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November 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 1

  1. PETA video
  2. is HCl in 95% saturated salt solution still a strong acid?
  3. Birefringence, redux
  4. KNO3 + KI
  5. Solar cells: Difference between dark current and diode current
  6. knife
  7. recycling code

November 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 2

  1. Technocracy
  2. Clothes drying under clothes pegs
  3. laminated wood
  4. train deaths
  5. Faster than Light
  6. Cheaper to turn off Compact fluorescent lamps briefly?
  7. If man evolved from monkey, why are there still monkeys?
  8. Plant respiration
  9. Where are all the universes ?
  10. Origin of a "love bite"
  11. what chemical gets released when you miss someone?
  12. crabs
  13. Microarray cost
  14. Cartoon physics law break
  15. Quail genome?
  16. Why does high temperature cause distant sights to "blur", and can this be replicated at room temperature?
  17. Relationship between octane rating & emission levels
  18. Which animals are truely monogamous?

November 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 3

  1. Time dilation? Time speeding?
  2. Heart muscles
  3. The proportion of swine flu to all flues
  4. limestone make-up and other soft stone
  5. if the moon and moon landings are real

November 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 4

  1. emissivity
  2. Chemistry
  3. Autoclave naming
  4. Escape Trajectory
  5. Tropical Laserbeam
  6. algae and plankton
  7. Superinfections?
  8. Acceleration at event horizon
  9. Capillary DNA sequencers on eBay?
  10. Are we very tiny in the universe?
  11. Why car radiators are called so.?
  12. Entirely different forms of power
  13. Flavours and colours of quarks
  14. supernova
  15. nuclear war
  16. Radio waves
  17. Electricity
  18. Entropy
  19. How to control this old oscilloscope

November 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 5

  1. Lethal overdose of Caffeine - biological process involved?
  2. mosquito
  3. Whatever became of the "super focused sound" guy and his invention?
  4. "The decision to axe the Ark will leave the Navy without the capability of launching fixed wing aircraft."
  5. Childhood
  6. Chemistry
  7. genetically modified foods
  8. time constant for capacitor in both parallel and series
  9. question
  10. Springs question
  11. Oscars eating chicken
  12. Hairy dandelion
  13. Cherry thieves
  14. AESA vs Active-cancellation
  15. Horripilation
  16. More than two parents
  17. Is it true that all matter gives off at least some radiation?
  18. Unknown mushrooms

November 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 6

  1. Lizard Salivation
  2. percent algae death
  3. jeans
  4. Geology abbreviation
  5. Coccyx decay rumor
  6. Schiller's experiment
  7. health care
  8. How is combustion sustained in a jet engine?
  9. Air traffic control system
  10. Possible future need for faster than light communication
  11. Solstice dates change from one year to another
  12. Work done by Ice-Skater
  13. What Happens if the gravitational force decreases?
  14. Velocity management
  15. Heating house - turn off when I leave the house?
  16. Moles
  17. Touching neutron star matter
  18. Suicide

November 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 7

  1. Beyond us
  2. magazine
  3. pollution question
  4. Electronics/Physics question about laptop power supplies
  5. Cholera treatment
  6. Is the age of the universe relative?
  7. People meddling in the environment
  8. Living donor liver transplant multiple times?
  9. Capacitor plague
  10. Aeroplane crash
  11. Risks of psych experiments involving rewards
  12. ground water
  13. Unplugging mobile phone chargers
  14. mitosis and meiosis

November 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 8

  1. Fastest airship
  2. Vaccinations of the Chilean miners
  3. gravity
  4. Glucose test
  5. Can an airship use siphons rather than fans?
  6. Brown sugar
  7. Counter toxicity
  8. Question
  9. Gigantism and evolution
  10. Gravitational constant G change
  11. Is it really possible?
  12. Sour things
  13. Lighting circuits
  14. Dna Code
  15. baseline characteristics and confounder adjustment in a paper
  16. Wrong answer?
  17. Ultimate fate of photon

November 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 9

  1. what animals can humans coproduce with?
  2. Why doesn't cryonics just use a ton of insulation?
  3. desk chair
  4. street lighting
  5. Inclined plane, Non-conservative forces help
  6. Oldowan tools experiment
  7. hydrogenated ketone
  8. Stereogram effect
  9. How do you compare grades?
  10. Where is Steve Baker???
  11. Plasma pressure : FACT / FICTION
  12. Condensing top for cooking pot
  13. Identify this bush
  14. Explanation behind a cosmic ray exhibit

