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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 1

1. Persistent odor
2. Sleeping in a chair
3. Lens-less imaging
4. Titration curve: part 2
5. Dry nose when sleeping upright
6. name of shooting device
7. Physics
8. Excitation of an atom
9. Measuring general radio/tv/phone wave strength
10. Boiling
11. Question - Helium Canister
12. Sky
13. Modern crystal radio
14. Why do we forget our dreams?
15. Football
16. Coiling microphone cable during use.

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 2

1. Moth Help
2. Re-engineering the universe for increasing computational capacity
3. Aztec knives
4. Another spider question
5. Burning fat without burning muscle
6. Take your finger out of my butt, please...
7. soy
8. Deepest part of ocean
9. Activating the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer
10. Bacon curling
11. Electron excitation - discrete?
12. hot water
13. Infrared rainbow

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 3

1. Plutonium
2. Voice
3. River Geometry
4. space-time continuum
5. Isopropanol, Peroxides can Result in Explosion & Injury?
6. Before big bang
7. Human centipede - possible in real life?
8. "Man-made global warming can cause volcanoes"
9. Internal and external cell conditions - source?
10. Supporting ladder on stairs - sideways
11. Moment of Inertia
12. Alcohol for stage fright
13. construction, coal
14. how much is $280,000 per year (inflation-adjusted) for 40 years worth today?
15. Nothing

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 4

1. learning skills
2. Molar mass of Aluminium
3. dumbest idea in the world
4. refrigerating foods
5. Air navigation
6. shadows, mirror images?
7. FORTRAN Programming (Lahey Compiler)
8. is it HF that kills? or F-?
9. Are Kepler's laws rigth?
10. Coefficient of drag at hypersonic speeds
11. Newton's cradle question
12. Curvy tunnel
13. Gloria Allred
14. substitute for peanut butter
15. Meteorological deposition of carbon dioxide snow or frost
16. Chemical element lists
17. PhD programs and mental health
18. HTPB
19. Gravity
20. "Can't Burn Your Skin"
21. Digestive Cycles
22. Humans eating pet food
23. Record Maximum

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 5

1. Fucking Magnets!
2. Gulf war oil spill
3. Medical question
4. Silver mineral
5. What is the current state of Computer text to speech compare to human readers?
6. :File:Sirius A and B Hubble photo.jpg
7. Using TNT or dynamite instead of smokeless powder in guns
8. Proximity of brain structures?
9. Sleep before Exams
10. Plastics & half-life periods
11. Right-hand writing & Left-leg tumbling
12. Can light be heard?
13. Chromate Reactions
14. Collagen-proline-triple helix
15. Space random movements vs planets
16. Grass cuttings
17. Copper oxidation
18. Chromate reduction
19. endodermal cell solution
20. heat capacity units and calculation
21. Electric spacecraft drives

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 6

1. epson salts
2. Curvature of the earth
3. can Blue cheese produce penicillin?
4. inverse square law and electromagnetic force
5. Who's on first? ("Extraterrestrial life(forms)") (done)
6. Mathematics of Kepler's laws
7. living species which appear to have stopped evolving
8. Chemical explosive rail-gun-better than electric?
9. Electrolysis of CuSO4
10. Planets in Universe
11. Do airlines use ground length measurements for their mile programs, or air length?
12. Snow accumulating in above-freezing temperatures?
13. metal differentiation
14. Cold, flu, etc season/s
15. Night Vision
16. Longevity of a species
17. classification characteristics
18. How many humans a asteroid would be able to have?
19. dinosaur o2 requirements versus mammals and others

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 7

1. humanure
2. Don't hold your breath
3. What's a tumor like?
4. Reverse dial gauge/indicator alignment
5. archae biotech
6. How many slots on GEO are available for communication satellites?
7. Stars
8. Nitrogen in tyres
9. space objects on earth
10. Space materials-luminosity
11. Light & escape velocity
12. minimum oxygen requirements and carbon dioxide toxicity
13. wear earplugs 24 hours?
14. Hurricane gustav
15. Lung capacity vs. holding my breath
16. I want to destroy a culture...
17. Invasive surgery on small animals
18. Shell Oil Company
19. Reaction of metal hydrides from nickel-metal hydride cell

