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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 1

1. Bubbles
2. Isotop
3. Workplace politics in healthcare and academia
4. DMM on a living person

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 2

1. Helium
2. Not a fan anymore
3. Moving a large object
4. Brain development
5. Iron Balls
6. Horses living underground
7. Copper battery contacts
8. Decrement table used to calculate pregnancy rate
9. Moving a small object
10. Temperature indicating coolant - by color
11. Temperature indicating coolant - by magnetic property
12. Circuits and electric fields

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 3

1. Bestiality rates among children?
2. Zits inside the mouth
3. bug identification

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 4

1. New Madrid earthquake damage zone
2. Finasteride and anabolic steroids
3. Suggestions for excess solar energy
4. UV incidence
5. The die is cast
6. Why are thorium and uranium so stable?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 5

1. Smelly hot water
2. Artist renditions of spacecraft instead of photos
3. Bats eating mosquitoes
4. "Sparkler bomb"
5. Attempting to identify this insect
6. Equation of plane
7. Juno orbiter

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 6

1. Robin mother won't feed chicks
2. Does cannibalism cause insanity?
3. Point at which pressure converts solid into liquid
4. Heavy duty breakers

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 7

1. Wind strength of compressed air
2. Total solar eclipse
3. Snake ID?
4. Railway Prince Rupert–Valemount
5. Main Battle Tanks
6. Safety valve

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 8

1. That thing that squishes dough
2. Hepatitis B carrier can bring children without to transfer them his virus?
3. Bristles on Zora
4. Californian bird that smashes snails?
5. Bombs used by US police
6. Contaminating Jupiter
7. UHD: How does forward compatibility work?
8. Clock accuracy on spacecraft like Juno
9. Effect of a magnetar-strength magnetic field on matter

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 9

1. Voltage generation
2. Bootleg ground
3. Need help identifying Southwest U.S. plant
4. Propeller orientation and placement

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 10

1. sleeping on trains
2. Are transparent solar panels bogus?
3. Mars today and yestreen
4. Ionic strength fraction
5. Miracle Mineral Supplement

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 11

1. Thinking of taking part in one of clinical trials
2. Magnetism
3. Primary sources studying the efficacy of condoms after one year of use
4. Relation between activity coefficient and thermal expansion coefficient
5. Why do you have to use an inhaler upside down?
6. Sky glow
7. Washing machines: vertical and horizontal axles

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 12

1. Teflon coating
2. Van Allen Belts

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 13

1. medication side effects appearing long after starting the drug
2. Why faster than light travel is impossible

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 14

1. Before seeking FDA approval of a drug in the USA, how do they test the drugs for infants or children?
2. Chem elements in the infoboxes
3. Deflection how much is safe?/
4. Is there an Aether?
5. Rabies vaccine "forbidden"?
6. Wind strength of compressed air, part two

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 15

1. Durian Fruit
2. Identify this bird
3. Computer UV LEDs effects on the body and electronic components

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 16

1. Ionisation energies of actinides and lanthanides
2. Adolescent
3. Creation and evolution in Russia

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 17

1. Physics curiosity
2. Why is the UK and US building different trident-armed submarines?
3. conical pendulum -Referencedesk Archives/Science2016May31
4. Dogs protecting humans
5. Cats protecting humans?
6. SAS snipers training to shoot the engine blocks of speeding trucks?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 18

1. Roughly how many people may have been alive during the last glacial maximum?
2. Websites extracting phone numbers
3. Searching For Easiest Way
4. About Latitudes

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 19

1. Why is Antarctica so round and kind of centered?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 20

1. Thought experiment: compressibility of water
2. Autism Cure

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 21

1. hyperferremia vs hemochromatosis
2. Quantum precognition and time reversibility

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 22

1. Physiological signs
2. Lapidary
3. Digging Earth
4. Civil engineering projects
5. QuestionEnergy efficiency of batteries
6. Genetics and inheritance
7. Radioactive heat from radium
8. Hot humid weather and joints

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 23

1. Why is there so much broken pottery buried in every garden in Great Britain?
2. Finasteride and Estradiol
3. Quartary consumers
4. Water poisoning is not caused by inadequate salt intake?
5. Is appearance of white hair in early age belongs to psychological troubles?

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 25

1. Glassy carbon
2. Question about gardasil research
3. Kingsfoil
4. Nichrome wire heating element calculation
5. Efficiency of carbohydrates to fat conversion

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 26

1. Why do some plates fuse and others don't?
2. What is an "at-grade road"?
3. Tying off and cutting arteries in surgery
4. Cross check

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 28

1. Hearing Distance in humans.
2. Identifing sound from batbox
3. Would the existence gravitational waves imply the possibility of antigravitational waves?

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 29

1. Attracting a float in a pool
2. Is vision permanently corrected after laser eyes surgery?
3. Hitting walls
4. Caitlyn Jenner: Why no baldness in older transgender men?

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 30

1. Perceptions of suicide
2. Code of ethics that psychotherapists are supposed to follow
3. Do the same areas of a man's brain light up when his nipples are stimulated in comparison to when his genitals are stimulated?
4. Sahara desert
5. Estimating the weight of a dinosaur from its footprint

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 July 31

1. Origin of Russian Anthrax
2. FTIR machines
3. Blood group
4. Deriving the subjective arrow of time from entropy