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July 1
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- Adultration
- Unmanned Aircraft
- Freezing Cheese: Good or Bad
- QAM query
- statistics
- Help with electronics
- Additional Help with Electronics
- Figure of the Earth image
- Space program benefits
- physics
- Endorphin as drug
- Insulators for copper wiring
July 2
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- Infantry vs. tank
- Evolution - Woman as Well?
- What is the process of decompossition of the human body?
- Cavity in a Unifomly charged solid sphere..
- Can I get fully solved IIT-JEE question papers in Physics (mechanics only) of past 10-20 years?
- What defines a yeast?
- How fast does the "wind" go when we blow on something?
- Tree identification
- Crude oil estimates
- Drafting
- Biting fly
- Why are Galaxies disc shaped?
July 3
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- House water pressure from flow rate?
- Tell diffrence
- Skin color of ancient Egyptians
- hypoglycemia vs hypertriglycerides
- Why don't spaceships turn into blackholes
- Wheat allergies
- botanical name
- Species with long luteal phase
- Material acting like Maxwell's demon?
- Shooting down the barrel of a tank
- Strange skull
- basic difference between stroke and depression?
- Gnat ID
July 4
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- Trivalve moluscs
- Is tungsten ferromagnetic?
- where do herring gulls and black back gulls sleep at night?
- Battery-powered microphone amplifier
- Termite control in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
- Overlapping tidal radii
- convert -
- Simple mechanics.
- Bounce
- Relativity and communication speed
July 5
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- Houdini exhumation
- Future Indian Ocean Earthquake
- Antarcticine
- Metrication in Greece
- Spin
- Quantum numbers
- Can crouching, breathing deeply, rising quickly lead to fainting?
- electromagnetic force uses photons as a mediator
- Why do s-orbitals always take part in hybridistion?
- Platypus evolution
- The LHC and the end of the world
- What the hell is going on here!?
July 6
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- Colorado 14ers
- Trans Ischemic Attack - same symptoms as stroke in sever cases?
- brilliant blue fcf
- Unexplained Magnetic Phenomenon - Childhood question
- Evolution of Evolution
- Unleaded fuel
- Courage
- Life in free-fall
- Iron lattice
- Flashes from Zen Vision W
- Citing
- Breeding spiders
July 7
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- what kind of snake?
- What percent of heart attacks go undetected each year?
- Similiar heartbeats
- Can vets tell what Animal species
- Hertz.
- chemitry
- Need Help Identifying Scary and Fast Bug.
- "Universe in My Thumb"
- How could this be?
- sunrise and sunset
- Hertz.
- menigocele
- About Hedgehogs
- orgasms
- If poisoning occurs (with depilatory wax)
- Color and Smell changes, Why?
- Measuring Power
- Pet Budgerigars and mirrors
- Airplane engines "opening" up
- Strips of metal hanging in unfinished buildings
- Organic chemistry reaction
July 8
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- Saving electricity by unplugging apliances?
- Survival versus reproduction
- Space Time
- science
- ibs
- Brain communication and handedness
- bond energy
- holes in chest
- How to determine the right direction of an insert in a plasmid?
- Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 8#Purity of CO2
- Talk:Composition of the human body
July 9
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- Just thinking
- my BG sound
- Megabats as “flying primates”?
- Lice
- Lice 2
- Mortice Locks
- Minnesota Skid
- Black people, poison ivy, lice
- primates
- Engine slows you down?
- Muscles
- some naive hypothesis at odds with basis of physic- what wrong with them ?
- Self-replication in open thermodynamics??
- Why does the temperature decrease with increasing altitude?
- "cynical but open minded" etc
- Formula to determine water flow rates and temperatures to maintain tank temperature.
- Name of hard cardboard-like stuff
- Perfluorocarbon
- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his glasses.
- Penises
- I'm really looking for an answer other than "carefully" here...
- Mindtrap
July 10
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- PMS citation needed
- High Frequency Electric Signal Over a Buffered Solution
- Do trees ever grow up ?
- Ammonium methanide
- Decibel question
- GAS TO ELECTRIC POWER
- pharmacy education in europe
- Exercise
- African Americans and Sickle Cell Anemia
- Non-steam coal engine technology?
- Static build up on my cable modem?
