Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2007

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 1


 * 1) TV set circuit mystery
 * 2) CD4+CD25bright
 * 3) Strong Interaction Exploitation for Macro-Engineering Hobby Project
 * 4) Most desirable place to live
 * 5) Clanks
 * 6) Hypothalamus and mammillary body
 * 7) McDonalds Fries
 * 8) Jesus illusion
 * 9) snowing

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 2


 * 1) High temp superglue
 * 2) ant trails
 * 3) QUESTION ABUOT TEH TERMINATOR LOLZ (seriously!)
 * 4) HIV (AIDS)
 * 5) Chicxulub crater and Plate tectonics
 * 6) This and that book approach
 * 7) fibre transfer forensics
 * 8) Flushing toilet
 * 9) Who will die earlier?
 * 10) Camera settings for astrophotography
 * 11) Racing across the universe while sitting on the couch
 * 12) Name of a medieval herbal medicine manuscript?
 * 13) Strategies for modern cities to become increasingly energy efficient
 * 14) Electrical Resonance
 * 15) electricity consumption of heater

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 3


 * 1) Skin Tightening
 * 2) Langmuir adsorption isotherm
 * 3) advanced technologies
 * 4) dreams
 * 5) Viruses are all around us?
 * 6) giardia/mitochondria
 * 7) Dry hands, lips
 * 8) Sugar in Soft Drinks
 * 9) list of various maps per country
 * 10) Salt Water Pool Levels
 * 11) Junk DNA
 * 12) Proper interval locality theory

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 4


 * 1) Guppy
 * 2) Processor Cooling
 * 3) Little fishes
 * 4) one scientist's take on evolution
 * 5) Iranian nuclear video
 * 6) Emotional music
 * 7) Level of inflammation determines speed of healing process?
 * 8) compass needle
 * 9) ammonia
 * 10) Gasoline-methanol blends?
 * 11) telescope type
 * 12) Mystery Vegetable

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 5


 * 1) Company
 * 2) downhill,luge weight balance
 * 3) Cold Chills
 * 4) Poorly Defined Triple/Critical Points?
 * 5) Unconscious sleep?
 * 6) Is DNA unique to Earth?
 * 7) Taxonomy
 * 8) Junk DNA Part 2
 * 9) Human eye size
 * 10) Something odd I saw on Discovery Channel

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 6


 * 1) F-35 questions
 * 2) atomic number
 * 3) ring finger
 * 4) variable frequency drive
 * 5) cosmic microwave background radiation
 * 6) Faraday cages
 * 7) Purple sky
 * 8) How well do battery electric cars perform under cold and hot temperatures?
 * 9) Floppy McDonald's Fries
 * 10) Does Ball Lightning have an charge?
 * 11) Can palms grow in Switzerland and the UK?
 * 12) What's the largest supermassive black hole that we know of?
 * 13) Mosquitoes the size of birds
 * 14) Mammal lips
 * 15) The heart

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 7


 * 1) Need to burp!
 * 2) Hydrogen Peroxide
 * 3) Malt liquor
 * 4) Gene transfer a mutation?
 * 5) Neurobiology: Effects of decreased membrane capacitance
 * 6) Cold Car Experiment
 * 7) Hovercar?
 * 8) Chemical(s) responsible for Pine/Christmas Tree Scent
 * 9) Testosterone Question
 * 10) Autothermal Reforming and Modelling Software
 * 11) We all came from the sun?
 * 12) Gravity fields, mass, volume, density
 * 13) Are living beings mostly comprised of water and carbon?
 * 14) UK telephone extension wiring
 * 15) Maternal depressions effects on the Family
 * 16) Photographs
 * 17) Molecular solution

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 8


 * 1) Final cause of death in cancer
 * 2) How to solve Physics Problem by Using Kinetic Energy Principle?
 * 3) Electric Shavers
 * 4) Hermaphrodites
 * 5) Unknown type of digital or optical distortion
 * 6) Identify squirrel species
 * 7) Blacksmithing messes with my hair
 * 8) Laptops
 * 9) Flame from engine exhaust
 * 10) Formula One Car Speed
 * 11) Hydrogen Cars - Potential Future Issue?
 * 12) Temperature and Breathing rate

