Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2006

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 1


 * 1) global warming
 * 2) NA code
 * 3) Are flaxseed meal's omega-3 fattty acids adversely affected by cooking?
 * 4) Underwater/Undersea Colony
 * 5) Universe - photon fraction
 * 6) Palmistry 2
 * 7) Why is that everything seems to be unionized these days?
 * 8) Question about bottled water...
 * 9) Channel Tunnel
 * 10) Why does increased estrogen cause post nasal drip?
 * 11) Does spoilt soy milk contain Lactobacillus?

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 2


 * 1) Eyes
 * 2) bsurd particle accelerators
 * 3) Earliest memories
 * 4) type clotting component
 * 5) Gear Pumps
 * 6) Access To Scientific Journals
 * 7) GM Roundup Ready canola gene traits
 * 8) Sight and taste
 * 9) omponent/vga compatabilty
 * 10) The human spleen pore size

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 3


 * 1) Cultivation Theory
 * 2) chemical bonding
 * 3) Electrical interference
 * 4) Looking for an article
 * 5) Tuning fork
 * 6) 3D Molecules
 * 7) Durability of bleach
 * 8) nitric oxide
 * 9) -deltaG and positive reduction potential
 * 10) chrome exploration?
 * 11) Conductivity Data
 * 12) building a spaceship from scratch
 * 13) Mineral Water / Cola Sales
 * 14) Carbonated water freezes
 * 15) Thomas Kuhn
 * 16) Changing an orbit
 * 17) Born with No Brain
 * 18) Volcanoes
 * 19) Router vs. Switch in home networking
 * 20) If I took HRT
 * 21) gerbil behaviour
 * 22) the power of water currents depending on depth
 * 23) The Playstation 3
 * 24) Mass/Force Distribution
 * 25) telescopes

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 4


 * 1) Docking in orbit
 * 2) Advanced Motion
 * 3) Dots in eye w/o glasses - explaination/image?
 * 4) Speed in space
 * 5) Phenotypic ratio
 * 6) hemistry Molar Question
 * 7) Anatomical name for "weenis"
 * 8) Fastest Piston Powered Aircraft
 * 9) Really quick question
 * 10) No of Universe
 * 11) Magnetism
 * 12) Coeper pair
 * 13) tritium
 * 14) Oxygen Generation
 * 15) decomposition of phosphene
 * 16) Cambrian Man - ?
 * 17) social psychology
 * 18) Fastest piston warplane
 * 19) plants
 * 20) Electricity Efficiency
 * 21) GSM interference with speakers/amplifiers
 * 22) Global Warming
 * 23) Mass, Volume, or Charge Times Distance
 * 24) Fluorescent light with motion sensor

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 5


 * 1) List Of Latin Genus And Species
 * 2) human pathogen sizes
 * 3) When did Laodicea (or area)  discontinue shipments of Collyrium?
 * 4) disease/sickness
 * 5) Genetic similarity between the sexes
 * 6) Red blood cells
 * 7) Number of sexes
 * 8) blizzard of 1993
 * 9) Mosquitos - How they benefit humans and the environment
 * 10) Unit
 * 11) scientific termn for...
 * 12) Helium
 * 13) SOCIAL SCIENCE
 * 14) Normal flora
 * 15) Cracking Achilles
 * 16) Mushrooms
 * 17) taking growth hormone, side effects?
 * 18) Moon
 * 19) Weakness and Numbness to the Leg
 * 20) What is science?
 * 21) Auto Rickshaw
 * 22) predominant power source
 * 23) Carbon Dioxide Tax
 * 24) Nurses uniforms
 * 25) Green Hand-Drying
 * 26) Chemistry
 * 27) Toothpaste foaming
 * 28) How Many Trees?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 6


 * 1) Discworld's sun
 * 2) protien
 * 3) Wikipedia
 * 4) Old men with young hair
 * 5) Optional body parts
 * 6) value of voltage in power supply
 * 7) glassified nuclear waste
 * 8) Salting the earth
 * 9) Solar energy
 * 10) The Sun
 * 11) P.O.E.R.K.W.I.U.
 * 12) Silicon in Diode
 * 13) Birth Control
 * 14) What will humans look like in a billion years time?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 7


 * 1) Runny nose in cold weather
 * 2) Near and Far - The Automobile Rearview Mirror
 * 3) Moon
 * 4) NAD+ turning into NADH
 * 5) Ionosphere page
 * 6) Driving behind a truck
 * 7) If an 18 wheeler is driving along with the back open, is it windier inside the trailer, or on top?
 * 8) Data communication and Network
 * 9) the homeostatic nature of skin repair.
 * 10) Scooting
 * 11) how..................
 * 12) tmospheric chemistry units
 * 13) Calculating a change in temperature during irreversible adiabatic expansion.
 * 14) Magnets
 * 15) effect of oil spills on frogs
 * 16) High tension transmission
 * 17) herbs
 * 18) Hypothermia
 * 19) CAPITAL PUNISHMENT METHODS
 * 20) Looking for the name of a disease
 * 21) Weight/force
 * 22) Retarded
 * D

