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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 1

1. Fungus that looks like rags
2. Black hole
3. Name of our Black Hole
4. Atomic weight notation
5. Space Time
6. Mercury in sea fish
7. Maggots in my wheelie bin
8. using the "scientific method"

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 2

1. Giving male hormones to transexual (biological) women
2. Light in a tube?
3. Tree with purple leaves
4. ULAS J1120+0641's distance from us... too far?
5. Training in the heat
6. Athletic heart syndrome?
7. Marlin fish question...

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 3

1. Planets
2. chemistry-its uses
3. Peeing on the lemon tree
4. Nitrogen oxide, Carbon dioxide, Sulfur Oxide, Hydrocarbon
5. Diet soda and type 2 diabetes
6. Wrong speed indicator

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 4

1. Connection vagina - uterus
2. Badger page needs help
3. Death, Undead, Zombie
4. Dehydration - overnight re-ocurrence
5. Reccomendations of non-English sources on Evolution
6. Inertial mass
7. Specific Term Related to Ancient Anchors
8. cables question
9. Opioids and hearing loss

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 5

1. Hello, looking for a book
2. Calling all cell molecular biologists and/or biochemists. Article merge needs help
3. Biological trait
4. movie of semen into vagina
5. Gradient of potential energy
6. Hospital double doors
7. Raw food
8. solar wind temperature
9. why is quantum mechanics weird?
10. Sun photo
11. Watching TV in the dark
12. Equations
13. Tree Falling
14. Electron cyclotron resonance and tapping
15. The Pineal Gland - do we have 2 of those?
16. Questions about anti-entropic matter
17. mouthwash
18. Roundworms in my cat

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 6

1. Black hole powered slingshots
2. detail about a herb
3. dark matter
4. Clarification: t-test and degrees of freedom
5. solar corona
6. Giant jellyfish
7. Pyrite problem

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 7

1. Wood catching fire from propane or natural gas
2. Pollination prospects
3. Most commons monkeys
4. Year the Duwamish Railroad Bridge in Seattle was built?
5. BirAli Crater
6. Why not adopt measurement scales better suited for very large quantities?
7. Species identification request
8. what will happen If any massive star comes to be black hole and it has planets?
9. Estrous vs Menstruation
10. checking xray escape from baggage machine
11. Electrical Stunning vs Tasers
12. Hardest Known Material
13. Third most important blood property
14. Astronomical observation time
15. Regarding special relativity and time dilation
16. Weak Interaction - article
17. Orbits after central mass changes
18. Why do so many adult males like my little pony?
19. Genetics of garden flower colours
20. Question about the sun

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 8

1. Climate in Kuwait
2. Nuclear reticulum
3. Hello, a question about the article "Wilson's disease"
4. Electric Power
5. Electric power2
6. Inertial mass, again
7. The flagpole experiment
8. Plant identification
9. is using a whiteboard and markers a health hazard?
10. Radio waves
11. Current plan for NASA
12. Does special relativistic length contraction "hide" matter?
13. Picture quality in digital cameras
14. What looks like peas? We may soon know

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 9

1. Solid Oxygen Combustion
2. Jehovah's Witnesses and oxygen
3. Theory of mind article
4. Tsunamis on Atolls and Small Islands?
5. As life expectancy increases, do other events in our life happen proportionally later?
6. Bond film realism
7. Evolutionary pressure for theropod arms
8. Anti-adhesive material

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 10

1. to balance the current
2. Memory
3. Questions about Antimatter?
4. Zero-point energy?
5. Butterfly effect in astronomy
6. Skinning beef
7. Waves spreading out
8. Meaningful speculation on existence of anything possible?
9. Car steering
10. DEET insect repellent dissolving things
11. Brief flash of light in the night sky
12. looking for a picture of fluorine reacting

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 11

1. aerospace
2. The Cambrian explosion
3. Swimming in Jello
4. what is the palm theory？
5. Breeder reactor
6. Large edible leaves ?
7. Making my own peanut butter
8. Is Coeliac_disease an allergy?
9. Question about scintilating scotoma
10. software filter on imageJ/photoshop
11. Fluorescent lights in a brown-out
12. Metals

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 12

1. Astronomical interferometer wavebands
2. Evolution
3. wireless power transmission
4. How shall we name the phenomenon?
5. Red-violet
6. 84,000 chemicals
7. Sycon
8. Natural gas ownership in the US
9. Earth-Moon formation contribution to the asteroid belt?

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 13

1. Cultural or instinctive - revulsion at homosexuality
2. Metamorphosis in humans
3. Annihilating a human
4. DNA question
5. Using fractionally distilled oil products to fractionally distill crude oil
6. Practical Applications of Room-Temperature Superconductors
7. Cloud rays
8. Antimatter bomb

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 14

1. Toilets
2. Neutrino
3. Breaking molecules
4. Oppositional defiant disorder - Political abuse of psychiatry?
5. Severe weather warning beeps on radio
6. Planck unit for luminosity
7. Question about animal blood analysis .
8. Exotic matter

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 15

1. mental retardation questions
2. On heat flow.
3. MOST LIKELY AVENUE
4. Matter acceleration to speed of light...?
5. Evolution reloaded
6. Doing fine with 10,000 IU/day of vitamin D
7. young earth creationism
8. cancer stage
9. Zoophilia
10. Does knowledge of psychological experiments influence participants' behaviour?
11. capacitance
12. Do you have an article about hydrocution:
13. snow cover
14. tetanus
15. summers in Tundra climate and Northern Siberia
16. Androgens
17. Estrogen
18. Radio flux
19. Double nuts on bolt

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 16

1. Papaya leaves
2. Weight of water in the clouds
3. Neanderthal and Denisova genome findings; bearing on the age of Genetic Adam and Genetic Eve?
4. Healing of throat after radiotheraphy
5. haloperidol--long term effects on children?
6. Turning up the music volume
7. What kind of bug is this?

