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March 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 1

  1. Scientocracy
  2. nuclear versus fossil
  3. star composition
  4. Why not take from the sun?
  5. Three (or more)-particle annihilation events
  6. Native American Height
  7. Re: The Seinfeld Junior Mints episode
  8. Citric acid
  9. Semantic web
  10. LCD Clocks and Plasma Balls
  11. Line between species
  12. water
  13. blatter infections and pregnancy
  14. Colder after chewing gum
  15. Malitol
  16. Exorcists after "the Exorcist"
  17. TV color

March 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 2

  1. Solving a simplified 1-D time-independent Schrodinger-esque equation
  2. Long legged wasps
  3. Coreinae - Insect families/tribes
  4. Speckled Bear vs. Spectacled Bear
  5. magnetic field
  6. Change Simulink Algebric Loop Solver Props
  7. plasma
  8. Male and female human voices
  9. Super-fast spaceship
  10. Are chickens intelligent enough to suffer?
  11. thermoelectric generators

March 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 3

  1. salt peter
  2. brine shrimps
  3. Why would anyone use a pH meter instead of an indicator for acid-base titrations?
  4. Rate of freezing vs temperature
  5. Night Purge Ventilation
  6. general principles of pharmacy technician practice
  7. Why bring eggs to room temperature?
  8. Sexuality of Hedgehogs
  9. inhaling
  10. String theory
  11. mass/weight question
  12. Science for Dummies website
  13. Turbulent gas
  14. Traffic
  15. Nothing but the tooth
  16. Fire drills
  17. Is there a type of Bee/Wasp/Hornet that doesn't have a stinger?
  18. anti-gravaton beam
  19. theory of relativity
  20. Antimatter
  21. Sunlight
  22. cause of exponential expansion of the universe
  23. artificial intelligence
  24. anti-gravity and any violent explosion
  25. What is leaching?
  26. Reversing entropy
  27. Warp Drive

March 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 4

  1. In-text and Reference Citation for websites and textbooks
  2. euthanasia
  3. Vectors
  4. Who can make the definition of "Space" understandable to users with a high-school education?
  5. Inverted crater on Mars
  6. American Cat Scans
  7. Compressing Water
  8. What type of medical specialist does this?
  9. Plasma
  10. Sun size
  11. Highway-side notches
  12. Popcorn
  13. How intelligent are beavers
  14. PAD vs PADI (peptidylarginine deiminase)
  15. Unknown beetle that looks like a large ladybug
  16. Is there any life on the planet Earth?
  17. Council house with air conditioning
  18. energy from earth's rotation
  19. acidosis
  20. zoonoses from dogs
  21. Queen bee naughty bits

March 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 5

  1. Water for Hydrogen Fuel in Deserts (cont.)
  2. What does the integral of the position function represent?
  3. Sun
  4. Thinking brain?
  5. Goedel and Wikipedia
  6. do we benefit in any way from c?
  7. Entropy
  8. panda
  9. Who's the best when nature calls?
  10. Microbial locomotion time
  11. 120 volt equipment
  12. Matter
  13. Ant
  14. Species upper limit?
  15. relationship between entropy in physics and entropy in information science?
  16. Any known planets with satellites with satellites?
  17. Telescopes
  18. OTC Cryogenics to treat warts or moles
  19. 120v v. 240v
  20. Genus name
  21. A little confusion concerning E=mc^2
  22. Protein architecture, motif, domain, fold, topology.
  23. Positive and negative features of CATH and SCOP
  24. Atoms
  25. Anthropophobia?
  26. Changed the earth's axis??
  27. voltage

March 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 6

  1. Genetics and cousins
  2. red shift versus blue shift
  3. red shift and blue shift for objects in the Universe
  4. Freeze data outside U.S.
  5. Static electricity damage
  6. Relativity
  7. Circular DNA
  8. Surviving in a Vacuum
  9. Space question
  10. Orders of magnitude (voltage) help.
  11. Uncommon features of a protein
  12. perfect circle
  13. Convergent evolution
  14. Appropriate Technology Film

March 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 7

  1. Saturn and Jupiter
  2. classifying reaction?
  3. star birth, life,and death equation and graph
  4. Life expectancy
  5. Temperature of outer space
  6. mind waves
  7. Corrosion of copper
  8. Cow pats
  9. pus-like sinus stuff
  10. Pineapple
  11. Oldest survival animal species?
  12. Extra Life expectancy for the health-concious
  13. Telescope
  14. Intron question
  15. Carbon planets
  16. Brain calories
  17. Single source for printed label nutrition data and all or most UPC/PLC codes
  18. In-text citation and reference for textbooks and websites in scientific journals
  19. Cyborgs
  20. F-ATPase
  21. measurement for light
  22. Disulfide bond connecting two adjacent helices not connected by a loop/turn
  23. Talking parrots
  24. Chicken butt

