Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2011

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 1


 * 1) Block erasure
 * 2) Disulfiram and fetal alcohol syndrome
 * 3) popularizing chemistry
 * 4) DNA testing of cremains
 * 5) energy solution
 * 6) better fit?
 * 7) Statistics on Human Penis Size
 * 8) What is an airlift system
 * 9) Current Control vs. Voltage control
 * 10) Resurecting extinct species
 * 11) Leptinella/Cotula
 * 12) Weedicides
 * 13) Blushing
 * 14) aspirin
 * 15) Instantaneous force
 * 16) I have some Astronomy Questions:
 * 17) How much does gravity hold the human body together?
 * 18) Geomagnetically Induced Currents

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 2


 * 1) Identifying YAG crystals
 * 2) subatomic particles
 * 3) subatomic shells
 * 4) Zinc chloride solution
 * 5) Which animal in burrow?
 * 6) Tips to identify a Bird of prey in southern england?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 3


 * 1) Snowing right now
 * 2) hammerhead sharks
 * 3) Torque and power
 * 4) Effect of star Jupiter on Earth
 * 5) Beyond the standard model and low temperature physics experiments
 * 6) Getting sulfur from Gypsum.
 * 7) Evolution
 * 8) EM waves traveling through a vacuum
 * 9) Gravitational waves and frame of reference
 * 10) Destroying the Popemobile
 * 11) the moon should have an atmosphere

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 4


 * 1) Spotting nocturnal animals at night
 * 2) Response to Creationwiki
 * 3) ABO/Rh retype
 * 4) International space station
 * 5) humans on other planets
 * 6) World War II US Submarine Equipment
 * 7) Temperature inside an atomic nucleus,  & what if it were cooled
 * 8) Green birds in Greater London
 * 9) what effects onbody organs human hanging death
 * 10) Freeview signal, UK
 * 11) Brownian ratchet
 * 12) Living liquid
 * 13) Hanging: suicide or execution?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 5


 * 1) Question (acetone)
 * 2) Thomisida
 * 3) WHAT PERCENT OF THE PLANETS IN THE GALAXY HAVE LIFE
 * 4) Water flowing on Mars???
 * 5) Claims of Scientific Evidence Against Evolution
 * 6) Radio frequencies
 * 7) The "Laotian bird" Nock-ten (2011)
 * 8) When in the history of Astronomy could a planet on the far side of the sun be ruled out?
 * 9) move the world

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 6


 * 1) I've read that children dislike vegetables because they're bitter?
 * 2) cosmic strings
 * 3) pretzel making
 * 4) space/time, energy/matter
 * 5) gravity
 * 6) Power outages
 * 7) distinction between coordinate covalent bond and covalent bond
 * 8) How much (embedded) energy is needed to build different kind of power plants?
 * 9) MOX UK

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 7


 * 1) Reactive Oxygen Metabolites vs Reactive Oxygen Species
 * 2) Do people actually sleeps like this?
 * 3) CHOCK
 * 4) Chicken lays eggs with double yolks
 * 5) Speed of light
 * 6) Tea "espresso"
 * 7) Mitochondrial Inheritance
 * 8) Language++
 * 9) nucleon model
 * 10) shortest inverval of time

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 8


 * 1) Shortest division of time
 * 2) How hot is my oven?
 * 3) Acetone
 * 4) Self combusting essential oils?
 * 5) How to interpret my test results
 * 6) chock2
 * 7) who started the "information processing theory" ?
 * 8) need some recommendations for digital cameras that are good at recording insects (specifically fruit flies)
 * 9) Treeline and Kangerlassuaq
 * 10) What vehicle make-&-model has had NO accident fatalities in its entire history?
 * 11) How many MPH is the bumper rated for on our MRAPs and M1A2 Abramses?
 * 12) Satellite dish ears
 * 13) chernobyl nuclear plant
 * 14) Water and Electricity

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 9


 * 1) Sunken Nuclear Submarines in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean
 * 2) Explosive liquifaction
 * 3) snake bites
 * 4) Talk.Origins
 * 5) What is this specification standard?
 * 6) Battery in digital camera
 * 7) Astigmatism
 * 8) hurricanes in Puerto Rico
 * 9) Compound eye and focus
 * 10) Allergy towards x

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 10


 * 1) particle trails
 * 2) Mold on bread
 * 3) sc
 * 4) How to get rid of mice
 * 5) Toricelli-style barometer liquid height vs. basin area
 * 6) RED RAIN
 * 7) What are elementary particles, really?
 * 8) 1/6 mv^3
 * 9) Orbital acceleration
 * 10) Pharoh ants

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 11


 * 1) Influenza
 * 2) Airport and weather station identfiers
 * 3) florida homes
 * 4) need some explanation about electrical transformers
 * 5) How is commercial-scale vacuum-sealing done?
 * 6) constellations and their relationship to spiral arms.
 * 7) Badger Diet Question
 * 8) Tides
 * 9) Black hole and stellar evolution
 * 10) state of a dissolved solid (chemistry)
 * 11) energy savers

