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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 1

1. Lexell's Comet

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 2

1. Are the chromosomes in human nucleus with different genes or the same?
2. Psychology of introverts who have given up with close friends and relationships
3. Ideal Gas Problem
4. Astronomy: How does an object get in a Lagrange point?
5. DNA analysis of siblings

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 3

1. Outstretched Fingers Form Circular Pattern
2. Diesel engines

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 4

1. Please ID the flower
2. SpaceX
3. Is there or was there a diseases so called "hadroken" or "hadrokan"?
4. Quantum spin pairing in atomic and molecular species
5. Is there a scientific basis for the claim that carbonated water expand the stomach?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 5

1. Scientifically, is it possible to improve IQ score?
2. Measles
3. When 20 is not the double of 10 in a scale
4. Children of homosexual couples.

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 6

1. Why soda (Sodium bicarbonate) isn't considered as anti acidic drug?

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 7

1. Does hypoalbuminemia causes decrease in oncotic pressure or osmotic pressure?
2. Why in starvation there is mainly ascites rather than edema?
3. Hæmatophyte (plant blood parasites)
4. A claim in an alternative medicine book
5. Did the eating of crabs and anchovies originate in South America?

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 8

1. Full face diving mask Vs mouth piece

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 9

1. Puncture repair patches - what's the orange stuff?

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 10

1. Surviving a firenado
2. Why are the Great Plains of North America not considered to be a system of piedmont plateaus?
3. High index lenses
4. How do Voltage converters deal with Hz?

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 11

1. copper pitchers for storing drinking water
2. Doctors that refuse abortions
3. Japanese home appliances in a country split between a 50 Hz and 60 Hz power grid?

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 12

1. Glandular fever not found in a blood test, even though it's supposed to remain in the body for life
2. Spatial memory

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 13

1. Millipede legs; restriction on total number
2. And again I know nothing about birds
3. Vitamin B11

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 14

1. Mass of earth over time

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 15

1. Photography - tracking fast moving subjects
2. Differences between hydrogen and most elements
3. Rinsing out a vessel

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 16

1. Fed wasabi peanuts to seagull
2. Molecular term symbols and electronic configurations
3. Planting with a machine gun
4. When Trans woman get breasts from hormones or surgery, can they feed babies breast milk?
5. Horse chestnut sap causing blue colour

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 17

1. Impairment of dolphin function during sleep
2. Nutrition: How long does it take to add 10 kg (22 lb) to one's weight, while consuming 5000 kcal per day (by eating cakes)?
3. Drowning spiders
4. Ownership of Ryugu and Ceres

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 18

1. Vickers Hardness Number Notation
2. Calibrate radiation detector
3. What enzymes take place in glucose re-absorption?
4. mystery spider
5. Reference Desk Staff
6. Lead soldered kettle

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 19

1. Does gravity always point to *somewhere* in the Earth's core?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 20

1. Photon as "information"
2. Balance and vision
3. How germs get inside the body
4. Upside down glasses
5. Rubbing alcohol
6. NIST and WTC's dust

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 21

1. Giving birth

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 22

1. Light on the Explorer 1 rocket

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 23

1. How much water is needed to block various species from reaching an island they would've thrived on if there was a landbridge?

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 24

1. Removing water to connect all current land...
2. How do weeds manage to grow without a drop of water in the soil?
3. Deploying Compost in Extreme Heat.
4. Insect from eastern Quebec

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 25

1. Why can Labrador get so hot?
2. Not sure why this doesn't break the Second Law of Thermodynamics

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 26

1. Stomach usually gurgles on the left side
2. Not eating or drinking before surgery
3. Seeking an identification for this caterpillar found in garden. Somerset UK

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 27

1. Definition of episomal
2. AA and KSD

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 28

1. Hearing: difference in sensitivity to harmonics and intermodulation.
2. Red meat and diabetes
3. Tractor model (Montana 1991)

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 29

1. Force in rocketry, possibly for quarks inside proton, anywhere else?
2. Sonorescence
3. Different expression levels from same reporter inserted into the same place in the genome

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 30

1. Is the average unpalatability of the plant kingdom (not counting parts the plant wants eaten) increasing over time?
2. Chemical elements and the next, nearest one
3. How is the optical effect called when you laquer carbon fiber?

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 31

1. croaking frog stopping
2. Shark in bleach solution
3. Apollo 11 splash down module
4. Antifungal cream