Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/April 2008

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 1


 * 1) Smelly puddle
 * 2) Apparent multiplying of mercury in body
 * 3) Cassette speed
 * 4) Turning a frog into a prince
 * 5) Did excess water intake leads to kidney troubles?
 * 6) What animals have adrenaline?
 * 7) High output renal failure
 * 8) SDS-PAGE and Size Exclusion Chromatography
 * 9) How is DNA an acid?
 * 10) Pulmonary artery
 * 11) alternative to chloroform
 * 12) Gas mileage
 * 13) Hedgehogs and breeding
 * 14) Spider eyes
 * 15) Another question about spider eyes
 * 16) Multiple eyes
 * 17) "Pins and Needles"
 * 18) Earth's magnetic field
 * 19) effect of sugar water
 * 20) Program to create legal and medical troubleshooting charts

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 2


 * 1) Angle
 * 2) Killer strangelets
 * 3) Low-gravity humans?
 * 4) What is the Fabric named "armalith" made from (or how its made), and what are the benefits of its use?
 * 5) Acetone combustion
 * 6) Pipe - Solar Heating System - for homes
 * 7) Exercising while taking human growth hormone supplements
 * 8) Heartbreak
 * 9) analysis of acidic and basic radicals
 * 10) consultancy companies and engineering graduates

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 3


 * 1) skin disease
 * 2) Lemon peel eating rodents
 * 3) Homosexuality
 * 4) Kevlar
 * 5) inter and intra generalation equity
 * 6) Benefits so far from LHC
 * 7) Protecting a rose petal from coffee
 * 8) Blinking light
 * 9) Diffraction
 * 10) Gene therapy
 * 11) neuronal tracts in our body...
 * 12) asbestos pipe
 * 13) an extra star in the big dipper?!
 * 14) seawater and human skin

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 4


 * 1) the earth ; a superconductor ?
 * 2) rube goldberg machine
 * 3) Papadums
 * 4) Proventil
 * 5) Humans surviving in space
 * 6) Finding out who cited a journal article
 * 7) Where can I get heavy water?
 * 8) Lighting in photographs
 * 9) electrical coil

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 5


 * 1) Hawking's Fact or Theory ?
 * 2) Train Washing Machines
 * 3) Gauge to track relative movement
 * 4) Sifting flour
 * 5) Blood vessel cells

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 6


 * 1) How to make a flaming drink
 * 2) The wag in willy wagtail
 * 3) mental capacity
 * 4) Hair
 * 5) Where does the fat from skimmed milk and low-fat yogurt or cheese go?
 * 6) Future costs of photoelectric cells?
 * 7) How small can computers get in the future?
 * 8) Helium filled football
 * 9) Limb regeneration in Humans
 * 10) Homemade Water Filtration?
 * 11) electromagnetics
 * 12) Plants with not much light

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 7


 * 1) neighbor's dog and silent whistle
 * 2) Galaxies
 * 3) --172.134.250.18 (talk) 02:24, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) speed/long skis and skateboards
 * 5) sunscreen
 * 6) Video card adhesive
 * 7) Cog Railway System
 * 8) Telescopes
 * 9) Cell cycle analysis with brdu and 7-aad
 * 10) Dog skeleton curiosity
 * 11) organic chemistry(Catenation)
 * 12) Feed back Amplifiers
 * 13) safety issues with oxiding agent

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 8


 * 1) Origin of Universe - nothing has to be somewhere- doesnt it?
 * 2) Super powers
 * 3) red wine, larger and ale.
 * 4) Clouds, aerial photos and a dead bird
 * 5) Herbivores with horns
 * 6) Butanoic acid
 * 7) General Relativity
 * 8) burning match
 * 9) Is it known whether prion is present in milk from BSE-infected cows?
 * 10) Timing of Chinese mantis ootheca hatching
 * 11) Food intended as whose primary function is food
 * 12) Mirror
 * 13) Black holes
 * 14) Pre Genus Species
 * 15) DNA
 * 16) gold from rock
 * 17) unable to stop
 * 18) noise only teens can hear?
 * 19) Terminology question
 * 20) Gull behaviour
 * 21) Monogamy and health
 * 22) Distances in the Universe
 * 23) Intelligence as something attractive

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 9


 * 1) *Urgent Question*
 * 2) Current electricity
 * 3) Solid and Solid Shape
 * 4) Nitrogen requirement of microorganisms
 * 5) Orbit
 * 6) Hertz
 * 7) Heavy water question
 * 8) What histone modifications exist at <>?
 * 9) Anergy
 * 10) Disadvantage to bilingualism in evolutionary point of view
 * 11) Phasor diagrams
 * 12) heat
 * 13) Expansion Of The Universe

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 10


 * 1) Huge sandbanks!!!
 * 2) decision sequences
 * 3) Echidna name?
 * 4) murdoch
 * 5) why can't humans focus on two objects simultaneously like the chameleon? please also include the answer to my email - *redacted* thank you.
 * 6) semiconductor resistivity
 * 7) Computer Simulations of Black Holes
 * 8) Clock of observer at center of the earth
 * 9) How does this collet work?

