Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/April 2007

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 1


 * 1) What will happen if you break a magnet
 * 2) coral and sea level changes
 * 3) Earth resources - oxygen production
 * 4) Great Apes
 * 5) Is this stuff for real?
 * 6) Sunblock and tanning
 * 7) cable modem
 * 8) Nothing about benefits of seawater
 * 9) process to manufacture  Magaldrate
 * 10) radar displays
 * 11) Optics: dispersion
 * 12) The downside of quitting smoking
 * 13) Human breast milk
 * 14) are vets doctors?
 * 15) Heartburn
 * 16) Apes and monkeys
 * 17) Osmosis question
 * 18) Kiloyottabyte, megayottabyte etc.
 * 19) Vibrating air columns

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 2


 * 1) toring Liquid Nitrogen
 * 2) lobal coal reserve will last 600, 155 and 285 years
 * 3) Too loud to hear yourself think
 * 4) Fire tornado machine
 * 5) Crossing legs
 * 6) New element
 * 7) Full-by-Water Question
 * 8) cryptid
 * 9) Referencing Wikipedia in Endnote
 * 10) antithesis, up
 * 11) Displacement of Water
 * 12) Surface Tension of an Electrically Charged Droplet
 * 13) Copper Extraction
 * 14) Boric acid insecticide
 * 15) Beetle to be identified
 * 16) Does Erica carnea contain a Viagra-like substance?
 * 17) Update to City of Hope wikipage
 * 18) Oldest, longest-living species?
 * 19) Stem Cell Research
 * 20) Just been watching House on DVD
 * 21) Vapor Pressure
 * 22) flagellates

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 3


 * 1) IFF
 * 2) ree stumps in dams
 * 3) quantum physics
 * 4) treating mental health disorders
 * 5) Nuclear Attack on polar regions
 * 6) Monitoring glycemia
 * 7) Semiconductor Memory
 * 8) Black Holes
 * 9) Asian people less resistent to alcohol?
 * 10) See Marginated Tortoise's talk page
 * 11) What's the point of finding non-intelligent life?
 * 12) Turning Earth Into A Gas Cloud

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 4


 * 1) Question about plant biology
 * 2) Cream Cheese
 * 3) Making water flow visible
 * 4) White rice
 * 5)  train with petrol
 * 6) Water Woes
 * 7) identify this cabbage?
 * 8) Slowing Earth's rotation
 * 9) Meteorology Software
 * 10) buoyant force.
 * 11) global warming and carbon dioxide level
 * 12) energy saving conundrum
 * 13) Steel made from rocks?
 * 14) Time
 * 15) oxygen
 * 16) Question about glasses and ear defenders

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 5


 * 1) Lifespan of cats
 * 2) The Impact of the Immune System on the Nervous System
 * 3) Instructables web site
 * 4) Alcohol's effect long-term effect on growth
 * 5) The need for a balance in relation to Energy articles
 * 6) Hepatitis B vaccine
 * 7) Cardiac Cycle
 * 8) Hearing tests
 * 9) Why does hot water clean better than cold?
 * 10) What if... Earth was frictionless?
 * 11) How do satellites orbiting the earth avoid colliding with each other?
 * 12) Nuclear Shelter
 * 13) field lines
 * 14) Burying carbon dioxide
 * 15) shape of ionic compounds
 * 16) Lambertian verus Batwing radiation
 * 17) pen to Suggestions
 * 18) date format history
 * 19) Mushrooms
 * 20) Cravings
 * 21) Population growth
 * 22) Starlings - how do they know where the worms are?

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 6


 * 1) shit
 * 2) Do birds reject sick offspring
 * 3) Bouyancy in dead sea
 * 4) shit
 * 5) Electron Microscopes
 * 6) Static Electricity
 * 7) graphing forces
 * 8) Geriatrics
 * 9) a topic related to taxonomy of angiosperm
 * 10) Belly button problem
 * 11) Composition
 * 12) relative atomic mass
 * 13) mass of fractions
 * 14) Normalized Mean Square Error
 * 15) Heat transfer in space
 * 16) Proof of global warming
 * 17) Greenhouse Gases

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 7


 * 1) Primordial soup
 * 2) Monarch Butterflies
 * 3) Umbilical cord
 * 4) inosaur age
 * 5) WARTS
 * 6) Packing density
 * 7) Pen Lasers or 'Penned' Lasers
 * 8) Perpetual Motion Machine Idea
 * 9) Where do birds get their blood cells from?
 * 10) Voice power
 * 11) gluconeogenesis/glycolysis regulation

