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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 1

1. Modified Newtonian dynamics
2. How do oral ansthestics with benzocaine work?
3. ear piercing
4. The secret magic of color intensity?
5. GPS suction cup problem
6. Physical Examination and Vital Signs
7. Phenobarb level
8. Incomputable things.
9. Contorting the human body
10. PhL, Ph1, Ph2
11. 3 questions of the nature of electricity
12. Are phosphate esters chiral?
13. Weak interaction: help
14. Short English People
15. Eating a diamond
16. Centre of the Universe

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 2

1. measuring and irrational numbers
2. True or false? (about frogs)
3. dimensions
4. Maxwellian conflict
5. Historical scientific measurements

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 3

1. observing the observer
2. dividing some random units
3. ie (Internet Explorer)
4. Sydney Basin
5. Oral Polio vaccine controversies
6. Immbolization and chest pain
7. Allergy to Meperidine
8. Gravity
9. Shannon diversity, notation
10. what is magnetic polarity in a electric current
11. STS-133 and auroras
12. One eye
13. Is the Big Bang, a fact?

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 4

1. Refusal to investigate the existance of God.
2. Flower identification
3. Einstein in the Manhattan Project
4. Time-travel photography
5. Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Why the glacially slow testing of the blowout preventer?
6. Where do very sticky stickers come from?
7. Marshmallows in the microwave
8. An infestation of ladybugs
9. Pouring liquids
10. Apple pH

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 5

1. An attempted desription of Eternity,
2. What makes tape sticky
3. energy
4. Food spoilage rates
5. Run Lola Run “sideways thru time” question
6. Kolmogorov complexity
7. Are gays and lesbians fertile?
8. Skyscraper
9. Looking for an electronic engineering journal
10. adaptive features of fish
11. inverting integrators and time integral of voltage
12. Image of a moleclue

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 6

1. Better quality rest giving better quality work
2. Where is water taken up in the digestive system?
3. Two questions about filters
4. If there's a heart defibrillator, why isn't there a brain defibrillator?
5. weather
6. Testosterone as an anti-depressant in men
7. Period & Bloating
8. Life on meteorites?
9. weird question about evolution
10. lamps
11. florida homes
12. Energy Densiy of Vacuum Quantum Fluctuations

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 7

1. Reactions with super-heavy elements?
2. The highest temperature
3. exploding of supernova
4. Petrochemical Distallation
5. Where are the batteries on this bike?
6. Excavations at ancient battle sites
7. Budgerigar 'charming'?
8. Acrylamide in commercial breads
9. Cleaning bones
10. Pistol shrimp & goby fish
11. doxycycline

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 8

1. Blood erythritol
2. Gear trains
3. Autotrophic respiration
4. Flight angle
5. spin
6. I have a question.
7. efficiency
8. Standardization in Redox Titrations
9. Inheritance traits and DNA
10. Speed of back-and-forth motion

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 9

1. dust mite covers and bed bugs
2. Antimatter explosion
3. Aftertaste
4. Activity series
5. Equivalence at Inflection
6. aransremen
7. Life expectancy according to age
8. Ants that like sweat or human sweat?
9. How many human species coexisted with eachother?
10. Premature babies
11. Airbus 321, air speed

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 10

1. Cyclohexane smell
2. A "fuel savings device" question
3. cdma2000
4. entanglement
5. Myasthenia Gravis
6. Feeling cold in the morning and body weight
7. Will Global Warming cause the Moon recede faster or slower from the Earth?
8. Chemical catalog
9. Solution of NaOH at 40% m/m
10. Does copier or printer ink contain metal?
11. Probability cloud of a free electron?
12. magnetic earth

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 11

1. 18 year Lunar Perigee effects on tides?
2. Diet theory
3. monopole
4. Drugs
5. Big rip or Big crunch?
6. Zoologist specialising in Lepidoptera, "Busck", active beginning to mid C20?
7. A F Braun, Lepidoptera, active mid C20
8. Japanese and Chinese earthquakes
9. Changing # of chromosomes in evolution
10. Strange breakers on Japanese Tsunami
11. Air circulation
12. This should be a synch...
13. Starvation and blindness

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 12

1. how does a vacant space,hole( in electronis) have a mass?
2. Beyaz and Natazia
3. Why is blood typing routine in Mexico, but not in the United States?
4. Tokyo's earthquake
5. India a super power?
6. F.A.G.E?
7. Potentiometric Titration
8. How did mid-twentieth-century fixists explain the dovetailing opposite coasts of the Atlantic Ocean?
9. Limestone flakes changing color
10. Preventing earthquake/Tsunami damage by triggering them?
11. Seamounts and faults focus tsunamis?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 13