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 9


 * 1) inverse sqaure law for vortices
 * 2) Aspherical Lenses
 * 3) My Mobile Phone Underwent Strange Situation!
 * 4) Journal Article Database
 * 5) How much does solar energy cost to produce ?
 * 6) Does Cefdinir dehydrate you, or am I getting seriously windburnt?
 * 7) NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) Satellite

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 10


 * 1) Fan curve calculation
 * 2) LED blinking with 555
 * 3) Euler's astronomy
 * 4) Corn, an artifact?
 * 5) medical abbreviation
 * 6) Problems with Blazars
 * 7) Solar Cell Production Cost
 * 8) Measuring Snowfall vs Rainfall
 * 9) Why no lightning during a snow storm?
 * 10) Tongue twister
 * 11) Lightning striking a lake
 * 12) Unknown arachnid species
 * 13) splenocyte irradiation
 * 14) Aspirin and Coughing
 * 15) Sweet biscuits (= cookies) and savoury crackers
 * 16) CIDP -- referrence to the Minnesota Quality Pork Processors
 * 17) Licky fingers & placky bags

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 11


 * 1) How can I dilute perfume?
 * 2) Magical keycard
 * 3) Biology Mark Scheme
 * 4) Hollow Earth theory and why we can't drill deeper than 15 miles into earth
 * 5) What species of Lotus Flower is this?
 * 6) Enzyme Turnover
 * 7) Can blackholes produce antimatter?
 * 8) Christmas trees
 * 9) Eat it! Fruit rinds
 * 10) Gravitational effect of an ellipsoid
 * 11) Cold Chill or Holy Shiver
 * 12) SNRIs/Anti-depressants
 * 13) Cold confused with wet

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 12


 * 1) Amount of ohms and stereo speakers
 * 2) Benzoylecgonine levels
 * 3) Medicine
 * 4) Chemistry (gases)
 * 5) Orange Ice Cream
 * 6) Today's xkcd
 * 7) Geomagnetism
 * 8) sources
 * 9) Pigeons always pecking the tarmac for invisible food
 * 10) why frogs disappear
 * 11) carrying capacity
 * 12) Gravity
 * 13) Maximum/minumum temperature forecasts.
 * 14) Respiration protocols
 * 15) Gold that's heavier than pure gold?
 * 16) Aliens
 * 17) Backcrossing
 * 18) Ice Cream
 * 19) Light perception and evolution

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 13


 * 1) loss of power in optical frequencies
 * 2) Child pyromaniac
 * 3) Rationale behind intraperitoneal injection of immune cells?
 * 4) crystallization
 * 5) Flour
 * 6) Cooking Meat
 * 7) Average Interstellar Distance
 * 8) US: Pounds, ounces, and grains
 * 9) Who discovered that Armadillos have identical offspring and how did they do that?
 * 10) Sherbet and Water
 * 11) Origin of Life
 * 12) Biology
 * 13) Black cats
 * 14) Ex Vivo In Vivo?
 * 15) Symptoms and side effects
 * 16) Global warming and over population

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 14


 * 1) Stressful situations
 * 2) Disease
 * 3) Numerous Questions About Space
 * 4) More fuel efficient vs. less air polution (cars)
 * 5) Plants and carbon
 * 6) A solution to car pollution (hey that rhymes)
 * 7) Carbon at extremely low temperature
 * 8) Volume of universe compressed
 * 9) polar capacitor
 * 10) How close to a black hole before you are killed?
 * 11) Water + Hot oil
 * 12) Dams
 * 13) Rising CO2 content in atmosphere: effect on human breathing?
 * 14) Absolute Zero Possible?
 * 15) Why do Cells divide?
 * 16) Speed of light