March 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 8

  1. Scientific journals
  2. Colour of glass
  3. The Lions
  4. bombardment of hydrogen isotopes with neutrons
  5. Can persistent high blood pressure be someone's fault?
  6. menstrual period information
  7. Orbit
  8. Why is hunger so mild?
  9. An interesting website
  10. menstrual period correlation with Metonic and other lunar cycles
  11. scientists
  12. gravity versus electromagnetic forces
  13. Lorentz transformations
  14. about thrusters used in the spacecrafts
  15. Happiness
  16. Artificial diamond
  17. What is meant by decreasing the "vacuum"???
  18. Seasonal fruits
  19. English name of an object
  20. Charting unknown part of space
  21. adaptaion of bones to our environment
  22. Truth or myth about rebuilding the brain?
  23. So how did we all get here in the first place?
  24. White Sussex hen

March 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 9

  1. Yellow hands
  2. plastic? it breaks weird
  3. plant growing
  4. price wiki
  5. Name of an "larva"
  6. Mobile phones on airplanes
  7. Half life zpe device for book
  8. nuclear power station sites
  9. What's the average amount of caffeine in a single medium roasted coffee bean?
  10. Convert to mhtml
  11. Black is black?
  12. magnetic field
  13. Reaction type
  14. Lorentz dilation?
  15. Nomogram construction
  16. Properties of metals

March 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 10

  1. crazy raccoon
  2. slouching
  3. Minkowski Diagram
  4. chrome sink
  5. Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
  6. weather
  7. Bubbles
  8. Structure of the earth
  9. Biogas from plant and animal waste
  10. Heating through air resistance
  11. Nanomaterials
  12. (Arabic question)
  13. Prices of some raw materials
  14. Dehydrated people
  15. is it possible to express matter in the form of sound?

March 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 11

  1. Spinach and strength
  2. Fluorescence in polar and nonpolar environments
  3. nitrile gloves
  4. advances needed to truly democratize the Internet?
  5. Cooking oatmeal
  6. expansion of the universe
  7. nuclear candle
  8. Shielding against Electro magnetic induction
  9. Birds fall out of the sky?
  10. Pressure in a liquid
  11. Boiling water
  12. Temperature of Diet Coke
  13. Fermi problem: neurons vs. transistors
  14. Free Particle
  15. Too much Potassium in diet
  16. Chemical compounds with many elements
  17. Addicts - do they prefer to be cured?
  18. Mix 'n' Match genetic sequencing

March 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 12

  1. Looking for a bird
  2. Reflex subwoofer query
  3. Likely outcome of an all-out thermonuclear war between the US and Russia at the height of their nuclear capabilities?
  4. csi
  5. orbit of moon
  6. is there intelligent sleep like beauty sleep?
  7. Lorentz invariant
  8. do you retain information better if you sleep on it?
  9. center of mass
  10. Deriving the Lorentz transformations
  11. tidal forces
  12. Animals that feed only on animals of their own kind
  13. Terminal cancer
  14. lab rats
  15. galactic spiral arms

March 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 13

  1. Sodium bicarbonate
  2. The mass of a singularity
  3. the frog still alive
  4. Was there sex in the biosphere?
  5. Cylindrical Fuels rods??any
  6. MATERIALS USED IN BATHROOMS
  7. is it possible to boil water through the power of the mind alone?
  8. Radio waves
  9. acid reflux
  10. Feigning death drug

March 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 14

  1. Is it possible to cause a prolonged temperature increase (eben a small one) in the skull just through mental activity?
  2. A silly question
  3. Brain acceleration?
  4. Temperature of a high-gravity planet?
  5. Is Chrysler 300 equiped with brake override system?
  6. Marine Creatures
  7. Methane
  8. How can i analyse......subject
  9. barbs
  10. Moments in space
  11. A simple Buffer Question
  12. no longer on speaking terms
  13. Drainage Systems in New York State
  14. Fission Reactors
  15. is it possible to detect, at a distance the power of the mind?
  16. egg sexer or egg sexing

