Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2006

= August 1 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 1
 * 1) The evolutionary value of doing calculus?
 * 2) Donna Nook
 * 3) Basic Burn Question
 * 4) Diff. b/w university and college
 * 5) ADHESIVES
 * 6) Communication equipment
 * 7) Overlapping of orbitals
 * 8) Starching a Battledress?
 * 9) Make Your Own Starch
 * 10) Hub Gears
 * 11) Homework Questions
 * 12) Black hole A partial balck body
 * 13) Chronic wounds and maggot therapy
 * 14) Elephants and such
 * 15) How to invest in different stock exchanges?
 * 16) Corn earlage
 * 17) Solubility vs. Temperature Curves for Glycine-Sodium Sulfate Solutions
 * 18) Why gender body size difference in humans?
 * 19) Cashew

= August 2= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 2
 * 1) MRI Questions
 * 2) Speed of the Space Shuttle
 * 3) What is the difference between electrostatic and electromagnetic levitation and another question
 * 4) U.V- Effect
 * 5) Unknown scientist
 * 6) erosion prediction
 * 7) MRI accident on House
 * 8) EM sound???
 * 9) light speed
 * 10) Quanta UNIVERSE
 * 11) Electron
 * 12) CD-DVD burn
 * 13) Pneumatic brakes
 * 14) catastrophe and the internet
 * 15) how do we know if its been tried?
 * 16) Consumption
 * 17) sexual thought freqency
 * 18) Geologic time scale terminology: Paleo- vs Eo-
 * 19) Megawatt_hour
 * 20) Invisibility
 * 21) Possible to reduce ozone levels indoors?
 * 22) unit question about article : List of countries by electricity consumption
 * 23) Snakes
 * 24) Alcohol Gel and Salt
 * 25) Molecular orbitals and symmetry
 * 26) Brushing your teeth
 * 27) Valium + Alcohol = ?
 * 28) What mushroom is this?

= August 3 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 3
 * 1) Human-raised birds
 * 2) It's really hot in here...
 * 3) Using munitions to disrupt hurricanes
 * 4) Gasoline
 * 5) Scientific question
 * 6) List of countries by electricity consumption - part 2
 * 7) Bubbles
 * 8) Bike Brakes At The Hub
 * 9) Other non-omnipresent animals like hedgehog
 * 10) What kind of Praying mantis is this?
 * 11) Logo or symbol or abbreviation for engineers
 * 12) Hepatitus c and Vitiligo
 * 13) cat with neurological problem - stroke?
 * 14) Ref Desk Archive Problem
 * 15) Physical basis of the Mendelian ratios?
 * 16) Bromine and its effect on swimsuits....
 * 17) hormones
 * 18) gastro-enteritis

= August 4 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 4
 * 1) question to Doctors.regarding my strainge chest pain.
 * 2) car cell phone charger
 * 3) Hearing pianos over the phone
 * 4) exhausting a portable air conditioner through the chimney flue
 * 5) Meteorite
 * 6) Bullet
 * 7) Energy consumption per country
 * 8) Birds in Slovenia
 * 9) HD-DVD or Blu-Ray
 * 10) priming fuel pumps
 * 11) Rabbit Internal Organs
 * 12) lichen damage to trees
 * 13) Oldest surviving sound recordings
 * 14) about macbook (screen size 13.3 inches)
 * 15) Freaky Plant Situation
 * 16) Reproductivity of results

= August 5 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 5
 * 1) You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
 * 2) Tails of shrimp, stems of peperoncini, and peels of oranges and banannas
 * 3) i ned an urgent info
 * 4) Windows Vista
 * 5) possible infant diarrhea epidemic in Detroit's Harper Hospital in 1943
 * 6) Chromatography
 * 7) atomic physcis
 * 8) Three times the same optical phenomenon?
 * 9) The other side of the Big Bank
 * 10) Photorespiration in wild soybeans
 * 11) Kinetics of Oxalate/Permanganate
 * 12) electromagnetic fields and radiation pressure
 * 13) Vinegar reacts with hairspray to form a solid
 * 14) Intercalating agents and you
 * 15) how a snowboarder turns around while on the air