November 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 10

  1. Antimatter paradox
  2. A noob rock question
  3. History of SR
  4. a disconnected capacitor and dielectrics....
  5. cotton pants
  6. Something from Nothing
  7. what'ts this lake called?
  8. can you strangle someone with your own intestine?
  9. Species identifcation for :File:Orange-shelf-fungus.jpg
  10. energy from antimatter
  11. Antimony oxidation
  12. Meteorites in mammoth tusks?
  13. Species identifcation for :File:Flower2294.JPG
  14. Molecular geometry
  15. Species identifcation for :File:Marouxlynx.jpg

November 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 11

  1. Home Solar Power.......Need Help
  2. Diabetes, Insulin, and... mandatory baseline food consumption?
  3. Faint glow from compact fluorescent lamp when off
  4. Particles and antiparticles - two directions of time
  5. How much Vitamin D in tin of salmon?
  6. digoxin
  7. Memory improvement
  8. R in chemical formulas
  9. Medicinal use of drugs
  10. Setting Sun
  11. Ships
  12. Moss on Tennis court

November 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 12

  1. Goosestepping: North Korea versus the Wehrmacht
  2. Are peanuts bad?
  3. why is AC more dangerous than DC?
  4. Cat swallow food when upside down
  5. Ptosis in traditional cultures
  6. aDMISSION into XLRI
  7. Limits of Gene Therapy?
  8. Armpit lines
  9. winds
  10. Russula brevipes
  11. The effects of heat on an electrical arc

November 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 13

  1. Cells
  2. Carrying a tray is not work...
  3. Efficiency of firearms
  4. Uncertainty principle vs. dark energy
  5. Double slit experiment / video clip

November 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 14

  1. converting doi to acs-style citations
  2. Tensor of Inertia
  3. Looking for a talk that may have been featured on TED
  4. Sounds of jupiter
  5. Middle-grounders on ID--What, If Any, Spokespeople Exist?
  6. Fuzzball vs. Big Rip
  7. urine
  8. Burping on command
  9. Help me find Einstein-quote!
  10. Proton Gun
  11. Different solvents - which are functionally the same?
  12. Wave pulse from heavy string to light string
  13. Solving coastline paradox
  14. FTL communication?

November 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 15

  1. prehistory of the sahara region
  2. Guy who blinked a lot after beheaded
  3. Little bags of chips vs big bags
  4. Say you left a pound of deli turkey slices in a bag at room temp for 8 hours.
  5. Partial reflection when light travels from a fast medium to a slow medium
  6. Limits of dark enery
  7. Animals suffocated in bed
  8. Hydrogen sulfide
  9. Cell phones and radiation
  10. Cell phones and breast cancer
  11. Bipedalism, pelvis size, and childbirth
  12. Aspartame vs. Sugar on teeth
  13. Why is the Nissan GTR so fast?
  14. Roaccutane Treatment
  15. Conversion from Seconds to Meters
  16. Anthropogenic tropospheric ozone
  17. A Paradox?

November 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 16

  1. Miscellaneous questions about work and energy
  2. white dwarf
  3. Wireless v fibre internet
  4. Species identifcation for :File:Rama rama.jpg
  5. Red v. grey squirrels
  6. Seeing the space station
  7. Differences between clone and original
  8. Schrödinger's cat
  9. Anacoustic

November 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 17

  1. Please, help me decide whether to drink my tea.
  2. chemistry
  3. Catfish
  4. Yet another mistake in the solutions?
  5. Lambert's cosine law
  6. Please help me clear up this hogwash about adjusting braces at the SAME orthodontist.
  7. Why does the sex drive far exceed what is biologically needed for reproduction?
  8. What kind of moss covered bug is this?
  9. Reaction products of opianic acid with strong acid
  10. Cold-weather urination
  11. Frog dissection
  12. Direction of apparent weight
  13. Glycerol

November 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 18

  1. Inconstant red
  2. Kicking a ball
  3. Chances of getting cancer and age
  4. information technology
  5. American winter climate compared with Scotland
  6. Frozen LCD TV
  7. trans former
  8. Transpired solar collector for sale
  9. Type of ruler used to show size of objects
  10. How realistic are the species, descriptions, evolutions, geologics, and so on given at www.metazoica.com?
  11. nicotine
  12. What happens if you touch anti-matter?
  13. Magnets without metal?
  14. 1 in 80 million death
  15. How evolution explains the division into autonomic nervous system and somatic nervous system
  16. animals natural disasters

November 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 19

  1. Time Dilation? Time speeding?
  2. Wheatstone bridge
  3. why isn't adenosine monophosphate used in alcoholic beverages?
  4. Species identifcation for :File:Sagittaria.jpg
  5. shemales
  6. Definitive deletion of a phobia (classical conditioning)
  7. Orgasmic sensation during pull-ups