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 8


 * 1) B Cell Activation
 * 2) Musical dyslexia
 * 3) Wiki Article 'Antibody' - Activation of complement
 * 4) Black hole mystery
 * 5) Odd nausea
 * 6) The history of constants
 * 7) Medical practice in France 1820
 * 8) Must I really use "alkaline cells LR6"
 * 9) Criminology
 * 10) Medicine
 * 11) Apollo moon landing hoax theory
 * 12) reaction of ammonium sulphate with sodium hydroxide.
 * 13) Dark Matter

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 9


 * 1) Nose bleed
 * 2) Electromagnetic Radiation Communication Devices
 * 3) discovery of rhinovirus
 * 4) Amount of indicated substance
 * 5) Calories burned
 * 6) Temperature of nuclear waste
 * 7) Six pack
 * 8) What you can learn about LASIK from commercials
 * 9) Stains (biology)
 * 10) Crossing satellites
 * 11) Embryology
 * 12) Black holes of different sizes?
 * 13) Old images of eyes
 * 14) Tryptophan hydroxylase  reactivation/reformation
 * 15) Paper Parachute
 * 16) engine

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 10


 * 1) Temperature Rising
 * 2) six pack
 * 3) ATP
 * 4) Thermostat ?
 * 5) alt and Pepper
 * 6) Homozygous and Heterozygous mutations
 * 7) Chemistry joke.
 * 8) dSLR Lenses
 * 9) Symptoms of insufficient sleep
 * 10) Static electricity?
 * 11) Why are mice eyes like black or red beads?
 * 12) How was cheese invented when pre-Roman population lactose-intolerant?
 * 13) Supplementary prescribing.
 * 14) The whale

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 11


 * 1) Antimatter Production
 * 2) Vitamin C/citric acid
 * 3) horseshoe crabs
 * 4) 3 questions
 * 5) cannons
 * 6) Request for Equivalent Specification
 * 7) Surface Tension
 * 8) lighting
 * 9) Natural Selection theory without 'agency'?
 * 10) Human body temperature
 * 11) solid state pulsed laser
 * 12) What are cleaning erasers made from?
 * 13) Sleep apnea and oxygen deficit
 * 14) hysics question- building a crane

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 12


 * 1) Investigating the etymology of the term Backhoe
 * 2) That's a very strange comet indeed!
 * 3) Particle Accelerators
 * 4) drying a log
 * 5) Singularity size?
 * 6) estimate temp of room
 * 7) "a constant-amplitude, constant-frequency sinusoid in  channel k should have identical analysis phases in all nearby channels."
 * 8) Inventor of the scratchie ticket
 * 9) aqueous copper
 * 10) Help me prove the Earth (and Universe) is over 5,000 years old
 * 11) A mannan-digesting enzyme?
 * 12) Guns Fired Into The Air
 * 13) Balanced forces
 * 14) Miniature nuclear power plant?
 * 15) Science Learning Resources
 * 16) Depth
 * 17) Paint that generates electricity...
 * 18) Age of earth

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 13


 * 1) de Broglie / Compton wavelengths
 * 2) Serotonin/Melatonin in nightshift workers
 * 3) Helium to lift 5kg
 * 4) Parallel Line Assay
 * 5) Lack  of Antigens
 * 6) Banyan trees and adventitious roots

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 14


 * 1) Why do faster moving fluids have lower pressure?
 * 2) Wind and toilets
 * 3) Digital camera shutters
 * 4) chest muscles
 * 5) William Giaque
 * 6) Environment
 * 7) canonical partition function
 * 8) units
 * 9) milk shake
 * 10) Conservation of Energy and Rolling a ball down a ramp
 * 11) e.coli
 * 12) Transmission of communication signal along with high voltage transmission line
 * 13) Science question on Miscellaneous Desk
 * 14) Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics
 * 15) Trick chemistry question.
 * 16) tonsilitis
 * 17)  physics junior cert experiment
 * 18) a maths proof
 * 19) Metals and Metals
 * 20) Dentistry as a separate course
 * 21) hat is repsonsible for eye drying that comes with sleepiness?
 * 22) Chicken breasts
 * 23) Absolutely zero not really that cold?
 * 24) bullets from spitfires and hurricanes
 * 25) latent heat