= August 6 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 6
 * 1) metals and armor
 * 2) Electrical
 * 3) trying to identify a mineral/rock
 * 4) trying to identify a mineral/rock 2
 * 5) Hair fall problem
 * 6) visual basic
 * 7) Unchangeable Body Weight
 * 8) Tissue energy demands
 * 9) Bio-0 electricity volume and question
 * 10) History of Household Appliances
 * 11) dual core processor
 * 12) Hep C and organic sulfur
 * 13) the white living things on lobsters
 * 14) Death by Dreaming
 * 15) evolution of white skin
 * 16) evolution of snoring
 * 17) Porosity vs. Heat Capacity
 * 18) Persykology
 * 19) natural hydrogyn production

= August 7 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 7
 * 1) Megawatt Battery
 * 2) Septic System
 * 3) hang-drying clothes indoors with A/C
 * 4) Hot mirrors
 * 5) Plane on conveyer
 * 6) float glass
 * 7) Photons
 * 8) Black holes
 * 9) large low density rock?
 * 10) Two Cars in a Head-On Collision
 * 11) biology
 * 12) Microwaves Lose Power After 15 Minutes Use?
 * 13) Pocket PC emulator
 * 14) A warm sun
 * 15) nursing
 * 16) GPS precision
 * 17) Scientist famous for numbering all correspondence and papers
 * 18) Death of fruits and vegetables

= August 8 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 8
 * 1) Cortisone
 * 2) Solar Dynamo soon?
 * 3) Calculating speed from gravity.
 * 4) My guess
 * 5) Accurate value
 * Pi
 * 1) Pain Threshold
 * 2) Nanotechnology - Nano Coatings and ultra thin films - Market trends
 * 3) Multiple time dimensions
 * 4) Chiropractor titles
 * 5) Cost/Price of an EMD SD40-2 Locomotive in 1972
 * 6) Moths and 100% Nylon
 * 7) uk Frogs
 * 8) Incidence of Down's Syndrome decreasing?

= August 9 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 9
 * 1) Lithium ion batteries
 * 2) Sexual power
 * 3) Disaster forecasting
 * 4) camera
 * 5) Ships Floating
 * 6) raw bacon
 * 7) Flammable
 * 8) What is dam3?
 * 9) Molten-carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs)
 * 10) Swallows, Magpies, and Trains, oh my o:

= August 10 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 10
 * 1) Spectrum of the elements
 * 2) ants/anatomy
 * 3) ANSI Standard
 * 4) Marshmallow experiment
 * 5) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
 * 6) Waterlilies and scum
 * 7) 8th grade school project on Energy
 * 8) Canon S2 camera behavior
 * 9) What is this old "fat removal / body toning" device called?
 * 10) Care of guitar loudspeaker cabs
 * 11) Strange lump
 * 12) Ants !!
 * 13) organic chemist
 * 14) Nitrocellulose underwear
 * 15) Cancer pain
 * 16) Strange lump Mk2

= August 11 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 11
 * 1) How to produce TiCL4 in industry
 * 2) IMAGE TRANSFER CONSTANT.
 * 3) Passengers boarding bridges.
 * 4) solution of liquids inside vessels
 * 5) Potency of liquid explosives
 * 6) Strength of HCL
 * 7) Thermodynamics
 * 8) Soda Water
 * 9) Purified water
 * 10) British bombing plot explosives ingredients
 * 11) Speed of Smell
 * 12) Speakers
 * 13) Monogamy
 * 14) The Strange Case of Diabetes, Genetics, and the MP
 * 15) Camera Zoom
 * 16) Smoking and lung cancer

= August 12 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 12
 * 1) Glow sticks, who invented them
 * 2) Chemistry term
 * 3) Color in Complete Darkness
 * 4) central dogma
 * 5) Another crypsis question
 * 6) minto engine
 * 7) Drugs producing synaesthesia
 * 8) Insecticides --- as Preservatives
 * 9) Vicodin HP Tabs vs. Lorcet 10/650
 * 10) Saving Private Ryan - white powder stuff stops bleeding

= August 13 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 13
 * 1) Headphones
 * 2) Bigger and blacker is better
 * 3) Libido
 * 4) gender and fetal development
 * 5) can this happen
 * 6) 4G networking and application
 * 7) Animals with weird names
 * 8) the doctors round mirrors
 * 9) Physics
 * 10) How many atoms are there in a cell?
 * 11) Spaced out link
 * 12) Caffeine in breast milk
 * 13) Scientific Journal Access Through Wikipedia?
 * 14) Diesel
 * 15) Common name for Gordionus violaceus
 * 16) kineto baric force and biefeld brown question
 * 17) Why wet things are dark
 * 18) Questions about "self surgery".
 * 19) How to relax my over-exercised muscles without drinking alcohol?