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 8

1. Reaction of chromates with acid
2. Is it possible to shoot a bear in the head?
3. Conventional Explosive v/s Plastic explosives
4. irradiating an egg
5. Insoluble chromate
6. Chromium and acid
7. is it possible to have a defective sense of rhythm?
8. gas vent
9. Yellowjackets
10. did people really have to stay quiet on submarines?
11. Bird/crocodile grouping

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 9

1. Neanderthal genes in modern humans
2. Paintballing science
3. Angular momentum transform
4. Boiling and vapor
5. Plastic&Electric kettles
6. Moon distance
7. river discharge
8. National Security Guards or Special Air Service
9. Is there much Greek blood in southern Italians?
10. travel speed in space
11. What does crab use to dig a hole ?
12. Invention of high blood pressure medication
13. Using oil from an oil spill
14. Why don't our severed limbs/appendages just grow back?
15. Are vacuums in Europe more powerful than in North America?
16. Soot
17. How do wheels on a cannon affect the force on the cannon ball?
18. Pitot tube pressure/height

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 10

1. rate for humans
2. Mystery Plant
3. russia
4. Where can I find paid gigs to be a guinea pig for a medical experiment within 150 miles of Manhattan, KS? (With room & board included?)
5. Flexing axe heads
6. Calculating the velocity of a cannon ball and cannon
7. Solubility of nickel chromate
8. I'm searching for the name of a possible "fallacy"
9. Physical fitness, health, and running
10. methane hydrate ignition
11. Evian bottle ring
12. Can Crusher
13. Do wormholes violate the 2nd 1st law of thermodynamics?

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 11

1. Minimum energy for brute force attack
2. Help required with this code
3. Lasso Physics
4. Can a continent be subducted?
5. I, Ant
6. Fox's diet
7. Pitta bread and heat
8. Giant King Grass
9. PoCl₂ oxidation
10. Name of plant, please
11. Fissile elements used nuclear reactors
12. Chalcogenide reduction potential
13. Identify drill bits
14. Psychological term for the "deification" recently deceased people get?
15. Common magnets

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 12

1. Nernst equation for reaction 2A+ + B ----> B2+ + A2
2. Controlled criticality accident?
3. Bomb bays
4. External weapons
5. Vulcans, Romulans and Remans
6. Jumping
7. Experiments in making LCDs
8. colorblind cuttlefish and camouflage
9. survival instinct
10. Evolution
11. Nose hair
12. Volume of air in lungs
13. Dark energy & dark matter
14. Is dark matter out there or in here?

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 13

1. Superconductors
2. Genetic predisposition to food types
3. Using heat pumps instead of cooling towers
4. Geographic center of USA
5. Computer PSU
6. dandelions
7. AGE
8. Advanced Human
9. decision and truth tables
10. Electromagnentic Flow Meter
11. medical marijuana
12. Nobel prize

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 14

1. Graupel... but not?
2. translate
3. geographic centers of population
4. Fuel question
5. Spontaneous Generation
6. new elements
7. ant
8. re:donkeys
9. Medical Breakthroughs
10. acetic acid

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 15

1. Magnetic powder
2. which would be worse
3. Swima bombiviridis - article in Science
4. Nazi decompression experiments
5. Coat colour of wild mice
6. Trigger point article needs help.
7. Thermal Wallpaper
8. solid friction factor in pneumatic conveying
9. bulk density vs product density
10. Doing exercises - general question
11. mind control
12. do people in different inertial frames agree what time it is?
13. Swan mom throws away eggs
14. snakes and lizard
15. lyphoma
16. is it possible for people in different inertial frames to see events in a different order?
17. Besian Idrizaj - how can a physically fit young footballer just die of a heart attack at age 22?
18. Hiccups

