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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 1

1. What would it look like inside of a gas giant like Jupiter?
2. DNA polymers
3. genealogical research: Hepatic dropsy
4. Multi-cylinder engine
5. Autumn is when? (Northern Hemisphere)
6. Calculate airline security
7. Systolic vs. diastolic pressure as a severity indicator
8. medical student
9. Co-occurring disorder(s)
10. solar cells

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 2

1. Polythene molecules
2. Using tidal power to generate electricity
3. Blood-vein, Mr. Schmidt and taxon authorities
4. Are there any experts who can answer my question? (hand sanitizing)
5. Mold VS Mildew
6. scientific method
7. Caffeol
8. Electromagnetic pump for ionic liquids
9. Earthquakes
10. climate change
11. At what point in the big bang did particles come into existence?
12. Eyes going in different directions
13. Question about the accessible length scales in SAXS? (reworded header)
14. Sound in space
15. speed of sound

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 3

1. Oxygen and cancer
2. Ruptured star
3. Rotor and propeller vs. cylinder
4. Jupiter sized object crashing into Sun
5. Vicodin vs Vicoprofen
6. "Surface" of the Sun
7. Supercritical ocean
8. Is Quantum Theory REALLY so spooky and weird?
9. Behavioural toxicity
10. Lunar eclipse?
11. Malai-ula Banana
12. manned robot-like machines?
13. Escape velocity
14. Dark matter and dark energy
15. Hormone therapy and sexual desire
16. Update to the Nutrition Facts box in USA
17. How much sodium is too much in one day?

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 4

1. Hurricane and tornado
2. African Americans and eGFR
3. definition of space
4. HOW DO DOGS FIGHT
5. Coordinates, part 2
6. Hurricanes versus wirlpools
7. cardio endurance
8. Meningismal pain
9. Protein Article - Proofread this figure?
10. Eye of a hurricane
11. Fissioning a hydrogen atom
12. Confusing enzyme kinetics picture

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 5

1. a fly inside a moving car
2. Physiotherapy
3. Implications of a Perpetual Motion Device
4. What property of electromagnetism is responsible for making individual things not everything?
5. Anatomy of a UFO
6. products of grains
7. Circular orbits
8. Nutrient content of human waste
9. Miscibility
10. Why most of the time the temperature indicator remains on in Fridge?
11. excess sugar & diabetes

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 6

1. Physiatry vs physiotherapy
2. MLB pitchers and atlatls
3. Actual speed of heavenly bodies versus their speed as perceived here on Earth.
4. Tora Bora
5. would it be possible (to convert rotation to linear motion)
6. Placebo effect
7. Pump type efficiencies?
8. If the honey badger's skin really is so tough
9. Edema
10. Deaf-mute
11. ferro resonance
12. Why don't they destroy the last remaining stocks of smallpox?
13. Removing an ankle tendon a minor surgery?
14. Nuts and bolts
15. Like a hot knife through...
16. Making UPS
17. why the structure of the galaxies is plane?
18. Nutrition of cartilage
19. Fusion power
20. I have a crape myrtle in my yard
21. Three-body problem

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 7

1. Helium-3 fusion
2. High Speed Train Design
3. amount of grain to amount of product ratio
4. What is a "PETE stamp"?
5. spectral absorption lines
6. Monthly-disposable contact lenses - why dispose?
7. Eastern equine encephalitis in maine
8. Star formation and ideal gas law

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 8

1. Nuclear process in the human body?
2. Molten steel at the wreckage of the WTC?
3. Chemical nomenclature
4. Krill peeling
5. Academic studies of cubicle impact on worker productivity / quality of life
6. melting gold over a campfire
7. Replacing washed-out grease in hair
8. How can i distribute elecrtrons of F-Block elements using Auf-Bau??
9. Viscosity of an ideal gas only depends on the temperature
10. Did Earth have two moons?
11. non-sphere stars?

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 9

1. Atoms
2. Inception
3. about bandwidth
4. Nutritional price index shelf label
5. vision of the human being
6. What is the biggest locomotive organism capable of photosynthesis?

