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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 1

1. Are scientists not telling us everything?
2. Need to see parts of a pig
3. Non-quite-black snake in central Florida?
4. Need Bird Expert
5. Refererencing
6. Why does wintergreen oil dissolve plastic ?
7. Do Horses and Zebras have more in common than Humans and Chimps?
8. Shuttle SRB exhaust composition
9. Word jumble
10. what is water resistance
11. Pholidota
12. What are the most distantly-related animals that have successfully been interbred?
13. snakes in mt holly nc
14. Feline Behaviour

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 2

1. Battery Life in Hybrid Vehicles
2. what is the three intrinsic property of a pure substance?
3. If stars can't fuse past iron...
4. liquid water versus water
5. Very strange pigeon picture....
6. redox
7. measuring fecundity
8. Compressed hydrogen car
9. Number one exporter of potassium
10. DREAMS
11. Burr oak
12. thin film book
13. Nutritional information Aquafina Alive Satisfy water - specifically, what substance is the fiber?
14. Propeller aeroplane under water
15. Mercury poisoning
16. Toy helicopter
17. journal article without subscription
18. Liquid state of water
19. Benzodiazepines and barbiturates at the GABAa receptor
20. strobe lights

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 3

1. Better name for 'africanization'
2. Inverted icicle mechanism
3. Serious question about masturbation
4. Platypus and falsifying the nested hierarchy
5. Is wikipedia a conscious entity?
6. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 3#|]]
7. birds and current
8. greenhouse effect
9. How do Fleas find their hoasts?
10. About career options
11. Colleges near Mumbai
12. how do u fit a knife in2 an electric sokket?
13. Order
14. Oil crisis and food crisis, the next 50 years.
15. New Guinea forest wallaby
16. Food/drink to help your memory
17. Do Marsupial mammals have placentas?
18. ??Lightning
19. Glyceryl Trinitrate and Phlebotomy
20. Zits
21. Drixoral
22. US upcoming analog to digital TV change over
23. Color variation in the mallard duck
24. Red-winged blackbirds are seen quite frequently on mile marker posts, and along rural highways...why?
25. Find out who cited an article?
26. Biomes by latitude
27. Photodissociation
28. Alien life and falsifying our current theories of evolution

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 4

1. Electromotive Force and Potential Difference?
2. mental health
3. ears
4. Can you plug a 115 volt appliance into a 110 volt outlet?
5. Animal behaviour
6. I cut the skin on my knee
7. Parachute for rock climbing
8. Quantum mechanics and wave functions
9. Vehicle Fuel Economy declines by 10% for every mile per hour over 60 mph. Is this true?
10. Why aren't pygmies considered a separate species or sub-species of Homo Sapiens?
11. Baby seagulls
12. Escaping from a falling plane that is going to crash
13. Electric Motors
14. Ants smell
15. Lidocaine and a couple of other questions
16. Dust from old books
17. Why electricity 60Hz in some countries and 50Hz in other?
18. Nuclear weapons underground (forgot to give this a title, sorry)

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 5

1. What is the latest scientific understanding of the relationship between dietary cholesterol & coronary heart disease?
2. Unknown Equation
3. Bodybuilders
4. research resources for the history of the discovery of anaerobism in bacteria
5. Asteroid
6. Celluar Biology
7. Brain
8. Possessions
9. Social-dependance on alcohol
10. Inner workings of the package that Edge shaving gel comes in
11. Open access - self archiving

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 6

1. Ballpoint pen ink
2. Huge Problem
3. Another Unknown Equation
4. Holographic projection...
5. Yeast and brewing
6. effect of overly large stimulus
7. flowers
8. Hypothetical Suicide only
9. Diagnosticians
10. BACILLI MICROORGANISMS
11. Largest molar mass
12. Phthalate
13. Natural occurence of dry ice?

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 7

1. Stones in trees in Yellowwood State Forest
2. Phobos (moon)
3. Threshing and winnowing?
4. Hybrid car mileage
5. A possible method for superluminal travel
6. Reduce voltage drop through a diode
7. United States Of America
8. Cancer stage vs grade
9. Stopping earth quakes
10. Phenylketonuria
11. Why is LSD illegal?
12. Toothpaste toxicity (fluoride)
13. applied sciences
14. Synesthesia

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 8

1. Suppose that we discovered a large-ish asteroid on a collision course with the earth...
2. Looking into the past
3. Lunar Module Ascent Stage
4. help please
5. Cancer screening
6. Weather forecast
7. Wing layout
8. How do astronauts commit suicide?
9. Garbage into oil?
10. The worst case of food allergies and religious food laws
11. Rubber
12. Strange hypnagogic sensations

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 9

1. Prevnar vaccine
2. Tooth restoration
3. Psychological concept of your perception of others
4. Enzymes that remove pet urine odor

