Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/April 2010

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 1


 * 1) TEMPERATURE TIME GRAPH
 * 2) Synchronizing clocks.
 * 3) Wine drinkware
 * 4) Minimum protein etc. in a healthy diet
 * 5) Phosphate
 * 6) Who was the guy who did the first CO2 readings?

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 2


 * 1) Unknown squirrel species
 * 2) Improvised teleprompter - looking for one-way mirror in UK
 * 3) Planetary rings
 * 4) Carbon dioxide accumulation
 * 5) Juicy nose
 * 6) Electra hydraulics
 * 7) drive
 * 8) Tree color.
 * 9) Power lines compared to Overhead cables on train lines
 * 10) MBBS 100% free scholarships
 * 11) How are proton beams created?
 * 12) What would happen
 * 13) time on the cross
 * 14) Tougher than grass
 * 15) is it possible to get pregnant 6 days after (onset of) menstruation?
 * 16) PREGNANCY

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 3


 * 1) SINUS OF NOSE
 * 2) Baseball physics
 * 3) Psychological reaction
 * 4) RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
 * 5) Body aches and massage
 * 6) Cute animals with bad attitudes
 * 7) Electrical power into food in post-holocaust conditions?
 * 8) Recycling symbol?
 * 9) What is this lizard?
 * 10) Cheese Bacteria Manufacturers
 * 11) fridge
 * 12) Cinnamon causing depression?
 * 13) EJACULATION

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 4


 * 1) Request for id of Anole(?) seen in Guadeloupe, possibly an Anolis marmoratus (Leopard Anole)
 * 2) calories burned per hour of X activity
 * 3) Einstein postulate:
 * 4) Surgical training of doctors with a first professional degree in medicine
 * 5) Moon Tangential velocity
 * 6) Finasteride
 * 7) Physics definitions
 * 8) Egg heat
 * 9) Muskrat
 * 10) Speed of light frame of reference
 * 11) Happiness: A mental illness?
 * 12) Kidron

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 5


 * 1) HEADACE
 * 2) Electrochemistry
 * 3) Cat Behavior - combination of "playing the piano" and mate mounting?
 * 4) bioinformatics question
 * 5) longest wavelength of EM radiation
 * 6) Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
 * 7) Cracking a Chest
 * 8) Railroad Engineering

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 6


 * 1) Terraforming Venus
 * 2) seeing red
 * 3) What causes color?
 * 4) What's the nasty stuff in coal ash?
 * 5) 2012-- mayan civilization
 * 6) Early Earth
 * 7) Poles on a DC Motor
 * 8) Flaming globes of Sigmund - dreaming phenomenon
 * 9) Thymus vulgaris
 * 10) Another factoid for discussion...
 * 11) what am I doing wrong with this acid base problem? (sodium acetate solution
 * 12) do the effects of smoking ever go away?   (smoking regular cigarettes like marlboros)
 * 13) ex=paratrooper with back problem been put on tramadol for 8 years.........
 * 14) Sodium bicarbonate
 * 15) Time and the Big Bang
 * 16) discrepancies in attempting to isolate enthalpies/entropies of dissociation
 * 17) Health hazards from living near a busy road
 * 18) calculating the %protonation of amine in an ammonium acetate like salt...

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 7


 * 1) Radio station reception
 * 2) acid rain/ fog
 * 3) Salt Level in water to corrode metal
 * 4) physics question
 * 5) Changes in cooking oil
 * 6) Renal agenesis
 * 7) Advanced search engine for sound
 * 8) germinating
 * 9) Experiment at Geneva
 * 10) Electric drill rating
 * 11) gravitation
 * 12) Organ donation
 * 13) Time Travel
 * 14) Photographs
 * 15) Titan arum
 * 16) Destruction of chlorate explosives
 * 17) population control

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 8


 * 1) Miners "surviving" by eating sawdust and bark
 * 2) Are there diets that cause a person to not defecate?
 * 3) Help with a physics question
 * 4) Is the ability of scopolamine to suspend free will an urban legend?
 * 5) Life project
 * 6) SUV fuel tank
 * 7) What is the technical name for the sensation that there is someone behind you?
 * 8) Honey-bee prefered row crops in the U. S.
 * 9) Gastroenteritis
 * 10) Armour vs railguns?
 * 11) Need help identifying a Prunus species
 * 12) shewees
 * 13) is the following experiment valid?
 * 14) Apples numbing the lips.
 * 15) Why do we need vitamin D?
 * 16) Sexual attraction to skeletons

