Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2008

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 1


 * 1) radiant barrier
 * 2) Taste of Food Additives
 * 3) Nova and Supernova
 * 4) Motorcycle Dynamics
 * 5) Time and causality
 * 6) Strain Gauges
 * 7) Herpes research
 * 8) Less known cell line resources
 * 9) Timespeed is increasing overtime

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 2


 * 1) If the universe is constantly expanding....
 * 2) Physics
 * 3) Can we harness the power of tectonic plate movements?
 * 4) Big Bang in the USA
 * 5) Solving Britain's housing crisis
 * 6) Acids taste sour...
 * 7) Limit to the number of discovered elements
 * 8) Caffeine in potatos?
 * 9) Brita water filter
 * 10) Bomb into Lake
 * 11) Question about volume of helium in a balloon
 * 12) arguments against vaccinating babies

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 3


 * 1) Game Over
 * 2) Do we have the engineering capability to dig a hole all the way thru the Earth?
 * 3) chemical reaction of copper with limestone
 * 4) Making metal
 * 5) Escaping a black hole
 * 6) Coffee
 * 7) Protein Structure
 * 8) Looking back in time through space
 * 9) Smelling your own B.O.
 * 10) Measurement of the speed of light
 * 11) Rare as hen's teeth
 * 12) Mercury's extra day
 * 13) Will wind farms, solar power,and ocean wave power destroy the Earth?
 * 14) Parrot - how cold is too cold for her?

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 4


 * 1) Kinetic energy weapons or using "flying crowbars" to kill tanks
 * 2) Losing weight by cold weather?
 * 3) Knee arthroscopy
 * 4) Drug making
 * 5) Creating a new page
 * 6) Decline in LED light output after several weeks of use
 * 7) Another LED question
 * 8) The Universal Expansion Paradox
 * 9) Fox killing 13 penguins
 * 10) Double cross product of angular velocity

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 5


 * 1) Einstein's Theory Of Relativity
 * 2) Designing difficultiy
 * 3) Speed though time
 * 4) Carbon monoxide poisoning
 * 5) Is this a legitimate scientific study?
 * 6) Energy
 * 7) LED Grow Lights
 * 8) Is it possible to smell your own breath?
 * 9) Apparent contradiction in information about tumours

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 6


 * 1) Lysosomes in plants
 * 2) Stabilised Pool Products
 * 3) Partial and total derivatives
 * 4) Strange phenomenom
 * 5) Inverse relationship between length of work shift and task performance, employee health
 * 6) Magically clean acrylic yarn
 * 7) Diamonds
 * 8) Irradiated currency
 * 9) Bush vs. Obama
 * 10) Diffusive Systems
 * 11) Radioactive Decay

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 7


 * 1) Electric Tooth Brush
 * 2) Rare meat
 * 3) Natural orbitational phenomenon
 * 4) nepeta
 * 5) Why do CFL bulbs take a while to reach full brightness?
 * 6) What puts the fluorescence in fluorescent lights?
 * 7) making Part II
 * 8) Asking the gods of science for some help.
 * 9) Common descent
 * 10) Displaying carbon and hydrogens in Symyx/ISIS draw
 * 11) A California earthquake causing an associated blackout and causing people to see the Milky Way
 * 12) Rhizobium
 * 13) Long train journey
 * 14) Citrus identification

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 8


 * 1) Carbs from Vegetables
 * 2) Mushroom Substrate
 * 3) Compressing Water
 * 4) UK DNA taken from criminals
 * 5) Human body voltage
 * 6) Longevity
 * 7) Island of Stability
 * 8) Wikipedia, Censorship and Child Pornography
 * 9) Post-docs
 * 10) Continuously-cooling device?
 * 11) Traction for tires.

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 9


 * 1) Coconut water as an IV
 * 2) Extracting oxygen from ferrous oxide (FeO)
 * 3) Time Travel
 * 4) Containing a super-volcano?
 * 5) Stellar Classification
 * 6) Energy crisis
 * 7) Speed and mass
 * 8) Sequence line-ups
 * 9) Why does light refract upward at cold temps?
 * 10) Cheese and intestinal blockage.
 * 11) Road salt
 * 12) How do you use microwaves to find out if there's foil inside butter tubs?
 * 13) cosmic string
 * 14) Native Americans and Atlantis
 * 15) Does lemon juice damage your teeth?