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 10

1. Feisty baby gull...
2. gravitational redshift
3. Fans and heating/cooling
4. Physics -- Force, Mass and Acceleration
5. Gyroscope
6. Neptune
7. Physics
8. Intelligence enhancing drugs
9. Looking-glass protein
10. Increased Gravitational Pull on Earth
11. Jumping from big heights
12. Cat spray / Territorial marking
13. ball lightning?
14. About mirrors, and short sightedness
15. Photosystems and Primary electron acceptors
16. Toenails
17. Wierd Subconscious Dream

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 11

1. Does MOND have problems with Newton's third law of motion?
2. Beavers
3. Phthalate
4. custom parts
5. Opening Boxes of Tablets
6. Neutrino oscillation and conservation
7. Blow job pregnancy
8. Hypothetical Questions about Gravity and the Sun
9. Rancid meat
10. Why don't we have 4 seasons every 27 days?
11. Sweating
12. Cameras in rough times
13. How come radio waves aren't stopped by walls and such?
14. The Radius of the Earth
15. Hottest time period in Earth's history
16. Planet orbit question and the formation of our solar system
17. Weight of human hair
18. Flammable cleaning products

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 12

1. Succession in Commmunities
2. automatic sphygmomanometer
3. Berembang tree
4. Modeling a Body Moving in a Fluid
5. Robotic spacecraft maintains air pressure?
6. Martian North Pole
7. Baseball
8. Covalent Bond
9. The most powerful earthquakes...
10. Science do not solve all of man's problems
11. blood
12. Exponential equation, solve for I0?
13. Magnetic monopoles and turning matter into energy
14. Eye myopia
15. Need Help in Finding an article previously found in Wikipedia

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 13

1. Any ideas on how to create a concrete sign?
2. Black hole confusion
3. earth's magnetism
4. How can I know if a telephone is also touch tone?
5. raccoons
6. Shovel-Shaped Incisors
7. Big red ant!
8. fruit contamination
9. water pressure
10. Addicted to you

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 14

1. Flood stage and topographic maps:Cedar Falls,Iowa: A question touching on the sciences of mapping and hydrology.
2. Ants native to the South Pole
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 14#|]]
4. Question on atomic structure
5. Eutanasia
6. Ununoctium
7. bread mold causing dancing
8. Growth rings versus Wood grain
9. Polyphenylethene residues

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 15

1. Allergy medicine
2. Physics-- Force, Mass and Acceleration
3. Simple Inorganic Reaction
4. Mercury
5. polyatomic and monoatomic ions.
6. Mass/Weight of a Pokemon in a Pokeball

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 16

1. Course of the moon in the sky
2. Using very short people as astronauts
3. Blue skin on a Budgerigar's nose
4. want to know how to figure out isotope half life
5. Natural sleeping position
6. special relativity
7. How does a canon work?
8. Noble Gases
9. Autism
10. Ants in my Car
11. Driving Ms Smokesalot
12. Speculative probe
13. Theory of disease
14. HIV+ People who don't develop the AIDS Virus
15. Archaeopteryx / dromaeosaur scaly muzzle?
16. dogs and cats
17. Hot humid wet vs. Dry desert climate, overheating which more dangerous on the human body

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 17

1. Male orgasm and analgesic chemicals
2. Ibotenic acid
3. Formation of peptides
4. North
5. allopathy
6. Photons
7. Safest, Richest Country in the World?
8. future in biotech ???
9. kidney transplant
10. Einstein and the Atomic Bomb
11. Coriolis effect and cyclones
12. Enough Data?

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 18

1. Metal detectors and gold
2. Question about inventors/mechanical engineers.
3. Bees & Orangutans
4. I am searching for a circuit of blood pressure monitoring machine
5. What is the SPF of hair?
6. Vegetable oil in diesel motor
7. reaction torque
8. Male animals killing young
9. Coefficient of restitution
10. aircraft carriers
11. Juniper Trees
12. Catching seagulls
13. Hydrogen cars

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 19

1. Less moon near summer solstice
2. why only rock salt prism is used instead of glass prism for obtaining infrared spectrum ?
3. Why do dogs wag their tails?
4. Soybean based Biodiesel processing
5. Hemimetabolism vs Exopterygota
6. Gene promoter prediction
7. Reproduced embossed seals in diploma plaques
8. sentient dinosaurs
9. Bird population control
10. measuring airflow
11. Getting Kicked in the Testicles and its effects on the digestive system
12. evolution/natural selection and complexity
13. Does the nature need the primitive organisms to exist?
14. How best to refute a common myth about central heating?
15. Last surviving human artefacts?

