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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 1

1. happy new year
2. Habitable exoplanets
3. Interrupter gears
4. Watts and calories
5. Given that glass is transparent to infrared, how usefull are thermal (infrared) images of houses in estimating heat loss through windows?
6. science assignment
7. OTC Medication Safety
8. Kepler-22b
9. Attractiveness by percentile
10. Velocities

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 2

1. Carbon group
2. John Daniel Titius and John Elert Bode
3. What is the specific gravity of quartz sand?
4. health education
5. Mammoth
6. Higher derivatives of displacement w.r.t. time
7. immunolin
8. Animal intelligence

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 3

1. Unconfirmed discoveries elements
2. Best solution for IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
3. Use of Inhaler for Asthma
4. Clock and sundial comparison in General Relativity
5. Biological assignment
6. Nickel content in Rhodium
7. De-miting a snake and its tank
8. Caterpillar identification
9. Quick question...
10. Distance that an electric current will arc
11. Can we lose our soul?
12. Conservation of Momentum and Energy

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 4

1. Is caring for sources a kind of bias?
2. how to calculate the tolerance of parallel resistors
3. Why was Stjerneborg subterranean?
4. White blood cells
5. precession
6. We'll skip the formulas here
7. Wattles in goats
8. ice cap and tundra
9. Polonium - to - actinium gap

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 5

1. Acidity of the female reproductive tract
2. is it homosexuality?
3. What is the name of the veins inside a flower petal?
4. Watt hours
5. Can animals think of future?
6. sun and planets angles.
7. Length of Radioactive Half-Life
8. Planetary alignment
9. Enthalpy of a reaction

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 6

1. Natural occurrence of the elements
2. Sex and reproduction
3. What is this behaviour?
4. Voltage question
5. natural selection
6. Jumping fish
7. How LEDs display different colours?
8. How much Helium-3 in the atmosphere of the gas giants?
9. Glacier Image Database?

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 7

1. Walking from the Earth to the Sun
2. Several compound names
3. Accidents/Injuries jumping into sea from a height
4. Imaging of potato growth
5. Shooting down a falling bomb
6. Thick, dripping liquids
7. What does the weak field do?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 8

1. Hot peppers
2. Shortest life-span
3. combustion - volume of products
4. Athlete's foot fungi
5. what is the typical expected ultimate recovery (EUR) of traditional gas wells?
6. IC Engine braking

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 9

1. Neutrinos vs Neutron decay
2. Ellipsoidal Dyson shell
3. Shouldn't a helicopter be able to fly even without a tail rotor?
4. Human chloroplasts
5. Trying to recall some chemistry
6. Galvanic metals
7. Breathing air requirement?
8. Why Ritalin against ADHD?
9. E.T.
10. Vacuum metastability event warning?
11. Health adjusted life table

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 10

1. Water-fueled car - Where are they?
2. Krakatoa explosion – must it happen again?
3. ATP--used by all/most organisms?
4. amaloydosis
5. To what extent are atoms understandable?
6. Enrichment percent of Pu-239 ?

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 11

1. Mercator projection of Earth for a different rotation axis position
2. Incremental cost per nuclear bomb
3. Molecular form of carbon gas
4. Suicide bombing
5. Black lung
6. Electron in a magnetic field
7. Buying a Telescope : list of celestial objects versus magnification required
8. Pure energy
9. "wrought iron" vs "forged iron"
10. steroids before steroids
11. Are identical twins common in any non-mammalian species?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 12

1. suicide rate vs gdp
2. Pellagra experiment article?
3. seawater intrusion
4. Angular momentum question
5. Exploding moon rocket = nuclear weapon?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 13

1. Plant Identification
2. meaning of bracketed terms in chemical reaction notation
3. Cognitive enhancement deadlocks
4. Thermonuclear
5. hologram
6. relation between video format and video codec
7. Two black hole questions
8. "Genetic analysis" of fossils
9. One-point implosion
10. Nuclear tank ammunition

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 14

1. Why is my light bulb Power only half of what it's supposed to be?
2. 1957 ufo
3. Dynamite gun
4. Electrical wiring question
5. What would happen if the earth blew up?
6. Field of vision... can we experience it?
7. 'Magic numbers' in chemical bonding & more
8. Degree of Unsaturation
9. Electric chair and accidental electrocutions
10. Probabilities of extremely rare events
11. Does water possess an electrochemical state?
12. Arcs of plasma
13. Plank mass black hole dangerous?