March 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 15

  1. "Survival of the fittest"
  2. Applications of Quantum Electrodynamics
  3. interstitial defects in ice
  4. Ammonium chloride as a Korean condiment?
  5. Oddball coordinates/geolocation
  6. gsp
  7. Software for synchronising separately recorded sound to HD video
  8. Feeding stick insects
  9. the 80s
  10. suicide
  11. A.I. Apollo Program
  12. Sneezing and hair length

March 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 16

  1. 3,3-Dimethylmalic acid
  2. Squirrel identification
  3. Compression of purely digitally animated films
  4. a question about light
  5. Scientific results on animal telepathy?
  6. Treadmill vs uphill
  7. Psychological tests, job interviews
  8. Photon
  9. Economical preference gene?
  10. Noise in MRI scan
  11. Avocado pit use and safety
  12. Programmable food
  13. "Te voy a llevar a un pinche vaile!"
  14. Flow through a pipe
  15. Electrode potential of ethanol
  16. Bee Flies
  17. most effective footrace training?
  18. Flour from Grasses
  19. Chemistry
  20. strontium iodide

March 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 17

  1. Chocolate/Theobromine poisoning
  2. Galaxies as iron filings
  3. Chart
  4. Question on Sapphire and Blue Emrald.
  5. My telescope
  6. Decomposition
  7. Digoxin in health
  8. Animal clitorises
  9. Time Dilation
  10. nitrogen temp
  11. if you eat too much, will your body not digest it?
  12. Cyclooxygenase-1 in thrombocytes
  13. Organic chemistry
  14. choking
  15. don't we want to use non-nucleophilic base to form epoxides? (unwanted diols)
  16. New York State Regions

March 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 18

  1. Wild bird with a foot band
  2. has anyone ever been born completely reversed?
  3. Inflation (cosmology)
  4. Trains
  5. Purpose
  6. Multiverse
  7. blue chemical
  8. bleach
  9. Narcissus in the aquarium
  10. Calculation of lifespan of the sun
  11. expansion exceeding speed of light
  12. Which converter?
  13. auxins - geotropism and photo-tropism
  14. string theory and space
  15. Freshly-made Bradford Reagent
  16. 3D TV and Animals
  17. Current over large distances
  18. How long does a snake need to be in order to constrict an average-sized man?
  19. Decay of large dead animal in water
  20. Aquarium bugs above the waterline

March 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 19

  1. 360 degree lightmeter
  2. Using a digital camera as a light meter
  3. psychology
  4. I'm quite curious how these tricks are done:
  5. Learning Fourier Transform in 2 days
  6. Fourier transform 2
  7. CFL Afterglow
  8. Reusable chemical, cyronic or organic movie camera?
  9. PROJECT WORK
  10. ignitor and voltage
  11. NMR
  12. Extractor fan overrun timer
  13. effects of alkaline on carbohydrates
  14. Anti-plasmodial

March 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 20

  1. Location of herpes hideout
  2. Symbol for angular impulse
  3. Angular friction
  4. <<<Static Electricity Question>>> Is it possible to excite BOTH light particles (in a small area) and the air surrounding them, with the SAME charge?
  5. Confused about Fourier Transform
  6. Phase
  7. Essential oils
  8. Relationship between Bragg planes, atoms, unit cells in crystallography
  9. determining a person's age
  10. Solar power satellite
  11. raw data on smoking deaths
  12. Testosterone and intelligence

March 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 21

  1. Intermittent blood supply
  2. Lorentz invariant
  3. Short-pulse NMR
  4. speaker and receivers
  5. guns in video games
  6. Copperhead lookalike?
  7. hairdryers
  8. Natural Gas
  9. Medical Advice
  10. Meaning of retrolateral and prolateral
  11. Reaction quotient, dependent on standard state?
  12. Teleportation
  13. Fourier Transform
  14. are thermal baths bad for the skin
  15. CO2 in Antarctic Ice Sheet

March 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 22

  1. Tides
  2. How did the Atlas ICBM navigate?
  3. Cloud base measurement
  4. Number of conjugated double bonds and photon energy absorbed
  5. Radiocarbon dating
  6. Sabbath feeling
  7. Theory of relativity
  8. Angular frequency in x-ray crystallography
  9. Emission (Fluorescence) in Polar and hydrophobic environments
  10. Is E2 (17beta-estradiol) a dioxin?
  11. Orbiting junk