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 11


 * 1) Why are pollen count ratings so low?
 * 2) Chainmail vs Tasers
 * 3) Newton and the darkness of the night sky
 * 4) Water on Mars
 * 5) Electric Vehicles, Cost
 * 6) How does a circuit "know" when it is closed?
 * 7) Bone Cartilage
 * 8) Determining the Acidity of a molecule
 * 9) Male/female blood?
 * 10) Faraday cages
 * 11) what is charge?
 * 12) Erasing Bad Relationship
 * 13) Light Reflection
 * 14) Radar Site By The M27 In Hampshire England??
 * 15) Micro wave cooking
 * 16) Earth Hour
 * 17) What elements glow green?

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 12


 * 1) Asexual Reproduction and Natural Selection
 * 2) Giant Fish
 * 3) Sodium Hydroxide page safety
 * 4) name for dysfunction
 * 5) Muscle stiffness, weakness and soreness
 * 6) specific gravity
 * 7) Reasoning validity of interesting excerpt...
 * 8) Bird Poop
 * 9) Star and Sun
 * 10) URGENT
 * 11) Protein homology dataset

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 13


 * 1) Charge
 * 2) Biggest bang for the buck in health care
 * 3) Shock
 * 4) What is happening when one thinks one's dreams are reality?
 * 5) Dangers of carbonated soft drinks
 * 6) Relativity
 * 7) Bermuda Triangle and Continental Drift Question
 * 8) Calcium Gluconate Illustration

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 14


 * 1) how was leika the space dog "supposed" to die?
 * 2) Is this true?
 * 3) What exactly happens when you say "Well hello, newly constructed neuropathway!"?
 * 4) Red deer
 * 5) Aspartate-tRNAAsn ligase
 * 6) Most probable year of peak oil
 * 7) Reading and near-sightedness
 * 8) Strawberry flavouring
 * 9) Sexual selection in humans
 * 10) Macaw - why's she so bad at walking on the floor?
 * 11) Macaw question 2

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 15


 * 1) small cities
 * 2) Picture of Blubber
 * 3) Motivation
 * 4) Majahapit civilisation
 * 5) Why does the sun make people happy?
 * 6) What will happen if there would be an Ebola Pandemic
 * 7) Do hands get bigger with age?
 * 8) White dove?
 * 9) Eos
 * 10) Water in space
 * 11) Can positronium be liquified
 * 12) Causes of Alzheimers
 * 13) Minimum operating temperature of CMOS
 * 14) Sense of Smell

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 16


 * 1) What cant I split an atom with a pair of scissors?
 * 2) Gravity and M-Theory
 * 3) Rube Goldberg question
 * 4) Real time kinematic GPS positioning
 * 5) global warming question solved?
 * 6) Environmental Impact statement writer
 * 7) How to save worlds power crisis
 * 8) masturbation as exercise
 * 9) japanese maple grafted
 * 10) Price of oil and other products
 * 11) RNA
 * 12) Precipitation (in a chemistry context)
 * 13) Family Guy Science
 * 14) Mass spectrometry
 * 15) Variation of Young's Modulus with purity of a metal
 * 16) Weird lead things

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 17


 * 1) Suns disappearance and resulting gravitational wave
 * 2) venturi flowmeters
 * 3) Limits of current-limiting diodes
 * 4) histone protein gene
 * 5) A clarification about propanone and iodine - Organic Chemistry
 * 6) Electric Potential
 * 7) Combining sleeping bags
 * 8) Are things 'turned off' really impervious to EMPs?
 * 9) Thatcher (Comet)
 * 10) What is this bird?
 * 11) Strange cloud

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 18


 * 1) At what temperature does tungsten burn?
 * 2) Watch faces radioactive?
 * 3) Industrial hygene
 * 4) Aerodynamics of human powered vehicle-land
 * 5) US military and NOTAR
 * 6) Impossible memories
 * 7) Stabilised vs non-stabilised swimming pools
 * 8) Synthesising oil
 * 9) is there any upper limit to (measure) temperature?

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 19


 * 1) help with short chain fatty acids
 * 2) horned sheep
 * 3) reflection of light by mirror and conservation of momentum.
 * 4) Quantum: Determine the Force between the Electrons
 * 5) Camel and crocodile
 * 6) Size matters (but this time, not in a good way)
 * 7) Spin
 * 8) Memory
 * 9) The bird that migrants farthest
 * 10) pH
 * 11) Job Opportunities
 * 12) Diluting toxins
 * 13) As I was walking up the stair...

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 20


 * 1) Animals that can jump the furthest
 * 2) Why traffic lights do not have different shapes?
 * 3) Tangential and radial components of a current
 * 4) functional groups
 * 5) Do solar cells heat up your house?
 * 6) Leaves
 * 7) Oldest tree.
 * 8) Degrees vs. Radians
 * 9) Quantum teleportation
 * 10) Second messenger system

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 21


 * 1) Age of Earth
 * 2) Energy and momentum
 * 3) Electrodynamics application
 * 4) Cracked Walls
 * 5) eavesdropping 2G/2.5G voice calls
 * 6) Quantum devices
 * 7) Invertase
 * 8) Diagrams for scientific journal articles
 * 9) Rate of neutrino oscillations
 * 10) Do orbiting satellites have shadows?
 * 11) Romantic implications of garlic
 * 12) Nudity addiction
 * 13) Octopi die after reproducing - why?
 * 14) Speeding Up causes Decompression?

