Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/April 2011

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 1


 * 1) milk
 * 2) Our nearest neighbouring solar system
 * 3) Jacob Barnett: amount of carbon created in the early universe
 * 4) 3D for one-eyed Jacks
 * 5) Prevost theory of heat exchange
 * 6) parasite chain
 * 7) Pressure at the seabed
 * 8) Butterfly effect
 * 9) 'Carbonating' a drink with N2O
 * 10) List of nuclear reactors using MOX fuel
 * 11) Info needed on Broyer Canyon, Brown County, Nebraska
 * 12) Stanless Steel Grades

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 2


 * 1) 911
 * 2) Energy
 * 3) What plant is that?
 * 4) Eggs and earthquakes
 * 5) Double-heading
 * 6) Engine braking
 * 7) why electrical arcs don't flow straight
 * 8) Name this garden flower?
 * 9) Aluminum foil
 * 10) What has more hydrogen?
 * 11) Hissssss touch bringsssssss... decay!
 * 12) snowflakes
 * 13) Relativity paradox

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 3


 * 1) Newton's Second Law
 * 2) To be cleaner, we'll have to scrub ourselves from the inside-out too. How will we?
 * 3) about black holes
 * 4) Moving a Space Shuttle
 * 5) Steam train in a tunnel
 * 6) types of motion
 * 7) pH of water containing dissolved substances and release rate of carbon dioxide

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 4


 * 1) defrosting meat with sugar v. defrosting it with kosher salt
 * 2) Tool to calculate what temperature I need to change the air to, to achieve a desired Relative Humidity (RH)?
 * 3) Optical "Jacks" on the Back of my TV and Blu-Ray Player
 * 4) Selenium oxidation
 * 5) Removing Hydrophobic Silicon Product from car windscreen
 * 6) Can I repair a laptop charger with graphite?
 * 7) Are monkeys able to throw darts?
 * 8) Bold for first instance of abbreviations in journals?
 * 9) Himilayan glacial meltwater
 * 10) Human height and calcium
 * 11) Infra red absorption
 * 12) Keeping PIR-controlled light on

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 5


 * 1) Recommended Daily Intake
 * 2) Do Tsunamis hit with force?
 * 3) Taxonomy
 * 4) based on chemistry
 * 5) Warkany syndrome 1 and 2
 * 6) Lunar dust and telescopy
 * 7) Swimming beneath the waves.
 * 8) Guitar tuning
 * 9) Monkeys and bananas
 * 10) Fertility of volcanic ash
 * 11) Laptop adapter malfunctioning

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 6


 * 1) How long can wine be kept?
 * 2) Radioactive Water Decay
 * 3) some questions
 * 4) compair this two diagrams
 * 5) Have any miracles really happened?
 * 6) Confused about Lyme Disease
 * 7) communication
 * 8) LASER vs. CD-ROM/DVD moving
 * 9) Question about how long you can keep cosmetics
 * 10) What is it called when we perceive time as passing slower?
 * 11) "The faces of the dead bore expressions of horror."
 * 12) "S" internet protocol?
 * 13) Real or digitally altered?
 * 14) Unikont vs Bikont
 * 15) Fifth force announced at Fermilab --- maybe.
 * 16) absurd discrepancy of large numbers

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 7


 * 1) Inspiration of Alain Carpentier
 * 2) Better table salt (potassium, citrate, bicarbonate, magnesium, calcium, etc.)
 * 3) Average weight of cattle
 * 4) Estimating moisture content of meat by its weight loss
 * 5) Why petals of flowers dont have rectangular or square shape?
 * 6) Chemical series
 * 7) Blood-brain Barrier
 * 8) Marketing prescription-only meds to the consumer
 * 9) Cells
 * 10) Super glue removal from skin
 * 11) Strange lightning-like flashes inside a room every night
 * 12) Poppy seeds
 * 13) Turning Jupiter into a sun

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 8


 * 1) Delay in Nobel awards
 * 2) Iodine-131
 * 3) Jaw mobility
 * 4) How many people have ever lived?
 * 5) Singing stars
 * 6) Name this flower?
 * 7) Stalactites and coal dust
 * 8) Cells Removal
 * 9) Panderian organ in Trilobites
 * 10) quantum numbers for a multi-electron system
 * 11) Does this seem right to you?