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 15


 * 1) Best armor-penetrating caliber cartirdge?
 * 2) "Troubleshooting" PCR protocol
 * 3) Whats special about frequency?
 * 4) Energy efficient halogens
 * 5) preventation of  Bow legs?
 * 6) wanna pee  . . . but can't . ..
 * 7) Termite ranges
 * 8) DNA sequencing
 * 9) The pain of childbirth

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 16


 * 1) Fertility of male cockatiels?
 * 2) Picking off a mole
 * 3) [edit] wanna pee . . . but can't . . . Part 2
 * 4) Quality of English in scientific publications
 * 5) axon diameter
 * 6) vortex dynamics : decay and impulse
 * 7) Devonian Sandstone?
 * 8) This Is Not A Homework Question.
 * 9) Tasting through my fingers?!
 * 10) Negative Black Hole

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 17


 * 1) cough medecine
 * 2) MRI flying object craziness...
 * 3) Paraphrasing
 * 4) I`ve got a question about a sombero
 * 5) What does a ray's cheek do?
 * 6) Why does dampening darken?
 * 7) Turning Carbon Dioxide into useful fuel
 * 8) Relevance of PCR to northern blotting
 * 9) Rationale behind touchdown PCR
 * 10) Intracortical networks of connections among subsets of cortical regions
 * 11) Power Engineering Graduation Project
 * 12) Gulls and dolphins
 * 13) Moon pictures to show scale

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 18


 * 1) What happens to weight and pressure at centre of Earth?
 * 2) values for ATP hydrolysis  - enthalpy and entropy
 * 3) 2 cars crash head on
 * 4) Two grounds not matching
 * 5) US State with highest percentage of forests?
 * 6) Plants: CO2, respiration etc.
 * 7) Possible to use neutrinos for communication?
 * 8) Hydrogenated polyisobutene?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 19


 * 1) atmosphere and technical atmosphere
 * 2) art therapy murals  with hiv/aids patients
 * 3) Anomalous expansion
 * 4) liquid and air
 * 5) Species
 * 6) Bibliographic database
 * 7) Genetics Question - Naturally multicoloured hair (Eg brown and blond)
 * 8) Oak tree type identification
 * 9) red robin
 * 10) What is Fd with respect to antibodies?
 * 11) Biggest featureless snowman made by a single person without using machinery?
 * 12) Time and relativity
 * 13) Possible to convert impact force in joules to force in kilograms?
 * 14) Creationism vs. science/evolution
 * 15) Do people get dirtier or cleaner as they grow up?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 20


 * 1) Mail delivery
 * 2) Some objects I can see through my telescope at what magnification?
 * 3) Telescope lenses/eyepieces' optical coating
 * 4) Twelve Days of Christmas
 * 5) acidic?
 * 6) Addresses
 * 7) Physics
 * 8) Science/Sound Waves
 * 9) Freezing point of petrol
 * 10) Allergens
 * 11) Our Solar System
 * 12) What's the main cause of passengers' death in a plane crash?
 * 13) Water breathing
 * 14) Antisocial personality Disorder
 * 15) 2 tubules 1 glomerulus
 * 16) Running house lights from a 12 volt battery
 * 17) Counter-Immuno Electrophoresis
 * 18) I KNOW YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIAGNOSE, BUT JUST THROW ME A BONE
 * 19) Luminex multiplex cytokine analysis

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 21


 * 1) gasoline vapor
 * 2) Eclectus parrot: how much fruit should he be eating?
 * 3) Machining
 * 4) Tanning is Skin Cells in Trauma
 * 5) Why don't we eat carnivores?
 * 6) Backcrossing
 * 7) slack action and the physics professor
 * 8) Neutral
 * 9) Competition vs cooperation
 * 10) Greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency
 * 11) Grey meat
 * 12) Kelvin water dropper

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 22


 * 1) Natives and booze
 * 2) Appearance of reflected laser light
 * 3) LED when it's blown off
 * 4) Is Nitreous Oxide for real in automobiles?
 * 5) Science/Sound waves
 * 6) What is this insect?
 * 7) Wholemeal bread
 * 8) two slits, QED and light
 * 9) parkinison's disease  [specifically dyskinesia ]
 * 10) radioactive decay
 * 11) Cystus
 * 12) What species of bird is this?
 * 13) Memories from young age

