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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 1

1. Sneezing when you look at the sun?
2. Anti-Depressants and delayed orgasm
3. need a reaction
4. control systems
5. Permission to Use A Picture
6. List of Cathepsins
7. geophysical and geochemical surveys
8. Detergents, chlorine bleach
9. Hyperkalemia
10. current density
11. Atmospheric Pressure
12. So, what is this thing I had when I was a baby called?
13. Scarlet fever - After Effects?
14. Young's Modulus
15. Emedicine.com
16. A humanoid changing facing in space
17. GI Tract
18. What will happen to planets when sun finally elapse to a white dwarf

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 2

1. List of official lab names
2. Headache
3. Name this bug
4. Is this Rose quartz?
5. Driving a T-72 tank
6. Chinese contributions to engineering
7. Coloured lights used on CSI
8. sex change m to f

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 3

1. Prolonging orgasm
2. Who invented the floor buffer?
3. Anatomy / behaviour of bullocks etc
4. Misshapen head treatment
5. Urinary Tract Infection Cause?
6. Baby Powder scent?
7. magnetism
8. Mules
9. How exactly would you construct an "unfair" coin?
10. "Simplicity" of scientific/mathematical problems
11. "Hologram" mirrors illusion??
12. Water on Mars

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 4

1. Seeing bullets (with no tracers) streak through the air using IR goggles
2. Is this understandable?

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 5

1. How to Get Gray Hair
2. Nomex
3. Hyperthyroidism and the risks of general asesthesia/surgery
4. Reasons people mumble - hearing loss, etc.
5. Blindness and visual artefacts
6. extrusion of rock

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 6

1. Sleep Noises
2. Volume of human voice
3. Hypnic jerk
4. multinucleate cells
5. Maroon Clowns
6. Languages in dreams
7. marine engineering
8. SOUND
9. Light from the remote visible in the video image?
10. Biology word
11. Debunking Ghosts
12. LCD Spectral Lines
13. Fatigue relief
14. Gauge>Alum foil?
15. finger print sensors
16. Zombie Newton is haunting me
17. False or true?
18. Electricity and magnetism
19. Is THIS version understandable?
20. Momentum and photons
21. Mars and Jupiter and Saturn's moon over sun's RGiant Stage

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 7

1. Quantum: Difference between an operator and a measurement
2. Noisy laptop fan
3. Question (Goliath Beetle)
4. How does fruit get "bruised"?
5. Grass Seed Lifespan
6. calorie consumption per hour/ mile (cycling)
7. Human feet vs. Chimp feet
8. Fizzy drinks.
9. The grayed tip of a banana
10. Nobel Prize winners
11. honey locust spines: poisonous?
12. Holt Biology
13. Hearing
14. Holt Biology
15. steam rockets
16. Putting car in park

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 8

1. Headset to hear dictations
2. Sensory Integration Disorder and its Impact on Potty Training
3. Strange gender inequality in the dental industry
4. immume system
5. chemistry
6. Aflatoxin in raw peeled peanuts
7. Sleep injuries
8. Semen and Enzymes
9. E=mc^2...Whatever that means.
10. safe dough?
11. Erronious definition
12. Do gas giant even have a flowing water?
13. Time-independent Schrödinger equation: "If $psi$ is a solution then $psi$* is also a solution."

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 9

1. Sending Sound Wave or Voice Messages to the Past?
2. Sterling Silver Allergy
3. Perpetuating genes
4. Is our planet's core mostly iron because of boyancy?
5. Balancing equations
6. Ovulation
7. True or False? Attack of the mutant 6 foot man eating catfist?
8. Quantum: why for entangled state but not separable states
9. what is the best way to structure a case study presentation on a medical patient ?
10. solar power roof installations and having to do roof maintenance
11. Watch question
12. Unit of Measures
13. trying to remember the name of a certain stone
14. Venus axial tilt
15. Quantum Mechanics

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 10

1. Particle Physics
2. Turning off all electronic equipment during take-off and landing
3. problem sum
4. threshold logic synthesis
5. "Virgin birth" in a shark
6. i really should know this but
7. What is the movement of a submarine called?
8. Sudden moon
9. hydrogen reaction
10. Mars climate

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 11

1. gas constant?
2. Use of Oil
3. Plants with edible stems
4. Noisy faucet
5. Quote identification
6. would you freeze in space with nothing on
7. Robotics - what is static stability?
8. Jobs in the private spaceflight industry
9. Organisms living inside crude oil
10. Strange thermodynamics question
11. Intelligent Life in the Universe/Voyager Golden Record
12. What does Radioactive Waste look like?

