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September 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 2
- Sonic boom
- Concorde jet
- Supernova compared to a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?
- Question relates to UK law and electrical regulations.
- What diverts airflow between the nose and mouth?
September 3[edit]
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September 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 4
- addiction
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 20
- Naat and other genetic material identification tests
- Pressure filtration
September 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 5
- Earthquake risk and political boundaries
- Pictures in the night
- rust sensor
- Sonic booms
- Health guidance on websites
September 6[edit]
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September 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 7
- Life expectancy and dead parents
- What species of spider?
- Name of U1.11 (large quasar group)
- Numbers 80 to 85 in Ancient Calendrical Computations
September 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 8
- additional info on automotive MIL or "check engine light"
- Elevated levels of amino acids as evidence?
- How many people visit Antarctica every year?
September 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 9
- does air float on water?
- Oxybutynin
- Do fish, prawn, shrimp and aquatic animals feel pain like land animals?
- Terminology for benign self-induced vertigo or dizziness simply by spinning
- Notations in distributions
- Relativity Simultaneity
- Protection against alpha and beta radiation emitters
- Please identify this mushroom in my garden
September 10[edit]
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September 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 11
- Rotation and poles of the Earth, Solar System, and galaxy
- Spiraling of the Moon
- Ceres (dwarf planet)
- cooking times
- Why is 5 petals most common?
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 22
September 12[edit]
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September 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 13
- Teleporting an uncharged black hole 3-20 feet from a human
- Low pressure environment: does the oxygen move in reverse direction?
- Dyson ring around a black hole ?
September 15[edit]
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September 16[edit]
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September 17[edit]
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- A photon, alone between mirrors
- Particle in a ring
- Electricity without mechanical work of magnetism and electromagnetism
- Are there any real gas in a container systems that would probably measurably lose energy within the age of the universe?
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 13
- gravitation - oscillations
- Long-term transmission of non-STDs in semen
- Effect of low air pressure on musical instruments
September 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 18
- What kind of object has the most noticeable audibility lengthening at breathable altitudes?
- Accessing parallel universes
- Local anaesthetic use in dentistry
September 19[edit]
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September 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 20
- Glucose instead of fructose
- Scotch and water
- Feynman Lectures. Lecture 24 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_24.html]
- Degreasing steel
September 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 21
- Image noise
- Blood pressuer: white coat syndrome and its opposite
- Can cheese be made with unsaturated fat only ?
- Can saturated fats be removed from vegetable oil ?
- Is saturated fat a risk factor for cardiovascular disease ?
- Freezing, Triple, and Boiling Points of Water
- 2nd postulate
September 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 22
- What red and green fruit grown in mexico looks like a smooth, oversized avocado?
- Differences between electromagnetic field and electromagnetic induction
September 23[edit]
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September 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 24
- Feynman Lectures. 9–6Numerical solution of the equations [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_09.html]
- Vitamin C content on orange juice
- What is the real definition of organic compounds?
- Find article for fuel gas transported through plumbing
- Diseases that attack fungi
- What is the basic structure of all amino acids?
- Tying up a horse in old TV shows and movies
September 25[edit]
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September 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 26
- Sub-Zero Kelvin
- Differences between optical focuses of electromagnetism and magnetism
- Galapagos Rift and Chemosynthesis
September 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 27
- Can acids be oxidized?
- Feynman Lectures. 13–3Summation of energy [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_13.html]
September 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 28
- Were there ever any places too far from greenery for bees?
- Concorde jet
- Long-range aircraft
- Olympus engine
- Closing the eyes of a corpse
September 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 29
- Identifying a plant
- Why do people fear the long process of dying?
- Practical Heatsink calculation
- Bio-degradable polymer banknotes
- Angular velocity on a spiral
- Universe and subatomic particles
September 30[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 September 30
- Donations
- Kinetic data and reaction mechanism on sodium reactions
- Reflexes, chimp vs human
- Where is the study that says that cardio does not build muscle?
- Is the antibiotic Magainin is already in used?
- Science of relationships
- Ion transport number and activity coefficient
- Does the second law of thermodynamics apply to cosmology (or general relativity)?