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 23


 * 1) Red spot on an Egg Yolk
 * 2) Airplane safety
 * 3) How much of a sphere can you see from one point?
 * 4) Taste of vegetable oils
 * 5) Coloured snow
 * 6) telescope aperture required to view astronomical objects
 * 7) Moon's hidden face
 * 8) battery
 * 9) Number of animals consumed during a human lifetime

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 24


 * 1) Ugh! What the hell is this?
 * 2) lortab vs lorcet
 * 3) Breathing rate
 * 4) Floating in a black hole
 * 5) Was there a solar eclipse in Ukraine on 12 August 1654?
 * 6) Tuning

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 25


 * 1) formal charge of sulphur in sulphuric acid
 * 2) Help identify this odd plant!
 * 3) About Plant's Cells

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 26


 * 1) reactions to drugs
 * 2) Sex - Related
 * 3) It's that time of the year again... (science edition)
 * 4) Winter Solstice
 * 5) Digital to analog convertor IC sampling Vs settling time confusion
 * 6) Return protocol for Michael Collins
 * 7) loaded question
 * 8) Athletic Performance
 * 9) anatomy
 * 10) Stainless steel, nickle, pulled by magnet

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 27


 * 1) Triple vision
 * 2) grapes in a microwave
 * 3) Tree hollow vs tree hole
 * 4) Morphine Effects
 * 5) Couples
 * 6) What is amitotic?
 * 7) Free basic chemistry textbook?
 * 8) Cleaning elderly and disabled people

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 28


 * 1) Heating value of Nitrogen
 * 2) What is the least damaged ecosystem/biome?
 * 3) Blood Clot and Cancer
 * 4) Eclipses
 * 5) percentage of caffeine in coffee
 * 6) Snail mail
 * 7) Oil converted to jelly
 * 8) Paper tearing question
 * 9) animals living on humans
 * 10) Concentrations Question
 * 11) Psychological basis for racial prejudice
 * 12) Chewing Wintergreen Lifesavers with your Mouth Open in the Dark! SOLVED!
 * 13) Why is toe-walking so bad?
 * 14) Electronic Circuit for Generating a Gaussian Signal
 * 15) The Burning of the atmosphere.
 * 16) Am I who I was last year?
 * 17) Operating Department Practitioners

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 29


 * 1) Amount of H2O throughout Earth's history?
 * 2) Backcrossing
 * 3) Watermelon snow SOLVED
 * 4) time travel: looking for scientific-sounding mechanism for a SPECIFIC (new?) sci-fi idea
 * 5) What can be classified as a reducing sugar?

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 30


 * 1) muscle building
 * 2) What do volcanoes smell like?
 * 3) Aluminum tubing used in a distillery
 * 4) Fermentation of starch versus sugar
 * 5) Coma and pregnant
 * 6) Localised blushing
 * 7) Scale to measure pleasure
 * 8) When did the first star form, and how is it doing today?
 * 9) What are the chances of this?
 * 10) CR123 Lithium Ion batteries and cheap immatations  Does Amp output meet requirements??? for Flashlight
 * 11) How now transgenic cow?
 * 12) Identify this dinosaur?
 * 13) Can it be possible to keep a budgerigar and an eclectus in the same cage???

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 December 31


 * 1) Black Holes!
 * 2) Reason for shift in apparent solar midday at winter solstice
 * 3) Galactic Rotation Curves influenced by time dilation?
 * 4) Magma affected by gravity?
 * 5) labelled figure of laminar air flow -biotechnology
 * 6) Could I walk on the Sun, hypothetically speaking
 * 7) Paleonthologists
 * 8) Below 5% Alcoholic Beverage
 * 9) What would the surface of the sun look like?
 * 10) Airplane safety (2)
 * 11) Do genital integrity groups absolutely oppose religious circumcision?
 * 12) Need Ocean Animal Info
 * 13) confuesed
 * 14) Passage number
 * 15) Decay Rates