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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 1

1. Can it be proven that people dream?
2. Exercise and blood sugar control in diabetes
3. Orchids
4. Coupled atoms
5. Gravitational time dilation in black holes
6. Sending probes to other systems
7. "Element analyser"
8. Correct Location for "Ethno" Medicines
9. Black and white races in sports and science

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 2

1. The power of intention? How does modern neuroscience explain this bit of ancient wisdom?
2. Name for the medical trauma caused by having the skin flayed
3. hunting, foraging and the grandmother hypothesis
4. Why do we get dizzy when we rotate rapidly?
5. Comparing antimuscarinic effects of chlorpromazine and trihexyphenidyl.
6. Gravity affects Time

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 3

1. Power Plant Efficiency
2. Scanimation
3. Teabags and Toothaches
4. molecular mass and formula mass
5. help identify this bug
6. semi permiable membrane
7. Biology
8. Osmosis, diabetes mellitus, and osmosis
9. The speed of light versus the speed of sound. Which has more for the buck?

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 4

1. Question about atomic repulsion.
2. Flat feet
3. Projects that cannot complete during the life of the people who started it.
4. Why doesn't Wikipedia provide medical advice?
5. what hormone is responsible for the facial fat sexual dimorphism in prepubertal children?
6. Ionized water - is there any truth to this claim?
7. why the veins blood is dark more than arteries blood?
8. about taking blood test from the veins / arteries
9. Something from nothing

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 5

1. CTE
2. Telescopes on the Moon
3. Gastrobiology of obesity
4. Difference between char and charcoal?
5. Why when the plane fly above the earth, are not affected by the movement of the Earth's rotation on its axis in other words, why not lengthen or shorten the distance between one country and another when it fly?
6. Three leaves in a dicot plant. Is this a mutation?
7. Eating shellfish during a red tide
8. Makeshift electromagnet advice
9. What is the meaning of A1C?
10. what is the meaning of "beta" on hormones

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 6

1. relation between speed and pressure of the fluid
2. Laminated beams
3. Is there a list of human organs weight?
4. Why did not remain nothing nothing?
5. can anyone help with references?
6. Feeding live mice to a cat
7. ATOMIC MASS AND MOLECULAR MASS
8. clonning
9. Why aren't galaxies really bright?
10. Homemade space suit.
11. protein loosing - sperm

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 7

1. Largest volcano on earth discovered?
2. Light emitting black hole
3. Yellow–brown stains on marble
4. Kidney transplant location
5. Legality of spectrum analyzer use?

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 8

1. Monoethanolamine membranes?
2. Understanding calculus in non-geometric terms
3. Why does salt amplify flavors in food?
4. Coriander
5. If evolution doesn't exist ...
6. An Indisputable, Cheap DNA/Genetic Test For Jewish Ancestry/Descent
7. Zero ohm resistor

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 9

1. 6d transition metals
2. Stability of Technetium
3. Medication and the angle of the head
4. wasp 2
5. Three-masted merchantman tonnage discrepancy
6. Religious people and Alzheimer's disease
7. Stoichiometry for explosion of Nitroguanidine
8. why do knots weaken ropes?

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 10

1. Physics Practise Exam Question - Can't Get it!
2. Astable oscillator/multivibrator with logic gates
3. ISOLATION OF CELL COMPONENTS .
4. We are not talking about space, but something emerged from no existence and exist that the space
5. Why do you love God if he does not love you and you're a nobody for him
6. That we live in a computer screen on the face likening or simulator or why we discovery if that was all you discover is the information illustrated in space , So How crash this screen that was all of this illusion.
7. Hydrolysis of PET with 30% ammonia

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 11

1. Arrhenius base
2. Evaporation before formation
3. What's the idea of ​​the antigravity engine and how it works
4. Power supply problems.
5. Population before human bottleneck
6. Obesity baloon treatment
7. Standing on a Vauxhall Corsa
8. Diode as radioactive detector - detecting energies?
9. Is there a scientific definition of "shake well"?
10. What is the radiation dose (Sv) from a CME when in commercial flight?
11. Bald Eagle flock...