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 9


 * 1) What is this called?
 * 2) characteristics  of neutron star nebula
 * 3) Identify this fruit
 * 4) Ventrolateral side
 * 5) Butterfly effect
 * 6) Where were those isotopes referenced?
 * 7) cocoon
 * 8) Could you please check my math?
 * 9) Mythical terminal disease ?

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 10


 * 1) Is there and hand-powered or foot-powered laptop charger?
 * 2) Mars Science Laboratory landing criteria
 * 3) Sound in space
 * 4) Question about the lightcone?
 * 5) Carburator.......mystry......
 * 6) how are methane and CO2 greenhouse gases?
 * 7) what kind of spider is this black one with a red butt?
 * 8) What is the best store-bought equipment to clean soot out of the fireplace walls?
 * 9) Calories per pound?
 * 10) are there calories in water?
 * 11) Energy source graph
 * 12) Canine teeth and monkeys
 * 13) Electron resonance and tapping
 * 14) Fog
 * 15) Chemical bonding
 * 16) Electron configuration orbitals
 * 17) Four-winged vs. two winged flight

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 11


 * 1) Past oxygen
 * 2) List of American northward-flowing rivers?
 * 3) Double Recombination II
 * 4) Photon travel time during stellar collision
 * 5) Rabbit death
 * 6) Photons

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 12


 * 1) DNA samples and testing time
 * 2) Efficiency of fixed wings vs. rotors
 * 3) Maximum carrying capacity of aircraft
 * 4) Giant Sequoia
 * 5) Taxonomy/Etymology question...
 * 6) The power of noise
 * 7) What will happen if bicycle tyre will be filled using Helium gas?
 * 8) What eventually happens to a beam of light?
 * 9) Eliminating sex
 * 10) UV emission from electric arcs
 * 11) Farmer's action plan?
 * 12) light-bulb
 * 13) Mining of thick seams
 * 14) wrong named structure

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 13


 * 1) Speed of Earth's orbit around the sun
 * 2) Using decay heat in a nuclear reactor to spin a turbine
 * 3) whey gel
 * 4) Universe = black hole, for some of time... or wait, only in the sideways version of time, which is length (*confused mumbling*)
 * 5) Bear pit
 * 6) Mass-energy conversion of the human body
 * 7) Evaporated Water Consumption
 * 8) How did the hills of Rwanda form, and how old are the soils?
 * 9) Follow-up on cleaning apple juice bottles for recycling
 * 10) Do we feel heat from the sun because of Infra Red, or because of the energy in the entire spectrum?
 * 11) Procession of the Perihelion

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 14


 * 1) Pseudoscience: suspended water
 * 2) FIBONCCI NUMBER
 * 3) Cardiomyopathy
 * 4) Pycnodeuterium
 * 5) physical education
 * 6) Differences between conservative and liberal brain
 * 7) xrays and vitamins
 * 8) Are there any trends in the half-lifes of isotopes?
 * 9) shivers down my spine -- are they endorphins?
 * 10) Breaking neck
 * 11) Why half-life is more important than total decay?
 * 12) Ionization of d-block elements
 * 13) Lugol's iodine
 * 14) Magnetism

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 15


 * 1) Why is DC voltage used in public transportation
 * 2) Diagnosing an electrical problem
 * 3) Relativistic mass
 * 4) Triplet v.s. Singlet Oxygen
 * 5) Period food
 * 6) Pinion?
 * 7) Design pattern: both for software and art
 * 8) Live vs. recorded sound
 * 9) two questions about electromagnetic waves
 * 10) Discovery of rimantadine and references
 * 11) Head rotation
 * 12) Screen-width Problem in computer
 * 13) Seafloor river bed in Toyama Bay, Honshu from Google Earth