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 9


 * 1) Use of imaging in cancer diagnosis
 * 2) Causality
 * 3) crash landing fatality rates - higher for helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft?
 * 4) Re-focusing photographs
 * 5) why are car wheels the size that they are?
 * 6) Making hybrid fruit trees
 * 7) Collision
 * 8) Physiological diplopia
 * 9) Coordinate system
 * 10) Adiabatic Expansion
 * 11) Chemistry question
 * 12) Can I drink dishawshing liquid?
 * 13) do bodybuilders get blind or have poor eyesight from overexertion?
 * 14) Enzyme for digesting pork?
 * 15) Baby teeth
 * 16) bride selection

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 10


 * 1) Flower unknown
 * 2) onion skin layers
 * 3) Food additives
 * 4) Paddle is moving and stationary at the same time: parallel universes????
 * 5) Brain simulations
 * 6) Chrome plating
 * 7) Atkins diet for small children
 * 8) Unknown Caterpillars
 * 9) Bird deads, causes unknown
 * 10) How power stations deliver electrical energy to my home
 * 11) nuclear waste
 * 12) Nuclear waste - reuse
 * 13) Wheat Berries
 * 14) Bus brand
 * 15) Question about Autism
 * 16) Uncertainty principle

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 11


 * 1) Torque due to gravity
 * 2) Quantum Entanglement
 * 3) What do these formulae mean?
 * 4) Owl species
 * 5) Is there a way to create a barrier to light rays that LOWERS THEIR FREQUENCY using light or energy?
 * 6) Filling a volcano with water
 * 7) Destroying the Earth
 * 8) Nitrogen/neon atmosphere
 * 9) Plants
 * 10) Stains
 * 11) Systolic and diastolic blood pressure
 * 12) internal balance
 * 13) Venus of Willendorf
 * 14) Miscellaneous Meteorology
 * 15) Swallowed by a whale
 * 16) Mystery Box
 * 17) Least common cause of death

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 12


 * 1) I know why the sky is blue...
 * 2) high altitude training chamber levels blood acidity
 * 3) Gold
 * 4) Organic crops and contamination
 * 5) Is there a term for that shimmery border you get where two vibrant colours meet?
 * 6) Biological pest control for Fruit fly
 * 7) three phase electric energy meter
 * 8) Cholestasis in humans and animals
 * 9) is it possible to "work off" cholesterol?
 * 10) Printing on aluminum cans
 * 11) Old television smoky exploding madness!
 * 12) "Neutron-activatable elements"?.. I'm inventing terms because I don't know English well.
 * 13) about generators
 * 14) Air ducts
 * 15) Using imaging software to determine the length of a section of coiled apparatus

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 13


 * 1) Problem about capacitors in series
 * 2) Wasp question (not about the insect)
 * 3) generalising the pI = pH formula for situations where the opposing weak acid and base are of different concentrations
 * 4) Voltage Divider and a Wheatstone Bridge
 * 5) Plants - pinching new growth? pinching? really?
 * 6) marine animals that have evolved from land animals.
 * 7) Primaeval woodland in the UK
 * 8) Gravity, friction and mass.
 * 9) Homosexuality and Pedophilia
 * 10) Making my own tubular steel shelving in needed dimensions

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 14


 * 1) Pressure
 * 2) Research influenced by funding source
 * 3) Metal in the microwave?
 * 4) IIT QUESTION
 * 5) Even harmonics in Electrical power lines
 * 6) Gravity, friction and mass II
 * 7) Memory
 * 8) about science
 * 9) how does the nitrate reduction test work in microbiology?
 * 10) Using earwax to test purity of water
 * 11) wielding
 * 12) decarboxylation and reduction of pyruvate
 * 13) "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds"
 * 14) Physics - Safer Car
 * 15) Flashing of white tail by alarmed animals
 * 16) Cryptorchidism in patients with 5-Alpha-Reductase Deficiency. [?]
 * 17) Cat and dog repeller
 * 18) Bear locomotion
 * 19) Mastering crystallography
 * 20) doctors dont wear gloves
 * 21) Fractals and the structure of the brain
 * 22) Birds riding thermals

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 15


 * 1) Caustic size variation with temperature
 * 2) ISS EVA Capabilities
 * 3) Car trick
 * 4) Wolverine vs Honey Badger
 * 5) now result
 * 6) What do these symptoms lead to?
 * 7) DNA Bases
 * 8) Electrolysis
 * 9) sodium carbonate