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 17

1. Peripheral Lung
2. Diamond test
3. SEEKING JOB INDIA
4. Yellowing of beige office equipment over time
5. How is a rocket supported at the launch pad before ignition?
6. water temperature -> air temperature equivalent conversion rate
7. why does suntan lotion (all brands) have a characteristic smell?
8. Female Common Snapping Turtle
9. Citation of self-published blogs?
10. chemistry
11. pancreatic vs bile duct cancer
12. Polyploid cherries

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 18

1. People like you killed Copernicus!
2. Thermodynamics for beginners
3. PARTICLE ACCELERATION
4. cancer pain
5. How does vo2 max work?
6. Electronic wristwatch movement
7. Aegis radar system
8. When will Dawn transmit new photos of Vesta?
9. Anabolic steroids and testosterone
10. Non-orbital space rockets
11. Why only one subspecies of humans survived

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 19

1. Gravity on earth if the sun vanished?
2. Sanctum
3. Dinosaur cloning
4. autopilot
5. My pet mouse escaped and I found it again. What should I do?
6. Two SI-units for amount of substance. WHY?
7. Theoretical applications of dark energy
8. Asteroids in synchronous orbit
9. Astronomy review papers
10. Relativity with "flaws"...?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 20

1. Strange chemical nomenclature
2. Walter Lewin's circular track experiment
3. Chocolate question
4. Flattening coins on railway tracks
5. Race as subspecies
6. Who is Mr. or Ms. Southern?
7. TCAS reversal
8. Antimatter black holes?
9. Sea surface temperatures and earthquakes
10. Cavity Magnetron
11. Reseaching hypothyroidism
12. Megatsunami

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 21

1. Easy-to-understand applications of calculus
2. need help
3. Shuttle deviated from planned track?
4. world map in future
5. FTL
6. animal classification
7. Dishwasher magnets for softer water
8. ISS Airlock Spec
9. Venom
10. Do breeding GBB gulls utilize 'helpers'?

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 22

1. Buzzing flies
2. Succulent plant in the UK
3. Sandwich ideas?
4. Theoretical Physics - Extreme Edition (Now with black holes)
5. please help me understand a paragraph in Masters and Johnson
6. City climate website
7. Not a birch tree?

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 23

1. About thiruchendur nazhi kinaru
2. Regarding contour
3. Scale factor with distance
4. Nice in Israel, baking in NYC
5. Watershed between rivers
6. Wholemeal starchy food

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 24

1. The Brain and Exercise
2. material property
3. Irreducible complexity and vestiges organs
4. What to do with wreck after train crash?
5. Crazy gasoline additive
6. mutation
7. Dinghy sailing
8. Time cloaking?
9. Speaking of sailing
10. Swelling of hands and feet

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 25

1. Line of cooling, line of heating
2. Better US climate than London
3. Phase diagrams
4. Herman F. Becker - WP:N paleobotanist?
5. question about origin of life
6. Aquarium filters
7. Lead screws
8. virtual particles.
9. Sleep of the ancients (and the not so ancient)
10. O₄^2-
11. Organic ozonides

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 26

1. Penile exsanguination
2. Preference for extreme versions of traits in evolution
3. Metals in gas form
4. formula of separation
5. massaging muscles
6. Clone armies
7. Upper limit on size of atoms
8. Dream induced nausea
9. Neutron degeneracy
10. Human clone and voice
11. Blood drinking

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 27

1. Motor type and most likely wiring scheme
2. Identify butterfly or moth species
3. As seen in Knowing (film), could a solar-megaflare kill literally everyone on Earth?
4. DNA question
5. Starting up a nuclear reactor
6. Only one higgs?

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 28

1. Please identify this Dragonfly species
2. Any research or speculation in medical literature on using radiation or chemotherapy to treat obesity?
3. Horse manure
4. Baking powder
5. Lovely mystery mushroom
6. Dehumidifier in the desert
7. Horses whinnying at bicyclist
8. Trans fat in British soft margarine
9. Chocolate for treating depression
10. Should I get a food processor, mixer, or something else?

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 29

1. Radioactive casting
2. Post graduate study in the renowned medical colleges in U.S.
3. Brain in the heart
4. Why do horses whinny?
5. Mpemba effect
6. Transmitter question
7. How did Dewar make his flask
8. Palladium
9. Nightmares and Nightterrors.
10. Couldn't he get prosthetic implants?
11. Was Protoavis a bird or Saurischian?
12. Volodushka and GURICHIRURECHIN acid

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 30

1. Bone bruise, hairline fracture, or something else?
2. Cloud phenomenon
3. Bone tracheas
4. The history and use of coal balls
5. Sounds of Earth from the Voyager Golden Record: volcanoes, earthquake, whale song, tractor... ?
6. orbit and mass
7. Does anyone know what this plant is, please?
8. Funny Science Video Clips

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 July 31

1. Cold fusion
2. Strength of atomic bonds
3. Severed hands
4. IR tech
5. fart. Erm, flatulence
6. Cymbal-eared aliens
7. NATO notation for color specification?
8. HRT self-medication
9. Perseids, August 2011
10. Ciências - Química
11. Kepler’s 3rd law