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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 1

1. Zygotes implanted in the wombs of other species
2. Gene Therapy and Hormones
3. Air bubles in tap water
4. Is everything energy?
5. Sell copyrights of my research work
6. Size of processor dies
7. Red apples inside and out
8. the acidic group in aspartate/glutamate is COOH. what do you call the basic group in arginine?
9. Putting cancer cells to sleep
10. Is there a medical term for this?
11. aspartame
12. Gums Bleeding
13. the economics of enantioselective chemistry

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 2

1. several questions
2. Evolution
3. greater permittivity than a vacuum?
4. 2,3-Dihydropyran as a protecting group
5. Typhoon Nida
6. ring opening/closure, reaction rates and entropy
7. Speed at which levels of melanin in humans adapt to UV light
8. vitamin c chart at bottom of vitamin c article.
9. GIS + ray-tracing algorithms = traffic noise estimation
10. El nino
11. Children on Wikipedia
12. Another question about visual phenomena...
13. why do i feel hotter after a bath?
14. Children aargh
15. Christmas lights
16. which element most toxic?
17. Solar panels

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 3

1. Medical experiment that went terribly wrong
2. Butterfly sensation from infatuation.
3. Physical fallacies
4. Lines of little circles of light on camera
5. Rainbow ham?
6. Does such a disease exist?
7. cheesewring stones
8. North Korea's closed-circuit speaker system
9. Environmental Impact of ebooks vs paper books
10. Stars
11. The most useless particle

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 4

1. Storks
2. name of physics book
3. Cat and dog ear fold.
4. Rechargable Batteries
5. Hair
6. Green Laser Pointer
7. Restyl tablets
8. activation energy and pri/sec/tert advantages
9. Organizing chemicals (practical)

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 5

1. causes of internal ache and chokeness along the throat
2. Pyruvic Acid vs. Pyruvate as end product of Glycolysis
3. heat modelling
4. Bohr Magneton Number for Copper Sulphate.
5. Does rice water has chemical reaction with mineral water's plastic bottle?
6. Eye water
7. classical music and emotions
8. Showering with contact lenses
9. Raccoon

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 6

1. Vacuoles, vacuolation, vacuolisation and vacuolization
2. Why does increasing CO2 concentration matter?
3. Size of average Caucasian female head
4. Human nervous system latency
5. Interferomics possible editorial problems
6. my son ( 10 yearls old )
7. William Thompson
8. How long are viruses active?
9. Burns and clothing vs. bare skin
10. Greenhouse Gases
11. Knives and electrical sockets
12. More climate questions
13. Science games for kids
14. Diesel automobiles without diesel particulate filters
15. Cartography - spherical map - globe section
16. Cholesterol and sodium
17. Why aren't rugby players overwhelmed with injuries?
18. Are there any other types of radiation besides electromagnetic radiation?
19. Total acres in California?
20. beef slaughter house

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 7

1. Change in kinetic energy
2. Redox rxn. How can I tell if a reaction is redox or not?
3. Value of a microchip
4. mesomeric versus inductive effects for the pka of catechol (ortho-diphenol)
5. phenols as enols
6. phenol-type quinoline
7. acidic proton question (Prilosec & Tagamet!)
8. science
9. Photon
10. Area of Hong Kong
11. Converting from degrees K to F
12. Compact florescent bulbs
13. Inductive electricity through glass

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 8

1. reaction of lead sulfate and sodium bicarbonate
2. Rendering a planet uninhabitable
3. Methods of Capital Punishment
4. Air versus Marine Propeller Design
5. Dreams
6. Body, spinal cord and partial brain transplant?
7. Valence electron counts
8. Anesthesia
9. ref:HEAT MODELLING
10. How quickly does caffeine evaporate or decompose?
11. Modelling sound in a breeze
12. Vision acuity measurements

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 9

1. mathematica model of diffusion
2. Green lightning?
3. Re: Science Question
4. Veterinary anesthesia
5. Freezing rain affected by a lake?
6. Rhodonite oxidation
7. Wind power from tightly stretched band
8. DNA data bases
9. Could the Hubble Space Telescope have imaged damage to the Space Shuttle Columbia?
10. IPCC models
11. if global warming is a problem why don't we put up a thermostat
12. Health clinic in Sevilla, Spain
13. Is nonhuman skin color a result of melanin levels or something different?
14. Caring for surfaces while removing snow from them
15. Looking for molecules with large huang rhys factor
16. Echoes
17. I uniformly prefer white
18. moment of Big Bang
19. Zombie Plan
20. Smallpox eradication
21. What are wastes of different industries and what are their usages?
22. Compare energy released by automobiles vs. nuclear warheads
23. absolute zero
24. How much warning do we get before a supernova will become detectable by naked eye?

