Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2008

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 1


 * 1) Raindrop
 * 2) Insect identification
 * 3) Copper Sulfate as an algacide
 * 4) Loop Quantum Gravity
 * 5) Robert I of Parma's children
 * 6) Gull strength
 * 7) Am I the only one who gets unsettled?
 * 8) Astronomy - Solar Eclipse
 * 9) Sunburn
 * 10) creation of the universe
 * 11) Large Hadron Collider

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 2


 * 1) Body part focus of cell phone health studies
 * 2) Predatory Dinos
 * 3) Allylic halides and nucleophilic substitutions
 * 4) Can you explain this 'major discovery'?
 * 5) Life time of hydrogen economy
 * 6) Zenker's Diverticulum is well know among Gastroenterologists, who was Zenker and where did he publish his new disorder?
 * 7) Applied maths
 * 8) Why didn't man evolve wings?
 * 9) Synthesis problem
 * 10) human cloning
 * 11) Pigs on the wing
 * 12) Risk of contracting MRSA

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 3


 * 1) Amount of energy needed to reach the speed of light: Infinite. Amount of atoms to destroy the sun: 1?
 * 2) I don't understand Schrödinger's cat
 * 3) A bit near the question above...
 * 4) Double alkylation of carboxylic acid derivatives
 * 5) Extremes of earth's atmosphere
 * 6) Baked limestone
 * 7) Shining Metals dug from the mountains
 * 8) Why do we care about faces?
 * 9) Mechanical pencil uses chuck?
 * 10) Plant defences and herbivory in the African savanna
 * 11) On the subject of human cloning (not sure if this is the right desk for this)
 * 12) Anyone here a doctor?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 4


 * 1) Heparin lock
 * 2) five kindoms
 * 3) chordee
 * 4) A lot of quasi-related questions
 * 5) I was washing dishes...
 * 6) Drinking water vs. pouring it over your head to cool down
 * 7) Existance of God
 * 8) Calculation of pipe dia. Formula Needed?
 * 9) Medical appliances (?), early/mid-20th C.
 * 10) Post thunderstorm ionization
 * 11) Tree of life
 * 12) Blood plasma
 * 13) Help diagnose my ear deficiency!
 * 14) Earths core
 * 15) Galactic Center of the Milky Way
 * 16) Why can't bullets fly ?
 * 17) Plant identification: red berries
 * 18) Why did Newton think light speeded up in glass?
 * 19) Gas
 * 20) Viscious liquid
 * 21) Expansion on shaking container of hot water

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 5


 * 1) Apparent Incandescence of Planets
 * 2) Height of mountains
 * 3) Semiconductor Resistivity
 * 4) Applications of Chem kinetics
 * 5) Kissing scenes in movies - health risks?
 * 6) Do newspaper inks contain cyanide?
 * 7) Logical human thought
 * 8) electro etching of copper with copper suphate soln
 * 9) Rise time
 * 10) Question of utmost seriousness
 * 11) Harmful bacteria

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 6


 * 1) Shoe polish and solubility
 * 2) Recycling plastic
 * 3) Gasoline Expiration Date?
 * 4) Genital herpes Outbreaks
 * 5) Windowboxes
 * 6) how to submit a picture with an question?
 * 7) Buoyancy on the ocean floor
 * 8) Epileptology and Neurophysiology
 * 9) Name for when skin hurts
 * 10) Dental membranes?
 * 11) Heat rub on the testicles?
 * 12) Please identify this spider

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 7


 * 1) Please try to disprove this theory
 * 2) Will going faster than the speed of light create a black hole?
 * 3) TeleDeltos paper
 * 4) Why cant I type?
 * 5) Helium lifting gas
 * 6) Curl of F
 * 7) Cats and their waste
 * 8) Air brakes
 * 9) Loud booms
 * 10) Čerenkov radiation/speed of light/follow on from previous question
 * 11) Keeping Cool
 * 12) Wormholes and momentum
 * 13) Project Management
 * 14) Why would a pencil sharpener need microbial protection?
 * 15) 111-year-old reptile
 * 16) Why are their bellies cut open?
 * 17) Vectors

