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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 1

1. Organisms
2. Coilguns as infantry weapons?
3. Looking for quotation: only a small percentage of the general public will ever be able to master the skill of operating an automobile
4. After a cholecystectomy...
5. Sabertooth Tigers
6. Can I have some info on native New Zealand alpine flowers?
7. Cassiopeia A
8. Capsule /pill Material....
9. List of countries with their positions on the world
10. oal pile fire
11. What is a string (in string theory) made from?
12. suicidal behaviour
13. Regarding numerical weather prediction modeling
14. oxen or bulls grazing habits
15. Fat and exercise
16. Liquid Nitrogen
17. THE FUTURE is wild?
18. Population?
19. chemistry problem
20. Dark Matter
21. Coldest Metal
22. Basic 'design flaw' in beetles
23. Enthalpy of Solution

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 2

1. Colours relation to wavelenght
2. eeing light while pressing eye
3. straitening light
4. Flipping turtles/tortoises
5. Drinking water and losing weight
6. Oscillation
7. Hair Growth Question
8. Amiodarone and D5W
9. email
10. solar furnaces
11. nknown military device?
12. oloured fire preparing safety
13. Electrically Charging a liquid
14. bluetooth
15. Holding Your Breath
16. Warning i am Bored
17. Alcohol
18. Raw Eggs
19. Microwaved Egg
20. Microwaved Egg--part 2
21. science and technology dvd player
22. Health and safety when casting steel
23. heart
24. RADAR blips from throwing food

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 3

1. s there a name...
2. Physics problem
3. Surface Tension
4. Invisibility
5. Unconcesness?
6. laser air ionisation
7. Geological time
8. Most useful scientific discovery
9. environmentally friendly of disposal of dildoes (dildos?)..
10. Neutralization reactions.
11. Multiple state logic
12. Delayed gravitational effect
13. altic Sea algae
14. Breast Implants
15. IGF-1
16. body efficiency in absorbing calories
17. Why don't fish swim upside-down ?
18. Unknown Flower Picture

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 4

1. patenting life forms
2. colloid osmotic pressure
3. arva
4. Lunar Eclipse
5. special realtivity factor and v(∞)
6. WHAT CAN SPECIAL RELATIVITY INDICATE?
7. A web site that used to give advice
8. Congenital blindness
9. Question about Tennents Super alcoholic beverage
10. chemistry
11. Symbol for a dynamo?
12. Synapse behavior

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 5

1. Is it meant to do that?
2. Ice and Fire
3. Organic Chemistry Question
4. Gravity wave generator
5. Digital Circuits
6. Super Shock Absorbing material
7. Colorblindness.
8. oltages in countries
9. I cannot find an article about a hydraulic car hopper.
10. Dangers of deep throat
11. Yawning as a defense mechanism?
12. Air Pressure

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 6

1. Some help with thermal fuses?
2. peripheral nervous system
3. Muscle repair and calories
4. Electrically conductive fluid
5. Memory relationship to the Brain (More and more information)
6. Memory relationship to the Brain (location)
7. Special Drug for LTP? (brain)
8. Neuron, glia, and the Brain
9. What is pseudophrene?
10. Agronomy/Crop Science
11. an explanation for the variation of boiling points in hydrides of group 15 elements
12. Differntiate between "Metal Scrap" and "Metal Waste"
13. Magnets and heat
14. Death Mimicry?
15. Mysterious fog
16. Underwater flatus increases odor?
17. Muscle question
18. Bad guts last night - physical symptoms
19. Easy Terminology Question

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 7

1. Why do White Castles disagree with so many people?
2. plasma to electricity
3. Quntam energy compulsion cycle?
4. membranes freely permeable to K+ (Na+?)
5. SHARE ME THESE IDEAS
6. Burglarizing snot from my nose
7. What makes paper sticky when damp?
8. Seagulls as game birds?
9. Oil sands vs. Tar sands
10. Coefficient of friction between wheel bore and axle
11. indigestible edible muffins
12. Full Moon Madness
13. Stuttering and the neurotransmitter Dopamine
14. i am trying to think
15. Aerodynamics
16. aking up from a bad dream
17. Homework (but it's only a small part of a question in a series)
18. ====
19. B
20. B (back to 120 v source) the wires here are connecting in a perallel fashion which means 120v are distributed equally however if they were connected something like this (let me try) (120)
21. B}
22. B}
23. Energy / momentum / mass

