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January 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 1

  1. Positive vs negative selectable markers
  2. Time since directly related
  3. Literal "Fire" Hose
  4. Urine tap
  5. CCD exposure
  6. Glass saw?
  7. Microwave plasma
  8. Efficiency of full vs emptry refridgerator
  9. IEs

January 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 2

  1. Cutting the carotid artery
  2. zookeeper physics question
  3. FETs
  4. high tension lines or transmission lines and archival photos of "galloping" lines
  5. Hydrogen ion

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 3

  1. Using the IUCN Red List
  2. Body shape and structure
  3. Focal distance and light intensity (camera question about f-stop)
  4. Lens focusing by eye
  5. Excessive emotional responses
  6. What is this object?
  7. ISO setting verus shutter speed
  8. indian resources on iron
  9. Falling Leaf
  10. I am writing a presentation
  11. Kidney in hagfish
  12. Battery effect
  13. Flash evaporation of a solution

January 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 4

  1. Bike mechanics - removal of rear sprocket (single speed - no cassette)
  2. Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
  3. What is the difference between Nernst equation and Nerst's equation?
  4. Amazonian insects and fruit for identification
  5. How much gas can a candle burn?
  6. Gluing plastics together
  7. Speed of Light
  8. Temperature data archives
  9. Photography: closing aperture

January 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 5

  1. Dawkins' Selfish Gene on sex
  2. Jet injector
  3. A hygiene conundrum
  4. Backcrossing
  5. Is cannabis good for you?
  6. Extend my antenna
  7. Orbital planes
  8. Gravity and planetary bodies
  9. Sex
  10. The varied colouration of Feral Pigeons...

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 6

  1. Gear Math
  2. Flavour Sense Perception?
  3. Immunoprecipitation(IP)
  4. Baby Dolphins and Fur?
  5. When is the on average coldest day each year in the northern hemisphere?
  6. eyes above mouth
  7. Old cartoon mocking Mendeleev's system
  8. DIY electric quadricycle

January 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 7

  1. Parasites
  2. Sun
  3. K shell
  4. Science
  5. Question on salt and excercise
  6. Cells
  7. Microscope
  8. why does a comet leave atrail behind it?
  9. Falling from an aircraft into the sea
  10. Going without orgasm for a long time
  11. Hydrogen peroxide solution still good?
  12. energy efficient houses
  13. molds and organisms
  14. Whiskers
  15. Three big cocks!

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 8

  1. unknown disorder
  2. Cells
  3. Cells (2)
  4. Annihilation - energy of photons from electron-positron interaction
  5. Rail Guns
  6. Carbon black
  7. Square-cube laws
  8. SEARCHING FOR FREE E-BOOKS BASED ON SUBJECT CALLED SYSTEM DYNAMICS
  9. FUEL CHARACTERISTIC STUDY RELATED E-BOOKS ALTERNATE RESOURCES
  10. water vapor and global warming
  11. Size of Earth
  12. Is ash carbon?

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 9

  1. Population genetics problem
  2. That double-crossing cerebellum!
  3. Earth's mass
  4. Hypersensitivity of the senses
  5. Advantage &disadvantages of Industry
  6. History of quantum mechanics
  7. PROVIDING LINK FOR FRESH USERS FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS
  8. Why do most penguins have black feathers?
  9. incorrect 3d structure
  10. Bears in the south

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 10

  1. Communicating Faster than Light Using a Rotating Rod
  2. Something removed from Wikipedia article, List of common misconceptions
  3. Photography
  4. Drugs named after places
  5. Gulls and countershading?
  6. Speedometer workings

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 11

  1. Dysgraphia/Agraphia
  2. Geiger muller tube internal quenching
  3. Tremulating musssels
  4. Poop (moved from entertainment desk)
  5. Would a machine be affected by Chemical, Biological, or Radiological weapons?
  6. What does antimatter look like?
  7. Do clones have introns?
  8. Inertia Theory of E Mach
  9. "Einstien said nothing can accelerate to the speed of light, beause its mass would become infinite"
  10. Three Phase 600V systems in Canada
  11. Physics of playground swing
  12. Looking for Standard/Info on Food vacuum packaging
  13. Academia and standardization buzzwords
  14. The Acidity of stomach acids in other animals
  15. Minimum input conditions for human life