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 10

1. vision a dimensional world
2. Orange Juice Solidifies in Fridge
3. "Dangerous rip currents"
4. stationary spots
5. ethanol producing algae
6. Mystery bird (finch?)
7. What device is this?
8. electric water heater 16A plug to 10A plug -- is this a problem?
9. aliens
10. Speed in circular orbit
11. What are those cylinders on top of the C4?
12. does cost of a food product turn people on or off
13. gravity vs Centrifugal
14. radioactive isotope heated to a plasma
15. Most useless element
16. Artificial gravity

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 11

1. Bones made of strontium instead of calcium?
2. How to "open" a penny
3. Laser hazard?
4. psychology of money
5. Nicotine and dogs behaviour
6. We use only 10% of our brain?
7. Cola or vinegar as cleaner for hard water scale
8. Clock on moon
9. Most useful element
10. Engines
11. Titanium alloy
12. Uranocene

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 12

1. Can someone HELP me with derivation of Mass of Earth?
2. chemical kinetics
3. Land Area of Antarctica Without Ice?
4. Too cheap to meter
5. Bladder
6. Acceleration
7. Bugatti Veyron
8. Horsepower notation
9. Bladder (Again)
10. Better than a katana
11. Kangerlassuaq, Greenland and permafrost

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 13

1. Reason why muscles require excercise to stimulate growth
2. Strange Rodent Found in Yorktown Heights, NY USA. Please help identify.
3. Screw torque and strength of grip
4. Lack of bright colors in mammals
5. Acceleration
6. Horsepower
7. Is it true that Charles Darwin was not a scientist?
8. approximate width of an actual circle
9. Cosmetic Surgery
10. Surface tension
11. stability of solar systems?and star cluster and great walls....
12. "blue light" and time of day
13. Lightsaber

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 14

1. Chainsaw as weapon
2. Solid light
3. Using an ultracentrifuge for almost-suspended animation
4. Lightsaber vs. chainsaw
5. Automobile engines and altitude
6. (non)Existence of God
7. Best kind of lightbulb?
8. Re; The transfer of coldsores or herpes labialis by touch- 13th September 2011-04.52am
9. Fast cars
10. Red snow and snow plant
11. are Saturn's rings perfectly flat?
12. meaning of a steeper curve in a oxygen–haemoglobin dissociation curve
13. Generating MIST from still water
14. How to show TB test results?
15. Pyruvate/Pyruvic Acid article in Wikipedia
16. Is there an upper limit for the amount of energy a single photon can carry?
17. Low-tech atmospheric reentry.
18. If music is a universal component of human existence...
19. Identification of a caterpillar

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 15

1. Han Solo
2. Old HDTVs and broadcast DTV in the US
3. Name of a phobia?
4. Pigeon spikes on a TV aerial
5. DNA question (extended version)
6. "Suitspace" question
7. How much DNA to I need?
8. In the US, do they know who is a legacy student?
9. heat exchanger
10. Neutrino chemistry
11. about "flow separation" and "boundary layer separation"
12. Cabin Pressure vs. Outside
13. the matter of dark energy
14. I have a jeweler's magnifying loupe with out any power marking.. How do I decipher the power?
15. If language is a universal component of human existence...
16. If politeness is a universal component of human existence...

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 16

1. Neutron foundries
2. methane green house gas
3. Cell division and the onset of puberty?
4. Order D
5. Huge trees
6. Studies of people's competence vs their belief of how hard a task is
7. Lifeform that has killed the most humans (other than humans)
8. table of compunds
9. Rhythmic audience clapping
10. Is evolution virtually testable, If so, has it been done?
11. Magnetic rules -true brushless DC motors
12. But how...

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 17

1. law of microscopic reversibility and experimental enzyme kinetics
2. medical physiology
3. Apple cider vinegar
4. Race
5. vancomycin
6. SPICE and opamps
7. Binary sun
8. normal-sized camera?
9. Arctic survival
10. Sleep paralysis without Hallucination
11. SAWFISH ROSTROM ( Bill)

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 18

1. radar system in electric trains
2. Rocking back and forth: symptom of...?
3. Social science statistics - weighting outliers?
4. physics of shrinking and growing physical objects and people
5. Peanuts used as ingredient of Dynamite?
6. Corvid intelligence
7. Jurassic Park
8. Was the format of the Voyager Golden Record's decipherability tested with humans?
9. Genital cutting reduces/increases the risk of contracting HIV?

