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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 1

1. Do chimpanzees and apes have menstrual periods?
2. When was the speed of sound broken (by man made object)
3. Paleobotanist
4. PVC pipe ROV
5. Mechanical Puzzle
6. Schwarzschild Radius
7. UK digital tv switchover
8. Glaciation during an ice age - source of the ice?
9. Type of ammunition ?
10. Hypothetical Noble Gas
11. Why aren't there better batteries for portable devices?
12. Temperature
13. Using cat litter to defuse potency of medicines/pills

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 2

1. Carboniferous
2. Geography buffs needed...
3. Lovebirds and loneliness
4. pH
5. Atmosphere Seperation
6. what is the use of garlic?
7. "Unperturbed chain"
8. Need Resources - Can you help?
9. Efficacy of multi-sensory room.
10. Discovering intelligent extraterrestrial life
11. Viscous hot water
12. ZENN electrical motor
13. Organic Functional Group Interconversion
14. Library scanner things

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 3

1. causes of high ferritin
2. Biological Condition of Not Being Able to Sing
3. 'Intensity' of dreams
4. cognitive power of a feline
5. Lizard Question
6. How many video game references can you find in the Arecibo message?
7. charging objects..
8. DNA
9. What is happening here?
10. Why do lovebirds cuddle up to each other?
11. Power 8
12. Why do plants use chlorophyll?
13. earthworms
14. Preventing inbreeding among critically endangered animals
15. Is there a difference between emperical evidence and observational evidence?
16. THC effect on blood donation?
17. Why Earth's rotation slows down?
18. Are there any legitimate scientific alternatives to evolution?
19. Mesoscaphe
20. Imaginary helium balloon
21. observing the dead cat

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 4

1. Religion, sci-fi and the brain
2. Thermodynamics
3. Functional Group effects on the acidity of a compound
4. Robo-thugs
5. environmental issues
6. Descendants of Abraham
7. Do fairness creams really work?
8. Noble and Ig Nobel for same work?
9. Suspensions
10. Does anyone know
11. Functional morphology
12. forces
13. Compound
14. Mercury surface temp.

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 5

1. Do Angel fish come from Africa or South America?
2. Arrow shields
3. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OvenLogic "Oven logic" and microwave power levels
4. Violation of conservation of mass in positron emission???
5. The strength of a monkey
6. the JFK shot
7. Temperature of mixture of methanol and water
8. Stress, Breaking force and Cross sectional area
9. Ancient bacteria in ice
10. Dead pigeon
11. Effect of Ultraviolet (UVA) on Crystal Growth Versus Visible Light
12. Space trash
13. Neptune and Pluto disc color

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 6

1. Frames per second
2. Why is there no flicker in real life?
3. The singularity-less black hole
4. Endocannabinoids and autism spectrum
5. an imaginary history of time
6. what is the temperature of heat (not mainstream).
7. BLASTing lots of short sequences
8. Textile Finishing
9. Lamictal
10. let's try this again.
11. Iron content in apple juice
12. Proton Proton Chain
13. Colour of the sky
14. Capsaicin fatality
15. Cat Scan of Serial Killer's Brain
16. Why don't birds on the power lines get electrocuted
17. Ringnecked Parakeet and Alexandrine Parrot
18. Negative calorie food
19. Muscle density
20. Uranus and neptune surface temp

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 7

1. Properties of Water
2. Photsensitivity and Effects of UVA Light on Copper Sulfate Solution
3. Extinct gull species
4. Advancing human evolution
5. Global warming and climate change.
6. Tangent Galvanometer
7. current electricity and magnetism
8. impossibility of stable equilibrium in electrostatics
9. Chihuahua and Great Dane
10. heating with a gas stove
11. Intensifying Artifical Light, ie from a Flashlight
12. Popcorn and Cell Phones
13. Traditional ship hulls and maximum speed of these
14. Metals for Spaceships
15. Moon Colony

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 8

1. Deceptive practice?
2. non-flammable comprimise gas mixture for an airship
3. cement production on other planets
4. Komodo Dragons in North America
5. Relativity's contradiction
6. A few questions about immunology
7. So what causes the corn to pop?
8. Garden burial of animal remains enhances soil fertility?
9. opinion on those chairs you sit in with your legs folded under
10. Top Elo rating
11. Sex in space
12. Centrifuge
13. Proving evolution with drugs

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 9

1. do electric blankets save energy vs. an electric heater?
2. Speciation in the lab
3. spacetime deformation
4. mechanical reactionless drive?
5. Human brain -> computing power
6. Bell inequality
7. Is the space shuttle capable of breaking Earth's orbit?
8. Total ship water displacement
9. Input resistance of nerve fibres
10. low-cholesterol heart attacks