November 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 20

  1. Entropy gun?
  2. Parts of the body where cancer *can't* happen?
  3. The name of intermolecular forces acting between alkanes
  4. White Dwarf
  5. Trapping antihydrogen
  6. Space marines/soldiers?
  7. Understanding inflammation
  8. Formal classification of fallacies
  9. Mental disorders
  10. Vehicle identification
  11. Is bobbing your head to music an instinctual act or a learned one?
  12. Composting cooked vegetable matter
  13. Excimer lamp
  14. Scott toilet tissue ad touts no inner tube.
  15. Anti matter
  16. Rootstocks
  17. Tin iodide coloration

November 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 21

  1. Full name for invertebrate zoologist named Grube or Grübe, mid C19
  2. Is autism a human polyphenism similar to those of social insects?
  3. vortex launcher : pressure amount area
  4. Is it safe to drive after drinking cough syrup?
  5. Limits on number of channels in MIMO wireless
  6. Origin of particle diversity
  7. Electroplating With Lemon Juice?
  8. Enema washes aren't enough; will taking many laxatives help lose substantial weight?
  9. Mass of energy?
  10. Pre-mitochondrial eukaryote
  11. Evolution without Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event

November 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 22

  1. Human Dissection
  2. engineering survey
  3. Tin(IV) sulfate?
  4. Electric heater efficiency
  5. Can we really digest enzymes "whole," or are they broken down?
  6. Niña
  7. Soda can exploding
  8. Flaxseed oil and autism
  9. Chemicals with humorous formulas

November 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 23

  1. Inserting pipes when drilling for oil etc.
  2. Altering the refractive index of air molecules. —without different gases or high temperatures
  3. equilibrium constants units
  4. Human-caused / Life-caused
  5. Mass flow rate of Refrigerant
  6. The Doppler Effect
  7. Does the sun drop faster on the equator?
  8. Perpetual stew
  9. Energy to Mass
  10. Remove strong smell from plastic and aluminium?
  11. Hydrated Salts and Coordination Compounds

November 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 24

  1. Are there any self-sufficient polities left?
  2. Fastest acceleration in the world
  3. Psychology
  4. No air

November 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 25

  1. light peak
  2. :File:Brake shoe metal specimen.JPG
  3. Brachistochrone problem
  4. Corvus
  5. How does radiometric dating work?
  6. Sunrise still becoming later after solstice
  7. Special relativity
  8. Platinum arsenide
  9. ECG
  10. Human urine
  11. cloning plants
  12. Research subject
  13. Car turbochargers and torque

November 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 26

  1. Swallowing one's tongue
  2. RFID
  3. mining asteroids
  4. How can a solvent be non-polar but be made of polar molecules?
  5. Is it possible to vomit in your sleep and die by suffocation without being under the influence of anything?
  6. Copper containing biomolecules
  7. Iodine heptafluoride
  8. Iodine from caliche
  9. Why kilogram as a base unit rather than gram?
  10. Force as Gradient of potential

November 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 27

  1. Absolute rest point
  2. Absolute time
  3. Force at a distance without any connection
  4. Midnight sun question
  5. What does unranked mean in wikipedia's Scientific classification ?
  6. CLONE
  7. Growth of trees

November 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 28

  1. Sleep and lifespan
  2. Looking for name of strange wart-like cutaneous growth on human foot with tentacles
  3. Why shopuldn't you fill a hot water bottle from the domestic hot water supply?
  4. Bose-Einstein condensate of light
  5. Water not freezing below the bridge
  6. Growing bacteria, beef bullion
  7. Geologic Time Scale
  8. Sleep, tiredness, exercise
  9. Circular logic

November 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 29

  1. How well does heterodyne frequency downshifting preserve phase?
  2. Modified corn starch
  3. LED Xmas light string efficiency
  4. Computer modelling of Artificial consciousness
  5. Role of salt in ethanol precipitation of DNA
  6. Red bleach stains
  7. Fusion and fusion
  8. is this true?
  9. Too many birds on a power line
  10. Fluorescent light flashing after being switched off
  11. Antonov AN225- Personal experience and photographs available

November 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 30

  1. Position of maximum depression on classical guitar top.
  2. Relativity questions
  3. is it possible to blow up a planet like in Star Wars?
  4. What would happen if scientists blew up the moon?
  5. Can we blow up comets?
  6. Which organelles contain DNA?
  7. velocity of sound
  8. Daytime flash dreams
  9. Margarine and oils without saturated fat
  10. Bioluminescence
  11. Aggression, dementia, disinhibition
  12. Why must some truffles be found and not grown?
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