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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 1

1. HOW DOS MOVE SOLAR WIND IN INTERSTELLAR SPACE
2. Technological Singularity, if rewritten in sci-fi franchises.
3. Physical Geologic Driver
4. Health statistics
5. Decay
6. Minimum recovery time for a gunshot wound?
7. Point of greatest gravity
8. Quantum computers
9. 2002 PT Cruiser shuts off on its own, but the dealers can't find diagnostics. Help?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 2

1. Forces on an inclined plane
2. George Dantzig
3. wave
4. alloy NF616, HCM12A, E911
5. Outer Covering of Animals
6. Neutrino
7. Rice and carbohydrates
8. Are programmers different genetically?
9. Identify atmospheric phenomenon

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 3

1. motion
2. organic chemistry
3. I cannot identify this bird, please help me
4. Genetic studies of modern Steller's sea lion populations suggest...
5. atom
6. Instead of electrical current could there ever be a situation where protons or positrons are made to flow as a current?

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 4

1. regulator genes
2. message to director of wikipedia
3. is methyl salisilate reacting with tollen's reagent
4. S.I.M card
5. attic insulation
6. Theoretical maximum possible temperature
7. Elephants, Cape Buffaloes and hominids
8. Do cooked carrots have more calories than raw carrots? Why?
9. Reflection and smoothness

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 5

1. Sending a new theory around
2. EMP protection
3. charge
4. Davies equation, ionic strength and molality
5. Simple optics/meteorology question?
6. Quantifying splashing; changing the property of the splashing solvent
7. Physiological details of figure skaters' increased tolerance of dizziness
8. Fiber optic cable damage

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 6

1. speed reading
2. Intensity of the superposition of two coherent waves
3. Which is more stable, K or K+?
4. Genealogy
5. charge
6. Tempture and heat
7. A mirror and an image projector
8. What kind of effect?
9. Likelihoods and conditional probabilities, in the context of sensitivity and specificity.

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 7

1. Explaining those who claim to communicate with God
2. Historical choice of "positive" and "negative" charge in the one-fluid theory of electricity
3. Vin de Borgia
4. cotton balls
5. calculating the entropy of dissociation for an ideal gas
6. added insulation
7. Turning our sun into a black hole
8. Is the bowsprit considered a mast?
9. Destroying the Vatican
10. Schlick-Tweedie principle
11. molar heat capacity of a black hole

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 8

1. Neurons v computer chips
2. Oxidation & Reduction
3. Signal Format Specification of Very Early Television Sets
4. Properties of brass
5. Is the universe hologram-like?
6. crazy cure for both AIDS and blood cancer
7. source of elwha river pre dam chinook salmon numbers
8. aliens?
9. Expanding universe and conservation of energy.
10. STEM shortage: education or raw ability?
11. Making suet for birds at home...

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 9

1. Why can't you watch 3D movies on a regular television?
2. Cylindrical tube elastic deformation?
3. Red Arrows Accident 8 Nov 2011
4. 2005 YU₅₅
5. Issues with dog's eye
6. Aspirin question
7. time series
8. suggestion
9. Weak acids: shift in equilibrium?
10. Sodium Acetate Trihydrate
11. Touching pain
12. Monkey Identification
13. Detectors on U.S. roads
14. Destroyable biometrics
15. Can happiness be measured?
16. Difference between deductive reasoning and scientific theories?
17. Oxidisation of Polyethlene

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 10

1. Infrared-to-optical wavelength coating
2. Sodium electrolysis
3. Proof of Conservation of Momentum
4. I keep getting knocked off my wireless internet several times a day. What gives?
5. How do I mimic phone static and hang up under the cover thereof?
6. planck distribution function
7. radioactive iodine
8. Experimental drug slims obese monkeys
9. Diamond as radiation shielding?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 11

1. Looking for simple General Relativity formula
2. Burning with fluorine
3. Electric field=flux density?
4. Is acne becoming less prevalent?
5. "Lone Tree" on rock (Copper Canyon, Mexico) (done)
6. chemistry
7. help ....plz (best physics and maths book)
8. Large French spider
9. Propagation of oxalis triangularis plant.
10. Electomagnetism, quantum mechanics, and the strong nuclear force vs. black holes
11. fiberglass insulation
12. radiation
13. Terraformed Mars map
14. Smallest circle with no perceptible curvature?
15. Mexican plane crash
16. Global warming

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 12

1. Magpies
2. What raises metabolic rate?
3. Big boned
4. Aniline napth-1-ol (or α-napthol) coupling reaction
5. Hot dog aroma lingering on a toothbrush for two months
6. Heat
7. Why some proposed changes to SI base units?
8. baldness and buzzcuts

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 13

1. Doing more damage with less recoil
2. why does Jupiter rotate round its axis so fast?
3. Potential
4. Diode and clipper circuit
5. Subliminal distraction exposure?
6. Speed
7. acidic alpha-proton in Ascorbic acid?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 14

1. Direction of force in a current-carrying wire
2. HIV
3. Neptune and the IAU's definition of "planet"
4. The big four engineerings
5. Endemic v/s Endangered v/s Extinct species
6. Which international agency has got the power of terming a species as "extinct" or "endangered"?
7. Roslyn Pliosaur find date
8. Coldsores
9. Saying about creationist/ID in science
10. Human longevity related to height?
11. Speed of Light

