Ampakines
11. Dilute HCl
12. Odd calculation for Percent Daily Values figures
13. Origin of Life on Earth, compared to other planets
14. Will atheists go to hell?
15. Renewal alkaline batteries recharged in NIMH charger
16. is all jerky salted?
17. Bird identification?
18. The subjective experience of dementia
19. S-duct

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 21

1. Noah's Ark
2. Space related
3. Fishbone getting stuck in throat
4. Adjusting the cost of energy for using carbon
5. Identify this animal
6. Callus
7. The Brain

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 22

1. Strange shadow
2. Water
3. Spider
4. Dissolved oxygen
5. Titan's atmosphere
6. Computer science
7. Instructions for Filtering Water in Urdu Language?
8. For Every Human
9. Laser Cutting of Metal Sheets
10. Yes, but there were no substantial faults in the textbooks WE used!
11. Interspecies crying
12. Contact lenses
13. Thistle varieties that spread by root
14. what kind of spiders?
15. What's in between the dunes?
16. Unknown special character

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 23

1. Wipe chimenea with "oily rag"
2. Best wavelengths for interstellar communication
3. Study of anti-HIV drugs, where there was little evidence of effect as the drugs became widely used by everyone before the trial finished
4. Redox confusion
5. Species
6. Key gets tight in lock
7. Sunny side condensation
8. Abiogenesis and RNA
9. Human feeding
10. Can planets form and orbit around a white dwarf or neutron star?
11. tomatos
12. Honey
13. A couple questions for a sci-fi world
14. Libellula
15. Galilean moons
16. What bug is it?

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 24

1. What kind of lizard is this?
2. Completing my physics education
3. Coral identification (from the Great Barrier Reef)
4. What is Galactic Alignment?
5. Histrionic Personality Disorder
6. Body Fat Level
7. Need help understanding some poorly written chemistry info...
8. Drunk
9. Light
10. Milky Way Galaxy
11. Why did some prick throw a brick into this washing machine?
12. 7 degrees of separation
13. Common Descent
14. Searching for fossils by radar
15. motors
16. Human IQ
17. Floating Metal Ships
18. Medical doctor specialties
19. Unidentified moving blob in a sewer
20. Top soil and a layer of clay

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 25

1. Growing Tree
2. Getting an old scientific article - how?
3. Double check my work?
4. Anesthesia causing nerve damage?
5. Human Appearance and Incest
6. do more socially adept people mind less being lied to?
7. Skin effect and AC resistance
8. biology(human heart rate)
9. What kind of bug is this?
10. Redshifted starlight
11. Stars that have passed near the Sun
12. how to tackle Deliquescence property
13. Water on skin
14. Why does hair grow so long on the human head?
15. Tree with leaves on bottom but not top
16. Breeding

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 26

1. Hitler DNA
2. Mirrors
3. Kalam argument page needs science help
4. Constellations
5. Astrology
6. Minimum-Diameter Nuclear Weapon Physics-Package
7. Non-magnetic plasma?
8. The Growth of Knowledge
9. When is the Age of Aquarius?
10. T-Rex
11. life on other planets
12. ghosts
13. Carbon Excretion
14. energy question
15. Aurochs
16. Sun
17. Clock
18. reading from your peripheral vision

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 27

1. Lard as sunscreen...?
2. What is the wind-water-solar climate change mitigation scenario atmospheric carbon projection?
3. Sam and Ella over easy
4. Sourdough starter
5. mechanics
6. know
7. White onion
8. Mars drill
9. Who invented Galvani cell (aka galvani element)?
10. Velocity and acceleration
11. A likely name for a science fictional superhard material
12. Parallel connection of two sets of batteries
13. 3D jumping spider
14. Memory loss caused by Urinary Tract Infection - UTI

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 28

1. Strength of piss
2. about ICs
3. A gas that clumps together in a gravity environment?
4. Bicycle physics
5. pituitarum
6. Meaning of 'Red" in Red-Al
7. Entropy
8. What is the solubility of polystyrene in acetone?
9. Herbal remedies
10. Wind on mars
11. sneeze
12. sequence, chain, scheme
13. Synthetic cannabis
14. Dragonfly Species Identification
15. Guy being electrocuted

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 29

1. Surgery help
2. What virus killed the most people ever?
3. Another spider identification
4. The Major Bones , Muscles , Muscles Joints and Joint actions involved in Baseball batting
5. Incorruptibility of Bernadette Soubirous
6. Giraffe
7. Does Japanese longevity still stand after fraud relevations?
8. Please help me shop for pool urine highlighters?
9. water (specifically on Mars)
10. Dogs burying bones
11. Coin
12. Climbing Olympus Mons?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 30

1. Fishtank blind spot
2. Electrocution?
3. Starched shirt
4. Eric Harris
5. Water and Electricity
6. Any way to cut a steel cable with common tools?
7. Deep Blue vs. Deep Blue
8. Cactus / Agavaceae
9. Is it possible to test if the universe/multiverse is infinite?
10. liquid air
11. Why did clear polypropylene become whitish after melting & resolidifying?
12. Candle dynamics / design, wicking
13. water (on any planet)
14. Cordless power supply
15. Mixing unknown chemicals

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 August 31

1. Absolute vs. invariant
2. Solar system
3. The lack of progress in motor vehicles
4. Vision at the speed of light
5. Direction of Earth's Revolution
6. "Reverse osmosis"
7. I have a theory on what the crystal skulls actually are
8. Eye Surgery
9. At North Pole
10. DIET PILL OVERDOSE
11. How To Pronounce "Feynman"
12. Number of boobies
13. Sodium bicarbonate deodorant properties
14. F5
15. Binoculars - minimum focusing distance
16. Cats' senses