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 8

1. Magnetic field formula derivation
2. Ptolematic system
3. Energy Supplements
4. Inductive Heating
5. Plasma TVs always have to be right side up or broken.
6. issed periods
7. Weight Training and Fat Loss
8. Spiriling Mathematical Vortex Phenomenom - name??
9. Animal species: how do they self identify for mating?
10. Ductility of Uranium
11. Look mum! No hands!
12. erosol Deodorant Cans
13. Physiology Videos
14. A moon of a moon
15. about the PTSD
16. Looking for source
17. Calculating errors
18. roken solar water heaters
19. First commercial portable data projector?
20. Does size matter?
21. separate populations and species

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 9

1. info photocopiers
2. Plane refuelling
3. Artificial life
4. Question regarding bacteria.
5. Bindeez
6. Rise in temperature
7. Hole punch things
8. clinical medicine
9. Bacteria pathogens with short incubation period
10. Why? In the evolutionary sense...
11. inaural Beat Brainwaves?
12. wave equations that represent atomic orbitals
13. Superconducting Magnetic Levitation Materials
14. Sycosis
15. function generator project
16. Emission Spectra

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 10

1. new technology
2. Dove behavioural experiment
3. What happens to the old heart
4. hen will Wikiprotiens be avaliabale to the public?
5. Motorola RAZR battery Comparison
6. Spider picture: request species identification
7. lecithin
8. Battery power
9. CCD arrrays
10. Nocebo Effect
11. Self-incompatibility in plants

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 11

1. Acids...
2. Totally worthwhile question about hamster genetics
3. Does crying release endorphins?
4. Medical marijuana question
5. Penis Growth
6. indian scientists with events and photographs
7. special relativity and vn=0.633c
8. Uranium Enrichment by Laser Process
9. Egg sizes
10. A metric to use for measuring force.

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 12

1. pH value from dissociation constant
2. Tin can water battery sparking experiment thing :-)
3. Force of Impact?
4. Artificial Sweeteners
5. Ionization of acetic acid
6. How much should we trust in sunglasses?
7. How to add fat in raw milk
8. Bizzare
9. Moden physics
10. Low pass filter
11. Fireproofing MDF
12. Lower pitch of voice
13. Reccomendations for alarm clock
14. Green Beer
15. Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect
16. Tea: the cup that cheers

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 13

1. Glucose
2. Cancer
3. Chromosomes
4. Atomic Model by Phillip Lenard in 1904
5. Which way is up on a technical drawing?
6. Spiriling Mathematical Vortex Phenomenom
7. Pinewood derby friction
8. Solution for world hunger
9. tungsten heavy alloy
10. Weight Loss
11. fullname
12. Oxygen-15
13. Ear Bud Pain
14. emen color/composition
15. Plotting Titration Curves
16. Mexican spider called El Conchlo

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 14

1. Interested?
2. Alcohol and Muscle loss
3. smd vs. through-hole (moved from Computing desk)
4. science behind the instrument triangle
5. When you touch something, your atoms don't actually hit its atoms?
6. Planet Fire
7. Magnetic strip
8. Acidity of oil
9. How does taking breaks restore mental capacity?
10. Improve hearing with training
11. Rumour
12. base metals
13. PE at absolute zero
14. what is the difference between denaturing and melting?
15. What is rescued virus?

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 15

1. Want to disinfect clothes during washing but without disinfectant smell
2. SMD VS. through hole
3. Is Miconazole nitrate safe to apply long-term to skin?
4. Old age memory loss
5. Solar Energy
6. Cancer and Tumors
7. glasses
8. capacity of an electrical circuit
9. Penguins and white bears habitat
10. Has there been any research in the effect of visual cues on the perception of temperature?
11. ipe & Delicious", "Green
12. Science Magazine
13. Veins
14. ow Do E-Mail, FTP, Newsgroups and Message Boards, Mailing Lists, Chat Rooms, and Instant Messaging Work?
15. about algae growth
16. Coffee Question
17. Loss of memory caused by aging
18. Technology

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 16

1. Osteon
2. earthquakes
3. incandescent/florescent bulbs
4. If it isn't glowing, then what is it?
5. Fall in a barrel of water
6. Real Population Density
7. Butter or Spread
8. Singularity and the universe
9. Medical lifting and transfer devices
10. Physics graphs
11. rticle of Faith in Evolution
12. Parrots as artists...
13. ision Question
14. Radio direction finding
15. Is
16. Germination of mustard seeds and the effect pH has on the germination.
17. Cream separation
18. Plate Tectonics Question
19. Racist biology
20. Interview
21. ET's map?
22. Determining Our Expressed Genes