1. Changes in personality test results and IQ when the subject is drunk
2. Why do nuclear reactors have batteries for cooling?
3. production of hydrogen from cooling water in nuclear accident -- was it a thermal decomposition?
4. say me what are you thinking about this subject
5. Hypertension and Asthma
6. Why so cloudy on Venus ?
7. Video
8. To boldly go, though dead, where no man has gone before...
9. With so many power plants out of commission, how will Japan import the needed power in the shorter term?
10. Form work of Plinth Beam or Shuttering of Plinth Beam
11. R68: Possible risk of irreversible effects
12. Relativity postulates/ Frames of reference/ Escape velocity
13. Bus travel

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 14

1. Best tsunami strategy for boats?
2. How far inland did the Sendai tsunami wave travel?
3. A wave question
4. Lack of preparation for foreseeable events at nuke plants
5. The optical properties of ptfe (teflon)
6. Characteristics of crab nebula
7. Evolution of the solar core?
8. My BS detector ...
9. nuclear plant questions
10. Sound of the Japanese earthquake
11. Largest earthquake in human history
12. What would happen, if wet hair would get into contact with electricity?
13. Thirsty nuclear reactor
14. Science Fiction Detachable Fingertips
15. What is the difference between convection and conduction
16. Silicon boiling point
17. when diesel power failed why not restart one of the reactors & it's generator?
18. Mattress

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 15

1. Were Neanderthals more intelligent?
2. atomic structure
3. Space colonization
4. Hormones
5. Simple chalk oscillator
6. Grains of salt/sand/sugar in a cup
7. after effects of radiation in india

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 16

1. Possible causes for temporary blindness due to car crash
2. Which salt water, with a lot of salt or little salt, absorbs heat more quickly?
3. Real E.T. or Hoax
4. remote controlled helicopter
5. Question about light clocks/ time dilation?
6. Cooling the inside of the building
7. what happens if signal peptidase malfunctions and fails to cleave the signal sequence?
8. Flocking birds in SE England
9. Arrow of time
10. Energy Catalyzer
11. How effectively can control rods stop fission?
12. Bird ID help...
13. Speed of WiFi
14. What substance has the highest known melting point?
15. Where are the robots?

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 17

1. How often does Sansevieria trifasciata bloom?
2. Scent
3. More examples of millisievert doses?
4. Full meltdown?
5. Earths axis
6. Storing electricity via “counterbalance” batteries?
7. What exactly is the reason for the radioactivity?
8. Iodized salt instead of iodide tablets
9. Why does the World suffer from nuclear phobia?
10. Elastic - is it okay to keep it stretched?
11. Virgil C. Summer
12. High oxidation numbers: above 8?
13. Deliberate meltdown

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 18

1. Breast milk and iron
2. How the following time dilation senario in three frames of reference can be explained?
3. Efficiency of nuclear reactor
4. Radiofrequency ablation for typical atrial flutter
5. Resource starvation or Maximum throughput scheduling for doing office paperwork?
6. How much warning of the Japanese tsunami was given?
7. How much radiation protection from an Armored car (military), Armored Personnel Carrier or Tank?
8. Messenger Mercury orbiter
9. Using nuclear bombs to generate power
10. Evolution and sex
11. Earth going in a straight line while spacetime is curved
12. transmutation of nitrogen
13. Safe energy?
14. Leg injury
15. Would painting your pool bottom and sides black made the water any warmer?

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 19

1. car
2. lights
3. Liver question
4. Does bicarb remove the acidity of acetic acid (apple cider vinegar)?
5. Identifying an actual triquetral bone
6. Which is this?
7. Matter to energy
8. Aquatic minibeasts
9. Ocular dominance vs. amblyopia
10. Identifying the contents of a 55-gallon drum by the torn remnants of its MSDS
11. Humans from Africa

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 20

1. What would it take to invent a vacuum-operated toilet?
2. How do Tomahawk missiles get to the target without getting shot down?
3. Not a conspiracy theory question but a true scientific question
4. global warming
5. Expression for Thrust and Power coefficients
6. Flat roof vs. sloped roof
7. Birdsong, UK
8. Why do old AA batteries appear to sweat?
9. About duck being a red meat...
10. Potassium Iodide
11. Sea kelp and iodine
12. Tidal energy from the Wash and the Severn
13. Chernobyl vs Deepwater Horizon

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 21

1. Why aren't Washlets common in the US yet?
2. Radiation dose inside a working nuclear reactor?
3. Buffalo
4. Neurons and memories
5. Expiry date of bottled water
6. Annoying. Annoying. Annoying.
7. vacuum electricity
8. Abnormal darkness
9. Big Bang echo
10. Isn't space a gas?
11. Why is work - often - not enjoyable?

