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October 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 1

  1. Food becoming stale
  2. Back pain across bra line
  3. baby nose color
  4. Missing posts
  5. Contributors for Pharmacogenomics Wiki wanted
  6. Hairy back
  7. In tides, why is the eighth wave always the largest?
  8. PAL I vs. PAL BG
  9. Sperm in Facial Treatments?
  10. primary colours
  11. Cannabis
  12. Giant Redwoods and their cells
  13. Indoor Plants
  14. Are some plants immortal?

October 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 2

  1. Taxonomy for Extraterrestrial Life
  2. Codon inversion
  3. air pressure cuts
  4. Glucosamine and Diabetes
  5. Bird Eggs
  6. Strobe
  7. I'm searching for information on the workability and physical characteristics of pure Tungsten metal
  8. Nokia phones
  9. What chemical is this?
  10. Valuable substances
  11. LED throwie
  12. fish

October 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 3

  1. Dying in sleep
  2. Big Bang / Black Hole ...?
  3. Terrifying, recurring nightmare I used to have...
  4. Dreaming of dying
  5. Measuring Mass/Volume
  6. That stuff between your toes
  7. how is newton's 2nd law modified when things reaches the speed of light?
  8. germanium
  9. Dead Leg
  10. vortex ring gun question
  11. BP cuff one-way-valve
  12. moving shock tables
  13. Pink Discolouration Of Clothes
  14. properties of sulphur
  15. Cryonics
  16. Interpreting a sentence about biology
  17. geography
  18. Tim Clutton-Brock
  19. unit cells
  20. Blood Alcohol

October 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 4

  1. Hello I Need Hlp With Thses Two Questions Please
  2. Why did all the Soviet missions to Mars fail in one way or another?
  3. Evaluation of objective type answer sheets
  4. Dr. Roger Kornberg
  5. ground parrot
  6. Blood
  7. molarity of water
  8. Great Black-backed Gull carrying off (and presumably eating) baby?
  9. Garlic Spoilage
  10. renal cell carcinoma
  11. Blue sea near Bahamas
  12. The gyroscope movement

October 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 5

  1. Breaking your own neck
  2. Scar Healing?
  3. Color of blood
  4. Gyro effect on bicycles
  5. sulbutiamine
  6. PAL
  7. 74161 IC
  8. TV scanning method
  9. M
  10. mass
  11. Drippy Iron
  12. Chlorofluorosulfonic acid
  13. How are the oil well fires extinguished?
  14. human proteins in plant cells
  15. identify a gene
  16. On ocean ecology
  17. is vaccinatiom possible?
  18. Overdose
  19. Father of the Solar Cell
  20. Mystery bird
  21. science
  22. Other pde5 inhibitors, besides sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil
  23. Rm3
  24. Cure for oedipus complex?
  25. Chemical prices

October 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 6

  1. can it alter?
  2. pH scale
  3. variegated plants
  4. Calculate Radiation Dosage from X-Ray Machine
  5. Isaac Newton
  6. Help from a doc interpreting lab results (not advice)
  7. preservation
  8. molarity
  9. immune cell
  10. Leo Szilard's Cancer Protocol
  11. Triple Point of Water
  12. ID this beach object
  13. Word
  14. ph
  15. PH SCALE
  16. OIL
  17. Teleportation
  18. I have an anatomical question about the Spinal discs.
  19. Whistling effect?
  20. Stepping-up voltage.

October 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 7

  1. Raising a baby bird in isolation
  2. taking control of Opportunity and ROver
  3. Human eye resolution
  4. Eating Disorders
  5. james harry keighly McCollum
  6. human proteins
  7. Acid to dissolve hard rock/stones
  8. Holding it
  9. Bruhathkayosaurus vs. Amphicoelias
  10. Hard question on evolution
  11. Are there obstacles to industrial-scale production of cultured animal tissues for food?
  12. proteins
  13. Fossils made from bone
  14. diatomic elements
  15. Additive Volumes and Mols
  16. Antacids
  17. Shrimp diagram request for comment
  18. Homework question
  19. Masochism
  20. Recent news regarding the treatment of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  21. Disproof of the theory that information cannot move faster than speed of light
  22. Can a hard drive go through an X-Ray scanner?

October 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 8

  1. The effects of a smoker and non-smoker in the cold
  2. Cold and fat
  3. Germs
  4. Disease
  5. sensitivity to sound
  6. cochlea
  7. Electromagnetic radiation.
  8. Euphoria caused by Victory?
  9. Time Dialation Confirmation
  10. Does snoring affect the snorer's hearing?
  11. bizarre
  12. difference between AC DC current
  13. Heart Rate
  14. technology in manufacturing surgical instrument
  15. how to make this
  16. Popping pimples
  17. ABOUT PHARMACY?!!!
  18. Quercus × rosacea
  19. ACCELERATION of light
  20. What is the difference between a nuclear explosion and a nuclear reaction?

