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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 1

1. Time reckoning of cosmic evolution
2. Earth circumference

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 2

1. Momentum vs. acceleration: baseball situation.
2. The size of the Milky Way Galaxy
3. Old difficult to pin-point acidosis source

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 3

1. Psychology question
2. Electron and gaussian sphere
3. Pluto's minor planet designation
4. Lorentz force équivalence for magnetic dipole

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 5

1. Somebody has decided that a Slow worm is "a squamata" and not "a reptile".

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 6

1. Engineering question: water flowing through a steel pipe.
2. Plant question: does UV harm fruit more after it left the plant?

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 7

1. If liquid nitrogen weren't so cold, could you safely drink it?
2. Humans in Arabian Desert
3. Hubble exposure time allocation per orbit

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 8

1. Physics Question

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 11

1. Parrots and cuttlefish bones

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 12

1. Spiral galaxy

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 13

1. Why doesn't Britain grow berries that are well known in Finland?
2. Why is Hawaii so lumpy?

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 14

1. Solar-powering a freezer: how much anti-freeze water to keep contents frozen overnight

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 15

1. Artificial improvement of acoustic transmission
2. Besides the telegraph key...

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 16

1. Light travel delay and observation of astronomical objects
2. Electron charge and speed

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 17

1. Red-green colorblind.
2. Does the sea need rain?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 18

1. Climate
2. Disproportionate toxicity of small animals
3. Lina Medina

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 19

1. Bird ears

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 22

1. Can something be radioactive and chemiluminscent?

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 23

1. Measurement of the components of a radio wave
2. Term for not getting something

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 24

1. Big Bang and JWST rumors

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 25

1. Guaranteed twins

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 27

1. Lorentz force and moving magnetic flux

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 29

1. Measurements of an indented wheel

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 August 30

1. Origin of the theory of relativity