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 8


 * 1) Color of Water
 * 2) Monitor colors keep changing
 * 3) Anywhere on earth?
 * 4) Paradox?
 * 5) Thermocouples
 * 6) Why does quantum mechanics only work on a small scale?
 * 7) cooling/heating vortex
 * 8) Do any types of dementia result in loss of tact
 * 9) Physics of boat towing
 * 10) Water to Ice
 * 11) Permeability of plastic
 * 12) Beta plus decay and conservation of mass
 * 13) Water for the West
 * 14) Too Many Magnetic Minerals in me Coffee
 * 15) Structure of liquid water

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 9


 * 1) Mosquitos
 * 2) Botany(project topic)
 * 3) obstertricians
 * 4) Conservation of linear/angular momentum
 * 5) Triceratops vs Tyrannosaurus Rex
 * 6) Pollution and cycling
 * 7) Supertime
 * 8) Centrifugal Sorting of Saturn's Rings
 * 9) What STD can be transmitted through oral sex?
 * 10) Educational videos in psychology
 * 11) Academic, corporate and free researchers
 * 12) Automobile bumpers
 * 13) Control group in statistics
 * 14) Caffeine timing and sleep
 * 15) Space-time equation
 * 16) Recent Horrible News!
 * 17) Comet of Sodom
 * 18) I can't find my mistake

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 10


 * 1) Herbivores and omnivores in same species
 * 2) Wet wipe marker
 * 3) Density of human blood
 * 4) If everything in the universe suddenly doubled in size, would it matter?
 * 5) Thremocouple power output
 * 6) Cooking Pasta
 * 7) Ants climbing trees
 * 8) How do we know Planck measurements are the ultimate?
 * 9) Centrifugal Sorting of Materials
 * 10) Eucalyptas Tree,nor Cal
 * 11) Flu like symptoms
 * 12) The Matrix
 * 13) Animals
 * 14) Umbilical Cord
 * 15) Bismuth tin alloy

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 11


 * 1) Favored cigarette brands by ethnicity
 * 2) What's this map projection?
 * 3) sea  anemones
 * 4) Inexpensive sheets of transparent elastic material
 * 5) Legs on a whale
 * 6) How fast will a fishhook rust
 * 7) Zucchini plants with white lines
 * 8) Black holes in the solar system?
 * 9) Deadliest lightning incident?
 * 10) Plate movement and longitude

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 12


 * 1) MDS, Myeloproliferative Dysplasia.
 * 2) genaral knowledge
 * 3) 10 books in science
 * 4) Chemical Equilibrium question
 * 5) which type of ether used for anesthesia for child in 1954
 * 6) Empyrean vs. E8
 * 7) A conceptual problem in Physics
 * 8) Self-sacrifice in non-human animals?
 * 9) Teeth Whitening
 * 10) Size of Orbitals?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 13


 * 1) silverback gorillas
 * 2) Mosquito species?
 * 3) Welding Smoke
 * 4) Eyebrows
 * 5) Autism-spectrum disorders and evolution
 * 6) The End of the World!
 * 7) Protein Bending
 * 8) Two-stroke engines
 * 9) Heparin suppresion of platelet count
 * 10) Need info about penis meds
 * 11) Measuring age
 * 12) Communiction with Aliens
 * 13) The Big Bang Theory
 * 14) Chemistry  and /or biology
 * 15) Blood types
 * 16) Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 14


 * 1) Issue of quantum
 * 2) plum tree bark
 * 3) 'pop' sound 11 seconds after a shooting star
 * 4) Kidney output not in article
 * 5) CD player -- most common type of fault
 * 6) Railway locomtive Steam Cycle...
 * 7) UFO sightings
 * 8) Skin effect in transmission lines
 * 9) Electric Current
 * 10) Hot water cold water
 * 11) Electromagnet
 * 12) The End Of The World as we know it!
 * 13) Causality
 * 14) Uses of propane vs. uses of natural gas

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 15


 * 1) While I'm reminded of Moluccan Cockatoos
 * 2) Woodpeckers
 * 3) Dunbar's number and the autism spectrum
 * 4) about 20 dec 2012
 * 5) pH correction
 * 6) Air force
 * 7) Solutions
 * 8) Flexibility and gender
 * 9) Large Hadron Collider
 * 10) electrocution by toasters
 * 11) firefox and IE............eye adjustment........

