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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 1

  1. Mens Vescicles
  2. Clock reverses movement direction
  3. Paper consumption in weighbridge in thermal power plant
  4. Why do wooden ships sink?
  5. Quality of a television output
  6. Food of the future News
  7. Is everyone does Valsalva maneuver?
  8. Bandwidth of alien broadcasts.
  9. US midwest bronchitis outbreak

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 2

  1. Odor of Human Feces
  2. Is cross-species surrogacy possible?
  3. Upcoming NASA mission to Mars
  4. In which does the cardiac cycle begin?
  5. Color of human feces (Melena)
  6. Sex chromosomes are found in somatic cells as in the sex cells?

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 3

  1. How does a GPS know its precision?
  2. Does mitosis occur in both somatic cells and sex cells?
  3. What does it mean "condensation" in context of chromosomes?
  4. Ice skate friction
  5. Is there such a thing as one replicate?
  6. Deadly biocontainment
  7. can Vasectomies and tubal ligations be performed easily on cats
  8. Displacement of the SS Badger

March 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 4

  1. List of possible things that could be gained from Earth (mud, soil, etc…)

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 5

  1. Do all mammals have pair of kidneys like human being has?
  2. Falcon 9 full thrust
  3. "chemical castration" for racehorses
  4. Subject of image :File:Jj6.png
  5. List of possible things that could be gained from the Sun

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 6

  1. white substance in the kidney in picture on wikipedia
  2. Questions instead of hypotheses
  3. :File:WH3.JPG
  4. Skin cancer from smoking
  5. Need to drill inverted cone into top of LED

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 7

  1. Reverse Correlation Method
  2. Wi-fi
  3. Why metering devices are based on different standards and different etalons?
  4. Muscle memory

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 8

  1. Can we read minds with science ?
  2. conjoined twins are usually born with two hearts or one?
  3. Wi-Fi part 2
  4. source for the sentence that humans have 7 subdivisions in renal medulla
  5. How much power do field lights use?
  6. When running is there an Vasodilation or Vasoconstriction in the blood vessels?
  7. Oort cloud
  8. Provenance of image
  9. Does the ovum is made of many cells?

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 9

  1. Some structures on a ship's deck
  2. What is this US Navy electronic thing?
  3. Why during a total solar eclipse one can't see stars?

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 10

  1. Why have two units, like Calories and Joules?
  2. Clinical engineering
  3. Field engineers
  4. Energy content of water and carbon dioxide
  5. Distinct types within a species
  6. Ring modulation

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 11

  1. Merge request
  2. Underwater vortices
  3. Nitrogen narcosis
  4. Floaty but sturdy material?
  5. Cost of Gorilla Glass
  6. logarithmic decay instead of exponential decay?!!!
  7. Free energy "model" as mathematical (formulaic) inspiration
  8. Two reagent model, one decomposing the other

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 12

  1. Interrupted Dreams
  2. Does any one know?
  3. Wind mill blades efficiency
  4. Eczema herpeticum
  5. STDs and alcohol
  6. C4H10O

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 13

  1. Hand-thrown projectiles
  2. Did technical methods - technical levels of application and use are been determined a physical and chemical properties of all substances?
  3. Distance updates due to expansion of the Universe
  4. Would it be possible to have a SEM at home?
  5. Does woman can have an erection in her clitoris if she looked in men?

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 14

  1. Erecting a species
  2. Is it dangerous to eat a lot of eggs?
  3. Are there Propane detectors on the Exomars probe, and, if not, why not?
  4. What is the maximum value for GFR?
  5. :File:Sajama.jpg
  6. What holds tangerine lobules together?

