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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 1

1. Luciferin
2. Amount of Potassium iodide in Iodized salt
3. Digital data over radio transmitter
4. The magical blue smoke
5. applications of lagrangian dynamics
6. thin layer chromatography
7. MRI machine
8. How can we calculate the chemical energy of a body?
9. Mortality of acute pancreatitis
10. regarding physics olympiad
11. evolution
12. Carotid artery
13. This question is in regard to galvanizing.

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 2

1. Solubility of Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen?
2. Word for a substance that makes you piss more?
3. natural antibiotics?
4. metabolic functions of proteins from human/mouse
5. Political parties and teenage pregnancies
6. stripy babies
7. Do the hurricanes have anything to do with global warming?
8. Hurricane question
9. Blindness
10. Air-water experiment
11. cellulose
12. Genes for Skin
13. What kind of moth?!?!
14. Poppy Seeds

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 3

1. brown sugar
2. Clarity of Glycerin soap
3. Separating a test tube mixture
4. Blindness disease
5. Solvents of common pharmaceuticals
6. Long-term monogamy in mammals
7. Physics
8. Wikipedia:Unidentified flowers
9. Monogamy and Evolution
10. Insect Identification
11. Wifi - any dangers?
12. Looking for references about cats
13. Cystic fibrosis
14. Invisibility Cloak

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 4

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 4#|]]
2. Going through walls
3. Penis errect in the morning.
4. Drinking water from a bottle of Clorox
5. epilepsy / impact on brain
6. twin universe hypothesis
7. White hole transformation
8. Name of interesting microorganism
9. Human breasts-a store for fat?
10. Sociopaths
11. growing biodiesel in your back garden
12. How do a student weight the moon
13. Portion of agriculturally usable land on the surface of the globe

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 5

1. "base SI quantity"
2. Gravity question
3. Mars
4. Metric System
5. Why do celestial bodies spin and/or move in a circular motion?
6. Pump Stalling Phenomenon
7. sound waves
8. fatigue
9. matchwood
10. Origin of life
11. Inducing hyperthyroidism to lose weight?
12. americium in smoke detectors
13. Monkey wedding
14. Yoghurt phobia
15. Cyst or what?
16. Need a 3D anatomy applet

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 6

1. Potassium Carbonate as a Fire Supression Agent
2. Consider two Cockatiels, A and B...
3. Winter Solstice
4. Drugs that daze or slow down?
5. Maximum Water Vapor In Air
6. Mystery critter
7. UK Coal Reserves
8. Body Temperature
9. Crystal Filter and Clocks

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 7

1. Why do rockets need to be explosive to reach escape velosity?
2. Contents of Drinking Water
3. college student seeking advice
4. Molar polarisation
5. Meiosis combinations
6. why can I listen to the radio on my computer?
7. Actions of people with mental illnes or people using drugs
8. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 7#|]]
9. xenophobe in ethimological sense
10. Beta decay, the weak force and W- boson mass
11. The Bernoulli family and the "Bernouilli" one
12. Stroke article in The Lancet

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 8

1. Significant figures - fun stuff
2. Dark skin and dominant/recessive traits
3. Robustness or lack thereof in "B-rex" (dinosaur question)
4. Is this radiant energy exploitation possible?
5. will the world ever end?
6. sufuric acid
7. TV detector vans
8. Anti Gravity in Salalah Muscat ?
9. Encyclopedic?
10. Wellbrutrin and Libido
11. Cat external parasite
12. The newly-discovered Vernulles effect
13. Hubble Space Telescope, and Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg
14. Phase of the moon
15. Speed of engulfment by LHC black hole
16. Carbolic acid - uses
17. Control systems companies

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 9

1. HIV taxonomy
2. Check this out?
3. I have a question about Reno, Nevada
4. Birds with Blue Eyes
5. Diet of the Canada Goose
6. slip of tongue
7. Check my chemistry questions
8. alien
9. Soylent green
10. Symbols
11. crossbreed dogs
12. Medicval term for 'facial flushing'
13. Oh no, no sunspots!
14. Neutron stars
15. Core skills of a chemist
16. Help identify this plant
17. Blue-yellow colourblindness
18. NOAA weather radio voice
19. Weather or not
20. Global Warming
21. Antimatter

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 10

1. reason for .b1 and .g1 primer names
2. Carbon dioxide sequestration
3. detectors
4. Bayhawk?
5. CERN's experiment
6. hair dryer voltage dilemma
7. boiling water in the states
8. UK Spiders
9. MEDICINE:GYNAECOLOGIST
10. physics
11. light
12. CERN AL-Zanders' dropping some mighty LHC yo!
13. Dentistry question: not advice and not homework
14. related to LHC
15. What is a Hadron
16. Does heat contribute to global warming?
17. Water injection
18. Earwax
19. Women and How They Think
20. Telephone
21. Magnifier
22. Melting Some Silver
23. Feline parasite follow-up
24. salt grain physics.

