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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 1

1. Industrial Revolution and Coal
2. Eliptical Machines
3. Alexander graham bell
4. Lizzie Velazquez - A Rare Condition
5. Air refueling stealth fighters
6. Gravitational and magnetic force
7. Any studies on whether whale strandings may have analogue in human stampedes?
8. Understanding the EPR paradox
9. Astronomical naming conventions
10. Rydberg molecular hydrogen
11. Brain question
12. CO2 laser - output power versus input.

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 2

1. New comet and meteor shower
2. Plants on Mars
3. At what distance from our sun would Sirius and the sun have the same brightness?
4. Physics and chemistry questions
5. Professional engineers
6. Logic
7. nicotine inhaler

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 3

1. Hobbitses
2. Name that fish part 2: Green-eyed monster
3. Name that flower
4. Galvanic action between stainless steel pot and aluminum lid
5. Why do you get x² times the kinetic energy from x times the joules?
6. Facial recognition after many years
7. Taj Mahal question
8. Clean big city water supplies
9. Why doesn't color-safe bleach (or bleach in general) oxidize the material of cotton clothes ?
10. Solving linear equation
11. Inhaling baby powder
12. Cleaning a fish tank
13. Is this aircraft an A330?
14. Alcohol and illness

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 4

1. Observable universe
2. Microscope image identification
3. Electromagnetic wave
4. Validating the Big Bang or is it unfalsifiable?
5. Frame of reference
6. bitcoin
7. Coastal armoring thoughts
8. what is the pH of borate-carbonate-bicarbonate solution? why is no formula given for the pH calculation of a hetereogeneous buffer solution? is the pH of an amino acid solution its pI?
9. Syrian missiles
10. Railroad switch question

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 5

1. "Acute in age"
2. Science Olympiad
3. Lever frame
4. Recession
5. sleeping with makeup on -- does your skin really need the oxygen?
6. Sintering Metal and Ceramic together
7. Pineapple pee

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 6

1. Freezing water
2. turning flourescent lights off and on
3. Pseudosynesthesia
4. How long will blood stain and semen stain persist, respectively?
5. why did people evolve to feel "hot"?
6. Moon and milk
7. Questions About Pregnancy
8. Tangential velocity of galaxies

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 7

1. Choke holds
2. Bug identification
3. Synchronous motor
4. Existance of Truly Non-Symmetrical Creatures
5. Is it true that the more human hair is smoothstraight, the more it is likely to dropout?
6. Quantum fuse
7. I've always experienced basements to remain at a comfortable temperature, but now I live in a house where it's nearly as hot/cold as outdoors. Why?
8. Does paper really dull scissors faster than cloth does?
9. Sawtoothed bayonets

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 8

1. How strong magnetic field at a distance from a magnetic source?
2. Syrian airforce
3. IC4-trains
4. Electrons
5. Is Anthropogenic Global Warming falsifiable?
6. How Ears and Eyes Extract Frequency?
7. liquid nitrogen condensing liquid oxygen
8. Rainbow colored clouds?

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 9

1. a map showing the international date line in the middle
2. Hand grenade
3. North Pole & South Pole questions
4. Why do electrons, nucleons, stars, and planets have spherical shape ?
5. Capacitor article, what does Pand Vc stand for?
6. Strength of gravity anomalies on earth
7. AL Amyloidosis Prognosis
8. Electronic configuration of copper and chromium
9. Why are all milk frothing mugs made out of stainless steel?
10. Three questions
11. nanotube compressed air storage
12. What is the difference between anode rays and canal rays ?
13. Buoyant force
14. Butterfly flight

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 10

1. Hand grenade, part 2
2. Oxygen, fire, and inorganic
3. Why is the ampere and not the coulomb an SI fundamental unit?
4. Precor treadmill's interval settings
5. How does the Mola Mola defend itself

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 11

1. Bonus question: the Mola Mola 'Niche'?
2. Last grenade question, I promise
3. Death
4. hydraulics question
5. ImageJ macro for batch merge of images
6. is Asian male facial hair easier to wax than Caucasian facial hair?
7. Laser harp making
8. The clock's onomatopoeia
9. The current flu going around

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 12

1. Apophis 2029 and satellites
2. Mali
3. Measuring sleep deprivation while on prescription stimulants
4. Human evolution
5. A question about Ions
6. Science behind dry hair
7. Do Identical twins have the same type of DNA and if so,why their behavior is different?
8. a wormhole is two black holes?
9. large quasar group
10. Oriole question
11. Black swallow-wort
12. Mottaphobia
13. melting point

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 13

1. Polarization of light
2. Iron man
3. Tuatara - a third eye in humans too?
4. DNA Testing
5. Tellurium suboxide = tellurium monoxide?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 14

1. The oxide layer of magnesium ribbon
2. Dietary supplement question
3. force versus pressure diagram
4. Bulk Viscosity
5. Brightness-dependent monitor buzzing
6. Rainbow and stars
7. Computer analysis of writing style
8. Fossil Diatoms in a New Carbonaceous Meteorite
9. Why can I sometimes understand meow intonation (I think)?
10. Will earth change its axial tilt
11. Estimated solar radii

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 15

1. Piggyback IC picture?
2. I perused the archives but . . . anal sex question
3. iPhone 5 Vibration in Response to Rubbing
4. Evolution (type)
5. Chimney cleaning
6. Gender differences in autism spectrum disorders
7. K in KCl
8. Acceleration of acceleration
9. milliequivalent
10. Pluto and Neptune collision
11. is this correct?