October 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 9

  1. Car, chain
  2. Babirusa
  3. Size of Human Epidermis Cell
  4. why cant saltwater fish live in freshwater?
  5. Mucopolysaccharidosis
  6. HOMEWORK QUESTION
  7. Gene defect
  8. bursting cells
  9. cell theory
  10. About the Big Bang
  11. Human skin colour
  12. international awards in physics.
  13. prices of toluene
  14. Oil absorption into skin
  15. chemical engg
  16. Skies of the distant past/future
  17. effect of growth on oxygen demand
  18. i need help
  19. Underground nuclear tests
  20. Reduced salt area
  21. Refraction of light
  22. narcotics
  23. Wood Integrity
  24. Is it possible to artificially increase a metal's physical weight to indefinitive amounts?
  25. Water...Sily question?
  26. Mother gull is double-clutching this year...


October 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 10

  1. Super Cannon of Doom
  2. An estimaste of the thermal power output and specific heat capacity of a human being
  3. UG Nuclear tests
  4. fainting at the sight of blood
  5. weapon testing
  6. Lead acid storage batteries
  7. Critical MAss
  8. Transition Metal Chemistry question
  9. Question about Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Physical Meaning of Temperature
    1. more
  10. Symmetry in technical drawing
  11. WEIGHT OF HUMAN BEING IN THE MOON
  12. having laser eye surgery
  13. Cell Biology
  14. Why are Magnets RED?
  15. magnitude of electrical force
  16. Electricity
  17. dissolving

October 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 11

  1. Tryptophan versus melatonin
  2. Methane for CO2 manufacturing?
  3. belly
  4. rethinking science!
  5. Quantum field theory
  6. Colours
  7. REPRODUCTION
  8. vortex ring simplification

October 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 12

  1. sodium hydroxide
  2. Mould
  3. How many "frames" per second can our eye process?
  4. Radiocarbon dating
  5. Critical molar volume of a van der Waals gas
  6. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
  7. Equations for black body radiation
  8. magnets
  9. LAser Eye Surgery
  10. I'm searching for an inexpensive portable medical X-ray device, or are there any build-your-own kits?
  11. Negative refractive index
  12. Loop DNA
  13. Types of rock or stone?
  14. Earth's moon: why it always shows the same face
  15. Cooling Towers
  16. Ballistics
  17. Ants
  18. Goldfish
  19. brain

October 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 13

  1. Chromosomes
  2. Threat to human race
  3. Looking for medical term...
  4. Oxygen
  5. Alpha level and power for a hypothesis
  6. Stored energy in tempered glass pellets
  7. Microbiology math?
  8. Education
  9. a short brief essay
  10. Double-slit experiment aiming
  11. How does the transferrin and ferritin be cleared in human body, respectively?
  12. Flu shot
  13. definition of the word "plaxing"
  14. Black Hole
  15. Food pyramid
  16. Calculating wavelength of radio waves at a given frequency
  17. Nuclear fission (in nuclear weapons)
  18. Decompression

October 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 14

  1. Space Shuttle: burn-up.....
  2. Planetary rings
  3. stadium construction
  4. A cold
  5. Boiler Efficiency
  6. do-it-yourself X-ray Crystallography?
  7. homemade NMR?
  8. mass spectrometer?
  9. RadioShack?
  10. synchrotron?
  11. New Dynamo Not Working Right
  12. Speed of digestion
  13. rainbow
  14. Clotrimazole 1% Cream
  15. Contaminated drinking water
  16. Why does my stomach growl?
  17. Asian giant hornet
  18. Building Audit
  19. What kind of insect is this?
  20. Two questions about chemical reactions

October 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 15

  1. How big must it BE?........
  2. Come nuclear armageddon...
  3. What could be a physiological explanation for the Chinese folk medical concept of 熱氣 ("heat")?
  4. six pack
  5. Seeing Colors
  6. How Many calories does a Gram of Human Fat Have?
  7. Am I secretly gay?
  8. What kind of frog is this?
  9. "Absolute hot"?
  10. physics
  11. Triple point revisited
  12. Decrease in Sexual Interest?
  13. what genes are in a genes pair
  14. Identical alleles are found in what type of gene
  15. Science Fair

October 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 16

  1. bananas
  2. Critters in the stomach
  3. Arm wrestling
  4. Can you identify this strange bug?
  5. Why is some skin immune from sunburn?
  6. Diesel fuel life
  7. Most effective firearm
  8. Humans driving a ship
  9. Unknown Goat
  10. pistons in combustion engines
  11. Epidermis
  12. Fuel consumption
  13. Bacterial Infection
  14. Compact Bone
  15. Hormones
  16. Science Fair Proposal
  17. Dodgy Bike Chain/Sprockets
  18. frequency / function generator? Buying one?
  19. Pickled food and tooth decay
  20. Water
  21. question about microwaves [EM really] and momentum transfer
  22. Angle of reflection for light.