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 11

1. But why the square head?
2. Parrots - mistrustful of humans when nesting...
3. Cat Induced Allergies
4. What is a Computer Scientist?
5. Petrol pumps
6. polymers
7. Is the LHC the coldest place in the universe?
8. Population of the Philippines
9. Welding under water
10. Entropy and the Direction of Time
11. Are all alleles genes?
12. Disadvantages of needleguns
13. Was there German Genetic Engineering using X-rays in 1945?
14. Over my head
15. Facts that oppose evidence for evolution
16. Plastic bullet for handgun
17. LHC as time after big bang
18. Fantastic Structure?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 12

1. If the LHC created a black hole...
2. Water bears on Mars
3. Gamma ray bursts and black holes
4. Radioactive decay in materials. Schrodinger's cat
5. Unsailable Dead Sea
6. Electroforming solution
7. Patella/knee jerk reflex
8. chemistry - glassware
9. PHEV Battery Economics
10. angular momentum
11. Missiles on Main Battle Tanks
12. England MD/MBBS info

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 13

1. Unidentified Plant
2. F-16 Fuel consumption
3. Kinetic energy revisited
4. Turtle Bites and Salmonella
5. Bird identification request
6. electrical circuit solving
7. transistor
8. Houston muscle
9. ice caps of the earth
10. Storage
11. Nuclear waste into space
12. Nuclear explosion and X-Ray lasers
13. Not making nutrients as an evolutionary "tactic"
14. Why is 16:9 superior to 4:3?
15. Masturbation
16. end of the world : december 2012?
17. From a scientific standpoint, which plant is the most important?
18. The effects of Ocean Nuclear Bomb Testing

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 14

1. Thallium Stress Test (Side Effects)
2. Chemical Name
3. Swimming Pool (Hydrochloric) Acid
4. Dark matter
5. Name for animals that can change colour
6. Things that weigh on Milligram.
7. VEGA LAUNCHER
8. Thyrotropin Releasing hormone in Gastrointestinal tract
9. Dog ESP
10. What's it called when...
11. Help identifying flowers
12. Ornithopters
13. Inverse Compton effect and nuclear weapons
14. Why is gold leaf opaque when it is only one atom thick and each atom is mostly empty space?
15. Prostate Treatment
16. Parallel universes
17. So, an aging rockstar has taken so much speed and cocaine over the decades...
18. Why? as a scientific question

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 15

1. Somewhere theres music
2. Triple point
3. How do we know there will be no problems with the LHC?
4. views of Thuria and Cluros
5. Hydrogen gas - analytical test???
6. Why Is Electromagnetic Wave Sine Wave?
7. Hurricanes over warm water, meeting with freezing air over land, making snow?
8. LEDs or LASERs penetrating the body
9. Semiconductor diode
10. Trains and Trucks running on gasoline instead of diesel
11. Statistics in research
12. the flight of projectiles
13. New "unusual object" discovered
14. Are these comparisons acurate?
15. Czech Fingerprint Scientist
16. Demon's Egg
17. importance of one engineering to the other
18. Electrical grounding chemicals

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 16

1. Where do I buy kudzu?
2. I have a metal
3. reading upside-down..
4. Shop Vac power
5. Potting soil mixture
6. Help me identify my vacation photos
7. How can something be smaller than Planck length?
8. Chaotic system is Chaotic
9. Strangelets
10. Building a Terminator
11. Mass vs. size

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 17

1. Simulation from first principles
2. Streamlined intergalactic ship
3. Zucchini and squash
4. minimum size for a planet
5. Sebaceous gland
6. Gasoline/alcohol mixture
7. Light
8. Crickets Chirping
9. How does business units monetize their AR with bank and what are the criteria to be met?
10. H2O mixed with CO2
11. Shards of pottery
12. What weighs one centigram?
13. Why does depression affect concentration?
14. pls help me with these question
15. over the counter medicatons
16. Copper Sulphate
17. Needles in your thigh
18. Quote?
19. Blood as an indicator of pain
20. Cell-biology experiments outside the cell

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 18

1. dous anyone know how a solar panal works without the who made it stuff?
2. COCONUT SEEDS
3. Transparent and reflective at the same time !
4. Lithium Batteries (Elephant Tripling)
5. Edible fir cones / pine cones
6. Conversion
7. Labelling and imaging with non-radioactive isotopes?
8. Newton phoney quote?
9. Why is lightning blue?
10. Chromosome/Chromatid
11. erection problems
12. examples of imperfect human evolution
13. Why did Gregor Mendel ("The Gregster") choose the pea to study genetic inheretence?
14. genetics
15. What caused these global cooling events?