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 10

1. sulfoxide functional groups in drugs
2. L1 Lagrange point
3. Known changes: mental function: adulthood
4. Life Expectancy in 2050
5. E.V.S. project
6. why is Potassium chloride caustic if its ph is 7  ?
7. Since of touch
8. Measuring magnetic susceptibility
9. ammonia sanitizer
10. Sodium bicarbonate ph?
11. should a shit blanket go over an awesome one or vice versa?
12. Rubbing salt into the wound
13. The Future Is Wild
14. atom "melting" temp
15. Highest temperature
16. Miller–Urey-type experiments

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 11

1. Sewing machines
2. On the number of exoplanets that transit their stars in the milky way
3. Binoculars in Games & Movies.
4. Need a reliable value for the sun's illumination under variable Earth conditions
5. trialkyloxonium salts and beta elimination

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 12

1. Hedgehog exercise
2. nitromethane
3. How was the international prototype for the metre made?
4. "Bleeding like a stuck pig"
5. Enzymes
6. Russian rocket failure
7. Cavity Preparations-Dentistry
8. no transmission for a car?
9. What happens when a cold-blooded animal gets an infection.
10. M&M

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 13

1. Bleach Reactions
2. Nitrogen Trichloride IED?
3. Autophagy in bacteria
4. on average how many pounds of fish are under a square meter of ocean?
5. Europe and Asia
6. Radon
7. 5' Cap and Poly-A Tail
8. Identify species from unusual shell
9. Hunter-gatherers

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 14

1. are imine groups stabilised by base?
2. time/temperature formula
3. depurination
4. Scanning for a lost cellphone
5. The connection between blonde people and intelligence
6. What medicine stops the itchiness inside of nose?
7. Irritation
8. Faroe Islands tunnels/civil engineering.
9. Tail on Human
10. Theories vs. laws (Re: Einstein)
11. foggy car windows
12. between large vision acuity

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 15

1. Why isn't t-butyl (as a carboxylate protecting group) sensitive to base?
2. Boiling water simply by adding kinetic energy?
3. Car windows again
4. Shatika
5. Acetone/Water Mixtures: Flammability
6. What are the arm blades of a preying mantis made from?
7. Tree question
8. Movement of the sun and moon around the sky
9. What happens when you mix hydrogen peroxide and liver?
10. Earth Changes
11. How do we know the speed of light is constant?
12. Interpreting life expectancy
13. Why am I able to see depth in this video?
14. plastic laminate
15. Gallium
16. Southern Hemisphere deciduous forests

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 16

1. Nuclear Warfare
2. Stars, black holes, and motion...
3. Condensation Between Propanoic Acid and 3-Aminopropanal
4. Total weight of all insects in the world
5. Atoms
6. combined serial and parallel circuits
7. new planets
8. "vascular" headaches
9. p-phenylenediamine
10. CHARGED BLACK HOLES
11. how far we go back things become less accurate?
12. ICP-Chapter 11 Review-Motion
13. ANNs

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 17

1. testicular torsion
2. Explain why cancer has a genetic code?
3. computer CD ? DVD
4. Particles And Black Holes, are They the Same Thing?
5. Why does once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10^(-8) hertz?
6. Wormholes and Blackholes
7. Collective Human Mind Connection to the planets Ecosystem
8. Is a hot radiator disrupting my TV's remote control?
9. silicone or rubber compound used for grips etc...
10. following migration routes leading to discovery
11. Ice in My Freezer "Sublimates". Why?
12. Jello

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 18

1. Lone pairs
2. Getting your car hot.
3. If each spatial dimension extends in two dirrections, why does the time dimension only go in one?
4. What is this object ?
5. anyone here really knowledgeable on Circadian rhythms?
6. vector or scalar quantity
7. Autonomous behaviour on Guitar Hero
8. Science help desk thank you for Christmas
9. Why isn't the sky bright white at night?
10. Meteorites from Vesta and Mars?
11. Hawking and the LHC
12. will hairdye

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 19

1. Urban gulls on a cold day...
2. consuming lab products
3. Ether
4. Quantum Field Theory
5. Solar System and Orbits
6. Effects of moving from hot water to cold water on vision
7. Elephants
8. Epiblast and primitive endoderm (Developmental biology)
9. Downforce
10. General relativity
11. Wormholes and Time Travel
12. Junk food
13. Absolute Zero and Special Particles

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 20

1. Tunneling marbles
2. Strings
3. SETI question
4. Why is "modern physics" approached so historically in textbooks?
5. Black hole time
6. Storing a spring clock
7. I over-analyzed Amphoterism and over-analyzed pK_a and now want to resolve a pedagogic discrepancy between Wikipedia vs my 3 independent chem books
8. power generation using hybrid wind-water turbine
9. How does this thermometer work?
10. Zero Point Energy Power Source
11. Voltage and curent in series and parallel circuits
12. Longevity of the British royal family
13. Go out for a spacewalk in that?
14. Physiology of states of boredom or high motivation?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 21