- inequalities for one-dimensional Schroedinger equation (moved from Math desk)
- Process Engineering
- some naive hypothesis at odds with basis of physic----- what wrong with them ?
- Clawed Lobster Population
- quantum mechanics, laplacian
- Oil from plant cuttings and wood chips
- Two questions about calorie use
- Closed Timelike Curve question
July 11
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- Can I feed Rich tea and other hard biscuits to the larids?
- Auditioning loudspeakers - is it a con?
- I have no interest in physics and math
- Antimatter into Matter
- I haerd rumors about this? In 2012, the Earth will be gone?
- Hooke's Law
- Infra red lamps
- Losing a finger
- Myth: darkest night
- Oxidation of potatoes
- ELECTRIC CURRENT
- growing potatoes.
- Systems engineering
July 12
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- bee-wasp from Rockton, Illinois
- dopamine meaning in evolvement history
- chronic eye infection
- Mechanism of phase boundary catalysis with 18-crown-6
- Is this an ant?
- Tyre pressure
- ohm resistance
- telescope
- habits of cobras of Thailand
- Miacis
- Shaolin Monks
- BDA
- fractionating column
July 13
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- The other week someone said that the African grey parrot was probably the most intelligent dinosaur ever
- Danger of downed wires during a flood
- My potato question
- question about baseballs and wind resistance
- Atoms
- High temperature changes on the human body
- Two-liter bottle (PET) adhesive
- Body weight
- negative effects of cooking gas
- Blood types: who is my father
- Conductive napalm? Railgun + conductive flammable liquid = long range flamethrower?
- Ultraviolet light
July 14
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- colostrum
- Bond Energy & EN
- economics
- Gyroscopic Precession
- Question about contantness of physical laws
- bones transformation
- 50 - 75 - 83 - 91 - 96 - 98 - 99% - clone
- Fetus blood type
July 15
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- Is it safe to mix isopropyl alcohol and ammonia?
- Hemispheres
- Eye sight & Dental Infections/dental procedures
- Can anyone help out the Natural History Museum
- Sugar in a gas tank
- history question
- Can one person create the sound of a barber-shop quartet?
- Running vs Walking
- about "some naive hypothesis at odds with basis of physik "
- Why don't leaves form a thin layer like a bag over a tree?
- wearing glasses
July 16
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- astronomy
- More odd bird behaviour on YouTube...
- Size of the Internet
- JITENDRA ARYA QUESTION ABOUT DISEASE
- An inter-fabric-of-cosmos-wormhole/grayhole
- Energy Drinks (E.g. Lucozade)
- The discrete movements of chickens
- Calibration
- Unknown plant
- astrophysics
- are these people crazy??
- is there a distance where eye focus and binocular effect disappears?
July 17
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- Question regarding chemical hybridization
- Can a kangaroo outbox a human boxer?
- Concentration of biotin in egg yolk.
- litmus
- Dream length
- Chicxulub & the Deccan Traps: Antipodal Connection?
- Funny feeling in your forehead
- Why would a dark brown haired man find about 4 red beard hairs?
- Zebra foals
- Free articles
- Beer head
- What is the coal-fired power plant with the highest capacity?
- Electromagnetic hover thingy
- Webless spider
- Research in statistics
July 18
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- Over-the-counter diet pills/supplements
- Carbon dioxide benefit
- first human lunar mission
- Carbon dioxide risk
- Blood supply
- How is body mass index really defined?
- A Possible Method for Tachyon Formation and A Possible Method for Superluminal information transfer
- hypopthetical global warming
- Peruvian tropical cyclones and the Humboldt current?
- CP-violation and the shape of the universe
- Zipcodezoo
- Disadvantages of coilguns and railguns
July 19
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- Obesity
- AIDS Cure Deadline?
- Alcohol dimer formation
- Aspartame lead to drowsiness?
- Dominant trait = better trait?
- Ultimate fate of the universe/black holes
- Establishing a space colony
- This chemistry is impossible
- Effects of a Small Ice Age on Hay Fever Sufferers
July 20
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- Sildenafyl Citrate
- gas flaring
- Universe Expansion
- Salt in medicine
- Olive oil in medicine
- Disadvantages of cholesterol drugs
- asteroid - earth impact
- Midget sub in Birkenhead
- Can someone help me in my own noble pursuit of all the world's (scientific) knowledge?
- How does the odor of rotten food make us gag?