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 15

  1. Intensity of Odor of Cats Feces
  2. Where were temperatures 11.5 C warmer on average in February?
  3. When scientists need cocaine for an experiment, where do they get the cocaine from?
  4. How long it takes to charge a scooter battery from the engine

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 16

  1. What is the difference between magnitude and amplitude? (in physics)
  2. Diameter and length
  3. When was the first known vivisection as a part of the anatomy study?
  4. sun's power
  5. Sintering
  6. Getting acid
  7. Natural Disasters and the Environment
  8. Fruit ID

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 17

  1. Ancient Greeks in Norway
  2. What's an "anti-dark soliton"?
  3. LIGO precision

March 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 18

  1. Light path analysis and consequences
  2. Evolutionary jump of plastic-eating bacteria
  3. Believing fiction is real
  4. Northing / Easting Conversion
  5. What are you supposed to do with desiccants?
  6. Chemical Symbol

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 19

  1. Name for type of spring
  2. Did a cheapness always allows to satisfy much needs of more people?
  3. Sword-billed hummingbird preening
  4. Serial Wire Debug Port
  5. Do you need to burn fuel to decelerate a spaceship when landing?
  6. Ritalin, similar chemically similar to cocaine?
  7. Evolution vs. the Second Law of Thermodynamics

March 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 20

  1. Null result of Michelson–Morley experiment extrapolation
  2. Dandelion wine
  3. cultural acceptance of homosexuality lead to its evolutionary demise??
  4. Silver polish
  5. Pacific Ocean disappearing
  6. Preparing Hydrogen cyanide without platinum.

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 21

  1. Is that true that vegetables as well as eggs lose their vitamins while cooking or frying?
  2. What is the substance in eggs which cause them to be foamed while mixing (and at all)?
  3. Which substance does increase the output while drinking tea or coffee?
  4. Airplane susceptibility to winds

March 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 22

  1. Dust in air: outside vs inside
  2. Crude ash content of food
  3. uranium or plutonium in nuclear weapons

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 23

  1. Hospitals inhibiting cell phone signal

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 24

  1. Is gray matter of CNS - just collection of the bodies?
  2. Is it known which substance (ingredient) in cow milk causes to sleepiness?
  3. The article on "specific impulse" seems to mix up force and mass (physics)
  4. A reflection on black hole event horizon (physics)
  5. Egg white whipping with contaminants
  6. Entropy. Statistical mechanics. Information ~ Energy

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 25

  1. Amplitude stabilisation of sinusoidal electronic oscillators
  2. How to block out female pin headers
  3. :File:Salt Lake.JPG
  4. Old cod liver oil capsules useless?
  5. Isolated neutron--how many neutrinos go thru it, or at least strike it, per second, at least on Earth with the average flux here?
  6. What is the relation between axon and its etymology?
  7. what is meta-sympathetic system?

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 26

  1. Information ~ Energy. Maxwell's demon. Szilard
  2. SI status of the litre
  3. Presynaptic cell must be neuron or it can be also miocyte for example?

March 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 27

  1. What is the meaning of AKA in the context of the nervous system anatomy?
  2. What does it mean "specialized population of neurons"?
  3. Military applications of wafersats
  4. Nephron can be considered also as a cell?
  5. Effective Strength of a martian "Storm"
  6. Is solder for mechanical joining different from electrical?
  7. Deep space telescope
  8. Cats
  9. What does "non-Gaussian AO situations" mean?

March 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 28

  1. 64-hour days
  2. Crossing the Bering Strait
  3. Normal to have one nostril always blocked?
  4. How many types of neuron cells do exist?
  5. Special relativity. Derivation of formula
  6. biotin crosslinking with streptavidin
  7. Medicine price in the US: wholesale $5-7, monthly $100-$200

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 29

  1. bird ID
  2. In fact indeed do exist a real uni-polar neuron?
  3. Special relativity. Simultaneity
  4. Kinetic energy of charged particles
  5. Most abundant species?

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 30

  1. Rumination Syndrome Weight Loss
  2. What is the substance which makes the yellow color of the urine?
  3. Is there a species that comes in at least 3 very saturated and very different colors?
  4. Can anyone name a legal compound of Bromphiramine X, where X is an expectorrant, but not considered a "cough medicine"?
  5. Allergens in mushrooms

March 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 March 31

  1. When did the Moon become tidally locked to the Earth ?
  2. Is it easier for a tornado to make a cow fly or a car or a mobile home/trailer?
  3. Self-driving cars and drafting
  4. Anti-wart vaccines