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 20

1. Homework Question
2. Retaining wall - construction
3. Cells and Tissue
4. Friction down an incline
5. Pubews
6. Sodium laureth sulfate
7. Human Evolution
8. Not voices in the head, but similar
9. Related question to above question
10. Aerosol Can
11. Asperger Syndrome in Females
12. Lab coats
13. Rainbow frequency
14. Color of birds' eggs
15. Hawk-headed Parrot - undeserving of bad reputation?

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 21

1. cheaper coffee - instant or ground?
2. Trig
3. sunburn
4. the stereotype about women being scared of bugs more than men
5. Question about neutron bombs
6. how is sugar used to treat battlefield wounds
7. Skin effect of jewelry
8. Simple Demonstrations to Show the Faultyness of Human Memory?
9. Blood types
10. sports drinks
11. alcohol based vinegar
12. Heat transfer through different mediums

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 22

1. Is there a name
2. Psychology website
3. Pain
4. On hair loss
5. Mould is a floater?
6. Research alone
7. If all parts of the LABURNAM tree are poisonous,when the petals fall and decay is the poison carried into the soil making it poisionous to other plants.
8. Stanovoi Mountains vs Stanovoi Range
9. Survival in depopulated world
10. Creation of an organism
11. Green stuff on fence

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 23

1. Lobster
2. Coffee
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 23#|]]
4. Experimental Design vs Procedure
5. Ground-effect birds
6. Gold thesis
7. Unconscious mind
8. Bohr Diagrams
9. Weird lights when rubbing eyes
10. chemistry: acid's strength
11. Cowry shell probabilities
12. STD transmission from female to male
13. water discharged by AC
14. Human Cell division and Gravity
15. Is paper really a good barrier against germs?
16. Can I crush a Tramadol Pill and drink it in water instead of swallowing the pill whole?

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 24

1. Can any microorganisms live in 8N NaOH?
2. Albatrosses and seagulls
3. Ice on Mars
4. Science
5. how much kerosene does a lantern takes to burn for 1 hour ?
6. SEM's huge depth of field?
7. Painting as therapy for mentally ill
8. Psychology: When having children... Is it true that men prefer little girls and women prefer little boys??
9. Weight of sails and ropes
10. bumblebee behavior

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 25

1. Icarus-style 'wings'
2. progesterone intake
3. Electromagnetic relay
4. Nothingness
5. Nordic walking, also known as ski walking, pole walking or fitness walking
6. Rhesus macaque with a tumor?
7. Should I be concerned about meeting with someone with hepatitis C?
8. Medical profession
9. What distance is travelled on foot by an average person between birth and adulthood?
10. Natural In-Store Herbs that have the Similar Euphoric Effects of Dihydrocodeinone
11. Frog on a lily pad (or ??)
12. Hypertension medication
13. Amine chirality
14. Medical grades
15. Parrots and corvines

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 26

1. Weird "grass circles".
2. Load leveller
3. Germs on bar soap
4. optimum size when maximising star lifespan
5. Electrolysis of Saline Solution
6. is this picture real?
7. how much walking until adulthood?
8. Applications of the theory of General Relativity
9. Costly Projector Bulbs
10. Negative Feedback Amplifier
11. Calculating the horizontal force exerted by a 60 ton vertical press on an aluminum extrusion
12. If that Mockingbird Don't Sing
13. Flooding in the US midwest
14. Wheelchair users exiting a high-rise
15. ABO blood grouping+
16. Death and spectacles...

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 27

1. Neutron annihilation
2. Nose
3. what is this formula?
4. Repost - Black holes and Hawking radiation
5. Cilia
6. Pubic hairs
7. Options after completing MBBS
8. Videos of adults or adolescents with harlequin ichthyosis
9. Eating cancer cell
10. What is this spider?
11. Gun and bullets

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 28

1. Why is spitting in someone's face considered to be particularly offensive?
2. Cavy
3. Heliostat
4. AC Power - Generation, Voltage and Current
5. Evolution in Physics
6. Medical diagnosis
7. EMF Transmission Dangers

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 29

1. galaxy edge on
2. Flying Mammals
3. Medicine-Patella replacement.
4. Human and agricultural uses of antibiotics, and the development of drug-resistant bacteria
5. Inseminating Mars
6. Starting out with electronics...
7. SImple pendulum
8. mars
9. Amount of energy on earth remains constant.
10. Space left by crude oil
11. Insect

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 30

1. Complexity and Self-organization in Thermodynamics
2. artifact
3. Why are the planets in that order?
4. An "immortal" plant
5. Identify this kelp?
6. Volume percent
7. Primates on the Moon
8. CERN
9. protein energy malnutrition
10. Leap second
11. Endorphin half-life
12. Relevance of "Space, Time, and Gravity" by Robert Wald
13. (Relative) Quantification of Human Genetic Diversity
14. Nemesis
15. Another quick question about my parrot
16. Frozen heart