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 16


 * 1) Question about gravity and absolute zero temperature?
 * 2) Help! I have some questions about Venus, Uranus and the moon
 * 3) Old Balls
 * 4) Translational acceleration
 * 5) Strange archive search message
 * 6) Sensations and the vocabulary to describe them
 * 7) What do glucocorticoids do?
 * 8) Infinite re-reflection
 * 9) Brain scan lie detection
 * 10) Nationwide ground stop effect
 * 11) Antarctic ice sheet
 * 12) 3 science questions
 * 13) Freedom of navigation in the Earth's outer core

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 17


 * 1) Does FRET work on IGE?
 * 2) How to cheat reading eye chart?
 * 3) molten earth heaviest elements where
 * 4) Modern mammals nocturnal?
 * 5) Late-leafing trees in southern England
 * 6) Failure due to mechanical vibrations
 * 7) Is there a theory about the stuff called "Significant Atomic Mass"?
 * 8) Lewis structure standard
 * 9) Most reflective mirror
 * 10) Antimatter explosion
 * 11) Keystone species
 * 12) Glasses that correct for higher order abberations
 * 13) Getting cheese moldy?
 * 14) Spray to clean dog feces

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 18


 * 1) Why isn't drinking coffee when tired considered negative feedback?
 * 2) How are each Harley-heads better than each other?
 * 3) Deja vu - but without the sense of experiencing that exact event
 * 4) UV and Air Disinfection
 * 5) Micro hydro and a home's power consumption
 * 6) galileo's theory
 * 7) Hand shaking
 * 8) UV TEA laser
 * 9) A question of which I do not now how to title
 * 10) Another query: Storage of Information
 * 11) transmutation
 * 12) Bouncy bicycles
 * 13) Ethanol Efficiency.
 * 14) Binding energy

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 19


 * 1) A few questions about the Japan earthquake...
 * 2) "System of Care" health care
 * 3) Atomic number and qualities of the element
 * 4) Why only 92
 * 5) is there a formula from wavelength in nanometres to RGB?
 * 6) Electrodynamics
 * 7) Chickens in a container
 * 8) Having sex after working out
 * 9) Excessive caffeine and hair loss
 * 10) vitamins
 * 11) materials treatment
 * 12) Absolute
 * 13) Testosterone Levels
 * 14) FPGAs in space applications
 * 15) ChemDraw diagrams in articles
 * 16) Windward Islands and trade winds
 * 17) IBM Watson's size in 10 years.
 * 18) If cars followed Moore's Law from the 1925 Model T
 * 19) Craps probability question

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 20


 * 1) Getting rid of double chin's fat
 * 2) A science question concerning light years
 * 3) Spy camera-type hardware to use as ocular implants for the blind - Why do I never hear of them?
 * 4) Would a rail gun give recoil?
 * 5) If there was not salt in oceans
 * 6) THE best way of transferring water up to top of the hill
 * 7) Rat population dynamics
 * 8) Notoungulata
 * 9) Hollow plant stems
 * 10) Smell of salt
 * 11) Edible plant parts
 * 12) Human kindness
 * 13) pvc

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 21


 * 1) Venus
 * 2) Bosch reaction
 * 3) What would Earth be like if it was 82% more wonderful?
 * 4) Kindle 1 reflective scrolling — how does it work?
 * 5) unknown herb
 * 6) Glow discharge creation
 * 7) Where have the "edit" buttons per section gone?
 * 8) Digital signals in space