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 8


 * 1) Understanding the Feline Way of Picking Food
 * 2) Information entropy of the universe
 * 3) microbiology
 * 4) Evangelical christians with dilated eyes
 * 5) Yellow moon?
 * 6) Human carry electric
 * 7) Magic mushrooms - effect on non-humans
 * 8) Does it help to be fat to play the tuba?
 * 9) Extinction
 * 10) Emotional Crying
 * 11) could electrons be splitted ?
 * 12) NOx Production
 * 13) DVD/CD Writing
 * 14) Genetic disorder transmission
 * 15) [Natural Environment]]
 * 16) inageroon
 * 17) A question on " self "
 * 18) Intelligent, non-Terrestrial Life?
 * 19) nknown Plant Picture
 * 20) Morphological Crystallography,the Tschermak forms and the 48 simple forms in mineralogy

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 9


 * 1) Can the octet rule be explained in terms of more fundamental behaviors of sub-atomic particles?
 * 2) Artichokes polish aluminum?
 * 3) Easter osmosis ?
 * 4) Earth Re-Entry
 * 5) Wirenetting allowing blackbirds, not magpies
 * 6) Protein digestion
 * 7) Wake imaging
 * 8) Light pens/light guns
 * 9) Motion Sensors
 * 10) Name that celestial body
 * 11) Dyssomnia vs Insomnia
 * 12) Electric Cas vs not driving
 * 13) Chicken or the egg?
 * 14) [Geomagnetic reversal]]
 * 15) Identifying an Ethiopian goat antelope
 * 16) rthritic cat
 * 17) Nuclear fuel rod disposal
 * 18) Measurements
 * 19) Tarpan fact check
 * 20) Terminal velocity of a droplet

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 10


 * 1) motorola razor v3
 * 2) Control that Oscar Meyer..
 * 3) yes
 * 4) Time Dilation
 * 5) EMF and p.d
 * 6) air borne telemetry system
 * 7) spring launch
 * 8) scales
 * 9) Dew point below freezing
 * 10) Dipole antigravity
 * 11) scientific brain game
 * 12) Suicide and Mutual assured destruction
 * 13) Kinetic Energy in Wake of Fast Moving Object
 * 14) Differences between human and other lifeforms
 * 15) Complication vs. side effect
 * 16) Unknown Costa Rican lizard
 * 17) Anti-Hydrogen
 * 18) Nose question
 * 19) How Intelligent Is Alien Intelligence?

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 11


 * 1) HIV tests -- false negative/positive statistics
 * 2) Donors in Donor Priority Lists
 * 3) COHb
 * 4) Types of DNA
 * 5) Raw meat
 * 6) Chernobyl
 * 7) Decomposition of plastics
 * 8) Electromagnetic radiation versus "colo[u]r"
 * 9) Railroads
 * 10) Density and volume
 * 11) low-UV compact fluorescent floodlights?
 * 12) Mangos
 * 13) Catalytic Strategies of Catalase
 * 14) human ageing
 * 15) XBOX 360
 * 16) Sudden Alertness

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 12


 * 1) Wastewater treatment with galvanic agglutination
 * 2) ifferentially-sized particle self-sorting
 * 3) Grimacing
 * 4) Embryos, yolk sacs, placentas, and conservation of mass
 * 5) Spider identification
 * 6) Rooted growth on face
 * 7) Coefficient of relatedness calculation
 * 8) permanent magnet depletion
 * 9) Egg Mass loss.
 * 10) Quantum physics
 * 11) Cost per mile map
 * 12) Motion sickness
 * 13) staphylococccs
 * 14) Headphone magnets
 * 15) Space Station Expeditions
 * 16) Can SETI Detect Our Own Transmissions?
 * 17) Quantum physics in only one or two dimensions
 * 18) Links
 * 19) phosphorus coated quartz
 * 20) Prostacyclin and Thromboxane
 * 21) irst forensic crime-solver
 * 22) Are there cokroaches in Ireland?
 * 23) Masses into amount of moles
 * 24) Conversion
 * 25) Long term shaving

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 13


 * 1) Variable 1
 * 2) Diesel Generator - External Fuel Tank?
 * 3) Ophidian Peritonitis
 * 4) Critical condition...?
 * 5) Smaller Time/Distance
 * 6) Coefficient of Relatedness verus Degrees of Separation
 * 7) Why are parrots so damn messy when they eat?
 * 8) Tunafish - cooked?
 * 9) v vs monitor
 * 10) Another Radiation Question
 * 11) Cylindrical mirror
 * 12) Coefficient of Relatedness envisioned
 * 13) can safety
 * 14) urethra
 * 15) The Skinny Wine?
 * 16) Feeding before training