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 15


 * 1) Coilgun
 * 2) "Sodium Coma"
 * 3) Herion OD = 1-10mg Narcan. Cocaine OD = ?
 * 4) Steroids and HGH
 * 5) alling
 * 6) starfish
 * 7) Hallucinogens in palliative care?
 * 8) Repetition speed for strength exercises- fast or slow
 * 9) Withdrawal of Supplies of amitripyline tablets
 * 10) earth
 * 11) Audio - Centre Channel Extractor on Adobe Audition
 * 12) ants
 * 13) circumcision and aids
 * 14) phosphoric acid as electrolyte
 * 15) Gums
 * 16) The Temporal Resolution of the Compound Eye
 * 17) High temperature nuclear waste repository
 * 18) Digitising photos
 * 19) Tobacco Addictiveness
 * 20) Conjunctivitus

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 16


 * 1) pyramid power
 * 2) Explosives
 * 3) What sort of apple was this?
 * 4) Large intestine
 * 5) Natural Resources
 * 6) What are opioid relative potencies? to morphine?
 * 7) INvestigatory project
 * 8) Copper gluconate in breath fresheners
 * 9) examples on elasticity,plasticity and brittleness
 * 10) Waste water treatment
 * 11) Bio-gas
 * 12) Wellbutrin & Zyban
 * 13) TV reception
 * 14) Homologous vs Analogous
 * 15) pill identification chart

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 17


 * 1) Blood cells discarded per day
 * 2) Valence orbitals
 * 3) Kill Mosquito Larvae in a Water Tank
 * 4) six pack
 * 5) Which kinds of cells undergo cellular respiration?
 * 6) SL & XR
 * 7) water heater corrosion
 * 8) in Reactions
 * 9) Digital Extension
 * 10) Fish mate
 * 11) Parasitic Worm
 * 12) Sensitiveish Microphone Advice
 * 13) Evil Beth
 * 14) Is the (north) polar ice cap floating ?
 * 15) Neurologist/Neurosurgeon

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 18


 * 1) trismus &faciculations of upperlimb during menstrual cycle
 * 2) Sexual abstinence
 * 3) Human Adaptations
 * 4) A drop of water in space
 * 5) Formation of a comet
 * 6) Decaffinated coffee beans
 * 7) Drying out silica gel
 * 8) Walking
 * 9) books
 * 10) Video games a cure for ADD?
 * 11) Quantum Mechanics
 * 12) Weight Fluctuations
 * 13) How does panting reduce heat?
 * 14) Gargle salty liquid
 * 15) How dangerous, if ingested, is shampoo?
 * 16) Creation of the VCR internal clock
 * 17) Sense of touch

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 20


 * 1) New cochleas
 * 2) Sauna questions
 * 3) empirical formula
 * 4) Text Color
 * 5) honey
 * 6) Chemical Reaction
 * 7) Evolution question
 * 8) lysergic acid diethylamide
 * 9) No-op microprocessors
 * 10) owner/investor model
 * 11) Ions affecting Rheumatoid Arthritis
 * 12) Is my daughter being poisoned?
 * 13) To Refreeze.. Or not to Refreeze
 * 14) Random Question
 * 15) Where is the origin/homeland of the Mongol (Chinese) race?
 * 16) LD50
 * 17) B12
 * 18) weight
 * 19) Matter
 * 1) weight
 * 2) Matter

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 21


 * 1) Name this bug
 * 2) Pantheon building maintenance ?
 * 3) Melons
 * 4) tension in a rope
 * 5) How can you tell if a gemstone is real?
 * 6) Craft
 * 7) The darkest hour is just before dawn.
 * 8) Water and Sodium Electric Power
 * 9) Papular Mucinosis
 * 10) Vacuum balloon
 * 11) Evolutionary Biology perspectives on Fear of Speaking in Public
 * 12) "Stable" Hydrogen?
 * 13) EE - Why do fast battery chargers have larger power bricks?
 * 14) Listing of AC power cord plugs?
 * 15) black holes
 * 16) Poseidon
 * 17) Solar system and stardust

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 22


 * 1) Electric Kettles
 * 2) Why are skis no longer made from wood?
 * 3) Textual vs Pictorial Memory
 * 4) Water displacement
 * 5) Gauss (unit)
 * 6) Bromelain, the protease enzyme in pineapple

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 23


 * 1) Motorway building
 * 2) Battery Producing Two Voltages Simultaneously?
 * 3) Kettle Boil Off
 * 4) Brightest Bulb On 12v At Low Cost
 * 5) Correlation
 * 6) HOW TO find a PDF copy of the book?
 * 7) Casino Royale Poison
 * 8) Estimating backup time of a electric backup power device
 * 9) Faraday Cage Use In Security
 * 10) Why quarantine astronauts?
 * 11) Critical criteria for human life...?
 * 12) nyone got a manometer?
 * 13) resultant forces
 * 14) Ear remedy for loud bang
 * 15) Capacitor Calculations
 * 16) Blood color ?
 * 17) Medicine books
 * 18) Searching for a way of contacting Neurosurgeon Yasargil and his Swiss Surgeon Team
 * 19) Flower blossom
 * 20) Normal hearing and perforated eardrum
 * 21) Give The Focal Length Game!
 * 22) hat is that green stuff inside grasshoppers when you squish them?
 * 23) How to write elements
 * 24) Sexual Safety
 * 25)  Rider question
 * 26) Things that go bang
 * 27) elium crisis