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 12

1. Image licensing
2. What colour would you say best describes the upper mandible of a male Eclectus?
3. Copper(II) Sulfate Crystal
4. 1876 Supplement to Harper's Bazar, No.13 and No. 25
5. photographic chemicals
6. electron configuration of Barium
7. Using nuclear weapons as a propulsion system for spacecrafts
8. What good an anal probe?
9. how much gas?

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 13

1. Is our solar system flat ?
2. squid blood
3. to know mechanism
4. Orthogonal translation
5. quantum mechanics
6. Clockwise or Anti-Clockwise
7. FISH
8. Questions about massive sqid
9. composite aircraft
10. O-ring and G-ring
11. How does NASA calculate trajectories?
12. What is the theoretical wavelength upper limit for electro-magnetic waves?
13. What triggers a missile to explode?
14. Why can pulse be normally abnormal?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 14

1. Plutos' core
2. Light Concentration
3. Some mathematical physics expression
4. Is Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle really universal?
5. Why did bacteria evolved?
6. Medical condition relating to films
7. Cola as a spermicide?
8. Name of Phobia
9. Computer program to visualise biomolecular pathways/interactions
10. McCain's arm
11. what is this plant?
12. Getting contact lenses in
13. Frequency guard bands in OFDM
14. Identify this tree
15. Ethidium Bromide
16. Tropospheric gas giants

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 15

1. physics
2. Hückel's rule
3. Gem quality Epidote mineral
4. 'Landing on Jupiter'
5. orchestra
6. Molecular Formula of Gasoline
7. Orthogonality in OFDM
8. Mining collapse question?
9. Acorn

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 16

1. Manhole question
2. Thank you to the contributors
3. Heat effects
4. Stability of carbon
5. HIV and hemodialysis
6. Effects of masturbation
7. Why does pressure increase with depth
8. bladder TCC insitu with bone mets

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 17

1. Uvula
2. Need Genetic Analysis of Japanese people
3. Movie sound
4. Distance from nucleus: d or s orbitals
5. Alpha Centauri system seen from Saturn
6. Frequency of different forms of cancer
7. Length of electric power transmission lines
8. helicopter lift control
9. Eskimos
10. Apollo Landing Hoax
11. Highly Evolved Dinosaurs
12. do cleaners age your skin?
13. Ceramic Insulation : Cenospheres

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 18

1. How large can a Trojan planet be?
2. orchic
3. sex without condom
4. size of a lysosome?
5. where does the air in hypercaviation come from?
6. Defrosting beef
7. Toaster in the ocean.
8. MRI history
9. Quick eye shift breaking white into RGB
10. Weight of bones

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 19

1. nigilism
2. Skin condition photos
3. Dream On! Dream On! Dream until your dreams come ... on a small video monitor?
4. Genetic mutation- Double tail gourami
5. Ultimate fate of the universe
6. Gibbs free energy
7. The shape of the orbit of the Moon over the Earth
8. Helicopter under a bridge?
9. Carbon-neutrality of paper waste

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 20

1. Stuffy noses -- one side is blocked, then the other, then both.
2. Gravity waves
3. Vaccine versus Control group testing
4. Bouncing off the atmosphere
5. 4D
6. Possible non-conventional ways to counter global warming?
7. Physics (Electric fields)
8. Scientific Formula

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 21

1. Molecules that pass through membranes
2. Dioxin in Plastic Container and Foam Container?
3. Stay or go?
4. Columbia vs. Challenger disaster
5. Silicon Chips
6. Can the process of transesterification be duplicated?
7. About a graph
8. Trees on a slope
9. Mylar
10. Double Suspension Gallop