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 22


 * 1) different times
 * 2) electrical phenomenon
 * 3) Magnetism
 * 4) Maclean vs Maclear (OCR typos)
 * 5) "Buffer" for speech?
 * 6) What are the "doors" or entryways on a ship/boat called?
 * 7) Elephant relative
 * 8) Heat from Lights
 * 9) Breathing question, again
 * 10) Right about global warming?
 * 11) Will solar energy kill the Earth?
 * 12) Decent introductory treatment of quantum mechanics?
 * 13) Nitrogen
 * 14) How is carbon dioxide dissolved into water in pop?
 * 15) Coming to a head

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 23


 * 1) Sodium ethoxide (organic chemistry)
 * 2) Water flow in pipelines
 * 3) Plumbing
 * 4) Viruses/Bacteria
 * 5) Consequences of helium depletion
 * 6) Reduced lung capacity and enlarged toncils symptoms
 * 7) ir absorbtion, polar vs nonpolar molecules, methane?
 * 8) Cellphones: signal strength

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 24


 * 1) any botanists here?
 * 2) Impacts, Ballistics, and Mass.
 * 3) JSTOR access
 * 4) Evolution
 * 5) Nitro
 * 6) Gecko and Spiders (Melbourne, Australia)
 * 7) Name of anticipatory effect in experiments?
 * 8) Variegation in wild pigeon populations
 * 9) Aircraft noise
 * 10) Annealing of Copper CuSn6
 * 11) Speed of Tennis
 * 12) polar molecular solids
 * 13) Insolubility of Sulphur in water.
 * 14) Heart monitors -- what do they mean?
 * 15) Fish species with edible roe
 * 16) Ion thruster in the atmosphere
 * 17) Musing over my Cider

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 25


 * 1) What's inside a snooker ball?
 * 2) Derivore
 * 3) IDing Tanzanian termite-raiding ant
 * 4) More Quantum Theory
 * 5) Type of spider in Spider fighting
 * 6) Shells
 * 7) Eyes
 * 8) Cellphone signal
 * 9) NAV (Anatomy)
 * 10) What causes dark circles under the eyes?
 * 11) cockateils

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 26


 * 1) Famciclovir or Acyclovir
 * 2) Space and time as emergent phenomena
 * 3) Science Without Numbers by Hartry H. Field or something similar?
 * 4) Osmolarity and Cells
 * 5) FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
 * 6) Nuclear Testing on GIs
 * 7) Will they ever invent a microwave that wont freak out if I accidently leave my fork in there?
 * 8) Moment of Inertia

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 27


 * 1) Flower name
 * 2) Hampster who injured his mouth with too long teeth
 * 3) Quantum: Potential between the Electrons
 * 4) Name of material
 * 5) Cyclic carbonates ?
 * 6) medical
 * 7) Humans and ability of interactions with others
 * 8) Why is frozen milk yellow?
 * 9) Spherical coordinates
 * 10) Condition name
 * 11) dinasours
 * 12) A few questions on drugs
 * 13) Poteries
 * 14) A drug called APO 300
 * 15) Norepinephrine

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 28


 * 1) Website with yellow text on a black background (and some blinking elements)...
 * 2) Virginian Tree Identification
 * 3) What will happen if scientists ever see the beginning of time?
 * 4) Day on Mercury
 * 5) Generational LEDs
 * 6) Medical explanation.
 * 7) LHC
 * 8) Helium: Lewis Structure
 * 9) Aurora borealis from space?

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 29


 * 1) Relation between isospin and up and down quark content
 * 2) Carbonyl chemistry
 * 3) Matrix of structural similarity of proteins
 * 4) Unknown animal: very tiny snake-like black thing.
 * 5) Whistling teakettle
 * 6) Name of muscles on either side of the lower spine?
 * 7) Time of Unconsciousness
 * 8) Spin
 * 9) Cross points on star/galaxy photographs
 * 10) Hot-tub - Spa - Water treatment options.
 * 11) Alcohol consumption causes hiccups?
 * 12) Ostrich egg in microwave
 * 13) HIF alpha expression
 * 14) Implosion bomb
 * 15) Rabbit.jpg
 * 16) what's going on with evolution?
 * 17) nitrogen again

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 April 30


 * 1) Eyelids
 * 2) Backpack helicopter
 * 3) Thermodynamic feasibility of converting creatine to phosphocreatine
 * 4) Ring finger
 * 5) Cheese
 * 6) Is there water in a virus
 * 7) Electrolysis of solution
 * 8) Is it statistical "insignificance" or "nonsignificance"?
 * 9) elements
 * 10) Petrol consumption
 * 11) Melting plastics
 * 12) Chemical Name
 * 13) Colours in Transition Metal Complexes
 * 14) HIV/Antibodies
 * 15) Electron microscopes
 * 16) Is it common for doctors to be unable to dress/bandage a leg?