October 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 17

  1. Variables
  2. Combustion of BIO Gas.....
  3. A few questions about the human brain
  4. Snake Bite
  5. Reversing a Black Hole...
  6. Amount of Water in the World
  7. Human evolution and immunity to venoms
  8. End correction
  9. What frequency of microwaves can create an overpressure shockwave?
  10. adding a word to search list
  11. Jogging and calorie consumption
  12. solubility of capsaicin in edible oil
  13. Feta
  14. Suicide pill
  15. Purpose of Viruses
  16. What does cannabis smoke smell like?
  17. EM wind
  18. protozoa - animal report
  19. Equine Medicine
  20. Thinking

October 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 18

  1. How many seagulls...
  2. What kind of bird is this?
  3. Time machine
  4. dirigibles
  5. Regarding Earth rotation and revolution
  6. sinisoidal RC phase shift oscillators
  7. How can I study theoretical physics in one of the US universities?
  8. Science, I think
  9. orbital plane
  10. Flu vaccine
  11. membrane capacitive current?
  12. DFT bins
  13. Spacetime
  14. Male marsupial nipples ?
  15. electromagnetic interaction and contact for force fields?
  16. Domestic Poultry
  17. Electromagnetic Pulse

October 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 19

  1. How to Read the Periodic Table of the Elements
  2. Producing Manganese (III)
  3. Time Dilation Confusion
  4. Shape of the Universe...
  5. PHYSICS,Mechanical Advantage&related topics pertaining to Pulleys
  6. Lightning Protection
  7. Bug Rivet Paradox
  8. air pollution
  9. Proof of an Open Universe?...
  10. 300 channels and nothing on Static?
  11. dimensions of time
  12. Current/Voltage
  13. Fusion

October 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 20

  1. The fourth dimension?
  2. ossification and calcification
  3. Combustion of BIO Gas...(Didn't get an answer yet!!)
  4. rechargeable batteries
  5. The Sun Core
  6. Puzzling physics question
  7. Metabolism etc.
  8. Beta particles
  9. Human Body
  10. The Past
  11. Tough pool leak...
  12. Nasal mucus
  13. Questions about cholesterol and saturated fat
  14. link between: diabetes, CHF, renal insufficiency, amputation
  15. Patched conics & Lunar Orbit Insertion
  16. What is the total number of known chemical elements?
  17. Known compounds
  18. is this a shockwave affect or just accelerated air?

October 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 21

  1. James McCollum
  2. Page updating problems.....
  3. Phase-determination pressure
  4. Cheese longevity
  5. Whistling sine waves
  6. COSTAS loop
  7. Transmission line theory
  8. Reality
  9. Ic 8038 and Ic 555
  10. SATA computer
  11. Youngs experiment
  12. Hub Gears Wont Change
  13. Atheroma
  14. Sauropod size
  15. What does KIBRA stand for?
  16. Surfaces and bonding
  17. Zero-point energy and substance compatabilty.
  18. General Relativity
  19. Quantum mechanics? wave theory?
  20. G Protein Coupled Receptors

October 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 22

  1. Craneflies - how have these really crappy insects continued to survive?
  2. Meaning of TY1CL1
  3. Chest rash?
  4. BONDING IN SOLIDS
  5. Software Radio
  6. would enough negative charge from other sources such as pions, down quarks etc react with normal matter?
  7. Another EM wind question
  8. Affordable Device for Measuring soil water content
  9. IR remote
  10. What's this aprox. called again?
  11. Aqueous Compounds
  12. Solar position equations
  13. Equilibrium Constant, Kp
  14. 3 Questions
  15. Nails
  16. Rainbow
  17. Factual basis in psychology for claims about the power of the imagination
  18. Is the human brain a chemical machine?
  19. lens
  20. Lab report!