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 10

1. physics
2. scientific names
3. Putting things up your ass
4. electricity
5. Asperger's and phone conversation - is it talking or just calling?
6. Is this compound acidic or basic?
7. Bodily fluids in the wash
8. VCR tape to DVD
9. water clock from 2008
10. [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14814-galaxy-flow-hints-at-huge-masses-over-cosmic-horizon.html Galaxy flow]
11. is my scientific methodology sound?
12. Speed of Electricity.
13. Square seconds
14. Nuclear reactor efficiency numbers

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 11

1. How to move energy faster than the speed of light
2. Is concussion or neck injury common in horned animals?
3. How many cells are in an embryo when it splits into twins?
4. basic anatomy
5. How does the exchange of virtual photons mediate attractive vs. repulsive coulomb force?
6. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 11#|]]
7. glass recycling projects third world
8. surface of last scattering
9. Black knees
10. any way to guess how long it took someone to write something?

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 12

1. What shape is this?
2. Potential Energy
3. Camera red eye and white eye
4. Light Has Intelligence?
5. How come garbage explodes only when it's buried?
6. Methane as cause of global warming
7. Full moon on birthdays
8. Pneumonia
9. Query about today's featured picture.
10. Mars
11. Leaves changing color at different rates
12. human fat
13. length of Vibrio cholerae
14. yeast need salt?
15. Strength difference men-woman
16. Animal abuse
17. Why is 350°F the standard for cooking food?

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 13

1. anaerobic motor /propulsion
2. Artificial holographic sun
3. Bird identification
4. rectilinear perspective
5. Ceiling fan
6. Echinoderm diversity
7. dangerous situation arising from killing germs?
8. What do you call this camera trick?
9. Energy drink ingredients
10. Visual acuity of hawk's eye: why/how?
11. resistors
12. Fructose Malabsorption
13. Poisoning through the ear
14. spider-silk 'stronger' than steel. What does that mean?
15. Polar deserts
16. Newton and the travel time of light from the Sun
17. LHC

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 14

1. non-enzymatic catalyst
2. Neem oil as insecticide
3. creatively, how heavy might I make pure heat (historical caloric) in liquid form?
4. CONTRADICTION TO RELATIVITY
5. Retrocausal information transfer.
6. bronchitis/passing out - need information
7. Cure for AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells
8. RNAi in flatworms
9. Isn't species an artificial distinction?
10. heat and static transfer through extension cables
11. Being infected and sweating
12. searching for the name of a old device with large glass discs
13. oxyfuel combustion engine( IC engine)
14. How does water put out a fire?

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 15

1. Vapor pressure
2. Frameshift mutation.
3. General equation for two bases (or metal hydroxides) reacting
4. Fuller's formuls
5. Would an organism that could successfully repair all cellular damage be theoretically immortal?
6. publishing thesis
7. air compressors - energy required.
8. Neurotransmitters
9. in theory, could a discovery about reality invalidate the possibility of physics as a field of science?
10. Another one for the bird psychologists here...
11. Conservation of momentum
12. transistor configuration116.71.178.160 (talk) 20:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
13. photoelectric cell
14. Rainfall runoff through a four inch pipe
15. Effects of global warming on microbes

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 16

1. Bee stings on different body parts
2. Surface area of the internet
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 16#How much is 8x10^{17<.2Fsup> coulombs?|How much is 8x1017 coulombs?]]}
4. Does black hole evaporation violate the second law of thermodynamics?
5. Paradox
6. Bad smelling, but delicious?
7. Medical advice
8. cables and auto transformer

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 17

1. Water
2. Geology
3. Home battery recycling
4. What killed the airship?
5. Airships again
6. Explain this optical illusion?
7. Jupiter causes an additional parallax
8. Smoking and breast milk
9. toilet seats
10. Red / Blue Shift
11. Tricks by Nikola Tesla in the movie "The Prestige"
12. Earth-like planet forming in the absence of life
13. information on the temperature and precipitation in the BOREAL SHEILD ecozone
14. Neolithic period and a Young Earth
15. The Laws of proportioning aggregates for concrete
16. comparative world livestock populations
17. Compost pile
18. Math and physics podcasts
19. type of screen
20. Buoyancy

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 18

1. CMBR
2. Theremin range?
3. How can air barriers be permeable to vapor?
4. Advice for developing young scientists?
5. Resistance in space.
6. Tankers and aircraft carriers
7. Selective breeding pros/cons
8. Brain Tumor Cells vs. Normal Brain Cells
9. Where does the Earth's heat go?
10. is Jesus's 100% man/100% God dualty like quantum wave/particle dualty?
11. Anatomy
12. gama rays
13. The color of Dunkleosteus
14. hubble telescope
15. Finding the amount of moles
16. How many human habitable planets can there be in a solar system?
17. How hot would Venus be if it was in Mar's orbit?
18. Newton's Second Law (F=ma)