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 24


 * 1) Observation whilst feeding the gulls...
 * 2) cognitive intelligence - name for the occurrence of role reversal between subject and object in test situation.
 * 3) ged whiskey
 * 4) Dominant genes?
 * 5) monoline roots
 * 6) Perfect Hurricane
 * 7) Squeeze Those LEDSs!
 * 8) One Device. One Non-rotating Speaker. 360 Degrees
 * 9) Reading in the Dark
 * 10) Custard Bread?
 * 11) Infrared Filters
 * 12) Immitation compulsion
 * 13) Fluorescent light is dead...
 * 14) Lips
 * 15) Why is the neutron more massive than the proton?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 25


 * 1) IR Transmissibility Of Materials
 * 2) The jagged things in a dog's mouth
 * 3) Different tastes of bottled water
 * 4) Heavy water production
 * 5) lasers
 * 6) Methadone
 * 7) Lizard speed indicative of dinosaur speed...?
 * 8) THE BRAIN
 * 9) Evolution versus Creation...?
 * 10) Usefulness of solubility
 * 11) Calculating voltage
 * 12) This equation describes... what?

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 26


 * 1) Orbit of a particle
 * 2) How to seep and steep herbal teas and remedies
 * 3) Budgie video on YouTube
 * 4) Capacitance of batteries.- its a hard one this!
 * 5) Riskiness Rankings
 * 6) electroscope
 * 7) Eyes
 * 8) Friction
 * 9) Physics
 * 10) orth Atlantic oscillation
 * 11) Squirrels
 * 12) Cation and anions
 * 13) lassification of an amoeba
 * 14) Bacteria in the Intestines
 * 15) Paternal Age

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 27


 * 1) Lack of Visual 'Imagination'
 * 2) Is red and pink coral illegal in Canada?
 * 3) skins compression clothing
 * 4) muscles
 * 5) Science name
 * 6) What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times)
 * 7)  What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times)   - PART 2
 * 8) Lipitor and grapefruit
 * 9) Nuclear war
 * 10) Tracking of dynamically-changing objects on TV
 * 11) Fatty Acid Enzymes
 * 12) What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times)   - PART 2
 * 13) Trans fat question
 * 14) instrument for measuring an orifice diameter

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 28


 * 1) adhesives
 * 2) Transformation of energy
 * 3) Electronics: IC that will take a 0-5V analog input and output a 0-100% PWM
 * 4) Ear infection
 * 5) Birds' hearing
 * 6) Futuristic Glass Touch Sensor
 * 7) Super Duper Bright LEDs
 * 8) Carbon nanotube
 * 9) Suicidal animals
 * 10) wearing rubber gloves
 * 11) Why does chalk cause fever?
 * 12) Soret band? yes/no
 * 13) Painful but nonlethal stabbing
 * 14) Suffering from exposure to Frost, cold and water
 * 15) On the sun...
 * 16) Is there really any difference between "friction" and "collision"
 * 17) Faster-than-light aspects
 * 18) stream velocities for Red River (USA)
 * 19) Egg shells

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 29


 * 1) Relativity of light
 * 2) DAD in hydrology
 * 3) Running muscle
 * 4) what seems cheaper, $9.99 or $10
 * 5) Color Changing Glass
 * 6) ndentation marks
 * 7) WATER GOING BANG!
 * 8) query (Fullform of Rx ?)
 * 9) Unknown reptile eggs
 * 10) buses
 * 11) 2 questions
 * 12) time interval
 * 13) Focusing the sun's rays through a giant orbital lens?

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 30


 * 1) Vegetarians and Meat
 * 2) fluorescent tubes
 * 3) Vomiting reaction to endives in children
 * 4) Stem cells
 * 5) Tarantula found in San Francisco Bay Area
 * 6) Lightsabers?
 * 7) immunology
 * 8) Spinning and orbiting
 * 9) EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
 * 10) retrovirus and telomerase
 * 11) British broad-based cloud physicist Frank Ludlam
 * 12) Veg food
 * 13) North Star
 * 14) RBMK
 * 15) Aerogel properties
 * 16) Snowfall and Sir Isaac Newton

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 31


 * 1) Seeing the Moon in the morning
 * 2) Ju 52
 * 3) not logged in message?
 * 4) Silence
 * 5) Harry Potter and the Deadly Elbows
 * 6) Birds hopping and walking
 * 7) Antibiotics
 * 8) NaF
 * 9) Instant unconciousness from long-drop hanging?