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 14


 * 1) Animal beers?
 * 2) Health exam
 * 3) Testosterone Levels
 * 4) Skin turning black and scaly?
 * 5) Clonazepam & Caffiene
 * 6) article of mapping of bacteriophage genome & phage phenotype
 * 7) Unknown Costa Rican lizard
 * 8) Deciduous Forests
 * 9) Quantum Numbers
 * 10) Energy in a Microwave Oven: Where Does It Go?
 * 11) Reaction Rates/pH question
 * 12) Cell Food - deutrosulfazyme
 * 13) Previous question about damage to decidious forest
 * 14) Bromine Stuff
 * 15) battery farms and global warming
 * 16) Hairlessness
 * 17) Can a strong magnet erase a credit card?
 * 18) Source of copper sulphate

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 15


 * 1) Stomach safety - Uncooked rice?
 * 2) 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · ·
 * 3) Urea Experiment
 * 4) LORAN C
 * 5) Anaerobic Respiration
 * 6) Dry ice safety
 * 7) Epoxy aroma
 * 8) Alternating Current
 * 9) higher Coefficient of relationship
 * 10) Nitric Acid
 * 11) Passive immunity
 * 12) Wrong Article
 * 13) nknown Dianthus Image
 * 14) Sit-ups

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 16


 * 1) Total number of people
 * 2) Do certain squirrel species commit suicide? (or for that reason any species, other than the human species?
 * 3) Quantifying article
 * 4) A tree named Sag
 * 5) Emphysema death breakdown
 * 6) I don't know jack about the beanstalk
 * 7) Viruses
 * 8) Hydroponics and Tequila
 * 9) What's the age record for herring gulls?
 * 10) Eris

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 17


 * 1) hites of eyes
 * 2) Prostate health
 * 3) Inverted glass with water holds a card
 * 4) emfs and internal resistance
 * 5) Knife into head
 * 6) Prevalence of freezing temperatures on Earth
 * 7) CMOS and CCD image sensor comparison
 * 8) spring !
 * 9) Genetics of ear-wiggling?
 * 10) Effectiveness of 'low blow' against bear attack?
 * 11) Does everything sink when it goes below a certain depth in the ocean?
 * 12) microbiology
 * 13) do fish like rain
 * 14) Hypoxic tents
 * 15) Tapping on the fishtank...
 * 16) Asymptomatic carriers
 * 17) v = frequncy   ?
 * 18) Dust Settles... Or Does It?

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 18


 * 1) Hurricane names
 * 2) Change in velocities of orbits
 * 3)  which paper towel are strongest?
 * 4) Chinese to English Geology Dictionary
 * 5) "Perfect" insulation
 * 6) hat planet is this?
 * 7) enetic Tests
 * 8) Is there a lot of vegetation in the South of China?
 * 9) Vitamin B - Thiamin as a mosquito repellant
 * 10) Baset trailer
 * 11) Heavy questions
 * 12) Determining energy cost of household
 * 13) Mercury
 * 14) The skull
 * 15) "Perfect"  Black Hole insulation

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 19


 * 1) Turning gray/green
 * 2) Male Contraceptive pill
 * 3) Cell Division at Extreme Temperatures
 * 4) Largest Bomb in Existence?
 * 5) photon
 * 6) Solar "Booms"
 * 7) What's the best way to stop a parrot from swearing??
 * 8) Insulin and Blood Sugar
 * 9) Principle Rotation Axis in D2d and D3d Groups (Inorganic Chemistry & Symmetry)
 * 10) Diarrea and Weight loss

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 20


 * 1) Help me create a simple circuit to power an inverter
 * 2) Provisions for nuclear warfare or WMD with extraterrestrials
 * 3) magnetic flux
 * 4) Dear Tiny Little Nuke
 * 5) eye colour changing
 * 6) Difference between illness and syndrome
 * 7) Feraliminal Lycanthropizer
 * 8) The efficiency of pro-vitamin A's
 * 9) Heat-stability of choline
 * 10) Peptobismol and antibiotic action

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 21


 * 1) permanent magnet
 * 2) plant metabolism acceleration
 * 3) Bile
 * 4) Reference for Scientific Method
 * 5) Aerogel
 * 6) Could anyone explain he mechanism by which two photon particles interact ? is the mechanism same for other bosons ?
 * 7) Explain me photon characterastics . how black-hole attract photon while photon is massless ?
 * 8) black holes
 * 9) Mixing of oxygen with LPG for easy melting
 * 10) Myoglobin production and Brain oxygen storage
 * 11) oosting aerial/antenna strength
 * 12) Physical terminology
 * 13) do these issues come under coastal management?
 * 14) Interesting question about photon energy !
 * 15) hooting star?
 * 16) Amateur radio in UK
 * 17) snake repellant
 * 18) Guard dog question