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 16

1. London Blitz
2. Neutralization of Ingested Acids
3. Loons in Colorado? What bird is this?
4. Hurricanes crossing the equator
5. medical malpractice
6. 'Banana' Snake
7. Banana Snake extra answer!!!
8. Onion Bully
9. Exposure to Pornography
10. NG photo question

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 17

1. Tomato and Corn
2. Caesar's last breath
3. Efficiency of digestion
4. Saltation velocity - appropriate factor of safety
5. Overclocking
6. amtrak "service disruption"
7. Is the selfish gene shortsighted?
8. Storage of vitamin D
9. Doctors who do nearly everything when caring for patients
10. Sex on high peaks
11. Stella Wobble
12. Purity of USP and food-grade glycerin

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 18

1. CO2
2. percent of atmosphere
3. Best extrasolar planet candidates for habitable moons based only on irradiance?
4. annealing aluminium from H-18 to H-O
5. Type of intermodal container
6. length of menstruation
7. physics
8. Alkali acids
9. Square wheels
10. Planetary rings
11. Dark Chocolate icing
12. Aether vs. Quintessence
13. Native American Cradle Board and Infant Behavior Differences
14. Right angles
15. Fear of the dark
16. Reduction of alkali metals
17. algae or other plants

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 19

1. Nitroglycerin final ph
2. Aircraft repairs
3. soap labels
4. Lung cancer tumor eroding bone in rib
5. safety of tinned food
6. Can coyotes co-exist with elk for any duration of time, without attacks?
7. Turning off car
8. Nuclear fuel
9. Reverse of hydraulic diameter?
10. engineering
11. moist towelettes
12. Beans growing on Crete
13. Still used, rusty aquaduct pipe lying in creek
14. Botfly
15. Evolution of movable eyeball
16. Trichlor illegal?
17. Atomic mass unit

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 20

1. Reservoirs for pumped storage hydroelectricity?
2. Deepest manmade pool
3. What does "Da" mean?
4. Spinning Tesla egg and stability
5. Pressure drop in branched pipe flow
6. Ants
7. NaI (Tl) temperature effect
8. Karma
9. Defocus calculation
10. particle board desk.
11. What's the deal with ants and icing sugar?
12. Blood work accuracy
13. Breathing in Helium
14. Natural undersea oil spills
15. newtonian fluids
16. Biomedical control systems
17. Publishing scientific literature.

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 21

1. Absorbent glass mat (AGM)
2. Photon clocks in GR
3. Wind Turbine and surface drag
4. What is this weird creature?
5. Bovine Tubersulosis versus the Human Form.
6. 0t,1t 2t bend test / galvanized/colour coated coils
7. Oil spill - quick drying cement?
8. Field Strength of LHC Magnets
9. Iron in high oxidation state
10. Pushing or pulling Asteroids
11. Car Mechanics...... power steering

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 22

1. If Earth was great big ball of magnetism
2. rust forceps
3. Weather recce
4. Can the acoustic guitar hurt your hearing?
5. Too fast to be an Iridium flare... so what was it?
6. How many carbon black add in polypropelene polymers from protection SUN LIGHT
7. Iodine oxidation
8. Wembley Stadium grass - too dark?
9. dimple above penis
10. The origin of life!!!!!!
11. Germ cell tumor
12. planets coming in align
13. Solid phase extraction and Chromatography
14. updates based on scientific fact
15. magnetism versus temperature
16. Niel ?
17. What metals were thrown out by the icelandic volcano?
18. Is there any animal that can 'emit' fire?
19. Black hole paradox

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 23

1. Spider behaviour
2. Aircraft repairs, part 2
3. Stable ranges for Albedo and Emissivity of Earth
4. Pineal gland
5. Intramuscular fat
6. CO2 and infrared radiation
7. Sneezing during examinations
8. Why does sugar make things less sour?
9. Has anyone seen Neptune with the naked eye?
10. No fish
11. Bird call
12. Dragons
13. over eating
14. help pLz drugs used in managment of infusion
15. Tiny bullet-shaped dog

