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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 1

1. Is Giant magnetoresistance used before 1988 for manufacturing HDD?

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 3

1. Antique car terms
2. Grey-on-white texts
3. Phase of ammonia at NH3 at 10bar

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 4

1. What organic compound can survive the highest temperature without autoignition or decomposition?

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 5

1. Chickens
2. The ins and outs
3. Catastrophic impact of asteroid on Earth

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 6

1. Apollo 13

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 9

1. Which was used first in nuclear bombs? Radium or Plutonium?
2. Explosion/burning in chemical equation

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 10

1. What's the record for "highest number of rings in an active ingredient molecule"?

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 11

1. Thermostatically controlled shower
2. Speciation in coral view
3. How many electrons from an atom form the electron gas?
4. biohacking

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 12

1. Does drinking chlorinated water cause cancer?
2. Mass and curvature in General Relativity

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 13

1. Gardening / landscaping: what do you call this?
2. Blue reflection
3. Measurement of spans of suspension bridges

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 14

1. Earth's axis of rotation
2. Pregnant woman questions.
3. Where does paper from US and Europe come from?

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 15

1. Artificial Intelligence, any ways to guess gender from names?

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 16

1. Minor biology question

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 17

1. Did anytime NASA or any space agency save Earth from major calamity?
2. human detecting when mobile phone is about to ring

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 18

1. Has anyone ever tabulated element yields in the r-process

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 20

1. Where do birds go in a bad storm?
2. Clockwork Orange, the Ludovico technique - would it actually have worked?

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 21

1. Onion in sock

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 22

1. Why did JWST send first images too early?

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 23

1. Are there any animals that have knees that bend the opposite way to ours?
2. Gravity Question (I couldn’t come up with a better title)
3. is the Huisheng (Kengan Ashura) have a basis on reality?
4. Is there any equation for tidal heating in a subsurface ocean?
5. Academic Union Oxford; What's it?

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 24

1. Celestial bodies named after Greek mythology - c or k?

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 25

1. Bloch sphere

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 26

1. Ideal gasses

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2022 February 27

1. upper and downer drugs at the same time
2. What's the proof that we can't see Far side of the Moon from Earth?