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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 1

1. Wired can't figure out clean steel
2. new course; Introductory to dice probability
3. Temporal observation of Sirius apropos more-distant stars.
4. Non-deuterium boosted nuclear device

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 2

1. Parallel wires attraction
2. Boiler Design
3. Living longer by moving at high speed
4. Is this a healthy lunch?
5. The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket on the ISS
6. Cleaning electroporation cuvettes which use conductive polymers
7. Anti - Tan
8. 3D molecular rendering software
9. Physiology - respiratory insufficiencies?
10. thrombosis and flight

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 3

1. identifying circuit component
2. Request to check INR definition
3. Metabolic question
4. steady body weight
5. First author, second author, principal investigator...
6. Is there an example for Boyle's law - from the daily life?
7. Leap years in the Igbo calendar

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 4

1. Weird looking Costa's (?) Hummingbird
2. Metabolic Question 2
3. Poppyseed question
4. Raw Vegetables
5. If the universe were 6,000 years old, how many stars would I see in the sky?
6. Neurological basis for avoiding said-bookisms
7. Fog vs. wind
8. Sage advice ?
9. Analgesic

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 5

1. Biomedical engineering
2. Meaning of wine ageing.
3. How many electromagnetic signals are in my room now?
4. Photos of meteor in dark flight
5. Filtered milk - contaminated after opening? Why filters and not irradiation?
6. What's the thickness of the pleura membrane?
7. Airplane black box
8. Manganese in Steel
9. Lanthanide oxide crystal structures

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 6

1. Diverticulitis questions
2. information
3. Uk DMAT
4. USAR
5. Rectum
6. Alfred Russell Wallace quote
7. need info (oxygen content of water)
8. Airplane black box - another question
9. No brain
10. Krubera Cave
11. Medical prostration

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 7

1. Induction lamp cooking
2. Could a machine assemble molecules on demand just starting with the atoms?
3. Are we going out of fertilizer ingredients, in the same way we are going out of oils?
4. LCD TVs that are not black?
5. Is it true that the Pacific Ocean makes the west coast of North America warmer?
6. Inflatable hot tub mystery.

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 8

1. 3D Printing using soil
2. Antibiotic resistance arguments applied to vaccines
3. About a birds name
4. Chemical analysis
5. If all matter outside the solar system ceased to exist?
6. Is the technic of the suction cup - base on surface tension?

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 9

1. Chemical Test
2. Skin cream gun control study
3. Heat and magnetic fields.
4. Institutional dependence
5. Quadruple axels and beyond

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 10

1. Nature of carbon atom
2. Deep water pressure
3. Pretty lakes
4. Underwater "pings" in the Indian Ocean
5. What is the relation between death rates and life expectancy?
6. Effective normal stress in geotechnical engineering

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 11

1. Longest rotational period
2. Gas pipeline
3. Bug ID
4. Simple beam calculations
5. Weather/travel

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 12

1. Please identify yellow flowering plant
2. Is it true that some Prebiotic fibers could actually make us fatter?
3. Using aggregated data for statistics
4. Dynamic load.
5. Viagra vs cialis vs levitra
6. Cleaning electroporation cuvettes which use conductive polymers
7. Do pet shop animals have worms or parasites

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 13

1. Submarine depth gauge
2. Canola consumption
3. Calculus in engineering
4. Beam analysis
5. protein and boiling
6. Even and odd wavefunctions

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 14

1. Some questions re: Malaysia 370:
2. Prosthetic skin?
3. Hiv antibody and antigen tests
4. All Matter made of photons?
5. Earthworks mass haul diagram
6. Moles of plasmid being transfected

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 15

1. DNA base needed for chicken pol III transcription start
2. Smell against the wind
3. Taste distortion by toothpastes and mouthwashes

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 16

1. all sky surveys
2. Is reality ultimately digital or analog? Can another particle pass through the intervening space while an electron is performing a quantum leap?
3. Plant identification request.
4. Something's bugging me...
5. Reason for Worthing exponent of metal electrical resistivity
6. Longevity documents