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 12


 * 1) Pogo stick on trampoline
 * 2) Hard sandpaper grinding wheel
 * 3) Anti-aging
 * 4) Circuit training
 * 5) relativity of time
 * 6) Instantaneous travel
 * 7) libya
 * 8) Rationale against antistars and antigalaxies
 * 9) Not  seeking for answer, but explanation
 * 10) small desalinization plant cost
 * 11) The hourly cost of second-hand smoke?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 13


 * 1) Space shooting
 * 2) Potatos strapped to the wrist
 * 3) escape velocity
 * 4) Measuring atomic mass
 * 5) Barycenter
 * 6) Compound movements workout
 * 7) predicting toppling
 * 8) Stomach anatomy
 * 9) 200 proof alcohol sale and consumption
 * 10) Cute little Israeli Rodent which I cannot identify
 * 11) Does it exist a Pyrenean Isthmus?
 * 12) Origin of viviparous fishes
 * 13) Leptictidium Cretaceous
 * 14) Deep sea fish and rupture of something (I guess)...

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 14


 * 1) Brownian ratchet (again)
 * 2) Are hummingbirds territorial?
 * 3) Using gene therapy to change physical characteristics
 * 4) How massive?
 * 5) Time it takes  solar system to orbit around the galactic centre.
 * 6) Identify (?) bomb
 * 7) Fly stickers - do they work?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 15


 * 1) Why are humans physically weak?
 * 2) Guinea pigs and motion sickness
 * 3) What leaf is this?
 * 4) Quantum mechanics/many-worlds
 * 5) Growing catnip
 * 6) manual
 * 7) transformed circuit drawing for all electrical component
 * 8) Human survivability envelope on a newly discovered planet
 * 9) How can I get rid of Acetone in my car
 * 10) what is the function of the iPhone's 3GS 6R8 coil?

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 16


 * 1) Relativity and Bernoulli
 * 2) Strength of Immune System for healthy adult from 2010 versus 1810
 * 3) Heat and salty taste perception
 * 4) energy and matter
 * 5) Uterine fibroids
 * 6) galactic orbits
 * 7) Dishwashers and salt
 * 8) Diabetes and low blood sugar
 * 9) 21 cm line of Hydrogen
 * 10) The "Chupacabra" of DC
 * 11) Aircraft with rectangular wing profile
 * 12) Why are there two kinds of screws?
 * 13) Surviving on raw food alone.
 * 14) Mind uploading and transactional integrity

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 17


 * 1) Ampicillin rash
 * 2) Colony of ants solves Travelling Salesman math problem?
 * 3) Multiple birth rates over time and in different countries
 * 4) Quiz
 * 5) Lunar eclipse
 * 6) Fruit nutritional components
 * 7) lovaza
 * 8) Does Ramada[n] select against diabetics?
 * 9) Protein synthesis and Mitosis

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 18


 * 1) Fly stickers redux - 'hazardous to bees'
 * 2) Hydroflouric acid in Breaking Bad
 * 3) Grave question about violins
 * 4) Adding thermodynamic and statistical physics rules to  gravity field equations
 * 5) Dogs playing tug of war
 * 6) RE: Have you seen this flower or fungi
 * 7) nicotine patches
 * 8) Critical angle and the refractive index
 * 9) Problems when connecting HTC Trophy with PC
 * 10) aspirin
 * 11) Autism and restaurant chains
 * 12) Immunization from HIV?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 19


 * 1) Concave lens and a "projection" of a virtual image
 * 2) Battery & Aerogel
 * 3) Are there algorithms for numerical partial differential equations that are implicit in time and in space?
 * 4) newtonian question
 * 5) Looking for a plastic strip for a DIY project
 * 6) How does the human brain process the failure to grasp/loss of Abstraction; or how does it process concrete interpretation of metaphors/symbollism?
 * 7) Galvanic anodes
 * 8) bond order
 * 9) Pls help me (what does valency mean?)
 * 10) US presidents in the military
 * 11) Trying to remember the name of bioinformatics / computational biology researcher [SOLVED]
 * 12) Why is the moon (a) red and (b) missing the top?
 * 13) Gas and carbon monoxide poisoning

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 20


 * 1) Flying in a whiteout
 * 2) Firefly range
 * 3) body of Jovian outer planets
 * 4) basic difference between ac and dc
 * 5) Bird of prey, Lake Washington, Seattle
 * 6) Stripes on a battlehsip
 * 7) Magnetic Field
 * 8) More reliable helicopter?
 * 9) Stable
 * 10) Identify the bug, if possible?
 * 11) Uncertainty principle

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 21


 * 1) Are individual photons visible to the dark-adapted naked eye?
 * 2) How do seeds know which way is up?
 * 3) Total lunar eclipse at December 31
 * 4) Information on linitis plastica, a form of stomach cancer
 * 5) Tossing and turning
 * 6) phenobarbitol/ataxia
 * 7) Soymilk makes boobs bigger?
 * 8) nova & dwarf nova difference?
 * 9) Does JPL's default simulation accurately depict the orbit of asteroid 2010 SO16?