= August 14 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 14
 * 1) casimir effect scale up
 * 2) Birthday
 * 3) Insect identification
 * 4) non-chlorine bleach
 * 5) Reasons for car batteries going flat?
 * 6) Chronic cough
 * 7) Formula for calculating the Heating Load in KW of Convectional oven
 * 8) Biggest cells, and hen's eggs?
 * 9) Electrical Engineering
 * 10) Why the male Warbler builds unused nests?
 * 11) This piece of 'equipment'?
 * 12) gold - precious metal
 * 13) Human Decomposition
 * 14) The 'save' button is teasing me
 * 15) If mountains have effect on earth Consistency and stabilizing?
 * 16) Instrument
 * 17) artificial insemination
 * 18) Maximum velocity of a sailing ship
 * 19) Sodium azide interferes with SDS-PAGE?
 * 20) Formatting an External Harddrive
 * 21) P = I*V
 * 22) G2B2... what does it mean?
 * 23) broken neon
 * 24) Mammals and body temperature
 * 25) Mushroom clouds

= August 15 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 15
 * 1) the direction of the Earth's orbit
 * 2) Warm vs cold blooded
 * 3) Brain in computer
 * 4) electric shock abdominator
 * 5) How do plants defend themselves from microbes?
 * 6) Gravity
 * 7) Particle Swarm Optimization Literature Overview
 * 8) microbiology
 * 9) what is PRBS
 * 10) Leuconostoc and Weissella
 * 11) Do insects have brains?
 * 12) New Pollen?
 * 13) Treatment of Erythrasma skin rash
 * 14) defense
 * 15) What is the difference between group velocity and phase velocity?

= August 16 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 16
 * 1) "Black threads" in tilapia (edible fish) ?
 * 2) Safety Glasses
 * 3) Bananas inducing gag reflex
 * 4) Numerical study of rotational effects for rotors
 * 5) Time course of evolution
 * 6) how to check qulaity of cyanoacrylate or super glue
 * 7) living rocks
 * 8) EMP's affect on a crystal radio
 * 9) Cellphones......and the jammers there of
 * 10) Ring tones
 * 11) Hair bleaching question

= August 17 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 17
 * 1) Where is the center of earth's land?
 * 2) Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit....
 * 3) Science fiction: stellar explosions and disc formation.
 * 4) Doner kebabs
 * 5) why does water boil at low pressure?
 * 6) poltergiests are in my water!
 * 7) biochemistry
 * 8) FOOD SCIENCE
 * 9) Underwater Communication
 * 10) bikini atoll
 * 11) Limiting magnitude
 * 12) Electrical generator
 * 13) Color of Blood Question
 * 14) Second Color of Blood Question
 * 15) Article Request: Hemocromotosis
 * 16) Engine braking
 * 17) shortwave transmitter
 * 18) When is a bird 'born'?
 * 19) Phelp's Box
 * EMP

= August 18 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 18
 * 1) six degrees of separation
 * 2) Virtual Particle
 * 3) Process Instrumentation and Analyzer maintenance
 * 4) negative energy and paul davies
 * 5) DVD ram camcorder video movie creation problem
 * 6) Rubix cube
 * 7) time travel
 * 8) Standard error
 * 9) bioluminescent pigs
 * 10) question on evolution
 * 11) Gold and Silver
 * 12) Nystagmus upon waking
 * 13) Changing DNA on the fly
 * 14) Eyes rolling to the back of the head
 * 15) Do it your self X-ray

= August 19 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 19
 * 1) bee B-gone
 * 2) Sheep and goat breeding
 * 3) Sea water turned Sweet
 * 4) No glare using UV
 * 5) Where did the brain of the zygote/fetus come from?
 * 6) Symbols on electrical appliances
 * 7) Which Glue in a Microwave-Convection Oven?
 * 8) Airplane's low oxygen
 * 9) Complete replacement of cells
 * 10) Time measurement
 * 11) vacuum propulsion
 * 12) Dreams what do they mean?