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 15

1. Clove oil coagulating in alcohol
2. how anal sex possible?
3. Is the Costa Concordia salvageable?
4. Genetic disorders
5. Finding a particular old biology textbook.
6. Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 16

1. Ice fossils
2. Information transfer Faster Than Light - DIY
3. Persistent BO
4. Time is stopped
5. Hyperbolic lines around radio towers
6. Tau-catalysed fusion
7. climate data

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 17

1. Order of chemical reaction
2. Energy density greater than diesel petrol
3. How does constructive/destructive interference work in a chorus?
4. Gravitational time problem.
5. 'Blue' Veins in the Heart, elsewhere?
6. lens as spatial filters
7. Searching for medical term (not advice)
8. Deepest drilling

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 19

1. What was "opening medicine"?
2. superconducters
3. Blot (biology)
4. Evolution again...
5. Genetically engineering healthy foods
6. Why is it easier to make an electric car than it is to make an electric airplane?
7. Photosynthesis Poster
8. Forging a ring from fountain pens
9. In which U.S. states are capybaras legal?
10. crazy

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 20

1. odd rabbit behavior
2. Blood dye
3. Farming fish
4. solar panel construction
5. drug test
6. Efficiency Test for Evolutionary Algorithms
7. Polyneuropathy and GABA
8. Atomic explosion in your hands
9. Escape velocity of major star

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 21

1. Resource Monitor, Maximum Frequency
2. Formula from normal magnitude to apparent magnitude
3. Optimism bias toward one's own profession
4. Please identify the animals
5. Any evidence?
6. Could the Rosenhan Experiment happen today?
7. Distribution of individually wrapped chocolates within a box
8. Offroad vehicle
9. Gender & emotions
10. What road-legal production vehicle model line has had the fewest traffic fatalities thus far?

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 22

1. Spraying water with alcohol to evaporate faster
2. Men: shaved or with beard
3. Machine
4. c is fastest but what is slowest speed possible?
5. Dyson sphere/swarm surrounding planet rather than star
6. Time of sunrise and sunset as viewed from the Moon
7. Equinoxes on the moon
8. How can we join the definitions of entropy?
9. Helium hydride ions
10. Hydraulic Pressure
11. Resting Membrane Potential
12. Chunks of ions
13. Rain vs. snow
14. regarding to communicatio
15. Fusor weapon
16. Dyeing one's brain
17. Lettuce
18. Poisonous contrails?
19. Nerveagentase

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 23

1. Difference in airplane fuel needs going to/from equator
2. How "wrong" is string theory
3. BHeF₃
4. Exploding ions
5. Why build up instead of down?
6. Pressure at the bottom of Mariana Trench
7. How much egg white do I have?
8. Coilguns and railguns
9. Why do animals use the thyroid hormone?

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 24

1. T-shaped versus trigonal planar
2. Does balsamic vinegar go bad ?
3. Could it be that pets are evolving to understand language?
4. Airplane pressure
5. Diminishing star brightness curve
6. Cold gas thruster and heat
7. Thought experiment: the walking stick problem revisited (Pt. 2 - rotation)

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 25

1. Complexity and dynamism of systems
2. A massive sun storm
3. Earth life elsewhere
4. Bacterium in the bloodstream
5. Radiation from airport x-ray machines

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 26

1. liquid nitrogen in an electric kettle
2. Black umbrella in summer???
3. solar storm
4. Gamma ray lenses?
5. Liquid Thorium Reactor
6. Voltage characteristics of bike dynamo
7. Can you make plastic from biofuel?

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 27

1. Maximum number of isomers from asymmetric Diels-Alder?
2. alien missionary
3. "Cat years" versus "Human years"
4. Dr. vs. Ph.D.
5. What health hazard does sand or glass particle which are used in sand blasting causes?
6. permanent cure of stye.
7. Energy density of algae produced biodiesel and biogasoline
8. Farsi Island
9. Size of the Universe at the Big Bang.

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 28

1. structure of hair
2. Folding spacetime
3. If "Solubility in Water" is 58.2% at 20 °C, what does that mean in practical terms?
4. Japanese bird name mix-up

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 29

1. Terminology question
2. Artificial melatonin
3. Horses in roller skates
4. diabete melitus
5. If everything is heavier than the air we breathe why do clouds and fog ( which are water droplets) apparently FLOAT ?
6. Sleep deprivation
7. Incandescent light bulb self limiting current?
8. Ships flying out of water
9. Nukeproof armor
10. Bacteria ID₅₀
11. Benefits of eating meals ?

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 30

1. Mustard seed
2. Colder on high mountains
3. Does HIV can live on alcohol?
4. Skepticism and learning
5. Compass points South instead of North
6. Culm power
7. Why is there a lot of soot in most diesel exhaust but not a lot in most gasoline exhaust?

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 31

1. Running and Coughing up Greyish Matter
2. Bad invention idea ?
3. Fuschias
4. Why use a mechanical shutter to determine exposure time?
5. Cycling over hills vs cycling arouund them
6. Ice islands
7. frequency limit
8. Big legs through running or jumping
9. Saltiness of salt
10. Studies on factual beliefs being proven wrong
11. Unwanted CDs
12. Voluntary Eye Divergence