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 22


 * 1) What's the species?
 * 2) potentiometer question
 * 3) ELECTRONICS
 * 4) marsh plant that needs pressure from flowing water to hold structure?
 * 5) Indian Thundershowers
 * 6) What does the word "Pinkie" mean?
 * 7) What connections should scientists explore?
 * 8) Reaction Gone Wrong
 * 9) can a relativistic proton change into a neutron? or break up into various particles?
 * 10) What kind of flowering tree?
 * 11) Fission2

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 23


 * 1) Ibuprofen structure
 * 2) Perspiration
 * 3) how to pass entrance
 * 4) UHT milk in Greece
 * 5) ELECTRONICS
 * 6) top-antibottom mesons existance?
 * 7) Gold Vs. Silver
 * 8) Young's double slit experiment
 * 9) The effects of dreams on long term memory
 * 10) Speaker wire
 * 11) What is a Tripletino?
 * 12) Ocean surface lumps above sea mounts
 * 13) Recombining all the oxygen with H then how much more water?
 * 14) THE SUPERNOVA   1987A
 * 15) Active electronic metamaterials.
 * 16) Echos in the Treasury of Atreus

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 24


 * 1) How should antibacterial news be added to Wikipedia?
 * 2) human as a mammal
 * 3) What kind of engineering will be required to make sphere wheels possible?
 * 4) window
 * 5) Chemicals in the body to counteract other chemicals in mood change- e.g., caffeine
 * 6) control valves in aircrafts.
 * 7) can cerebral palsy lead to...
 * 8) If there are call queues, why aren't there fax queues?
 * 9) Is there a service to send a text at a preset time?
 * 10) Origin of Potential Energy
 * 11) Typical discharge current
 * 12) Time travel
 * 13) chemistry
 * 14) Potential pollution in sea salt
 * 15) Kevlar Production
 * 16) Water splitting on a worldwide scale

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 25


 * 1) PBS series about a family using 1980's computer
 * 2) Do avocados contain cholesterol?
 * 3) blood type
 * 4) Does Diet Coke cause cancer?
 * 5) Laser pump design
 * 6) Can a dish washer dissolve rubber compeletely?
 * 7) Pharmacology - Dose Effect Curves
 * 8) Trees and/or plants affected by white-tailed deer and invasive species in Maryland
 * 9) motional electric field
 * 10) NNRTIs and Hep B
 * 11) the kinetics of 3H + 2H ---> 4He + n

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 26


 * 1) Application of brain lateralization to UI design?
 * 2) How to save generic annotated DNA sequences?
 * 3) Fermi Paradox and data encryption
 * 4) Toasted bread
 * 5) perennial
 * 6) Higgs boson

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 27


 * 1) quarks
 * 2) Why does coldness hasten the browning of a banana peel?
 * 3) Blood supply to the dartos muscle
 * 4) Selling spent nuclear fuel
 * 5) ISS lights
 * 6) Do fluorescent lights have a preferred frequency when they flicker?

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 28


 * 1) dna
 * 2) steel I-beam (H beam / double T beam) color?
 * 3) Is dishwashing liquid safe on plastic water bottles?
 * 4) Hydrogen Sulfide
 * 5) large bowel
 * 6) What are the most dangerous jobs with positions available?
 * 7) Brain to Body Mass Ratio
 * 8) Unidentified Flower (or maybe Fungi?)
 * 9) Drug that removes the ability to resist

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 29


 * 1) nervous system
 * 2) SF "sensors" and today's technology
 * 3) SHM
 * 4) Blowing up a tornado
 * 5) Reference desk (science) quasi-semiprotected?
 * 6) Breathing gas
 * 7) biotechnology
 * 8) reverse osmosis
 * 9) Transit time
 * 10) Irish wildfires
 * 11) Ventral Aorta
 * 12) DNA differences

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 30


 * 1) Sicily, the Gulf of Sidra and continental drift
 * 2) Superconductors
 * 3) Kepler mission
 * 4) Lead Cycle
 * 5) Maximum possible temperature
 * 6) Preparing DNA sample for crystallography?