- Blowing up nuclear powered vehicles
- Seagull dawn chorus of squawks
July 21
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- Iron magnet
- Microwave oven
- Wind vortex experiment
- Skin Bleaching
- Shallow seas
- Stability of bikes with different wheel-sizes
- POPCORN EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUALS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES, INSULIN DEPENDENT?
- Fan blades and turbine blades
- Recycling, is it a stupid thing to do?
- Sugar water wine
- Another question about wind farms
- Charcoal
July 22
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- vapour adsorption refrigeration system
- The brightest question on the science desk!
- So, how did a butterfly end up being named 'Common Gull'?
- Do We Reduced Brain Power (Energy Save Mode like a laptop)
- Boiling Water at a different tempreture to its boiling point.
- Named storm in Atlantic crossing over into Pacific
- Aphasia only when alone? Or just refusing to talk to oneself?
- Rodent identification
- Heat and tiredness
July 23
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- Theory of subspace model
- hamburger
- science
- repetitive behavior
- Methotrexate in use for RA
- mostly water
- biochar
- Temperature scales
- physiology of respiratory system
- Water turns cloudy after boiling
- Salmons - polyphyletic or paraphyletic?
- Nuclear Physics
- is cortisone synthetic cortisol?
July 24
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- Arctic flora?
- Sunglasses
- Nano water
- Can hydrogen peroxide destroy a man?
- Helicopter: blades vs. turbine
- Several dozen at least ?
- Seeing colours where there are none
- Quasers
- Building projects
- Pre Bigbang Theory
- Apothecary symbols
- Is there any drug that does this?
July 25
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- Evolution of dogs
- The mechanics of graden furniture (AKA "garden furniture")
- High Fructose corn syrup
- Antimatter and matter
- Sign of the wavefunction
- Neonatal Circumcision as a preventative measure against HIV...
- Catalyst?
- Collisional quenching rate constants for some excited states of N2 and N2+ in helium
- Insect Survival
- Shark vs. Crocodile. Who is stronger?
- Electronic interference on airplanes
- EMP against guns
- Why do some birds have long tails?
July 26
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- Brain development
- Treated or untreated lumber?
- Anti-Light
- A question on civilization and cooling
- Rashes from insect bites
- Getting Punched in the Stomach And Its Effects On The Digestive System
- biology
- bacteria longevity
- Antlions and Rain
- What is this plant?
- black hole theories
July 27
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- Where is you stomach?
- Polycarbonate against glass causes oily looking adhesions
- The insecure narcissist?
- g-force
- Removal of spleen, lymphnode and thymus
- "the button"
- Is Purell safe to drink?
- Suicide thoughts sympton or illness
- Foam on the beach
- Collection of gas over water
- Information!
- New surgical procedure
- Quality of medical reliable sources
July 28
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- Is there a combination of foods that can explode in a peron's stomache?
- A confusing post
- Dolmen construction
- which kidney works first?
- Refridgerators
- Energy efficiency of a human compared to a robot
- Common cold and sense of smell
- Panadol and fever
- How to answer this child's question
- Respiration
- I just saw a bat!
- Why do black things radiate more?
- question about Uniform circular motion
July 30
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July 29
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- What was the last species to become extinct?
- Organ Donation
- Feasibility of a vapor and vacuum-based engine?
- Teeth during pregnancy
- Nature paper
- Organic chem
- igneous rocks
- do we explode in outer space?
- fast room cooling solution
- Tallest mountain in Earth's history?
- So I'm driving in my car
- Missed or irregular heart beats
July 30
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- Redefining the metre
- Diamagnetic materials
- Grizzly bear
- Faraday vs. Lenz
- Fleas on Horses or Cows
- Ocean smell
- PLZ GIVE ME THE FORMULAE
- Does the photon exist?
- rember?
- The abbreviations "T.C." and "T.C.D." on a plot plan
- The shortest research paper abstract
- Cat behavior
- Maximum size of a star
- The Development of Oxygen
- Rubber band plane.
July 31
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- Touch pads
- Odor spectrum
- Name of measure of time
- [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 31#|]]
- Capillary waves on a lake
- Optical illusion, disappearing image
- semiconductors
- Bug I.D. of the day
- Tree I.D. of the day
- Logical calculation
- unidentified bird
- mega-tsunami dynamics
- Quad-core processors