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 19

1. Heroes
2. Plasma
3. The very first victim of a weapon
4. What if we cut a hole through Earth?
5. To what does 'bi' refer in 'bicarbonate'?
6. The color of shower gel
7. Restrictive NAT on DSL modem?
8. stupid question -- water filters filter flouride or no?
9. Apple trees
10. Are there more extreme temperatures (way above or below average?) than years ago?
11. Levoglucosan
12. Nuclear Science

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 20

1. Rotating spherical shells and gravity
2. The Universe is Red and Purple
3. Restarting the Earths spin.
4. Compounds:both ionic and covalent
5. genius of firefox
6. Evolutionary Mammal Anatomy Blunders
7. Egg nutrition
8. BACON...cholesterol

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 21

1. Question for all the people in the medical profession here...
2. Quantum dots
3. Potassium bicarbonate question
4. Double Gravitational Acceleration Paradox
5. Pipe bursting temperature
6. What is glabrata?
7. Mystery objects
8. Scientific term and research on the topic

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 22

1. equatorial water:direction
2. Fate of the universe
3. Flower Identification
4. Air conditioning plant sizing
5. Name of old mechanical airport/rail schedule signs?
6. states of matter
7. false positive in blood test
8. The Rydberg Constant in Balmer's Formula
9. Plaster Glue?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 23

1. i need a help please in organic chemistry
2. Television Logo Removal
3. Spacetime
4. Adrafinil vs Piracetam?
5. Protein folding
6. Balloon

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 24

1. Motion of gas atoms
2. Preventing propagation by cutting
3. Differences it doesn't make
4. Children's game
5. Non-persistent UV dyes
6. on improving economy using science
7. Calories
8. Plant Identification
9. Skeleton's kids
10. Paper lens cleaning cloths
11. malignancy as a blood infection?
12. THC absorption
13. Doubling CO2 in atmosphere
14. Extreme Precision

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 25

1. Frolov (the inventor of the Frolov breathing apparatus)
2. Chicken head movement
3. Three colors in a LCD projector
4. Black holes
5. Fingerprints in electronic devices
6. Logic Gates
7. Marmosets
8. Opinion Question
9. Near-death experiences
10. windmill turbines
11. Quantitative CO2 IR spectrum
12. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
13. Red caviar
14. What to be done
15. was a wheel (by an axel) distinctly created at a single earliest moment?
16. Flatulence
17. Relativity
18. Why is refrigeration of tin a bad idea?
19. Sinusitis
20. Type of illusion where one treats Wii sport like regular?
21. (anthropology/biology) universals that turn women on?
22. Stars and Planets
23. Water marbles

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 26

1. 'Writing about Vampires' seeks Comprehensive list of Disease Involving Sunlight
2. Black holes
3. Are CD jewel cases recyclable?
4. Lights
5. Fuel consumption with a cold engine.
6. Endorphins and interest in sports
7. Boundries of longitude and latitude for western europe 1955-1990
8. 4d rotation of 3d objects
9. "Brain Balance" autism treatment
10. Firemaking in the 1700's.

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 27

1. Chicken head stabilization
2. Why are limes seedless?
3. Bromelain from Pineapples
4. is this for real??? -- Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchuck
5. Perturbation theory in quantum mechanics
6. Natural selection in humans
7. dissassociation of salts
8. Salt solubility in non-aqueous solvents
9. Engineering handbook in English, German and Japanese
10. Jacuzzi Question

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 28

1. Chemistry 1310
2. A psychology question - when do we feel we've "seen all the examples"
3. Overlap of electron orbitals in violation of Pauli Exclusion Principle?
4. Possibility of life on another planet which does not Evolve
5. Disease transmission from old books (and other artefacts)
6. Single or multiple breasts
7. erath gravity
8. PCR Primers

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 29

1. caffiene
2. Cost of an additional degree of heating
3. THC absorption (repost)
4. Hydrogen peroxide and yeast
5. Food Safety
6. Plant Propagation
7. Ground-breaking Cardiac Surgery Technique.....
8. Feeding the seagulls
9. Psychoneuroimmunology
10. Please Be Patient And I Thank You For Your Time
11. What does "higher mammal" mean?
12. Accession number needed for BLAST
13. Lipid and Phosphate Granules

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 November 30

1. Shooting the ISS out of the sky
2. 2012
3. Piperidine,
4. Why not freeze food twice?
5. grant for study and visit st buddhist temples are over the world
6. Publicly accessible free scientific lectures?
7. Water pressure
8. Thoughts, feelings and reality.
9. Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas
10. Is it correct to say this (see below)?
11. Leaking batteries
12. Medical opinion (but not advice)
13. Telling sunrise from sunset
14. Where does today end and tonight begin ?
15. Distortions of sunrays and starlight by atmosphere: what can we conclude?
16. Cough-induced abdomenal reflex