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 10


 * 1) Tea and diabetics
 * 2) Fleeting bad memories
 * 3) Jets flying over populated areas
 * 4) Reducing fat
 * 5) Clockwork Toy (Homemade)
 * 6) LPG
 * 7) Test your microwave with a mobile phone?
 * 8) paper mache external fuel tank
 * 9) Diamonds Part 2
 * 10) Travis Pastrana
 * 11) Washing up
 * 12) Lonely inventor builds working cyborg girlfriend in own home - malarkey or effective way?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 11


 * 1) Yerba mate
 * 2) plants
 * 3) Laser cooling
 * 4) Crystallisation esp. seen in ice... what is the magic of the hexagon?
 * 5) Inhabitable planets larger than the Earth?
 * 6) Erection
 * 7) 1 calorie
 * 8) Spinal injury
 * 9) Duck question
 * 10) Energy generating floors
 * 11) Vanadium foil is used in cladding titanium to steel

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 12


 * 1) cactus
 * 2) Detecting bullets and Improvised Explosive Devices
 * 3) Water waste
 * 4) Question about Recursion
 * 5) Pump type
 * 6) travertine

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 13


 * 1) Calc-sinter ???
 * 2) Small children and names
 * 3) What's the cause of an inability to distinguish an actor from a character?
 * 4) Schrödinger's Particle Accelerator
 * 5) Faster means lower pressure?
 * 6) Determining the sex of a seagull?
 * 7) Pills
 * 8) Ocean floor water temperature
 * 9) ESPVR curve shift
 * 10) TOOLS/HARDWARE IE:Europian style "cup hinges".
 * 11) Freezing hot water
 * 12) Chemical depilatory
 * 13) Temporal Fenestra

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 14


 * 1) Tuberculosis
 * 2) Effect of various pH levels on pepsin hydrolysis
 * 3) cacti
 * 4) Use of prions in anti viral combat
 * 5) Bond Strengths and Electronegativities
 * 6) are all cactus edible?
 * 7) Why is bacon so delicious?
 * 8) telegraph network structure
 * 9) Nuclear Re-breather?
 * 10) Children
 * 11) BLAST not working?
 * 12) foods changing color
 * 13) Colourblindness
 * 14) Driverless cars as means against IEDs
 * 15) Human consciousness
 * 16) Andromeda collision
 * 17) Speed of sound in SF6

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 15


 * 1) Awesome memory of conductors
 * 2) PRIVATELY FUNDED CANCER RESEARCH FACILITIES IN THE U.K.?
 * 3) Hippocampal dysplasia.
 * 4) Density

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 16


 * 1) Density (follow on from the above)
 * 2) A critical dictionary of psychology?
 * 3) the method to reduce alcohol or menthol scent
 * 4) Flat screen moving volumetric display with full vertical and horizontal parallax?
 * 5) Most powerful force on earth

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 17


 * 1) The Vagina and an imperforate hymen
 * 2) Does human hair change color while decomposing in water?
 * 3) Liquid light
 * 4) speed of sound
 * 5) plants
 * 6) Indian apple
 * 7) Hiroshima Peace Memorial
 * 8) What is the difference between a male seed and a female seed?
 * 9) Researching Invention for child's project
 * 10) Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Question
 * 11) Helium latex Balloon Questions
 * 12) "Good" Chemical
 * 13) Evolution of the liver
 * 14) Copurification, Pull-down assays, and co-immunoprecipitation

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 18


 * 1) Brazilian copperfish
 * 2) cheap lead testing
 * 3) Could high energy alcohol be used as a jet fuel?
 * 4) fluorimeter/turbimieter
 * 5) Exoplanet detections in next decade
 * 6) Expansion of the Universe and Perpetual Motion.

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 19


 * 1) Getting a Shine On
 * 2) The sky is falling! Positive or negative feedback mechanism?
 * 3) how to reduce alcohol or menthol smell but keep the cool function
 * 4) IMMUNOLOGY
 * 5) Conjoined twins longevity question
 * 6) Demineralised water
 * 7) beta sisteral
 * 8) Symbol for Litre: uppercase or lowercase?
 * 9) Burt Rutan comments on V-22 Osprey and 1960's tiltrotor prototype
 * 10) optics
 * 11) How the heck does a car move?
 * 12) Mysterious Music Box Malfunction

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 20


 * 1) Eye Layers
 * 2) Question on Perception
 * 3) Milk
 * 4) Why do young women giggle all the time?
 * 5) Artificially recreating the earth's magnetic field
 * 6) Flash point of fission in atmosphere
 * 7) Why do some children have the concept of growing down after one grows up?
 * 8) Why does chronic stress sometimes lead to stroke
 * 9) is it possible to produce a novel algorithm USING THE POWER OF THE MIND ALONE? (no other tools of any kind)
 * 10) What does the "LIO" prefix mean in the scientific name of "Pocket Mice"?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 21