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 19

1. Surface charge on a conductor
2. Arctic Survival, Part Deux
3. Fuel/Air ratio
4. Airplanes
5. Feces

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 20

1. Dynamics of hypercanes
2. Gallium arsenide
3. sweet potato flavor
4. Eyelids twitch when scratching toes
5. hall effect
6. What is a chest node?
7. dry versus disolved borax powder in air
8. WTC escape solution
9. Plane crash on Mount Everest
10. Highest an aircraft can fly
11. Battery acid?

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 21

1. Highest internal temperature of cold blooded animals
2. Moment magnitude conversion
3. Earthquake question
4. why are the pictures of actual size molecules are countable?
5. redundant rails
6. How sealed plastic soda bottle tops are attached
7. Where do I go wrong in this statics problem?
8. condensation in lungs
9. Can you tell me something about vultures?

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 22

1. What are/ may be floating conditions to float any thing over water surface
2. low boiling dopamine receptor agonists
3. Why does collagen cross-link in scar tissue?

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 23

1. Neutrinos
2. Photon Mass?
3. Bode phase plot guidelines
4. Electra 10-E
5. Do you disagree?
6. exceding speed of light
7. To whom who knows about genomic databases
8. Remote controlled lighting etc.
9. Wifi and cell-phones on board of a plane
10. Heavy metal concentration
11. Seriously?
12. FTL neutrinos
13. Relative risk of tuna
14. Human Organ Importance Essay
15. Neurobiology
16. Thought experiment regarding an closed and expanding universe.
17. Actual doing of experiments seeing if more oxygen causes larger insects
18. Charge of a magnetic field to repel a positron?
19. eka-radon at 0 °R

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 24

1. Energy
2. superfluidity react to Neutrino hypothesis
3. Defense against positrons
4. UARS: the falling, burning re-entering satellite
5. Why don't plants have white blood cells?
6. Was Einstein wrong?
7. Can we make high quality image of exoplanet with current technology?
8. Species Identifcation
9. existence of time
10. Horizontal penis
11. acu
12. Factoid WRT pesticides on unwashed shop-bought fruit...
13. God
14. air pumps

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 25

1. How do slot machines "decide" when to pay out jackpots and other large winnings?
2. Frozen milk
3. Why do farms have soil?
4. Moon escape away from Earth
5. Neutrinos speed at OPERA
6. entry and exit door lock logic
7. Living on Mount Everest
8. Sanitary storage of cups and glasses
9. RhD reaction

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 26

1. Coilgun
2. conciousness
3. Maximum number of options from which a human can make a rational decision on optimal choice

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 27

1. My question wasn't answered?
2. Crowbar in a blender...
3. Homopolar generator
4. Incorruptible data storage
5. Question about the Galileo Statement
6. Gender-specific athletic performance
7. hall effect
8. Hypervalency
9. Love hurts
10. Hoax about CFL danger?
11. combustion
12. Reddish brown gas
13. Colour of compounds
14. Mental illness in non-human animals
15. How many fields?
16. humongous voice coil
17. Silver mining
18. Crystallization of the Earth's core

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 28

1. Zero-point energy
2. Rechargeable batteries
3. solar wind movement and direction
4. hydostatic pressure and core of stars
5. Jet Sound
6. Question about GRAVITY?
7. faster than light question
8. Growth
9. What manner of substance is this?
10. A high alkaline phosphate level
11. Power required for levitation
12. Cantenna

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 29

1. Criteria for mountain pass
2. mental excercise
3. A double planet that shares an atmosphere?
4. Can intermediate or stellar mass black holes be detectable gravitational lenses?
5. TLC versus GC
6. How to include more ordinary people in Wikipedia
7. SMILES
8. Beetle or Bug Identification
9. "True bugs"
10. Can it be said that ethanol is an energy carrier rather than an energy source?
11. Faster-than-light travel
12. the abillity to differentiate
13. YABIDR (Yet Another Bug ID Request)
14. Sea salt
15. Wasp behavior and oak trees
16. Growth of the Universe

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 30

1. biochemistry
2. second moment of area
3. Radio frequency intervals
4. What is the average size of human tonsils?
5. Why exactly does the enthalpy of vaporization fall to zero at the critical point?
6. Unidentified bird in France
7. How would you calculate the change in freezing point (with increasing pressure) without the Clausius-Clapeyron equation?
8. Earnshaw's Theorem