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 16


 * 1) The mass of something 1836 times smaller than you?
 * 2) Internet searches for non-linear notations
 * 3) Icelandic volcano and air travel.
 * 4) Black lights, wattage, and wave lengths
 * 5) Palatine uvula
 * 6) Do plants need to sleep?
 * 7) Refractive index less than one
 * 8) The Leaning Brown Building of the Spanish Steps
 * 9) brain activity and dreams
 * 10) Why can't plants move?
 * 11) Mind controlling gene function.
 * 12) Map of the world folded along the equator
 * 13) Let's split...
 * 14) football effecting brain
 * 15) Movie about the "representative town in sampling"
 * 16) Largest Recorded Solar Flare
 * 17) Escape velocity
 * 18) beer
 * 19) Help comprehending units of energy
 * 20) c and si

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 17


 * 1) Jets in front of wings
 * 2) Space elevator
 * 3) health/meth/sex/ed
 * 4) Communicating dates to future civilizations
 * 5) Head Hair
 * 6) Article needs help
 * 7) Dandelion-lettuce hybrid?
 * 8) Is there any realistic danger to Europe from Icelandic Volcanos?

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 18


 * 1) Vegetarianism and Diabetes
 * 2) Sunrise and sunset
 * 3) Concentration of  urine
 * 4) enzyme activity
 * 5) Proposed emergency ash reducing: "Rapid glacier removal operation" off the top of volcano on Iceland.
 * 6) Asexual reproduction
 * 7) iodized salt
 * 8) Saltwater ecosystems
 * 9) Historical Alternatives to Ballistic Pendulums
 * 10) ocean currents
 * 11) bond formation of SiO
 * 12) single crystal chalk (kitchen chemistry woohoo!)

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 19


 * 1) Rain will clear the skies of ash, but can we artificially fill up the water by nuclear power?
 * 2) use for nuclear waste
 * 3) ISS framework overbuilt?
 * 4) sperm for Iceland
 * 5) being really happy
 * 6) Arterial injuries
 * 7) can combine theory
 * 8) Test for swelling in knee joint
 * 9) Air Conditioning
 * 10) Circadian rhythm abnormalities in non-humans?
 * 11) Greenwich meridian.
 * 12) How much ash to stop a car?
 * 13) Billiard ball and slipping
 * 14) help with the seasons
 * 15) Do royalty masturbate?
 * 16) Plants
 * 17) Volcano - worst case scenario
 * 18) Cockatoos and music

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 20


 * 1) ISI flight path during landing
 * 2) knee posture?
 * 3) word for a taxonomy guide
 * 4) meditation
 * 5) pain receptors of preys
 * 6) Evolution, intelligent design, and irreducible complexity.
 * 7) Is volcanic ash worse for aircraft than other dust and sand?
 * 8) Russian EMP weapon used in Smolensk?
 * 9) If my wife dies, how much time would I have to extract her eggs with which to produce children in-vitro?
 * 10) deleted youtube vids
 * 11) Silver nitrate
 * 12) eggs
 * 13) Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
 * 14) of the following, which informs the innate sense of rhythm
 * 15) Causes for human genitalia variation range?

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 21


 * 1) tongue map
 * 2) toba bottleneck
 * 3) cleaning up chemical spills
 * 4) Wrongly cleaned copper nickel coin resulting in light copper colored stains.
 * 5) Self-replicating molecules
 * 6) Sunset color on a different planet
 * 7) Volcanic ash vs other jet engines
 * 8) blood-vessel building
 * 9) Genotype and drug resistance
 * 10) is clozapine antiaromatic?
 * 11) Fish trachea
 * 12) Scientific Principle
 * 13) Muscle tingling after exercise?
 * 14) PDF
 * 15) Force of a magnet on metal
 * 16) Cast iron object unknown
 * 17) How would one calculate the total entropy of the sun?

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 22


 * 1) Dry ice engine
 * 2) Galactic feature
 * 3) electromagnetic wave - atom - electrons
 * 4) A dim Sparky?
 * 5) Abnormal daisy
 * 6) what do they do with the glass slides after a skin scraping test
 * 7) Orgasm
 * 8) Passive immunity in humans
 * 9) Eustachian Tube
 * 10) nicotine gum expiration
 * 11) Frequency of STDs in population
 * 12) Pumping seawater into the volcano crater
 * 13) Time machine
 * 14) One stuffy nasal passage suddenly clearing itself... what physical mechanisms are at play?
 * 15) ghosts

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 23


 * 1) Eyjafjallajökull: Tephra color
 * 2) Invertebrate stomach
 * 3) Milk protein denaturation
 * 4) Why exactly do pet parrots mimic (or attempt to learn, if you believe that) human speech?
 * 5) gravity-south pole
 * 6) 9 volt battery
 * 7) Global warming.
 * 8) Perpetual motion machine
 * 9) Antimatter bomb
 * 10) Penguins
 * 11) Exoplanet naming scheme
 * 12) III
 * 13) The basic assumptions of GR
 * 14) Empty balloons
 * 15) Number of mammals in the world
 * 16) Oil Depth
 * 17) GLYCOLYSIS video(s) in µm/Å-scale
 * 18) What's the point in some reflexes?
 * 19) Abdomen
 * 20) scuba
 * 21) muscle fuel