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 22


 * 1) How Often Do Hurricanes Hit Puerto Rico Redux
 * 2) Weak interaction
 * 3) Life Expectancy After Surviving Childhood?
 * 4) Killing the brain while keeping the body alive
 * 5) iceberg
 * 6) Mass of all the sunlight...
 * 7) Galaxies, solar systems and planets systems
 * 8) electricity and light?
 * 9) Ball screw

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 23


 * 1) How good is Scientific Learning Corporation's Reading Assistant?
 * 2) tomato, hot pepper - why are they toxic?
 * 3) event horizon
 * 4) What would happen if you injected fat into a vein?
 * 5) Total amount of platinum
 * 6) Online seismograph reports?
 * 7) lizards
 * 8) Required muzzle velocity of a cannon to shoot any target on Earth
 * 9) Unreal Creatures in Cave paintings
 * 10) vehicle skid marks
 * 11) rainfall and earthquake
 * 12) Pressure sores
 * 13) Identical Universes

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 24


 * 1) Dark side of a planet
 * 2) Carrot overdose
 * 3) Hand propping
 * 4) Costly military technologies
 * 5) Classification of TNOs: SDO vs. Detached TNO
 * 6) Moon
 * 7) Space tourism
 * 8) Flying submarine
 * 9) Fly me to the moon ............. and then?
 * 10) Why do flies hit windows repeatedly without realizing they can't get out that way?
 * 11) Hurricane Irene on Weather Underground: computer models much scarier than 5-day forecast
 * 12) Bladder Cancer

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 25


 * 1) Total value of precious metals
 * 2) What makes the difference in weight gain/loss?
 * 3) Molar concentration
 * 4) Nuts in Chinese shops
 * 5) Facial resemblance between parents & children
 * 6) Cockroaches!
 * 7) What is the EXACT name of the green birds on the photo?
 * 8) space

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 26


 * 1) Using bath to remove excess fluids
 * 2) amount of space
 * 3) First human to die in space?
 * 4) CRUDE OIL SPILL CLEAN-UP
 * 5) hello.
 * 6) Hurricane Irene: hype or real concern?
 * 7) Asian guinea pig?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 27


 * 1) Hurricane predictions - too far to the west
 * 2) Squirrel Behavior Question
 * 3) Strings and Wave Packets in Physics
 * 4) Where do the baloons go
 * 5) Discoloured teeth from drugs/meds
 * 6) Shoddy reporting story???
 * 7) space moving
 * 8) shrinking galaxies
 * 9) Largest LED
 * 10) Why do most Jews not look, well, semitic?
 * 11) Weird maple disease
 * 12) Light reflecting off light

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 28


 * 1) Plants in anoxic environments
 * 2) Bug Help
 * 3) National Weather Service storm surge map
 * 4) Where does precision come from?
 * 5) Fast weight loss - is it healthy?
 * 6) Morphological Crystallography revisited from the 2007 archives
 * 7) What species is this?
 * 8) What laws of physics are violated in the The Adjustment Bureau
 * 9) Darkest hour

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 29


 * 1) An atom of hydrogen
 * 2) Dicarbon
 * 3) Hypervalent phosphorus
 * 4) Inland hurricane warnings
 * 5) How does the Esselstyn diet unblock blocked arteries?
 * 6) Evolution
 * 7) Are there any land-dwelling chordates with other than zero, two or four legs?
 * 8) Silver coating that makes tarnish removable without polish.
 * 9) Vasodilating food
 * 10) X-ray photography
 * 11) Rabid skunk
 * 12) Stem cell compatibility
 * 13) Sterling engine charger?

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 30


 * 1) Negative matter
 * 2) Why isn't there an X-Ray Structure of Bovine Serum Albumin?
 * 3) Dizziness caused by a somersault
 * 4) What injuries can be instantly healed?
 * 5) Sound transmission and atmospheric pressure
 * 6) Exactly why couldn't Jurassic Park happen?
 * 7) Errrrr
 * 8) ET phone home ......... from L2?
 * 9) Evolution in animal thinking
 * 10) Standard model vs GR
 * 11) Mammals physically capable of sticking their head up their bottom?
 * 12) Helium ionization detector
 * 13) Chocolate bars
 * 14) Io and Pulsars.

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 August 31


 * 1) Superfluid
 * 2) Exactness of astronomy in 1602
 * 3) Chemistry XII Grade
 * 4) zebras
 * 5) potatoes, catalase, hydrogen peroxide...and an oven!
 * 6) Name of the selenium analogue of greigite
 * 7) Artificial gonads
 * 8) Really big mosquito.  Species?
 * 9) Citrobacter Nuclear Reactor
 * 10) Coordinates
 * 11) Underice explosion
 * 12) Energy Efficiency Calculations for Waste Heat Used in a Combined Heat and Power System
 * 13) 3066 McFadden