January 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 12

  1. Cyanide
  2. Water vapor
  3. Procedures for the Laboratory Synthesis of Polymers
  4. Food protein in blood plasma
  5. Metabolism (Not really a medical question)
  6. What if two black holes were near eachother?
  7. Alcohol through a straw
  8. Weather Balloons

January 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 13

  1. Help! I have woodlice in my house!
  2. Mercalli scale
  3. Methysergide
  4. molecular weight
  5. Obesity/popular culture
  6. Does light stop at the surfaces it's reflected from?
  7. Precisely how do baleen whales exist during the many months they abstain from eating?
  8. Microwave cooking
  9. tweaking a pellet fired boiler
  10. Subatomic particles

January 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 14

  1. Why does food taste delicious?
  2. What will happen if...
  3. Odd question
  4. Name of medical condition ?
  5. A delicious 9V battery
  6. Body Language
  7. water and fire
  8. Traditional Japanese sitting arrangement
  9. 9V battery on the tongue again...
  10. Insect maturbation and animal in general
  11. Electrical question
  12. Permanent Marker
  13. Feline Breeding
  14. Spice effects
  15. Gene synthesis
  16. Blood Clot
  17. Diet Coke/Pepsi, ice, and foam
  18. Ripply heat effect

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 15

  1. Big Pupils
  2. Yep,I`ve got another Physics Magazine Question For You
  3. Are we all "free floating brains in space?"
  4. Concussion?
  5. Stochastic Resonance
  6. Tea, caffeine and health
  7. Oil spills
  8. Grief
  9. 10x Loupe Eyepeice
  10. Looking for a study or news article relating to nightmares

January 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 16

  1. Simple decomposition question
  2. Water density fluctuations?!?
  3. Towel snapping, water, and pain
  4. Energy determination
  5. 'Company doctor'
  6. ARUN S BAGH QUES ABOUT PLUTO
  7. Most Toxic
  8. Salty water
  9. determination of percentage for aspirin
  10. Does stretching a muscle increase muscle mass?
  11. Car polution
  12. self-heating food
  13. Memory Battery
  14. renewable energy street lights
  15. Carbon Monoxide resonance forms
  16. Date genus Bubo was first given(for want of a better word)

January 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 17

  1. Macaw training
  2. Itchy ears
  3. Momentum Of A Chicken
  4. Rocket in vacuum
  5. Camping lantern - glowing white netting
  6. A proton and electron in an atom
  7. LASER mixing questions
  8. A doorbell that rings itself
  9. Canalphones
  10. Electrostatic Problem
  11. Why do newer rifles have a lower rate of fire (typically) than older rifles?
  12. Unidentified Plant
  13. MESSENGER and the white spot
  14. Does wood burn faster in colder temperatures?
  15. Can someone explain this to me?
  16. why dont we heat with rocks from hot places and cool with rocks from cool placse.

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 18

  1. capillary force vaporizer
  2. Radiation "build-up" in high-atomic weight materials
  3. Cloning
  4. easy stable magnetic levitation
  5. Seasoning a cast iron skillet
  6. Tempature
  7. Biogas
  8. Twisted trees!
  9. Common cold aid

January 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 19

  1. Eyelid Vision
  2. 3-D without glasses (parallax barrier?)
  3. Stirling Engine formula
  4. how to improve in transcription?
  5. Long Term Climate Change
  6. Time travel and parrelle univerises
  7. Standard deviation devide by N or by N-1
  8. weather and climate
  9. Coordination
  10. urea

January 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 20

  1. Can you name any of these tropical flowers?
  2. solar energy per square centimeter per magnifying power
  3. 'Bibliography trees' etc.
  4. Tunguska event
  5. Black Widow spider
  6. Correction Fluid
  7. Virus vs opium poppies
  8. Lack of spatial awareness
  9. Chinese cabbage?
  10. Sex determination
  11. ιλεος εντερο
  12. passing a drug test

January 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 21

  1. MEDICAL X-RAYS
  2. mineral identification question
  3. Creatine and Fibromalagia
  4. Pegasus
  5. How does radium glow?
  6. Nicorandil
  7. water supply pressure and surges
  8. Thermocouple power generation
  9. Twin earth
  10. do you know an antidote for peg intron?
  11. Little tiny flies on my chives!
  12. Spring Composition