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 22

1. Temperature of Distillate during distillation
2. 20 minute chimes
3. Energy output of hydrogen using oxygen, fusion, and antimatter?
4. UK BODY FARM
5. Clipperton Island lagoon
6. Mutation in mitosis
7. Biting your lip
8. jet flow
9. Osmosis Experiment
10. Discoveries made on space
11. Does the wavelength of light change in a time varying magnetic field?
12. Internal organs
13. speed of ripple vs speed of sound
14. Spurs
15. "Natural" and "artificial" selection in humans

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 23

1. Longevity of satellites
2. Time to replenish an oil well
3. Guinea worm extinction
4. Animal search.
5. "Universe" clusters; matter/energy beyond our own universe
6. diabesity
7. Sugar bowl
8. nature
9. what happens if we give AC excitation to alternator
10. Oil Creation
11. Confusion with organoselenium compound toxicity
12. Question involving special relativity
13. Physics Exhibition
14. Pulsejet afterburner?
15. Unknown firstborn vaccination
16. Burj Dubai
17. Lactose Intolerance
18. Trees in Mongolia

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 24

1. Contrail, crepuscular ray, zodiacal light, or other?
2. Earths atoms
3. "Build a better mousetrap, and someone will build a better mouse"
4. Do any animals shed tears through grief or pain?
5. oil and butter
6. nicotine
7. Common cold and temperature
8. Dehumidifier crystals
9. Freak Of Nature?
10. Writing after laughing hard
11. Satellite dish cable
12. Staining in chilly weather

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 25

1. Looking at Earth
2. ISS flyby and binoculars
3. An Electronic Planet
4. Grounding & Bonding - static electricity safe guards
5. human eye.
6. chemicals
7. Public Health Question:Handwashing & faucets w/sensors-transfeered frWater Conservation
8. tsunami
9. How do violin strings make sound?
10. Spectacles deglazing
11. something we dug up in our back yard!!

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 26

1. Twins from different fathers
2. first nutritional supplements
3. handwoven wool rug cleaning
4. Shock waves
5. Diseases by Mortality Rate
6. Making a movie in PyMol
7. Free energy idea needs debunking
8. transformer
9. How are all sciences interrelated?
10. Photons released while burning?
11. Harmonic distortion in Wein bridge oscillator
12. What does the 5 in Saturn 5 and Ares 5 mean?

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 27

1. Indoor marijuana cultivation retardant
2. Dimensions
3. Urgent need to pee
4. Eye
5. Solar-To-Electric Efficiency (STEE)
6. Ketchup
7. How is the phase between electric and magnetic waves in a lightwave determined?
8. Why do Budgerigars have such crappy night vision when compared to humans?
9. Harmonic Vibration
10. Staying underweight by thinking?
11. Analyze a liquid
12. Uranus disc color
13. Mistaking memory for reality - how?

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 28

1. Alcohol consumption strange side-effects
2. If time is Infinite...
3. Simplest oscillating reaction?
4. Fidgetting and calories
5. Are there any planned missions to put a satellite around the moon with the resolution great enough to see the Apollo landers?
6. Ocean surface wave
7. Geology, volcanology!

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 29

1. ANTIBIOTICS
2. Engineering Drawing
3. Textile Testing
4. Bridge question
5. General Relativity and Tides
6. Glassmaking kiln explosions?
7. Maximum visual acuity
8. Proving that the moon exists to doubters

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 30

1. Venus and Jupiter's true color
2. Jupiter's Great Red Spot On Earth
3. LANDFILLS - why are garbage cells covered with a layer of soil?
4. This one has me stump
5. Rocks
6. Mathematics
7. menstruating women
8. CHEMISTRY
9. "three-day malaria": would it call brain damage?
10. I caught a weasel in my house!
11. Drug interactions
12. preventing liver spots?
13. Concentration of pure solids and liquids

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 31

1. Why is space so big?
2. Photons and Phonons
3. Bosenova
4. Rockets underwater
5. How to select motor rating for pure electric vehicle
6. Customizable open office walls
7. Electromagnetic pulse
8. Age of Aneurysms?