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 15

1. DNA Bank of endangered species
2. Rayleigh scattering
3. How long has the importance of blood pressure to human health been known
4. What would be the evolutionary and epistemological basis for Aliens being "too alien" for human communication?
5. Holocene epoch
6. 2 x 4 wall cavity
7. 2 inch foam board insulation
8. wet insulation
9. Non-finger interaction with iPad touchscreen -- how to generate touches with objects
10. It's photons all the way down.
11. hormone change
12. Mar's Low Gravity
13. Sham-Wows and the Hudson River
14. Kangaroos and the Fourth Dimension
15. natural selection in medicine?
16. Calling all frog-experts
17. a-theorem?
18. Scum on my teeth

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 16

1. Blood type factor correlation
2. Handedness and computer games
3. placing in constellations
4. is it possible to check a diastolic blood pressure without a stethoscope?
5. What's the English names of these compounds?
6. Active ingredient - Botox
7. Ingredients: Dr Pepper Zero
8. Help naming the insect
9. Tunneling + Superluminal neutrino?

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 17

1. Gravity and Water
2. Physics of the artificial trees
3. Which office furniture / equipment would last the longest?
4. NMR and pi and pi/2 pulses
5. Life on Europa and water under extreme conditions
6. Diode circuit solution
7. Heat loss and gain
8. leonardo da vinci laminate adhesive
9. PC monitor bugs (the 6 legged kind)
10. Simple thing.

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 18

1. Na₂CO₃
2. "Infinite" resistance, lightning, and quantum tunnelling
3. Neutrino Circuit--real or a hoax?
4. hydrogen bonding
5. exercise not improving fitness
6. Solar sail max speed
7. Specific Gravity of various substances
8. MO theory and the shapes of molecules
9. Extension cord AMP ratings

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 19

1. More force by pedaling
2. Photon engine
3. cooling in vaccum
4. hydrogen bonding
5. Pseudo science or genunie plughole at equator
6. Superluminal neutrinos
7. inorganic chemistry
8. inorganic chemistry (isomeric ethers)
9. inorganic chemistry (why water is a versatile solvent)
10. Zion Nat'l Park stone tool?
11. Facial hair growth hormone?
12. Cancer

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 20

1. Morning erections & psychogenic ED
2. Relativistic attraction of current-carrying wires
3. optic nerve damaged and loss of vision
4. Proof?
5. Tsunami
6. Crystal Fusion Turbine
7. Repeat trauma
8. Cumbre Vieja

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 21

1. Methods to measure change
2. Marburg virus
3. "right-hand-side" hypothalamus?
4. Object in the night sky
5. Brain size/body size and intelligence
6. Simple explanations for the recent neutrino experiments
7. Oxide world
8. Digestion of Monosaccharide
9. Curiosity
10. Measurement of sweetnewss?

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 22

1. banana
2. Spin of a massive object reaching relativistic speeds
3. Relation of molecules in mixture
4. Curium nuclear weapon
5. Separated, spherical plate capacitor
6. aliens

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 23

1. Introducing life
2. Why when we put cold water on ours skin, it bring about the blood to come there?
3. Watch Gears
4. fluid flow
5. Magnetism
6. Small bowel adenocarcinoma doubling time
7. Bridge Records
8. How long does it take for water to get from your mouth to your bladder?
9. why does a dft bin's output noise standard deviation (rms) is proportional to sqrt( N ) ?

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 24

1. Creature in brinicle ice video
2. The usefulness of the Washington Accord (or how to become licensed in the US)
3. Water and heating device temperatures.
4. Relative speeds

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 25

1. MAP2K1 enzyme
2. Where does money come from?
3. pH:
4. Can not eating help cause depression
5. Which Place
6. Budgeting for things that haven't yet been invented

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 26

1. Newtonian gravity and relativistic mass
2. Calculating latitude via Earth's celestial rotation speed
3. Observing light indirectly
4. Non traditional mosquito repelent
5. Freezing pop
6. Dark Matter questions
7. science
8. Anti-gravity properties of jam
9. Deinosuchus skull reconstruction
10. inventor of potentiometer(voltage divider)
11. "Tangential" Relativity
12. Special Relativity: how does it work?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 27

1. Radio distance
2. Can "Ice Giants" become comets just as Kuiper-belt objects can?
3. Capacity of brain
4. why does boiling point of water decreases at higher altitudes?
5. why do people start bleeding when they climb hill stations of higher altitudes?
6. Blue butterflies of Japan

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 28

1. Nuclear grenade
2. Using pulleys to open a coop door
3. Diluted Alcohol
4. physics
5. Is there a transparent rock tumbler anywhere in existence?
6. Correct Speed?

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 29

1. Sky of Venus
2. Nanotechnology to improve the efficiency of heat engines
3. The Moon
4. Colour shifts in field of vision

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 November 30

1. Vanda Station and Hope Bay
2. Carbon cycle
3. What's this SPAAV?
4. Neocortex and suffering
5. Effeminacy
6. Is it possible for Man to destroy the Sun?
7. Wood not decomposing after 400,000 years?
8. Is there a quantum of mass?
9. Stars: death, birth, spreading, clumping
10. "First Human"