October 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 23

  1. The "Wholly Grail".....
  2. How gyrocompasses work
  3. Mercury and Fillings
  4. Archiving
  5. Different roles for insects in a hive/nest
  6. how may calories are in... me?
  7. Feral Horses of the World?
  8. Chlorinated water and eye damage.
  9. Fissile material
  10. Genetic tendancy towards AIDS amongst Black people?
  11. Gamma rays
  12. Application of Nature Cure for treatment psoriasis
  13. alluvial sedimentary rock
  14. heat
  15. Chemistry/ Heat curves
  16. Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
  17. Bad horror-movie bacteria!
  18. Reishi and Birth Control Pills
  19. watershed management
  20. Alpha Helix
  21. Black Engineers
  22. Crucell
  23. Algorithms
  24. Rate of lunar transit
  25. Abnormal waves and tides

October 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 24

  1. Ivan Pavlov's Insomnia cure
  2. Beer, wine, or something else?
  3. Bugs Bunny and shotguns
  4. Relativity Paradox
  5. Smoking Question
  6. Defibrillator voltage, intensity and energy?
  7. enzymes
  8. Why Does My Wife Kill Battery-Powered Wristwatches and Computer Hard Drives?
  9. application
  10. Touch lamps
  11. science
  12. Sitting up while asleep
  13. audio timescaling
  14. Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
  15. Chemistry
  16. Low testosterone and high hemoglobin/iron test
  17. first sex
  18. Where Art Though Contact Lens
  19. vacuolated glandular endometrial cells
  20. Defibrillators and stupid people...
  21. Where to buy sulphur

October 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 25

  1. Function of small intestine
  2. Latent heat
  3. Global population of gorillas?
  4. Volume of semen during ejaculations
  5. Fermenting blood to create an alcoholic beverage?
  6. Endangered large cats
  7. Cotton
  8. Electrolytes
  9. Sense of Color In Animals
  10. 400Hz Frequency Apllied to Copper Conductors.
  11. "scientific" name for grass. . .
  12. Insulation R-values
  13. Temperature - Kinetic Energy Relationship
  14. Self-dissolving Miracle-Gro
  15. Taste and aging
  16. green leaves all over the ground
  17. reverse casimer effect??

October 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 26

  1. When They Test You For Genital Herpes, Do They Take A Blood Test?
  2. Microscope Lenses
  3. Help with relativity
  4. chemical reactions
  5. eography
  6. erivation and Use of Clausius-Clapeyron relation
  7. Expert In Opacity Needed
  8. Eiinstein's theories
  9. research project
  10. ocus and focal point
  11. lind Dreams
  12. itrectomy aftermath
  13. s and d orbitals
  14. Warm-bloodedness in birds and mammals.
  15. Colour of semen
  16. Plane Crash
  17. The Science magazine?
  18. Basic Physics: Force Question

October 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 27

  1. Where to Purchase Digestive Enzymes
  2. Pectodictyon
  3. Airships
  4. composite materials
  5. Sexual Dysfunction
  6. Communication Engineering
  7. high frequency gravitational waves truth or myth
  8. Colour of dreams
  9. Earthing/Grounding
  10. measurement by vernier
  11. Tooth Transplant
  12. Walls
  13. Why aren't large interlocking bricks practical for construction ?
  14. Colon Cancer
  15. the word for when stuff feels nice
  16. dynamic motion
  17. Title of doctor.

October 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 28

  1. Helium
  2. observing stars other than the sun
  3. Gel-based ice packs - removing dried contents?
  4. Questions about salt water
  5. looking for the name of a thing used to view still photos moved by a crank
  6. Papain, Bromelain, Ficin and Actindin
  7. Neutrinos and Antineutrinos
  8. Variables
  9. control system
  10. how to create an artificial force field
  11. Weight
  12. Complete proteins
  13. Valence Electrons
  14. Shimmering tarmac on a hot day

October 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 29

  1. Cell Cycle of a Human Brain Cell, Human Liver Cell, and a Yeast Cell
  2. science-fiction weapon
  3. Iron and Steel ingredients
  4. Maps of the universe
  5. Energy Density
  6. Sodium phosphate
  7. Sex-determination history
  8. computational neurosciences
  9. Variables, part 2
  10. acid base equilibrium

October 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 30

  1. Industrial Processes
  2. Natural instinct of a right handed person
  3. Evolution and Organo Metallic Complexes?
  4. f mice and lab rats
  5. latinized names?
  6. Caffine/Keeping awake
  7. How do we 'hear ourselves think'?

October 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 31

  1. Sense of humour
  2. Burnt Stock Pot
  3. Evolution
  4. dry cell
  5. mysteries of mirrors
  6. Expense of PCR
  7. substituents
  8. why human beings can not fly like birds?
  9. V8 Engines
  10. Car top
  11. Mating/pairing off behaviour in seagulls
  12. hollow head
  13. Digital MULTIMETERs
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