= August 20 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 20
 * 1) What happens if the sun stops shining?
 * 2) Any practical method for calibrating a bathroom scale?
 * 3) a wierd question!!
 * 4) dispersal of seeds
 * 5) Elbow injury
 * 6) Breaking down of a polysaccharide
 * 7) LpH disinfectant
 * 8) corroding aluminum
 * 9) aromatic plants-distillation
 * 10) bowel movements
 * 11) tempometer
 * 12) male/female speaking rates
 * 13) Butterfly's life from the begginng to the last stage
 * 14) skull fracture

= August 21 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 21
 * 1) Photosynthesis limit
 * 2) working with dams for dummies (and choosing to build them in the first place!)
 * 3) Stopping my chickens fighting?
 * 4) Physics (waves)
 * 5) Exercise/Immune system
 * 6) Spinning wheels
 * 7) Do lightning strikes on water kill fish ?
 * 8) Relative Humidity
 * 9) Identify a spider
 * 10) Information about, or proper name of, circular magnetic keys as used on tills and (less commonly) shared doors.
 * 11) Hairs standing up when frightened: evolution
 * 12) Attaching multiple speakers to my amplifier
 * 13) Headlights changing colour
 * 14) WIKI "Methane Gas" article is DANGEROUSLY UN-Scientific & MISLEADING
 * 15) Night sky
 * 16) Itraconazole
 * 17) Memory Loss in Mental Illness
 * 18) Valentin Glushko's mystery killer rockets
 * 19) Hermaphrodite
 * 20) Sunbeds
 * 21) Crotch sensation - strange question a
 * 22) Crotch sensation - strange question b
 * 23) Scale up a herring gull to the same height as a human...
 * 24) Quality of WP:RD/S Decreasing?
 * 25) Zoology
 * 26) Baygulls, seagull bagels, and bagels

= August 22 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 22
 * 1) Scale a Horse down to Gull Size...
 * 2) Hydrophilia
 * 3) Wasps
 * 4) General anesthetic
 * 5) geomagnetic movement
 * 6) files
 * 7) seagull bagel
 * 8) Extraction of DNA from the rabbit spermatozoa
 * 9) Is lymphoma really cancer?
 * 10) Conductive hearing loss
 * 11) Air Pollution on ship
 * 12) Category:Accuracy disputes
 * 13) Interpreting aural information as visual sensation
 * 14) Water toxicity (moved from talk:methane)
 * 15) Earths magnetic field - effects of reduction

= August 23 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 23
 * 1) Physicians
 * 2) Simulating zero 'g' in the vomit comet
 * 3) ICP-AES safety
 * 4) Giant Caterpillar?
 * 5) human urine scents
 * 6) Mmm... grass
 * 7) Discovery of Uranus and Pluto
 * 8) IQ of RD wikipedians
 * 9) Structure of Cholesterol
 * 10) I'm allergic to my dog's toenails; why would that be?
 * 11) Computer / Automated Testing
 * 12) Genetic Engineering
 * 13) Nipples
 * 14) Chromosomal crossover
 * 15) How do spacecraft change direction?
 * 16) handset splitter/adapter
 * 17) Methadone Clinics
 * 18) Why do people's arms move when they walk?
 * 19) Center of mass
 * 20) Safe Disposal of Chemical Weapons
 * 21) Mistakes in the history of science
 * 22) Curly wire- how is it made?
 * 23) Switching power supplies
 * 24) Massive Object Collisions in Particle Accelerators

= August 24 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 24
 * 1) Chemistry - Stoichiometry and Gas Laws at the Same Time
 * 2) IQ
 * 3) Standarisation
 * 4) Laws in biology
 * 5) Kinetics of a Redox Reaction - Importance of Including [H+] in the Rate Law
 * 6) Alcoholism Disease a addiction rather than a disease
 * 7) Cell nucleus
 * 8) Evolution/Biogenesis Experiment Ideas
 * 9) Multiple Enzyme complexes
 * 10) Butterflies - loners?
 * 11) Sound waves
 * 12) school project
 * 13) swallowing things
 * 14) Ear hairs
 * 15) Pluto: min distance to Earth
 * 16) can skin cancer cause stomach cancer
 * 17) Point-of-care documentation
 * 18) Earth
 * 19) Bailey's Liquor Commercial - Combustion
 * 20) North Pole explorers
 * 21) Planets..
 * 22) String/M Theory
 * 23) My ancestors in AD 1000