1. Y-DNA different from groupings of associated mt-DNA in the Near East?
2. human sex determination
3. Wireless video transmission solutions for HD video
4. Branes and Strings
5. Avatar (2009 film)
6. Superstring Theory and the Large Hadron Collider
7. Battery voltage
8. Chinese / Mongolian plant?
9. Cholecalciferol
10. Is L-alanine l or d?
11. Genetics
12. Recycleability of yellowed paper?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 22

1. Manned landing on Venus
2. snoring while "awake"
3. Reading while thinking about other stuff...
4. M-theory
5. Snow defrosting on cars - patterns
6. How is gasoline delivered to gas stations?
7. Suicide jump balloon
8. LEDs
9. epidemiology of symptomatic osteoarthritis
10. Why so many people at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station?
11. Would cannibalism have saved Captain Scott?
12. Would a coffee-grinder grind flax seeds?
13. Lipid mobilization and utilization from adipose tissue
14. bubbles

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 23

1. fiberglass rot
2. Per-unit-cost energy content of different battery sizes
3. Icosahedrons or Dodecahedrons?
4. The comparative values of specific health behaviours
5. Density of heavy water
6. Average time of sunlight worldwide

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 24

1. Earliest sunset
2. Returning isolated human and immunity
3. Mass and Weight Physics
4. acylation of benzene rings with amino acids
5. Is salt a spice?
6. Would this work to generate (small amounts of) electricity?
7. Any downsides to eating lots of sugar-free candy?
8. Gene Therapy
9. easily transported survival rations
10. trying to find out about a plant I saw in Mexico
11. what's with the weird alkynyl-cyclopropane group in Efavirenz?

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 25

1. Holes in sandstone
2. Marine life and decompression sickness
3. Is this real?
4. Viscous flow of granite
5. Keeping people alive on Xmas day
6. Wind mill & water turbine
7. Relativistic mechanical reactionless drive?
8. Unofficial battery charger
9. Elements and the three states of matter
10. El Niño-Southern Oscillation
11. replacing -COOH with -CH3
12. Attaching a light to a wall
13. Gears
14. Why is Swine flue in decline this winter?
15. Color Of Rosiglitazone Maleate (Avandia)

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 26

1. Is galactic red shift not really the Big Bang singularity’s time-dilating effect?
2. The act of Sex
3. Mystery red plant between Incheon International and Seoul, Korea
4. What causes our windup toy to spark, and what are sparks?
5. Coughing while asleep?
6. what is the evolutionary advantage of appreciating natural beauty?
7. does MSG change taste with pH?
8. Problem with Japanese appliances in European plugs

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 27

1. Male involvement in pornography
2. Big bang?
3. diamond vs ceramics
4. nanocrystalline materials
5. Naked Singularities, Hawking Radiation, and Quantum Gravitation
6. Tomato
7. Nonlinearity of the sRGB and Adobe RGB color spaces
8. Sound pressure, sound intensity, sound loudness, and decay with distance
9. PTSD and hippocampus
10. Finite element method - solid or shell?
11. Lost question

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 28

1. most appropriate article
2. strange astronomical sight
3. Fischer esterification with amino acids -- worried about the protonated amino group
4. Extraterrestrial intelligence
5. Anatomy classes - Truth or myth?
6. If we inject oxytocin into a female
7. New way to generate electricity - has this been proposed before?

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 29

1. Electronic locator
2. Weird phenomonon
3. Sulfuric acid and wax
4. are hydride donors compatible with thionyl chloride?
5. Reason for the variable names in the Lagrangian
6. What is Quantum Action?
7. Is this plausible?
8. Autonomous Intelligence
9. Death by starvation
10. pHILOSOPHY
11. The Truman Show.
12. How does snorting vodka work?
13. Rate Law for Heterogeneous Reactions
14. Costs of test devices
15. female lubrication and mucous membranes
16. the ether oxygen in morphine and related opiates seems ring-strained
17. inner ear and the nervous system
18. Cutaneous nerve endings
19. can't remember the name of a cognitive idea
20. how to measure the basicity of lithium aluminum hydride? will it deprotonate RNH2?
21. How can change the color of mercury

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 30

1. Fish stomachs in Chinatown
2. House mouse factoid - debunk or confirm...
3. What are those marks on the skin of Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria?
4. power generation by hybrid wind water turbine
5. Human joints
6. Coca Cola with cocaine in it
7. Thank you
8. Human cloning
9. Titanium alloys
10. dreaming language
11. Gyroscopic exercise tool
12. parathyroid hormone mechanism of action
13. fibre intake

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 31

1. drinking rubbing alcohol
2. Reference desk
3. Sky
4. Calculating radioactive decay
5. Asbergers versus Williams syndrome
6. I want to make my own battery-powered heating pad.
7. How did the church sign know the temperature?
8. Flower identification