Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2018

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 1


 * 1) Why is blood pH 7.4
 * 2) Botany: Can you help me identify this plant spotted in my mum's garden in Switzerland?
 * 3) July 2018 lunar eclipse - visibility
 * 4) Why do flies often walk in a saltatory manner? (at least the species I see)

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 2


 * 1) Explain why these 2 statements are not contrary to each other

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 3


 * 1) Material that generates ultrasound, and not sound, when hit

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 4


 * 1) the process of communication between the insects of same species
 * 2) turtle id in today's featured image
 * 3) Thermal contraction of helical spring

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 5


 * 1) What's the mechanism that allows water and steam to co-exist together, room temperature?
 * 2) Cats and canine questions.
 * 3) Ashtabula chemical site

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 6


 * 1) Wind speeds on gas and ice giants
 * 2) Inverse flight
 * 3) Use of millimeter paper
 * 4) Why are all notable nearby stars getting nearer?

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 7


 * 1) How long does it take for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to scramble the weather?
 * 2) Shortest person
 * 3) Mars and Moon
 * 4) bisexuals, heterosexuals, and tall women
 * 5) What's the approximate height of the world's tallest building that can fit on 20x100 feet of land?
 * 6) RfC Announce: Should the EmDrive be labeled as Pseudoscience?

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 8


 * 1) Chemical formulas (C25H35NO5)
 * 2) Can anybody identify this insect?

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 9


 * 1) Please explain this power plant availability formula specially the summation part
 * 2) Drowning

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 11


 * 1) Consequence of the ideal gas law?
 * 2) weather averages
 * 3) Element/Fire Stryker fire extinguisher

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 12


 * 1) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 12#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_27-2_.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fs.sender.mobi.2Fu.2Fimage.2F2018.2F8.2F12.2FvPoB3Cdpq.2F-.PNG_PNG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 27-2 PNG]]
 * 2) Aiming for planets
 * 3) Black or white?
 * 4) Decreasing light pollution as night progresses

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 13


 * 1) Float gauges
 * 2) What place has the shortest average wait for sustained hurricane wind from tropical cyclones?
 * 3) What's the last vegetable here?

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 14


 * 1) Glyphosate use by country
 * 2) Alastor angulicollis

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 15


 * 1) Capacities of Chemours titanium dioxide plants
 * 2) Existence of drug 'Mideral'
 * 3) iiser post allotment
 * 4) Academic research in engineering in the UK

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 16


 * 1) Seeing the brightness of a city in the horizon from the sea

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 18


 * 1) Animal mates
 * 2) Could the Universe have been different?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 19


 * 1) Why cant you hear the jet engine anymore before the jet takes off?
 * 2) Speed of electrons
 * 3) Helpful Parasites?

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 20


 * 1) Ni-MH batteries
 * 2) Characteristics of common wasps and bees

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 21


 * 1) Fat pads on palm at the base of fingers
 * 2) Having trouble finding normal and shear forces

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 22


 * 1) Maxwell's demon
 * 2) Why is the letter 'G' used to represent Conductivity ?
 * 3) What's the best estimate for Mauna Kea's all-time high height? How far in the future or past is this?
 * 4) Sapphire
 * 5) Rice foamed after being soaked for a couple of days, probably less

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 23


 * 1) WP:LOCALCON and WP:TPOC
 * 2) Varicoceles

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 24


 * 1) Fertility question

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 25


 * 1) Source of a basemap
 * 2) Range of Likely Rise in GMST

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 26


 * 1) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 26#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_27-8_.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fs.sender.mobi.2Fu.2Fimage.2F2018.2F8.2F26.2FLQISNwTPd.2F-.PNG_PNG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 27-8 PNG]]
 * 2) Lines of magnetic flux
 * 3) Leccy dlux

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 27


 * 1) Why do ants avoid salt? How does salt affect ants?

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 28


 * 1) Nomenclature for Vitellaria paradoxa
 * 2) Cations and HDPE
 * 3) Autonomic block
 * 4) minnesota starvation experiment

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 29


 * 1) what makes atoms bond
 * 2) Fields of study whose mere existence offend a certain group(s) of people
 * 3) Can cats see red?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 August 31


 * 1) Oldest functioning human body parts