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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 1

1. How much hydrogen do I need to float a 200,000 ton blimp?
2. The kinetic theory of gases, degrees of freedom, and distribution of kinetic energy
3. Polar vortex
4. Accelerations of the electrons
5. Board of multi national corporations

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 2

1. Why are my coffee mugs too hot?
2. Is it safety to enter a dog or cat into the emergency room or hospital?
3. Total eclipse and light levels
4. Exact date of previous total eclipse visible from the North Pole on the first day the Sun appeared above the Horizon after the end of the Polar Winter
5. Denoising cine film
6. Why no exact date for the Toba eruption?
7. Double slit observation
8. Can sexual arousal cause a penis fracture in a fully clothed man?
9. Awareness of erect penis
10. Livestock breeding, estrus cycles, and artificial insemination

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 3

1. Rapidly turning on and off an LED lamp
2. Why didn't this hurt? (Not medical advice)
3. Reference 4 in 'Malnutrition in South Africa'
4. Why does hyperglycemia not cause necrosis?
5. When the glucose outside of the cell, which one pumps the other?
6. Can humans live with other apes?

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 4

1. risk of cancer from oral sex
2. Why does stuff have color?
3. Moon floating away
4. Why do physics textbooks come in "with Modern Physics" and "without" versions?

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 5

1. Jet stream clouds?
2. Risk of cancer from oral sex: Mark 2
3. Venus and Uranus conjunction
4. What is the thing that causes to contact lenses to be connected to the eyes?
5. Is there an advantage to living in one location at all times?

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 6

1. Can regular cheetoes use really stain your fingers orange?
2. Seconds of daylight gained or lost
3. Digging into Vesta
4. Check-engine lights
5. The criterion for the existence of the scientific meaning of scientific discoveries (explanations)
6. Alcoholic pickles
7. Non water based life

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 7

1. Movie: X Men, the day of the future past
2. Laundry
3. Money laundering
4. Automotive lighting
5. Traces of water
6. Are the mostly basic chemicals been the most stable in nature?
7. Can animals parent different animals?

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 8

1. Vinegar and breathalyser 2
2. Cosmological distance
3. Building Mars on Earth
4. The limits of mind
5. Biochemistry papers
6. Wind
7. Scarring

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 9

1. Does height matter when it comes to air pollution?
2. How were comic books mass produced at the beginning of the 20th century?
3. Experimental report evaluations
4. Thrust Reversal - do the "thrust Reversal" doors take a force equal to the braking force on the aircraft?
5. Naturally occurring cloud chambers?
6. Faecal transplants treatment but between species
7. Soul and neuron action potentials
8. Power needed for a 4-inch fan
9. Global warming experiments.
10. Spec/Glass

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 10

1. Can it be an isotope with less neutrons than the number of its atom?
2. ICT 100 invented by Feriz Delkic
3. dinosaur
4. pH balanced soap and skin health
5. Does a sports scientist or someone with a BSAT have to take the Hippocratic Oath?
6. Is there a state in the body that for one is health and for the other is pathological?
7. Large Hadron Collider upgrade

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 11

1. basic atomic particles
2. What is the reason that the neutron found in the nucleus?
3. Early information feels more trustworthy. Why?
4. Impedance Related Query
5. Are humans included in "animal research"?
6. Reliable information from reliable sources
7. Are diseases/disorders/dysfunctions merely evolutionarily maladaptive phenotypic variations?

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 12

1. Color-blindness problem
2. Is it possible to see solar flares during a total eclipse ?
3. Does alcohol affect appetite?
4. Is it possible to purify water from drinking alcohol?
5. Hottest natural Lake (without vulkanism/hot springs)
6. Phosphate buffered saline role
7. Are high-speed trains easier to drive?
8. Counting cells suspended in liquid

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 13

1. The coordinates of the physical body in space
2. help identify
3. Where do Lithium-ion batteries go, when they die?

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 14

1. Condensation trails from airplane props?
2. Soil and nutrient source
3. What is the biggest / largest cell in human body and what is the biggest eukaryotic cell?
4. Naval equipment mystery
5. H₃O₂ ?
6. Chemistry of obtaining energy
7. Technical reports