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 22


 * 1) Platinum versus carbon
 * 2) snails
 * 3) (re) permanent magnet
 * 4) archetectural spesification for cinemahall in india
 * 5) Chemical activity
 * 6) AC transformers
 * 7) How long has most meat been dead in the super market?
 * 8) Passing uric acid crystals in the urine?
 * 9) Uv Sestive Materials
 * 10) UV sensitive Materials
 * 11) Mystery insect - anyone know what this is?
 * 12) Gymnena sylvestre and Garcinia Cambogia
 * 13) physics
 * 14) All science a philosophy
 * 15) Shark attack

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 23


 * 1) Automobile engineer
 * 2) Interval Running
 * 3) Blood Sugar
 * 4) Excercise
 * 5) il vs. Fat
 * 6) Space Shuttle
 * 7) Sugar consumption
 * 8) Ocean Current Maps
 * 9) IGH PRESSURE GAS BOOSTING SYSTEM
 * 10) toms of same element with different atomic number
 * 11) Effect of putting a microwave on without anything in it
 * 12) biggest object in the universe
 * 13) Solar power
 * 14) when do christmas trees die
 * 15) Bird in a cage
 * 16) Studio designs
 * 17) Ferrofluid fridge magnet
 * 18) 300 more birthdays
 * 19) Identification of a Duck Species
 * 20) Cervidae "total numbers"
 * 21) Lutein

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 24


 * 1) Mechanism of action of oral contraceptives
 * 2) Patina on a bronze surface.
 * 3) Saturn V with Weather Balloons
 * 4) Light and Water
 * 5) Permanent Magnets
 * 6) dentify fruit
 * 7) Special Relativity: Time Dilation
 * 8) ugly spots in my cup
 * 9) Mile High Clouds
 * 10) Aircraft mainplane
 * 11) mpact crater
 * 12) birefrengent pump laser filter
 * 13) What compounds are created by an antacid and stomach acid?
 * 14) Influenza Vaccination
 * 15) Identity of indiscernibles (2 objects possessing the same properties are the same object?)

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 25


 * 1) Comets
 * 2) Lightning Safety
 * 3) IVF page
 * 4) Model of the tongue
 * 5) Name for biological phenomenon.
 * 6) Virtual Stellar Map
 * 7) Glycemic Index and carrots
 * 8) Science Competition questions
 * 9) Favorite colors and car colors
 * 10) Astronomical question
 * 11) Snakes
 * 12) biotech
 * 13) Hydrogen Sulfide
 * 14) Clotted Cream?
 * 15) I need to learn a lot about dwarfism fast--

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 26


 * 1) Rainfall measurements
 * 2) Gliese 581  and interstellar travel
 * 3) Torque horsepower, other concepts
 * 4) Christopher Lloyd's DeLorean
 * 5) Tuber or corm?
 * 6) airborne radio direction finder
 * 7) well area of influence
 * 8) Acne!
 * 9) Multiple pivots
 * 10) Zinc amino acid chelate
 * 11) How to spend a trillion dollars
 * 12) Cancer
 * 13) Strange eye problem, long term watering
 * 14) Near earth Astroids and empty space
 * 15) neutralizing
 * 16) Eye watering in response to reading about eye watering...?

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 27


 * 1) Gloster F.5/34 with Merlin engine?
 * 2) Question about the Integrity of the information, re: Chemistry
 * 3) Catching "Colds"
 * 4) distillation
 * 5) basic questions about earth's orbit
 * 6) Catching colds again
 * 7) TORNADO!!!
 * 8) two personalitys one body

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 28


 * 1) hydration of methane
 * 2) Torque horsepower revisited
 * 3) Solvay Process
 * 4) Balancing chemical equations
 * 5) Virus or bacteria phases
 * 6) Overarm throw analysis
 * 7) Before burying people
 * 8) quation problem
 * 9) Applications of Linear Algebra
 * 10) reg  hall effect non contact type current sensors
 * 11) NACA 632
 * 12) aussian curves: peak height vs area
 * 13) Abundance of land slightly above see level
 * 14) Spacecraft chart
 * 15) experiment to induce a mild form of (Synesthesia?)
 * 16) Speaker power
 * 17) apillary threads for power production
 * 18) Cosmic Inflation

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 29


 * 1) Hardened Boron Alloy Vs. Hardened Steel
 * 2) beetle
 * 3) Cancer in Argentina
 * 4) Sound of P38 lightning
 * 5) Electromagnetic radiation as particle and wave
 * 6) fabic
 * 7) ye Colour and Genealogy
 * 8) Cyclone Technology

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 April 30


 * 1) Random Numberon calculator
 * 2) eight Loss Overnight
 * 3) Global Warming
 * 4) Why is the F/A-18 Hornet so good?
 * 5) what is science?
 * 6) growth plates
 * 7) icture identification