January 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 22

  1. how do i get taller
  2. leg stab
  3. Things spinning really fast
  4. Western blot
  5. Location of spleen (in humans)
  6. Testing an electric fence
  7. Chemistry: molarity vs. normality
  8. Which better to go after if being sexually assaulted (not for the squeamish)
  9. Snap crackle pop
  10. Glass dust?
  11. Post-coital urticaria in a penicillin-sensitive patient
  12. Melonized Steel
  13. Circular motion/ conservation of energy.
  14. Creatine

January 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 23

  1. discovery of how to measure blood glucose with a home blood glucose meter
  2. Ichthyophobia
  3. Anchoring a Ship
  4. Analyzing notation H7h6 and similar notation
  5. Training my Macaw (reposting because noone replied)
  6. In the universe, light exists most abundandtly at what wavelength/energy?
  7. physiology
  8. If you could give neutrinos a negative charge...
  9. Science and Consciousness
  10. Sirius
  11. alka seltzer
  12. Fever: Better to tough it out or bring it down?
  13. Does light move slowly at absolute zero?
  14. Identification of this rock and minerals

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 24

  1. Developmental Biology - Maturation after pairing
  2. Soluble solids of coffee
  3. Cool experiment ideas
  4. U bend in steam pipes
  5. colliods
  6. Two non-medical questions related to health
  7. Gas leaks
  8. Firing flare guns at people

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 25

  1. cardiac muscle tissue
  2. Gulls again...
  3. urea again
  4. science fair, please help
  5. Subconsciousness
  6. is there any sensor that checks the intensity of light
  7. Old people leaving the gas on
  8. Hangover, sleeping position dependent
  9. what is the areodynamic function of flaps
  10. Hydrocodone
  11. Moon and Sun visible at the same time
  12. trippyfans and turkey
  13. phenogenomics

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 26

  1. Time Travel
  2. MMR Vaccine
  3. Producer Gas through fixed bed coal gasification
  4. What kind of bird is this?
  5. Do we want experiment pages?
  6. Bright object in the sky last night...
  7. Setting toaster timer: stand by...
  8. cheap scientific tools
  9. Are RGY and RYB monitors possible?
  10. Highest village in Tibet
  11. Sykeds ?
  12. Reason for lack of sense of time - i.e.: thinking it's years ago?
  13. pyro
  14. Sitting too close to TV
  15. Thermochemical tables
  16. Malonic acid
  17. RC Copter Problem

January 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 27

  1. Summer Solstice
  2. Cross breeding of rats and squirrels
  3. Medical one way material
  4. Inhaler dream
  5. Ideal tax rate
  6. Mesozoic bird taxonomy
  7. Fossils from mountains and islands
  8. Big flashes of flame while cooking
  9. Danger of collecting blood samples for experiment
  10. Glaciers
  11. Prehistoric love
  12. What do dogs search for?
  13. Calendar calculation

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 28

  1. Irreversible enzymes?
  2. "Down's Syndrome" in animals
  3. Depth of ignition
  4. Musical brains
  5. Phage titration / Identify bacteria
  6. Digital modulation transmission rates
  7. Classifying transformed bacteria (biohazard)
  8. What major would this fall under?
  9. British Rail Steam Locomotives
  10. IMAX lamps -- as hot as the sun?
  11. How well would modern body armor stand up to musket fire?
  12. Do British men have higher pitched voices than American men?
  13. Species Identification
  14. β-mercaptoethanol uses

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 29

  1. Alkaline drinking water
  2. Global Warming/Greenhouse Gases
  3. Are these whales using tools?
  4. Does light have a finite distance it can cover?
  5. the mute button
  6. Gravity
  7. Expansion and contraction
  8. seeing through metal
  9. Detailed info (with pics) how cable internet works
  10. zero order hold
  11. Relation of ohms to watts in speakers
  12. Divergence of a species (speciation)
  13. Mystery metal
  14. Rotten Coconuts
  15. Commercial aspects using License Plate Identification software
  16. Unknown husk

January 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 30

  1. dissapation of light
  2. Best way to destroy an old, (almost) non functional hard drive?
  3. s z qasim
  4. CPR
  5. Destroying matter
  6. Auderiense
  7. How far into the ear canal is the ear drum located?
  8. Pet Parrots need 12 hours or more sleep a night?
  9. feel like crap

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 31

  1. Cause of gravity- what is it?
  2. Quantum Physics
  3. Songs written by drummers
  4. Shower mold
  5. minerals and rocks
  6. Sick again
  7. astrologly
  8. virus
  9. Square drums
  10. carbon dioxide
  11. August eclipse times
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