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 15

1. Does it matter which way you apply a Nyloc nut?
2. numbers that stands for part of sublevels in electron configuration
3. Could hydrogen and oxygen form a ring molecule?
4. Basic species question

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 16

1. Why do I get all sweaty when I pull an all-nighter?
2. Thawing a solution/emulsion and homogeneity
3. The worlds of nature which was building on superconductivity
4. B-birds
5. How was the speed of quantum entanglement measured?
6. Is it possible computer’s programming of the biological cells (gene or genome)?
7. Why is it believed dark-matter particles do not self-annihilate?
8. Electric clocks

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 17

1. Gender detection via pulse checking
2. Frostbite
3. Measuring g with a pendulum
4. reincarnation
5. How much tar does the food contain?
6. Skin disinfection prior to needle insertion
7. Soul and neuron action potentials -- A follow-up
8. Labia Human only?

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 18

1. wilmshurst machine application!
2. Polar Clock - article needed
3. Sphere spin problem
4. water displacement ballast propereties
5. Physical representation of a memorized image
6. Condom protection against hiv
7. Why do young birds reach full size quicker than mammals?
8. Earth's magnetic field
9. Automated cell counting on microscope slides
10. Sun's radiation
11. Question about genealogy/evolution
12. Sewing machine oil vs turpentine substitute

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 19

1. Hydrogen peroxide and oxygen
2. Evolution
3. Schrodinger's cat video
4. Plant question
5. Is there another less arduous method to collect focus group discussion data without having to transcribe the entire discussion word for word?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 20

1. what is solar eclipse?
2. electrical resistivity of scandium
3. A good math text book that covers all high school?
4. Neodymium magnets

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 21

1. View posterior
2. Density of mixtures
3. Walvisbaai climate
4. the effects of irregular charge in an atom
5. Quarks, fundamental particles?
6. Force affect
7. Bitcoin
8. Electron, not elementary anymore? Quasiparticles.
9. Mystery fluid inside a rear projection television

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 22

1. Iridium satellites - flash, etc
2. Life expectancy pie chart
3. Windshield wipers
4. Angular momentum
5. Black holes/ white holes
6. Gravity and waves
7. Human teeth self-sharpening
8. Time it takes for a TV to turn on

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 23

1. Using a multimeter
2. Old TV Picture "Flips" for Several Minutes After Startup
3. Fluorescent lamps in bathrooms
4. Presentation based on scientific report
5. Where do the electrons go to?
6. How do humans generate electricity, how do they store it, where does it go to after being used?
7. Chemistry

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 24

1. Follow on from Fluorescent Lamps question above
2. Star life cycles
3. Light Refraction
4. Another question on brown dwarfs
5. White dwarf / Chandrasekhar limit questions
6. Star Trek and Science
7. From electricity to electromagnetic wave and back
8. Hypothetical heart control
9. Section on electron mobility in the article about Indium-Gallium-Arsenide semiconductors (specifically related to Gain-Bandwidth product)

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 25

1. Variable ginger sensitivity ?
2. Geoid: how far from the center of earth does gravity point?
3. What vacuums are the most approximate to the absolute vacuum?
4. Medication d codes
5. Social indicators of Asperger's syndrome
6. 555 timer

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 26

1. STAR*D
2. Electronics problem
3. What type of mixture is smoke?
4. Condoms
5. parallel universes, rainbow gravity, different color photons moving at different speeds, gravity leaking between dimensions, MAKING black holes in the lab, say what?

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 27

1. Could pore cleanser have been an adjuvant?
2. Different series of staples worldwide like 80 Series, 100 Series

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 28

1. Dropping an Object From Space
2. Why don't bedbugs carry disease?
3. Deep sea bases: comet proof?

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 29

1. Bedbugs: Is there speculation among scientists about possible benefits to humans of bedbugs?
2. Can we classify this new theory a form of discourse analysis? (link provided below)
3. Healing

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 30

1. What does the ground electrode actually do (in ECG)?
2. DOE radiation worker annual exposure limit
3. What is the cause, the IVF or Osborn waves?
4. Viral movement

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 March 31

1. Thesis layout
2. Justification of Math of AC Circuit Analysis
3. Exercise intensity
4. The latest Boeing and the latest Airbus