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 17

1. How cold would a room temperature superconductor feel?
2. Severe colorblindness
3. Decomposition of Urea
4. Degraded DNA – But is there hope for recreating the genome?
5. Repopulating the planet with more than biblical accuracy
6. Sulpher content in foods

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 18

1. Negative pH of acid mine drainage
2. Why is subculturing called passaging?
3. Morphological diversity within a species
4. Correlation for appearance of fruit and vegetables and their quality (redefine quality more than once if you think that helps)
5. Statically determinate structure
6. Storing food at temperature fluctuating between -20 and -40 better or worse than constant -20?
7. Wigner effect and graphite density

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 19

1. What flowers are these?
2. Theme park rides
3. Innovationin engineering and design
4. LED bulbs and inteference
5. Yottabytes stored in all servers worldwide?
6. Replacing harmful flora with innocuous flora as a cure

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 20

1. If it's called cardiac arrest when the heart suddenly stops...
2. The end of LADEE
3. What strain/breed of Columbia livia/Columbia livia domestica is the common white dove?
4. Nodal loads on shear and moment diagrams
5. Do I need to perform a HIV test?
6. Acacia motteana and Acacia podalyriifolia
7. Revision strategy
8. microscopy
9. Location of the big bang and size of the universe
10. does anything not sink to the ocean floor?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 21

1. Bazhin Gap
2. don't put warm food in fridge?
3. Hypoxia
4. Rust treatment

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 22

1. Which covalent bonds are broken in DNA cleavage by nucleases?
2. Rotary cannon and super capacitors
3. Mesopotamian units of measure
4. Hunger hormones VS Appetite hormones
5. Buoancy
6. Giant bumblebee
7. Do Jews have some African/Black DNA?
8. Baseline fitness
9. Urinalysis
10. Does (or did) any country's military or police use the Desert Eagle pistol?
11. Why are "double red cell" blood donations by females subject to a higher weight requirement?
12. Direct current from stored torsion (e.g. wind-up battery/battery charger)

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 23

1. Basteria in diabetes control
2. Can (non-human) animals get sick because of their poo throwing habit?
3. Obligate Parasites
4. Help with plant identification
5. ethylhexyl palmitrate/ethylhexyl salicylate

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 24

1. Material
2. Celebrex in UK
3. First moment of area

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 25

1. Nonhuman vocal flexibility (or, what does the fox NOT say?)
2. The question of rules and mains of conductoring inserting
3. Spider that looks (and kind of acts like) a fire ant?
4. Slow neutrons
5. Bird with a red patch on the back of it's head ?
6. Color-changing eyes
7. How does nuclear fusion generate energy?
8. Please recognize a flying bug

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 26

1. Question about a superconductivity
2. Hazmat cleanup
3. Avalanche question
4. Disaster reporting
5. Why do hyacinths stink?

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 27

1. Increase in mean sea level pressure due to global warming
2. Liquid and Gas SiO2 ???!!!...
3. Amitriptyline
4. Solar tax
5. Sticking out your tongue while doing complicated tasks
6. How much COLORS in the RAINBOW do see:... (???)
7. Fullerene C24...Space-Filling Fullerite C24...are they only in THEORY???...
8. Development Evolution-Tree of the 220 Human Cells???...

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 28

1. SF2 - SF4 -SF6... Why only H2O and NOT H4O or H6O???...
2. Excited decay
3. Mind Gym
4. Blackberry Z10 wmv format
5. "Deep processing"
6. Big brown-backed bunny with black bordered ears?
7. Cooler question

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 29

1. How can a universe have properties as a whole, how can it live in a time realm not of its own making?
2. Is it true that eating burned food is not good for you?
3. Hans Meyer and Ernest Overton in Lund
4. Milk gone off but doesn't smell bad?
5. Fast walking in the heat
6. Are been, a telephone links had been a powerful electric volts
7. point particle
8. Alien Worlds???...
9. Alien Earth-like World...
10. Math. function

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 30

1. Any sources on skin allergies/reactions to vinyl ?
2. Overtraining
3. How is the Electron configuration in other Dimensions???:
4. Extracting neutronium from a neutron star
5. Protein and ingestion
6. Blended color perception