March 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 23

  1. "Forces of Potential"?
  2. Coriolis Force
  3. Air pollution UK
  4. Question about blackbodies and emissivity.
  5. aircrafts
  6. Pressure in a liquid
  7. Damage due to loss of circulation in extremities
  8. What is the quantum model for refraction of light?
  9. National Medal of Science
  10. Thiomersal/Thimerosal
  11. Scrambled eggs
  12. Thermal Radiation
  13. Trailing off...
  14. UH-60L data busses ....
  15. Rh disease and James Harrison
  16. Avalanches

March 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 24

  1. Bone marrow donations
  2. About coefficient of mastication
  3. Question on Scientists
  4. Editing Wikipedia
  5. DC supply in tripping circuits
  6. Screw Compressor
  7. testicles
  8. has anything impossible ever happened for sure, well verified, with scientific consensus (there will be a followup question)
  9. How much of the Sun's energy is used for light and how much is used for heat?
  10. standing on one leg with eyes closed
  11. How long does it take to see changes in blood cholesterol levels?
  12. Another vacuum cleaner drive belt bites the dust
  13. household voltage and frequency
  14. population stratification in a normal sample of the general population
  15. Dentists identifying need for fillings by x-ray
  16. What's in a can of tuna?
  17. supermarket salt + vinegar
  18. Unusual rock
  19. Finding amount of chloride in a solution using ion-selective electrode

March 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 25

  1. Currency manipulator
  2. Questions about casting resin
  3. cosmology
  4. what, in a physical sense, is an impossibility?
  5. this question's for you SteveBaker - is this demo rigged?
  6. How might a person be exposed to (x number of) rems?
  7. Political spectrum
  8. Space colonisation
  9. JASSA
  10. meat products
  11. Are ad hominen reasons sometimes reasonable?
  12. Nicotine and the kappa-opioid receptor
  13. Terminology for planetary orbits
  14. Converting from eV to cm^-1
  15. Taxonomic promotion

March 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 26

  1. Biology (Incompatible bloods?)
  2. Cityscape and skyline
  3. G-23 paxilon hydrochlorate (PAX)
  4. Moon crashes into the Earth
  5. black and white
  6. Ethanol
  7. Rusted hammer
  8. Pyrophoric qualities of Ni-MH cells
  9. Diet defined by required and forbidden foods
  10. Chile

March 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 27

  1. Do topical vitamins still work if dietary intake is sufficient?
  2. Interference (wave propagation)
  3. gravity
  4. dark matter
  5. F-CENTERS IN CRYSTAL DEFECTS
  6. Air pressure drop
  7. How do we make a bathtub full of lather and bubbles like how they show in the movies?
  8. What is the spin rate of a black hole?
  9. Flying Black Holes
  10. Salty garlic
  11. Hydrogenation of vinyl chloride
  12. If your tongue was removed...
  13. Yawning
  14. Missed beats

March 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 28

  1. Stomach Cancer Genome
  2. Where to start with extreme theoretical physics?
  3. The Russian Sleep Experiment
  4. Dust Bowl
  5. Lowering tone as I stir drink mix
  6. will bleach oxidise hemiacetals?
  7. Anyone know about Victoria building and guttering?
  8. Turnover number
  9. If there was a giant hole through the Earth...

March 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 29

  1. Electroweak theory
  2. What muscle is this, and how do I exercise it?
  3. Heat producers
  4. Space Radiation and the Earth's Atmosphere —how are high-frequency light rays affected?
  5. Nuclear bomb on Jupiter?
  6. theobromine's effect on pets like dog or cat
  7. The patterns on windows made by frost
  8. Sinus Infections
  9. Torque and angular momentum
  10. Defrosting and re-freezing
  11. Grasping the EPT
  12. What is the psychological term denoting the strong reaction (weeping, sobbing) when divulging a traumatic experience?

March 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 30

  1. US household voltage
  2. Role of the Pudendal Nerve in male sexual function?
  3. PAC MAN MOON
  4. Number of organs
  5. Evolution - E. coli
  6. why pumice stone
  7. transpiration
  8. Scalar energy
  9. Why does swishing water help my toothache?
  10. Cancer disease
  11. number of sites
  12. calorie consumption
  13. Broom handle manufacture

March 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 31

  1. Dying from "old age"/"natural causes"
  2. I'm not seeing the cataclysm here.
  3. Light Cones in GR
  4. E. vigintioctopunctata or H. vigintioctopunctata?
  5. Electronvolts
  6. Galileo & GPS
  7. LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS
  8. melting ice
  9. Pouring antimatter into a black hole
  10. What kind of animal is this...
  11. Hurricanes
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