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 24

1. OIL SPILLS
2. acetone
3. Crystal Violet
4. center of mass
5. aching muscles = laughing reflex?
6. Sodium hypochlorite and Sodium acetate
7. Special Relativity
8. What is the point of a lawn?
9. Old Testament
10. TDS

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 25

1. Consider a satellite moving at 3.87 km/s - how much is the clock aboard the satellite affected by special relativity per day?
2. Global Average Annual Temperature limits
3. Brewing yeast and fructose
4. Cats and newborn/infant humans
5. Future computer (from IP 117.197.246.107)
6. Tyvek and Nylon
7. list
8. The relationship between the passage of time for a stationary object and the passage of time for a moving object
9. Artificial microbes to help terraform Mars
10. Effective Max speed of the international space station during interplanetary travel.
11. Moon
12. Pendulum question
13. perkinson's disease
14. How to tell if plastic is degradable
15. reducing MAC layer handoff latency
16. Cats - gender and coat colour

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 26

1. What's wrong in this picture?
2. types of life
3. What animals can use the widest range of useful light strengths?
4. Uses of Stars
5. Residual stresses in the coatings given on insetrs
6. Is blood group a factor in organ transplantation ?
7. buying lemon juice
8. how stationary is geostationary?
9. Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)
10. four classes of consumables
11. science
12. Astronomical query
13. sticker
14. Organ donor death statistics
15. Soccer matches often played under heavy rain
16. Gamma Globulin/Is it available to the general public by prescription?
17. Gamma Globulin - used to treat Crohn's Disease
18. Touching car batteries
19. Question about closed orbits
20. Gravity express

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 27

1. Cheetah speed
2. Two methods, two solutions
3. Shaker
4. reproduction in plants
5. terminology for the concept of group immortality
6. Synthetic life: human health-care implications?
7. Selenic acid
8. speeding
9. Applied Logic - What is this?
10. Aircraft HVAC
11. Gregory-Madhava Series
12. Fungus
13. smoke
14. Lead dissolution
15. Sodium amalgam
16. Crocodile Poo

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 28

1. Satellites and relativity
2. dam people
3. How do Astronauts performing spacewalks deal with an itch?
4. detergent
5. Orbital stability
6. Spoke and Hub
7. chemistry lesson plan for teachers
8. Help With
9. Quote
10. Evolution
11. Training your body to not be lactose intolerant
12. Syrup
13. Decipher Karl Marx's handwriting?
14. Probiotics
15. Anthropology/ early hominids
16. Unpleasant materials
17. Experimental design
18. "Dichroic liquids" / dyes
19. 2 gallons

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 29

1. Sun Distance
2. Maximum/Minimum Irradiance for "Human habitable" planet temperatures?
3. Mercury battery illegal?
4. Does Dracula exists?
5. oral rehydration solution (ORS)
6. Crystal meth & the addicts body
7. Salty Q

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 30

1. Ammonium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite
2. What complications may arise if Athlete's foot gets left untreated?
3. Birth Defects
4. Luna Moth
5. Drew Brees Sports Science
6. vents
7. container ship
8. Meditation and sleep
9. Ecological implications of eradicating malaria-carrying mosquitoes
10. Setting up a fishtank
11. Controlled burns on oil and hurricanes
12. new LED lightbulbs
13. Lawn Mowers
14. Time reversibility

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 31

1. bile production
2. Deepwater Horizon oil slick - why not burn it off?
3. Living in an Attic
4. Age of the universe
5. Gravity of distant objects
6. Ground attack version of Fw 190
7. Chemical reaction within a thin film of a chemical solution
8. Electromagnetic wave trapped energy
9. computer and manual hospital procedures
10. Things to eat in a prehistoric environment.
11. Light speed
12. Pressure and velocity measurement
13. Back hole
14. 4-colour TVs
15. Question about the standard value of "g"?
16. snakes
17. Windmills/Futurama