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 16

1. :File:Unknown hairy creature on stump.jpg
2. Mars may get humid and muggy?
3. Hamiltonian
4. Harmful effect of excessive masturbation - Cortisol production
5. Please help (weight of air)
6. Vitamin K2 in ((Vitamins)) nav-box
7. Animal behaviour
8. Sudden blindness
9. ImageJ macro for batch merge of images
10. effect of touch
11. How hot?

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 17

1. Nickel replacing magnesium in geoporphyrin
2. Atomic/Ionic Radii
3. Olive-colored matters in cooked crabs and crayfish
4. Perception of time between age groups?
5. Tangerine peel oil and styrofoam cup
6. Boeing 787 manufacturing locations of windshields and fuel tanks
7. Which article is this?

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 18

1. V-engine with unequal stroke lengths on different banks
2. Seismic morse code
3. Reason for glass being transparent face on but opaque edge on
4. 12cm
5. Neurotransmitters - if someone is being hard with dancing in clubs
6. Alex Hum
7. mrsa
8. heatwave?

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 19

1. About AHL
2. Astronauts talking in space
3. Aurora
4. Two bar magnets tied together
5. Gas from posterior side of body
6. Semiautomatic cook off
7. Is there relation between yank and work ?
8. How images of galaxies are taken?
9. if light is just electromagnetic spectrum, why don't we have electric web cams with equal precision?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 20

1. What happen to helium in our sun
2. why is this not used in air?
3. oligomers and monomers
4. polymerisation
5. chemistry [polymer chemistry]
6. RF interference
7. Altitude / temperature
8. why when people have fever the feel colder?
9. Out of battery detonation
10. Electrical conduction
11. tDCS for insomnia?
12. Nuclear fusion to produce phosphorus
13. Electric current through gases
14. Hydrolysis of Phosphodiester bond in DNA
15. compressing gas into a cylinder

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 21

1. Hot water in pan
2. Battery paradox
3. Railgun on the moon
4. Microphone physically attached on a string
5. Disposing of Cooking Oil
6. Quantum mechanical question. in a physical sense of actual reality (what is true) does the mathematical identity function (
7. common ways to relieve heart palpitations
8. Why do airships exploit lift so little?

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 22

1. In time of need, can the Male body metabolize Gynecomastia's Connective tissue?
2. RNA primer instead of DNA prime
3. Why were my questions removed?!
4. Bad guys drugging good guys
5. Experimental Medicine
6. Trip hammer mechanics
7. Requirements of control panel for seismic relay.
8. Fire Drills
9. Barter prices for iron in ancient and medieval times compared to other goods
10. Help me identify an insect
11. Unknown plant

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 23

1. Do grass grow?
2. Why doesn't the sun float away like a balloon?
3. Passing out when hurt and evolution
4. Curricula/syllabuses for math & science education in secondary education
5. The Chinese "Popcorn" Cannon
6. Voltage required to accelerate a proton?
7. Lifespan of a blackhole
8. Sound
9. Does this show us something new about African Grey Parrot behaviour?
10. Math for astronomy degrees?

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 24

1. USAGE OF DNA PRIMER
2. Neurotheology
3. Displacement of a body on a circular path
4. Why do electrons emit photon, not other particles ?
5. "Best" university of natural sciences / math in New York City
6. Some simple questions
7. Why do we feel more pain in winter than in summer ?
8. Klebsiella pneumoniae
9. Typesetting and the perception of wordy/terse prose
10. Inner horizon of a supermassive black hole
11. body turning to stone
12. Exercise and Sleep

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 25

1. Cellular co-transport
2. Different types of pepper
3. Why do we cry?
4. Prenates and Being Alive
5. Poor eyesight and the black death
6. Tidal locking planets
7. Can insects get angry?
8. Danceable pulsars

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 26

1. Opel truck
2. Nutrition facts of cooked chicken
3. Rain = snow depth
4. Formal term for re-mapping of a set of values to other values.

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 27

1. Does the dog recognize me?
2. Interchangeable parts?
3. Wooden coffer
4. Stone Age Malthusianism and Cornucopianism
5. Proton Density of Various Materials
6. Contributing to medical knowledge
7. If they give an IQ test to someone who's had a coma, do they subtract the coma length from the chronological age?
8. Seasonal changes in temperature

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 28

1. Why don't the the sunrise and sunset times go the other way at the solstice?
2. ninhydrin
3. T90 and leclerc tanks autoloader
4. Great Lakes region before last glacial period
5. Chicken nutrition revisited
6. Resonant frequency of an inductor
7. Sci fi
8. diabtes
9. Leg cramps
10. The rank of gram positive bacteria

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 29

1. Question about the Sunrise and Sunset
2. why isn't drinking yourself to death a more popular suicide option?
3. Genus outbreeding
4. Aakash Institute
5. Planet or satellites with the direction revolution opposite to that of its rotation
6. Manometery equation
7. No sound
8. music and heat

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 30

1. Existance of solid state variable inductors?
2. Menopause for trees
3. Name of the diagnostic test shown in the movie Exorcist
4. Dynamics of a planetoid being captured by a star
5. National Geographic's raving review of biochar
6. measuring decarboxylase activity
7. Sick
8. 13.7 billion years

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 31

1. I asked this but maybe wasn't clear enough... (3D depth detection)
2. I feel like I'm programmed to be racist
3. RF interference - update
4. the temperature of nucleon
5. natural elements
6. The difference between ice and snow?
7. Electric discharge in vacuum
8. Armour and Antiarmour I
9. Armour and Antiarmour II
10. Funny taste when reboiling water
11. Armour and Antiarmour III
12. Turtle survives 30 years in a storage room?