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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 1

1. Why'd the box my bear spray shipped in have this end up stickers?
2. In our body > basic becomes acidic and vise versa?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 2

1. FTIR, again
2. Free metabolism
3. Houseflies
4. Ocean Exploration
5. How to make concrete resistance against water damage

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 4

1. Drafting
2. Will I be reborn if I die?
3. Being pregnant and not knowing
4. Poverty and obesity
5. How much does 1 and 2 km altitude affect highway mileage?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 5

1. How can this puncture a tire?
2. Sorting M&M

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 6

1. Equivalence principle
2. Insect identification
3. If we both started in the Devonian, would arthropods or humans have created more faeces if we counted them at present day?

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 7

1. Shrink-wrapped Circuit Boards

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 8

1. Is IUPAC nomenclature unambiguous?
2. Another IUPAC question
3. Friction and area of contact
4. Can the stomach adapt to eating large quantities of food in a relatively short period of time?
5. Do colors look hard to distinguish??

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 9

1. Why are people able to swim 2.5% faster after the high-tech suit ban?
2. When will the most distant star/protogalaxy (UDFj-39546284) leave our observable universe?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 10

1. Helix not a helix
2. Is it possible to pickle my Hamster?
3. Why escalator stairs' steps have sharp edges?
4. Something about the Theory of Global Warming doesn't quite add up
5. Age of American Chemical Society logo

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 11

1. Number 80+ in Ancient Astronomy
2. What is the name of brain-fat and low-priority-energy-usage-fat?
3. Electron structure probing
4. How does astrophysics determine the life-cycle of a star?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 12

1. Interesting Bacterial or Viral Infection.
2. Minions
3. Shrinking PET bottle phenomenon
4. Electricity and fish
5. Ocular bruising from tooth extraction
6. Drug names

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 13

1. Mithril
2. Tolkien vs. Technology
3. Matter at the beginning of the universe
4. blastophore
5. Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Van Gogh, Tchaikovsky: all bipolar?

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 14

1. Request of book suggestions for neuroscience/neurology
2. The concept of species
3. Why the sun angle at sunrise and sunset?
4. What happens to light directed towards the outside of a black hole?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 15

1. Shetlands and cobs
2. Does This Angle Have A Name ?
3. Why does the antibiotic which called Amphenicols - is called in this name?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 16

1. Tebua Tarawa - did it ever sink, and is it sunk now?
2. Using quantum teleportation between orbiting satellites to read a license plate on Callisto?
3. Fifth physical force claimed
4. How reliable is the number of citations in Google Scholar

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 17

1. Have both the special relativity and general relativity concrete applications?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 18

1. Good Calculus-Based Physics Book
2. Do EpiPens actually expire and why?
3. Is a quadcopter capable of autorotation?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 19

1. Why? (Dangerous medical advice on YouTube)
2. Excretion of Prednisone and Prednisolone
3. Drugs: Nuvigil and Provigil
4. Bias
5. For the pathologists
6. Homeopathy

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 20

1. Are engineers scientists?
2. I'm in A BIG CITY and I can't see the stars at night due to light pollution. If there was a...
3. Supernova ice ages and artificial substitutes
4. what is this filter?

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 21

1. Different number of heart valves in the heart sides
2. Using plastic glove as condom

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 22

1. probabilistic sampling path planners
2. Extreme track and field

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 23

1. Overview of true flies mimicking wasps and bees
2. Dark clouds

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 24

1. Does the International Space Station have enough radiation hardening to survive outside LEO?
2. Metabolism
3. Visualizing the Earthlike planet around Proxima
4. Exploding batteries
5. Titanic

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 25

1. Proxima Centauri b
2. Why soap foam is white irrespective of the color of the soap?
3. Question about wire
4. Speed of sound and quantum entanglement
5. Distribution of mass estimates from Doppler spectroscopy
6. Why are there zero calories in water?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 26

1. A liquid other than water that is safe to put on your skin

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 27

1. magnesium
2. Time limit for data storage devices
3. One way valve as an alternative to refrigeration?
4. Lichen 4th component
5. Does an isolated system definitely approach (arbitrarily closely) thermodynamic equilibrium?
6. Sodium vs potassium: electrical conductivity
7. Orange
8. What triggers a regular childbirth?
9. Order of substituents in the IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemistry

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 28

1. What material is Curiosity's wheels made of?
2. Have I prevented a potential disaster?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 29

1. Drugs with low oral bioavailability
2. What do “5-IT” and “6-IT” stand for (as names of psychoactive substances)?
3. Glaciated landscapes

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 30

1. Simon Ramo, Edward Teller
2. Medical advice needed
3. Climate change,lightning
4. inclination of moon
5. Does Venus have spiraling storms ?

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 31

1. What fruit or vegetable is the healthiest?
2. Enthalpy of nuclear reactions
3. How can dogs sniff packaged drugs?
4. Amount coffees per pound of beans