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 17

1. Zero gravity
2. Electric outlets
3. Properties
4. Myopia
5. Cleaning improves the quality of Methamphetamine
6. Body odor question
7. Growing Bamboo in my House
8. CMB and temperature of the universe
9. Greenest Bottle
10. Can someone identify this insect?
11. Long, multilegged, hairy bugs
12. is there a magic pill for getting smarter?
13. Tire illision
14. Can batman take pills?
15. Pigs Eat Their Own Young
16. Labia
17. alt
18. Today's Wikipedia Featured Picture...
19. hockwave theory break?
20. Itch
21. Testosterone types

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 18

1. Thyroid Hormones
2. narcotics
3. Lifestyle Change With Dramatic Results in One Year
4. Superconducting Super Collider
5. formula for an electric fan cooling a closed room
6. Trend and Pattern
7. Pig Gametes
8. LEP vs Tevatron
9. High blood pressure - can it be alleviated by controlled blood-letting?
10. Memory Retrieval Technology
11. Blood test
12. lum

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 19

1. CO2 recovery and reuse
2. Sub-Lightspeed Craft
3. direction of rotation for IC engine
4. More PSU Shocks
5. molecular vibrations
6. reticular fibers
7. Liquid conversion
8. Ear bleeding
9. Treadmills
10. peaker wiring question
11. Affordable solar panels
12. utation in nectariens
13. earth and space science
14. What is the complete breakdown for X55 Cr Mo V14?
15. out feet
16. science
17. Focal point of an earthquake

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 20

1. Medical term needed
2. Magnavox MWD2205 4 Head VCR/DVD Player Issues
3. MONTREAL PROTOCOLS
4. ody colour changes due to diet
5. CRO
6. Blonde Hair/Blondes
7. Splitting Hairs
8. good control theory book?
9. swollen legs
10. aily intake of nuts
11. blood type and sub antibodies
12. METAR report
13. Body heat - How's it done?

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 21

1. Bullet velocities and wound types
2. lisps(speech impediments)
3. ravel to the Asteroid Belt
4. nzymes
5. Permanent magnets drain
6. Refrigerators
7. ooking wine & spoilage
8. genetic epidemiology questions
9. Vasopressin and caffeine
10. Nuclear bombs

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 22

1. Cyclops evolution
2. Eyes
3. Women inventors, inventors of colour
4. Accretion disks
5. slotted arrays
6. what is to thrive?
7. Too much sodium in the diet
8. molectronics
9. Viagra
10. Saying about acceptance of an idea
11. Video Out on graphics card > Broken TV?
12. Picture of the Day
13. What kind of squirrel is this?
14. eight and gravity
15. Helping a friend study physics
16. Vasopressin and caffeine (again)
17. atomic physics
18. Ideal gas
19. Snakeboards and non-holonomic locomotion
20. Bottle Rockets
21. Sinus tachycardia
22. Verizon credit approval
23. Dream recall and masturbation
24. Question on the chemical composition of "crocodile" tears
25. A new reward!
26. Hydraulic transformer
27. CO2 recovery method
28. de broglie's wavelength
29. MINALK GASOLINE SWEETENING
30. Juvenile gulls
31. How little sodium intake is too little?
32. The TwinTowers Collapse
33. Methodological naturalism's acceptance among scientists
34. Coins and Bomb like things
35. Music Enjoyment

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 23

1. Ideal gas
2. Snakeboards and non-holonomic locomotion
3. Bottle Rockets
4. Sinus tachycardia
5. Verizon credit approval
6. Dream recall and masturbation
7. Question on the chemical composition of "crocodile" tears
8. A new reward!
9. Hydraulic transformer
10. CO2 recovery method
11. de broglie's wavelength
12. MINALK GASOLINE SWEETENING
13. Juvenile gulls
14. How little sodium intake is too little?
15. The TwinTowers Collapse
16. Methodological naturalism's acceptance among scientists
17. Coins and Bomb like things
18. Music Enjoyment

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 24

1. why is an ionic compount neutraly charged?
2. identify birds?
3. Why do different sugar ferment at different rates?
4. Biology: looking for a word that describes the synchronzed movements of a swarm (fish, birds, insects, etc.)
5. Fuel cell size and weight versus capacity
6. Distance to sun
7. tuberculosis
8. smell of photocopying rooms?
9. Are the spellings of minor planet names official?
10. Odour question
11. Butane
12. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
13. Visibility of geostationary satellite
14. Epidemiology is to disease as "_______" is to benefit
15. Mental Health statistics

