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October 1
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- Spacecraft Thermal Blankets
- Photochromism
- Cigarette Filters
- Instant and Land cameras
- Jasmine tea
- Triangulation accuracy via GPS versus WiFi
- Predicting and preventing seasickness
- Fermented fish and meat
October 2
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- Difference in methanol and ethanol surface tension
- Stellar gravitational collapse
- Variation and productivity
- mirrored room
October 3
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October 4
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- Jet engine snow blowers VS traditional snow blowers
- Sound waves in plasma.
- "lake" "rain" "surface patterns"
- Periodic table, just "because"?
- Molecular gyrostats
- Switchable current source
- Can Ebola mix with other similar virusses?
- Contrail length
October 5
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- Oil and condom breakage
- Crude oil as medicine
- Erections and Transitioning From Male to Female
- Molecular thermodynamics
- Kelvins per second
- aromatic nitration
- Dry density and dry unit weight
- Is scrupulosity a culture-bound OCD disorder?
October 6
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October 7
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- GPS time dilation question (I need an expert in physics or special relativity)
- Last count of Uranus and Neptune's moons to be realistic
- Aurora Borealis
- Military History: Weapons That Changed Warfare
- Mutton meat cooling
- Battery power supply for DRL?
- Is E85 a good deal ?
- Workplace noise reduction
October 8
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- Maths in physical geography, geology and environmental science courses at college
- Unapproved drugs
- Cardiac cycle figure
- Transparent Styrofoam ?
- how do mobile phones know how much battery is left
- Wrong structure in DiI
- General medical question.
October 9
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- do fish ever sink?
- Hückel theory
- Infrared goggles and bullets
- question about three studies
- Phasor diagram
- Bathyspheres and submersibles
- How long do smoke chemicals stay in ex-smoke rooms?
October 10
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- How does usa.com know precip, average humidity & wind, degree days, and snow for extremely obscure places?
- Motion and frame of reference
- Rubbing your hands will make them burst into flames
- What is the smallest Big Bang possible?
October 11
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October 12
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October 13
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- Surfactant chemistry
- What is toilet paper and paper towel glue made from?
- what is the slowest anything has dropped in freefall (unobstructed and unaided except by aerodynamics)
- Uninstall Comet Arcade
- Why do people say Ebola is as contagious as HIV?
- Scientific reports
- Inductor only psu smoothing circuit
- Electrostatic Induction
- Coral, Cucumber and Carnivorous Plants conundrum
- how bad could ebola get in united states?
October 14
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- Sweat transmission of disease
- Allergy can be caused only by proteins?
- Peeing in a toilet
- Volcanism on the Moon! Consequences for colonization
- Does China still have sparrows?
- Soil compaction
- What are scientific opinions as to which part of the brain experiences qualia?
- Slow tire leak and tire pressure at speed vs sitting.
October 15
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- water hands arthritis now
- Why do the nuts usually end up on the top of the muesli?
- structural columns
- [Reusing ground current]
- ebola in animals
- Woman having a penis
- Smoke detector placement and orientation
- Why is Germany's power-to-gas so far ahead of the English-speaking world's?
- How to convert an arbitrary monochromatic light (its wavelenght) to a displayable trichromatic light (that is an sRGB screen)?
October 16
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October 17
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- Giving blood to lose weight
- Effect of oxygen percentage vs. partial pressure on flammability
- Dialysis plus
October 18
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- How is ebola affected by fppp (fossilized phido plankton powder) or by natural chlorine from onions?
- 12th century Arabic constellation
October 19
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- types of the cells
- Why Do Sugary Foods Cause Instant Discomfort in Teeth with Cavities?
- I need information about a cross -pollinated fruit named a "brugnon" .
- Are small bodies (<C/2013 A1 size) less likely to be active comets than 1-3 km stuff? How does this vary with distance?
- Is all so-called mental illness just anxiety?
- "Offset bandages" ?
- Why don't good bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?
- Massive shooting star
- Chemistry - Dual Supercritical CO2 extraction?
October 20
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October 21
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October 22
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- Black holes in the sky during the day
- Effects of celestial bodies in close proximity
- Velocities in Blue Origin Logo
October 23
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- Time versus space
- Heroin Addict -vs- Varicose Vein
- Dot on the sun
- ClearVUE Television Antenna vs. the expensive ones on Radio Shack's website
October 24
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October 25
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- Ebola virus cure
- Species ID
- Invasive species *from* North America
- How many asteroids with retrograde paths are there?
- Making a chemical from only knowing the formula
- Is the number of the cells like the number of the tissues?
- May it be the tissue thick, or any tissue is thin?
- what type oscillator is this
- What is the different between Atom and element?
- Is any winter prediction lore better than chance?
October 26
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October 27
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- What is the diffrence between Teflon and Plastic"
- Identification of a naval base structure
- Light blend modes
- which is re-usable for another mission: Rockets, Space-Craft or Space Flight?
- Lymphogranulomatosis
- Why do people do so little to fight volcanoes?
- highest price of oil per barrel
October 28
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- Space blanket - contra indication
- What is this a state?
- state of matter
- Converting 5V USB to 12V?
- mixing medicine liquid with another liquid
- What is the difference between syrup and elixir?
October 29
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- Ocean Water density and temperature
- What is a good way to identify tablets?
- Right prefrontal cortex function
- The main property of the electrons
- Given a battery and a device, how can you calculate how long the battery will last?
- Does driving behind semi trucks increase gas mileage?
- Macadam
- Road sub base & Macadam base
October 30
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- Cygnus CRS Orb-3
- Dose any ampule contain substances which shouldn't meet the air?
- non-orientable matter
- Sunrise or sunset ?
- Why ionizate equation of weak base are written as single step.
- Fea modelling
- If you have a dynamo but what a specific output
- What is the difference between stochastic model vs statistical model
- How do 32 electrodes transmit a complex behavior?
October 31
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- Leclanché cell and Vanadium redox battery
- Smelloscope
- Hyperventilating
- Why do concrete bridges have slight arches at the bottom
- Meteorite impact and electron degeneracy
- PUJT vs DIAC
- Insect overwintering
- Bridge supports
- Measurement query
- Space Vacuum confusion
- Warnings on prescription labels
- Cell Phones on Cruise Ships
- What is the reason of the putting dextrose into the 5W?
- What is the purpose of the lactate in the Hartman's solution?
- Chemical compounds