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 16


 * 1) Common/Household "soft" magnets
 * 2) Vitamins
 * 3) food science
 * 4) IUPAC Nomenclature of carbohydrates
 * 5) Obtaining special dc power supply.
 * 6) Evaporating black hole
 * 7) Calcium and Acne
 * 8) Glucose question
 * 9) Electronically squaring a signal
 * 10) Is everything technically light?
 * 11) "Most chemicals are white."
 * 12) The colour white
 * 13) Electromagnet, Again

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 17


 * 1) sarcodactylus OR sarcodactylis?
 * 2) Solar mining
 * 3) Anti-ballistic missile
 * 4) Dockin in orbit
 * 5) Medicine
 * 6) Light in a time warp
 * 7) Olympic dope caught doping
 * 8) Sedative effect of alcohol
 * 9) Octopus

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 18


 * 1) Confidence boosting
 * 2) Physics
 * 3) Sperm cell
 * 4) Building an atomic bomb
 * 5) Christmas suicide
 * 6) Two wheels, spinning in different directions
 * 7) Mail sorting
 * 8) Strongest acid!
 * 9) science / about the reproduction of animals
 * 10) Habitable planet/moon systems
 * 11) light chains of immunoglobulin
 * 12) Aero engine lubrication
 * 13) Red meat
 * 14) mama
 * 15) Antiperistasis
 * 16) Does human perception of time speed up with age?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 19


 * 1) light
 * 2) Railguns, rail errosion
 * 3) Laser
 * 4) natural c onception after menopause
 * 5) Is a little lead deadly?
 * 6) Wall voltage through your body vs resistance
 * 7) Radio wave strength
 * 8) healing effect of color on the elderly
 * 9) Black holes

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 20


 * 1) Black hole evaporation and time dilation
 * 2) Using sig figs in calculations with both addition and multiplication
 * 3) Earth's rotation
 * 4) How a redshift affects the appearance of the moon on the horizon
 * 5) size of earth
 * 6) Banked Corner
 * 7) Brass shell casings corrosion rates in soil
 * 8) Brightness of the Sun and other stars
 * 9) Scientific/medical reasons for Heartbreak
 * 10) Tea
 * 11) Black holes again: interior
 * 12) 21 Hockey Pucks
 * 13) Moving toilet water

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 21


 * 1) Herbal infusion
 * 2) eye damage from hand dryers
 * 3) Astronomy Question: Need a Repeating Celestial Event
 * 4) "Green Bags"
 * 5) The Large Hadron Collider and the Sun
 * 6) Apparently Natural Causes?
 * 7) Liquids going from perspiration to waste in humans
 * 8) what is important of material sciences?
 * 9) Telephone call to 911
 * 10) Solutions and volume changes
 * 11) Optical zoom
 * 12) For Chemistry Experts

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 22


 * 1) When someone says that they can see the intelligence in an animal's eyes...
 * 2) Drunk Driving deaths by country
 * 3) not a question, but... worth it (LHC)
 * 4) Frostbite
 * 5) Physics with Calculus queston, regarding differential mass elements
 * 6) Tornados at night?
 * 7) Apple
 * 8) Is it right that accidentally snorting msg can cause bleeding from nose and eyes?
 * 9) drug reaction
 * 10) Olympics
 * 11) Glass figure changing color
 * 12) On the Topic of Color Changes
 * 13) Victorian women

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 23


 * 1) The perfect murder
 * 2) Cooling soups
 * 3) Ortho, Meta and Para
 * 4) fluocinonide 0.05%
 * 5) Homeopathy
 * 6) Light sensitivity disease?
 * 7) Why have I never had a hangover?
 * 8) Diagnostic of brain injuries
 * 9) Towels
 * 10) If a man and a cheetah were to run a marathon...