 * 1) Hey, have they ever expanded on that life creating experiment thing?
 * 2) Lipid Layer
 * 3) Identifying an unknown mammal
 * 4) Skua vs. Great Black-backed Gull - who would win?
 * 5) Whats so special about Half-Integer spin? 59.93.92.192 (talk) 13:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Mystery flower
 * 7) Overcooked vs. burnt food
 * 8) Wood-burning stoves, creosote and soup cans
 * 9) Esclorophile Bush?
 * 10) Paranoid park (spoiler warning)
 * 11) Metal detectors for non-magnetic metals

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 22


 * 1) Generator
 * 2) Planet destroying energy
 * 3) Gravity hole
 * 4) Speed of light in another universe
 * 5) Particle-wave separation/fusion
 * 6) Storing solar lights
 * 7) Earth's rotation
 * 8) the nearest galaxy
 * 9) Acceleration of particles in a secluded system
 * 10) Tech Bump
 * 11) Secondary minerals?

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 23


 * 1) Material with highest melting point?
 * 2) TASTE BUDS
 * 3) Science/Humanities question on Egypt's buried tombs
 * 4) Why is the static between channels loud?
 * 5) Ion slowing down in plasma
 * 6) What happens to sexual desire after penectomy?
 * 7) nutrition facts
 * 8) Genetic Misogyny and sex war?
 * 9) Not so bright question...
 * 10) A tool for measuring cubic volume
 * 11) Non-lethal weapon against gangs
 * 12) AeroGarden gizmo.
 * 13) Sail all wet?
 * 14) Red Panda, Giant Panda thumb.

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 24


 * 1) Happy Holidays!
 * 2) Test for fullerenes
 * 3) material science
 * 4) Hardware design
 * 5) on chemistry
 * 6) A scientist today?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 25


 * 1) Swimming in Purified Water
 * 2) Testing for lead
 * 3) electric fuse
 * 4) Lead test kit
 * 5) determination of muscle mass
 * 6) Chemical reaction (was "test for fullerenes")
 * 7) Band Planet

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 26


 * 1) Ashes in the garden
 * 2) Electrical Charges
 * 3) Proactive Competitor
 * 4) Racing Pigeons
 * 5) Amateur genetic engineering

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 27


 * 1) Paramedic Milk?
 * 2) Cockatiel and budgerigar utterances
 * 3) Strange weather seen on radar. Small scale "lake effect" perhaps?
 * 4) Binomial authority
 * 5) Color of hydrocarbons
 * 6) Foreclosure
 * 7) Cigarette v. Cigar Second Hand Smoke
 * 8) transistor feed back network
 * 9) Disodium Edta
 * 10) Methylchloroisothiazolinone
 * 11) Are there any scientists out there that dont swear?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 28


 * 1) What is the minimum amount of heat it takes to burn you?
 * 2) "Ba humbugi"
 * 3) Freesat, free satellite, DVB-T, DVB-S and satellite dish mounting
 * 4) Psychoactive drugs and human survival
 * 5) chemical reactions
 * 6) Can I have some more Sun Conure advice, please?
 * 7) You people look all the same to me!!
 * 8) Methane clathrates, global warming, and such
 * 9) Do photons lose energy?

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 29


 * 1) consuption of electricity by refrigrator
 * 2) female virginity question
 * 3) Differnece in growth of Neem tree and Banana tree
 * 4) What logical fallacy is this?
 * 5) Multiple near-death experiences and emotions
 * 6) chances developing same affliction
 * 7) antibiotics
 * 8) Genome: Both good and original, but...
 * 9) Putting milk in coffee
 * 10) Ni-MH Battery Behavior (Nikon EN-4 knockoff for D1 camera)
 * 11) Optimal Eyepiece Diameter
 * 12) What is this??????

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 30


 * 1) salt vs. freshwater evaporation rates
 * 2) Collisions in an ideal gas
 * 3) Why did this atom get together with that atom?
 * 4) PROOF
 * 5) imortal
 * 6) Velocity of an Object under Gravitational Influence
 * 7) Motion of an aircraft
 * 8) helium
 * 9) Passive solar building design
 * 10) Waiting for the water to turn hot
 * 11) Depth and water pressure

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 31


 * 1) Best exercise for endorphins
 * 2) Pressure reducing devices in city water mains
 * 3) Laser based short sight correction-what is the downside?
 * 4) Reactivity of Salt
 * 5) Time