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 12

1. attraction of two masses
2. Body weight
3. Cats and Dogs
4. Polyhedron-polyhedron intersection?
5. Transmission of blood groups

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 13

1. Chemical terminology
2. Oral masturbation question
3. Naegleria fowleri — what does it normally eat?
4. Synthesizing elements 119 and 120
5. Kidney bruising
6. Physiology behind eating certain types of food
7. What happens when you place a Crane Fly in Sulfuric acid?
8. Underground stream of water
9. wireless keyboards/mice

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 14

1. Solar eclipse
2. Bad eyesight question
3. If you poured Coca Cola onto a frog, does it cause distress and death?
4. antidotes for sodium fluoroacetate
5. Marine Fossil
6. Indexing my technology company on Wikipedia
7. "In nature, on average, only one baby makes it to adulthood, per parent."
8. Flagellum-driven vehicles
9. heart acceleration

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 15

1. Tungsten carbide is inorganic?
2. Plank length
3. My nuts are overly saturated
4. Solar eclipses
5. Is carbon tetrachloride an organic compound?
6. Quality of light needed to charge from solar panel
7. Eigenstate Symmetry
8. Food energy
9. Two Astronomy Questions
10. Hydrochloric acid changed the colour of plastic tube
11. Leaf fluffies
12. Relativistic speed
13. Mycoremediation of Sarin for Gas Masks
14. Powerful singing voice before infections?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 16

1. "Sea bamboo"
2. Has Titan got oil that is not a fossil fuel?
3. Atomic carbon in ISM
4. How can I work property rights for something ?
5. Are you believe general relativity theory ?why?
6. Woodward effect
7. Tritiated water
8. Bug identification
9. Mycoremediation of Sarin
10. how to isolate the Acetylsalicylic acid from the white willow (salix)?
11. That proof "negative time negative equal positive" is wrong|What would happen if proved wrong proof ?
12. Mountains in Norway
13. Variable power supply plug
14. Relationship between knowing how to touch-type and electronic test scores?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 17

1. Cattle teeth and bones
2. What study is being cited?
3. Liberty + mental health
4. Closest relative commonly eaten by humans
5. Weight gain as a result of overeating
6. Sword made of Precious metals
7. Foam nest?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 18

1. Weight loss
2. Costa Concordia - What is/was its weight? I just don't get it.
3. Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
4. Vertical-slit marsupium
5. Falling into a black hole

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 19

1. Borde, Guth, Vilenkin and contracting universe

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 20

1. Weekly medicines
2. Which is the most intelligent insect?
3. Do we need to eat saturated fat?
4. Harvesting power from the oceans?
5. Notung vs. Excalibur
6. Does eating chlorophyll help the production of hemoglobin?

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 21

1. Camera lens for fast-paced sports
2. Do batteries contain a clear, harmless liquid?

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 22

1. NSaid and Ulcers
2. Outhouses, sheds, and barns
3. the effect of a working propeller on a plane
4. Event horizon
5. aren't all heaters perfect?

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 23

1. Biology - Genus: Hepatocystis - conflict - Who described it?
2. What does the letter V of ECG stand for?
3. article of CC
4. Garden Spider doing a spot of trawling?
5. Dehumidifiers >100% efficient have a COP > 1 as heaters.
6. Microwave attacks?
7. Surgical treatments for Tibialis (Anterior) Tendinitis?
8. Donate my personal data to science
9. Do cats despise potential energy?
10. Why does the USA use odd tenths of a Mhz for FM radio?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 24

1. Could polar bears move to mainland Norway and survive there?
2. Psychotherapy - Control Freak
3. My food gives me a warm, glowing feeling...
4. Why produce metallic technetium?
5. Is there a mechanism to 'turn off' feelings?
6. Need some help here!
7. Feminism and Science
8. Shear force

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 25

1. Controlled Release Medications
2. Sensation in throat
3. Courting behavior when males ram into each other head first
4. Mummification
5. Effect of direction of impact on traumatic brain injury
6. Schizophrenia rat experiments
7. aragonite
8. Nautical twilight
9. Bestiality and interspecies mating

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 26

1. Field interaction from photons or other electromagnetic radiation
2. How big is the blue stars in diameters
3. Can life harbor of planets around white main sequence stars, or yellow-white main sequence stars
4. Everett branch convergence
5. Colour variations on displays
6. When dental veneers go wrong...
7. searching of arm anatomy illustration

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 27

1. SF - Some kind of anatomic pathology?
2. Waterfall fish kill ?
3. Algebra
4. Way to get Oils or Oil remnants of the hair?
5. Touching a touchscreen
6. Why are the babies in need of sleep more than adults?
7. How does a laser cut glass?

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 28

1. Mould growth from artificially increased humidity
2. What animals besides spiders have evolved more than two eyes?
3. Compactified on S₅ or T*S₃
4. How do you show stacked staircases in a building plan?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 29

1. Raisins as cough suppressant?
2. The name of a medical condition
3. Why do we feel colder when lying down?
4. How to accurately measure how long someone has lived
5. Hypothermia
6. total current in parallel cct
7. Minors' calorie count

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 September 30

1. Where is East?
2. Why do planet have eliptical orbit?
3. Work done by a person carrying a bag on his head
4. Why is the speed of light in vacuum not relative?
5. Why do razor blades dull so quickly ?
6. If soap cleans by removing sebum oil from your skin, and the palms of your hands don't have sebaceous glands, which are the glands that produce sebum oil, does that mean soap never cleans the palms of your hands?