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 19

1. Sedative Paintballs
2. Blood drawing sensation
3. CO2 production by humans
4. Fat woman
5. DNA of monozygotic twins
6. How much of the population uses medicine?
7. Rats vs Mice for public health
8. Smallest eye
9. Animals rejected by their mothers
10. Ear and Collarbone
11. Bridging the pond
12. Doppler effect
13. Live food

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 20

1. Mental capacity/diagnosis of fictional dumb characters
2. Blood and meat from strangled animal
3. cool labs in Boston
4. Digital Transducers
5. Please, identify a spider
6. burden calculation in electrical circuit
7. pill
8. Protomap
9. Water as hallucinogen?
10. Is there really evidence for "classical conditioning"

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 21

1. Birds noisy at night
2. How much does a 3.2 kilogram slug of tungsten cost?
3. iraQ PLEASE ASSIST
4. stable bleaching powder
5. Scientific meaning of 'Energy'
6. Lab test overkill
7. Einstein refrigerator
8. Children listening to older sisters, learning right from wrong, and all that
9. The Vena Cava
10. Anatomy lectures transcription
11. Measuring angles
12. psychology type I and type II error
13. Oscillating systems, periodic time and maximum acceleration
14. snake venom how does it travel through the body
15. Indefinitely orbiting a singularity inside of the event horizon of a black hole
16. Why don't quartrbacks get the types of injuries pitchers do?
17. "Microscopic Black Holes"
18. Solstice/equinox dates
19. Gamma spectroscopy
20. Exploding barrels

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 22

1. Wheat straw
2. Advantages of fertilisers
3. Propan-1,2-diol from acetaldehyde
4. Unknown plant, possibly rowan?
5. All thiol groups in a particular protein
6. Space exploration
7. C4
8. clarification as to how time taken for light to cross the universe indicates "when" you are looking at?
9. range of the pH scale
10. Twin Paradox
11. Solaire system
12. submandibular lymph node

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 23

1. Mercury's core
2. pet birds
3. quantifying vitamin C's preservative properties
4. Why are some stars bright?
5. Planets interior
6. chromatography
7. How literate in English would a person have to be in order to practice neosurgery in the USA?
8. Hydrogen ballooning
9. the Martian sky
10. Looking for specific puzzles
11. accelerating charged particles and radiations
12. Help from more experienced molecular biologists: statistical software packages?
13. project
14. object at infinity
15. evidence of increase in iron content in well water
16. Actually making money from a patent
17. Cause of death
18. Mysterious Hamster Illness
19. Ubiquitination: specific E1 needed for particular E2?
20. What will happen exactly if all the arctic ice melts?
21. Saturn's disc color
22. Tooth extraction
23. find the resonance frequency of a tube

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 24

1. Underwater urination
2. Death under stress
3. Human body
4. the first fortified peanut butter that is not plumpy nut
5. Density
6. Progressivity of electrical loads
7. Lag time and planetary alignment issues regarding laser transimission between Mars and the Moon/Earth
8. Cell phone radiation and hard drives
9. four acceleration
10. Do candles melt when put in a microwave oven?
11. Floodwater in the bathroom
12. 'foods that promote cancer and how they promote it'
13. Location of seminal vesicles
14. Whats happens when Global Warming comes to apex?
15. the charge carried by 100 electrons
16. a wire carries 2.496E17 electrons
17. 25A fuse
18. Archie Frederick Collins
19. Wardenclyffe Tower
20. How to store things on an earth floor yet keep them dry
21. Pluto's sky
22. Macropenis

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 25

1. Planets, homework for MY 5th grader, can't find in packet, please help!
2. Neptune's sky
3. Global Warming Counterargument
4. Chemistry
5. Histogram of distribution of skin color
6. 2D PAGE not sensitive to low-abundance proteins
7. physical draw backs of jogging
8. How is water taken up by the body?
9. Hair Growth in Mammals
10. Are cows immune to CS gas?
11. Why do people prefer creamy skin lotions compared to solid or liquid formulas?
12. QFT Example?

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 26

1. "hurricane" in France
2. ACCA
3. Kinetic Energy of Helium
4. bird nomenclature / indie rock lyric question
5. Severity of Decelleration Required to Cause Traumatic Brain Injury
6. Plant identification questions (yew and juniper)
7. Evolution of axon membranes
8. Making gold
9. Extremely deadly tranquillisers?
10. Venus' sky

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 27

1. Where does my power come from?
2. would a free falling object hit with the same force from 40' vs. 20'
3. Penrose Diagram
4. Changes in mental processes due to multitasking
5. an idle speculation about songbirds
6. Uranium nitrate in medicine?
7. hydrogen storage
8. Recipe for Life
9. Plant species

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 28

1. slow step of a reaction
2. Faster than Light Travel
3. Protons and Electrons
4. Einsteins starting point
5. Nightmares
6. Tropical Cyclones sorces
7. A question related to disintegration.
8. Uranium in homeopathic medicine
9. Hydrogen Bonding
10. dynamics

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 29

1. Oceanic Mammalian Question
2. MATLAB question
3. Flatbed scanner covers
4. When blue planet?
5. Digestive System
6. DACs in CD players
7. Is a 10% reduction of emissions reasonable?
8. heating element
9. the details of callus formation
10. reg.heavy duty trailers
11. High and low biotechnology
12. Lipids
13. Mate selection in gulls
14. dogs kicking back after defecation

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 30

1. Photosynthetic Animal
2. Power consumption vs. hour of day
3. Tyvek house wrap
4. Charging device: sometimes it works
5. Methane Clathrates are melting...NOW!
6. Road-safety for trucks
7. Is Thrust a usual vector? (i.e. same properties of all vectors I have learned so far?)
8. Isobaric peptides
9. Sunrays and satellites
10. black hole
11. Infra-Red
12. Sound speed / loudness