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 25

1. Mental illness rates by US state
2. Electromagnetic Spectrum
3. kidney
4. Ergography
5. helpppppppppppppppp
6. β
7. What plant is this?
8. physics
9. Frequency and Tapering
10. interpreting tensors
11. Apple tree
12. Charges of cations/anions influencing chemical behaviour?
13. Occupational Statistics
14. Geckoes of the Kalahari
15. Popcorn

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 26

1. Battery operated power strip?
2. 6N Chromosome Number
3. GPS
4. What are the Effects of Orgasm/Ejaculation Cessation in Males
5. ====
6. ====
7. Fish and drowning
8. Naturally Shaped Eyes
9. First personal knowledge of sex
10. US territory Antarctica and Who has control over the south pole
11. true cause
12. Characterization
13. Computer radiation
14. van der waals question
15. Memorial size for traffic deaths versus deaths from military conflict
16. Blackhole evaporation
17. Ionic Equations
18. Mie Scattering and Cylinders
19. Some math
20. Value of fp in the Drake equation
21. Neutral methyl orange
22. GPS Signal degradation

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 27

1. What kind of squirrel is this?
2. Electrical Resistance Of Rubber
3. Cost of argon
4. piston analysis
5. Rolling bush
6. concurrent multiplier in nephron
7. atom
8. Markers
9. Common chimp vs. bonobo
10. Crossed covalent bonds
11. Gas Laws
12. Search for life
13. Pluto, still technically a planet?
14. Dehydrated fruit
15. Saponification
16. Burning Question
17. So, if we were to detect a fleet of alien ships entering orbit above the earth tomorrow...
18. silencer
19. In the event of alien spaceships arriving at earth
20. Cinema sound v. ordinary sound
21. How to increase IQ

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 28

1. Spitting and wiggling
2. WP styling mystery
3. hormone therapy capillary breakdown
4. Multimillion dollar idea?
5. Limit?
6. Photosynthesis.
7. Energy = Photon?
8. Energy
9. Chaos Theory
10. Linear beam theory
11. ethylamine
12. Fire preservation
13. airborne radio direction finder
14. lood pressure during sickness
15. what the ****
16. Are teeth techically considered bones?
17. Photons
18. Bug
19. Below Freezing Temperatures & Pipe lines
20. Possible explanations for the hexagonal storm on Saturn?
21. Observing drug resistance developing by mutation
22. Iapetus (moon of Saturn) as a Death Star-style artificial alien world/spacecraft thing...
23. physics
24. The farting vegitarian
25. Color of light
26. Seeing under water
27. Barometric reading and water-vapor pressure
28. How to reduce the temperature of something

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 29

1. Female Vs. Male Orgasm
2. self propulsing water vortex
3. microprocessor heat
4. Domestic Mains LED
5. Linear and squared heat dissipation
6. piston analysis details..
7. Breathylizers & Smoking
8. water in a container for a long time
9. How can I stop my macaw going broody this year?
10. Descendants of a common ancestor
11. Viruses
12. How does microwave crisper paper work?
13. Glycolipid & Electric Microscopes
14. assignment help--speed of light/color question
15. LM3914/5/6 IC
16. Does Einstein have a bacon number?
17. Radiation sickness
18. Allergies and Plasmapheresis
19. Half-life

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 30

1. glasses
2. How do compass work?
3. some organic stuff
4. Blood Pressure
5. Rhinitis vs. Cold
6. how does a bidirectional turbine function?
7. The upside of smoking - less minor, annoying colds?
8. exemestane
9. Suckling young
10. What's the average price to build a wind turbine?
11. The Hum
12. Finding Alien Intelligent Signals - So What?
13. Nuclear Steam Generator

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 31

1. Comparing European Magpies with Black-backed Gulls again...
2. science project build a volcano
3. Bullet in the air?
4. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
5. Magnetic energy
6. Animal fat and Boric acid
7. A Health Diet
8. Bladder size
9. flame temperatures
10. Psychology !!
11. Sexing at Great Panda
12. HELP PHYLLIS CREATE A SAMPLE TREE DESTINED FOR CUTTING?
13. Coke vs Speed
14. Excercise and body heat
15. I'm the most intelligent person in the world
16. What makes things soft?