=August 25= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 25
 * 1) what causes breathing related pain in shoulders, neck ?
 * 2) Variable freezing in identical solutions
 * 3) Abdominal pain while running.
 * 4) Increasing life expectancy
 * 5) Human ear on a mouse's back
 * 6) Planet
 * 7) Biotechnology vs Genetic engineering
 * 8) Help me please.
 * 9) NationalFSP
 * 10) Robby vs HAL
 * 11) Ear update
 * 12) Therapeutic Gene Modulation vs Gene Therapy
 * 13) New Scientific Category
 * 14) 9/11 Pentagon Attack help
 * 15) Snake repelant
 * 16) Duck's quack
 * 17) Reverse rotaion of earth
 * 18) Earth's magnatic field
 * 19) Schizophrenics
 * 20) Red scrotum
 * 21) Frozen air
 * 22) Speed Vac (centifugal concentrator)
 * 23) Jumping Spider
 * 24) Robinow Syndrome
 * 25) biomeidcal model

=August 26= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 26
 * 1) Jamming the shutter button
 * 2) about new energy source
 * 3) Optical effect
 * 4) Shortest lifespan
 * 5) The vaporization temperature of Salvinorin A at sea level
 * 6) Removing packing tape adhesive

=August 27= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 27
 * 1) NHS Eyecare voucher
 * 2) group of doves
 * 3) Doxycyclin
 * 4) Diptera on Board
 * 5) any major application of heat,internal energy and work
 * 6) Theory of Relativity in Simple Terms
 * 7) hmm another wierd question..
 * 8) Largest Cargo
 * 9) Long-term Effects of Fasting On The Brain
 * 10) Telephone numbers
 * 11) Stroke risk.
 * 12) secondary dysmenorrhea

=August 28= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 28
 * 1) paranchute for jumping off building?
 * 2) Can solar panels be called "Free Energy Device"?
 * 3) What is "Donnan effect"?
 * 4) Another grass question
 * 5) Maltodextrin - "the ultimate complex carb"
 * 6) Why does blueberry juice thicken cream?
 * 7) Referencing Wikipedia
 * 8) Quartz watches powered by the pulse of our hand
 * 9) Changing of Centre of Gravity
 * 10) high pressure air plasmas
 * 11) planets
 * 12) What kind of fish "gives birth" to baby fish instead of laying eggs?
 * 13) Specific Heat
 * 14) Two-hybrid System
 * 15) Friction
 * 16) Mass
 * 17) Cutting veines
 * 18) Ear pain - what does this sound like to you?
 * 19) Plant metabolic rate.
 * 20) biology

=August 29= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 29
 * 1) A Plant
 * 2) Antacid
 * 3) Excellent
 * 4) Seagulls!
 * 5) Followup question
 * 6) War-plane crash
 * 7) Optimal slope
 * 8) The HP ScanJet 4600 Flatbed Scanner
 * 9) Intubation for blocked tear duct
 * 10) pH meter and buffer solutions
 * 11) Movement
 * 12) The elevator broke
 * 13) Alarms during a thunderstorm
 * 14) shackle poisoning
 * 15) A hypothetical question about teleporters.
 * 16) I H8 EndNote
 * 17) Hyperventilation
 * 18) Destructive interference, audio?
 * 19) Pseudoscience
 * 20) Closed universe theory / edge of the universe
 * 21) Epilepsy
 * 22) Chinese pheasant
 * 23) Space
 * 24) Global warming

=August 30= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 30
 * 1) Bouncing babies...?
 * 2) Noise Cancelling Within Commercial Aircraft
 * 3) induced gravitational effects
 * 4) What does benzoxycamphor mean?
 * 5) Dense material
 * 6) Algae
 * 7) Body fat and menstruation
 * 8) tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (TCDD) and Thyroid disease
 * 9) Mattresses
 * 10) Over active thyroid
 * 11) Intelligence
 * 12) creatine article
 * 13) Asking a subject reference question
 * 14) Iran and Nuclear Power
 * 15) Most distant spacecraft visible from Earth
 * 16) Why can't we feel the mantle heat through the crust of the earth?
 * 17) I need to find critics to the socialist ideas.
 * 18) Question on the derivative market
 * 19) Perpetual Motion

=August 31= Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 31
 * 1) Beef jerky
 * 2) physics andtehnology
 * 3) Body hair
 * 4) Enthalpy and heat
 * 5) Steorn and Free Energy
 * 6) Atoms
 * 7) Distance traveled by a soccer ball when kicked in different angles.
 * 8) specific question for medicine/hematology
 * 9) Surviving by drinking seawater
 * 10) Physics
 * 11) Science of gayness
 * 12) biogas
 * 13) Carbon
 * 14) Orangutans in TV and Movies
 * 15) automotive