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 24


 * 1) Earth's Magnetic Poles
 * 2) Spontaneous human combustion
 * 3) Experiments with body gases and blow back
 * 4) Earths core
 * 5) Pure fusion bomb
 * 6) Heliocentrism
 * 7) Hygiene
 * 8) What is the nature of consciousness?
 * 9) Oxycodone and Morphine: Detection periods?
 * 10) Inhalent detection (inspired by question above)
 * 11) Hairspray vs. Houseflies
 * 12) neo cortical physiology and art/drama/music therapy
 * 13) The Size Of The Universe
 * 14) Terminology re: motion created by amniotic fluid
 * 15) Future studies in areospace
 * 16) find definitions
 * 17) What is this bird?
 * 18) advantage of youth in gymnastics
 * 19) Space Questions

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 25


 * 1) Frequency of Meiotic Crossover
 * 2) Human growth hormone production.
 * 3) Cooked meat and air in a refrigerator
 * 4) Alcohol-and-cigarette-based human combustion
 * 5) power system
 * 6) Medical Term for No Fear in Crisis.
 * 7) Is copper(II) ion more stable than copper(I) ion?
 * 8) Useful life of commerically packed grated ginger
 * 9) WTC floor plan
 * 10) Why do we laugh at people who get hurt
 * 11) why do I look worse in photographs than in mirrors?
 * 12) Human eggs
 * 13) Infinity

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 26


 * 1) Gas snorting
 * 2) Any way to discourage my parrot from washing her head in her water pot?
 * 3) Cheap, small, low-power technology for detecting a short-range distance?
 * 4) General relativity analogy thoughts.
 * 5) Given the same amount of sleep
 * 6) Listeriosis
 * 7) Curling a ribbon by scraping it?
 * 8) Maglev
 * 9) Why is 3d10 configuration so stable??
 * 10) Geomagnetic reversal and the End of the World
 * 11) Keep a "hard(permanent) magnet" floating
 * 12) Lifespan of an American Spadefoot toad

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 27


 * 1) Springs and simple harmonic motion
 * 2) Yawning
 * 3) man without a face
 * 4) Cat Eyes
 * 5) Can tapirs pick things up with their nose?
 * 6) Jurassic Park question
 * 7) Is there any animal which lacks self-preservation instinct?
 * 8) Glaucoma / abd pain
 * 9) What happens when blood goes into tissue?
 * 10) Evolution and the "no new information" argument
 * 11) The evolution of intelligence
 * 12) Objects rotating in space

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 28


 * 1) Spider silk
 * 2) What eats starfish?
 * 3) Do today's dyes weaken fabrics still?
 * 4) ELISA kit aging
 * 5) Sliding filament theory
 * 6) Metaphase of mitosis
 * 7) Name that plant
 * 8) Flying cats
 * 9) Who would win?
 * 10) cryptozoology and biology
 * 11) humidification operation
 * 12) Yeti and Bigfoot
 * 13) spider web sacs in trees?
 * 14) what is animal.
 * 15) BIOLOGY
 * 16) Spider eggs?
 * 17) dog
 * 18) has our buddy broke his leg?????
 * 19) Conflicting information on effects of neutering dogs

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 29


 * 1) Motorcycle
 * 2) Clorox as hair lightener/bleach
 * 3) Perception of  Musical Pitch
 * 4) Transverse waves
 * 5) Why is mescaline a controlled substance?
 * 6) Emit Visible Light by Radio Transmitter
 * 7) Bat vs bird populations
 * 8) What's with this leaf?
 * 9) Freaks
 * 10) Standard Units for Quantities of Lumber

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 30


 * 1) about electrons...
 * 2) Purple skin
 * 3) Optical Activity
 * 4) Distortion in half-wave rectifier.
 * 5) Cause of Quantum Decoherence?
 * 6) Inventing VS Engineering
 * 7) Spider in My Front Yard
 * 8) Helicopters unable to fly above a pit
 * 9) bipolar transistor
 * 10) Butterfly Bee Insect (Unknown)

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 August 31


 * 1) Magnetic "field lines"
 * 2) Where could I buy lead ball bearings?
 * 3) Asteroids and comets
 * 4) Poisonous things that taste good
 * 5) Breakdown via anti-hydrogen
 * 6) DNA inbreedinng
 * 7) when to plant nectarines from saved pits
 * 8) lipid movement in a liposome..
 * 9) Mozzy bites
 * 10) Unknown insect
 * 11) Magnetic cows
 * 12) Path integral formulation
 * 13) blood
 * 14) Life in the most polluted environments?
 * 15) Physics Degree
 * 16) Red jelly growing in fridge
 * 17) Why do we find some animals attractive?
 * 18) Human lungs
 * 19) Sweet smell from blown up capacitors?
 * 20) Hydrogen Peroxide and Bacteria
 * 21) The Big Bang and Gravity