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 24


 * 1) Energy used in travel
 * 2) Why no plastic beer bottles?
 * 3) Catabolic breakdown of muscles
 * 4) Number of cells in a human body
 * 5) Katla
 * 6) Stratified Italian soda + cold cream => Salt fingers??
 * 7) First human

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 25


 * 1) relation between the expansion of orbits and of the universe
 * 2) Physics-Question regarding Vacuum
 * 3) power in watts used when sending a phone text message.
 * 4) What is suprastine
 * 5) Riding a bicycle - reducing energy used per mile
 * 6) What to do with left over cooking oil?
 * 7) homoaromaticity in dimedone?
 * 8) Volcanoes
 * 9) Is this correct?
 * 10) Small windmill for electricity
 * 11) Mass wrapping around a rod
 * 12) Detonations and the like

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 26


 * 1) Stingray question
 * 2) is there an exit valve? what about on the scuba fireman where? and on oxygen tanks in a ambulance or hospital?
 * 3) milk
 * 4) Source of pneumonia in bedridden elderly?
 * 5) Hubble's "visible spectrum" image of the Carina nebula
 * 6) Dibenzodiazepines follow-up
 * 7) Life expectancy of nuclear power plants.
 * 8) Ant for ID
 * 9) Mold
 * 10) CCs?
 * 11) Kepler mission field of view
 * 12) Chromoscope pictures of the galaxy
 * 13) Who turns the machine off from a terminally ill patient?
 * 14) Reactivity of Na or Ca
 * 15) Protein
 * 16) Soda Bottle Rocket

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 27


 * 1) Methanol poisoning
 * 2) Snowflake symmetry
 * 3) Mechanics of motion sensors
 * 4) microbes outside earth
 * 5) Sea blue - Sky blue
 * 6) Human-Animal perceptions
 * 7) Ambidextrous people
 * 8) What is this box?
 * 9) Light-straight line; but how many?
 * 10) penury
 * 11) Spiders
 * 12) Asystole and CSI: Miami
 * 13) Dropping a potato out of a plane
 * 14) Railguns on ships
 * 15) % of water when raining
 * 16) extreme human evolution

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 28


 * 1) Molecular Electronics
 * 2) Warm Sector
 * 3) Chemistry: Si face and re face
 * 4) Are cars and planes Faraday cages?
 * 5) EM colours
 * 6) Dream Recall
 * 7) Ambient construction
 * 8) Ions
 * 9) help me please (eating heroin rabbits)
 * 10) Naming of a species
 * 11) Mass to energy conversion
 * 12) Is it normal for men to have a noticeably reducing libido at the age of 50.
 * 13) Chromate formation
 * 14) Geology
 * 15) Ghost

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 29


 * 1) Albert Einstein
 * 2) Cell
 * 3) Aliens
 * 4) God
 * 5) Black hole
 * 6) Wormhole
 * 7) Titration curve: help!
 * 8) conductivity of crumpled aluminum foil
 * 9) Reactivity series for anions
 * 10) dietary fiber supplements such as methycellulose and inulin.  What is each of these, and what is the difference between the two?
 * 11) Eagles and their Wings
 * 12) Living and Non-living
 * 13) Gas and Gravity
 * 14) Alarm clock
 * 15) How to Identify nylon 6 from nylon 6,6?
 * 16) animal government
 * 17) Biological Classification
 * 18) Fact checking from Fight Club
 * 19) Superconductivity and gravity
 * 20) Edge of the Universe
 * 21) Healing of cut
 * 22) Dissolution of Metals
 * 23) Death
 * 24) Reduction of Iodate
 * 25) Why do birches grow in clumps

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 30


 * 1) Rust metal quickly.
 * 2) noble barrier
 * 3) Solar sail
 * 4) Spaceship propulsion
 * 5) chrome plating
 * 6) How to remember names?
 * 7) amines and hydroxide ions
 * 8) magnetic question
 * 9) Why the "niger" in Sciurus niger ?
 * 10) transformer
 * 11) Expansion of the universe
 * 12) increase the likelihood of having dreams
 * 13) Question about gun-type fission weapon
 * 14) the thermodynamics of an ideal air conditioner
 * 15) Gun with balloon
 * 16) Telescope
 * 17) Habe&ntilde;ero pepper safety