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 22

1. Earth's tilt and space radiaton.
2. tidal energy backup
3. Escape velocity - vector or scalar?
4. What is the most efficient wind turbine design, in terms of dollars-per-watt?
5. 1. What are some tougher game shows for Watson to tackle? 2. ...
6. High altitude effects indoors
7. What is the maximum recommended amount of salt in water for dairy cattle?
8. Time dilation
9. Another question about neurons
10. Real-time glacier data
11. Poppy seeds

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 23

1. Why isn't irradiation used on sushi and sashimi?
2. Environmental Improvement Equipment
3. Inflation, Big Bang terminology
4. Thyroxine and circadian rhythm
5. manmade earthquake
6. Null 4 vectors
7. Direct cell-phone to cell-phone call
8. Carbon filter for iodine
9. Amino acids and fatty acids in durian
10. Shape of the Universe

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 24

1. Falling of the Newton's Apple
2. Sex in Space
3. What is this owl?
4. Time dilation 2
5. Identifying sperrylite ore
6. Triggering an earthquake
7. Mystery mountain
8. Body heat sun's heat
9. Why iodine from nuclear reactor?
10. coriolis effect in deep space?

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 25

1. An interesting light wave problem
2. 7 log = ?
3. Emulating squinting
4. Reverse osmosis versus evaporation for concentrating an aqueous solution
5. vacuum space
6. Electromagnetic waves
7. Bird Identification - Junco?
8. Flammable plastic
9. red/blue. Exactly same speed?

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 26

1. time
2. prediction
3. Question about the sub-division of "g"?
4. Name/purpose for this railroad bridge feature.
5. mosquito bites and race
6. Fission products in environment => nuclear reactor breach?
7. Does symbolic actions make people change their behaviour?
8. collecting water ... using oil
9. Solution to the colatitude part of Schrödinger in a Hydrogen atom
10. another current
11. Noah's Ark
12. how did engineers calculate loads and stresses before the arrival of Newtonian physics and calculus?
13. Double Recombination
14. Math and radiation
15. Fuse interrupted during oven use

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 27

1. Is all life on earth decended from a common ancestor
2. Relativity Question
3. Getting rid of hazardous nuclear plant parts
4. Galactic rotation
5. snow on tree flowers
6. Speed of light question
7. Tourmaline in hair care appliances
8. Blossoming wild shrubs in SE England
9. angular momentum in beta decay
10. Movement inside the body cavity
11. Pinhole glasses v. sunglasses

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 28

1. Melting point of graphite: Lower in Japan?
2. car (celebrities registration of)
3. Pressurized storage of liquids
4. Methanopropylenes
5. time 2
6. Cow dung to absorb gamma rays
7. Psychology of spending
8. Physics of insect wings
9. Headlights of a spaceship if turned on relative to two different observers
10. Vanadium oxidation
11. Game theory: paying ransom
12. Question regarding extraterrestrial radio pulses
13. Interface for communicating with blind people

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 29

1. Rendering Equations
2. A test where E. Coli is not exceeding 3/g ???
3. What percentage of the atoms in our bodies were born in the hearts of dying stars?
4. gas heat
5. Could you fit a model V12 or W16 onto a motor scooter and make it really work?
6. Neutron star matter, on Earth
7. What did the retired US Air Force nuclear missile commanders tell the National Press Club?
8. What experimental recreational drug am I thinking of?
9. Identify my skull
10. carbon-dioxide atmosphere
11. Superallowed beta decay.
12. ingesting radiation

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 30

1. Spreading mineral matters on earth
2. Milligram scale
3. I can't be bothered with the elaborate brown rice recipes.
4. Protein subunit names vs gene names?
5. Acceleration and relativity
6. Antimatter, antigravity, spacetime, retrocausality, and antispace

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 31

1. Space and matter shortly after the Big Bang
2. Shrinking Sun
3. Size of the universe
4. Would I be able to donate extra skin and fat cells for $?
5. Obsolete or speculative physical theories
6. Temperature induced nuclear fission
7. Isn't there an anti-hunger pill anywhere?
8. Green Laser
9. Identifying an old timey flying machine
10. What is fertilising the blossoming shrubs in England?