Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2009

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 1


 * 1) Zygotes implanted in the wombs of other species
 * 2) Gene Therapy and Hormones
 * 3) Air bubles in tap water
 * 4) Is everything energy?
 * 5) Sell copyrights of my research work
 * 6) Size of processor dies
 * 7) Red apples inside and out
 * 8) the acidic group in aspartate/glutamate is COOH. what do you call the basic group in arginine?
 * 9) Putting cancer cells to sleep
 * 10) Is there a medical term for this?
 * 11) aspartame
 * 12) Gums Bleeding
 * 13) the economics of enantioselective chemistry

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 2


 * 1) several questions
 * 2) Evolution
 * 3) greater permittivity than a vacuum?
 * 4) 2,3-Dihydropyran as a protecting group
 * 5) Typhoon Nida
 * 6) ring opening/closure, reaction rates and entropy
 * 7) Speed at which levels of melanin in humans adapt to UV light
 * 8) vitamin c chart at bottom of vitamin c article.
 * 9) GIS + ray-tracing algorithms = traffic noise estimation
 * 10) El nino
 * 11) Children on Wikipedia
 * 12) Another question about visual phenomena...
 * 13) why do i feel hotter after a bath?
 * 14) Children aargh
 * 15) Christmas lights
 * 16) which element most toxic?
 * 17) Solar panels

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 3


 * 1) Medical experiment that went terribly wrong
 * 2) Butterfly sensation from infatuation.
 * 3) Physical fallacies
 * 4) Lines of little circles of light on camera
 * 5) Rainbow ham?
 * 6) Does such a disease exist?
 * 7) cheesewring stones
 * 8) North Korea's closed-circuit speaker system
 * 9) Environmental Impact of ebooks vs paper books
 * 10) Stars
 * 11) The most useless particle

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 4


 * 1) Storks
 * 2) name of physics book
 * 3) Cat and dog ear fold.
 * 4) Rechargable Batteries
 * 5) Hair
 * 6) Green Laser Pointer
 * 7) Restyl tablets
 * 8) activation energy and pri/sec/tert advantages
 * 9) Organizing chemicals (practical)

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 5


 * 1) causes of internal ache and chokeness along the throat
 * 2) Pyruvic Acid vs. Pyruvate as end product of Glycolysis
 * 3) heat modelling
 * 4) Bohr Magneton Number for Copper Sulphate.
 * 5) Does rice water has chemical reaction with mineral water's plastic bottle?
 * 6) Eye water
 * 7) classical music and emotions
 * 8) Showering with contact lenses
 * 9) Raccoon

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 6


 * 1) Vacuoles, vacuolation, vacuolisation and vacuolization
 * 2) Why does increasing CO2 concentration matter?
 * 3) Size of average Caucasian female head
 * 4) Human nervous system latency
 * 5) Interferomics possible editorial problems
 * 6) my son ( 10 yearls old )
 * 7) William Thompson
 * 8) How long are viruses active?
 * 9) Burns and clothing vs. bare skin
 * 10) Greenhouse Gases
 * 11) Knives and electrical sockets
 * 12) More climate questions
 * 13) Science games for kids
 * 14) Diesel automobiles without diesel particulate filters
 * 15) Cartography - spherical map - globe section
 * 16) Cholesterol and sodium
 * 17) Why aren't rugby players overwhelmed with injuries?
 * 18) Are there any other types of radiation besides electromagnetic radiation?
 * 19) Total acres in California?
 * 20) beef slaughter house

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 7


 * 1) Change in kinetic energy
 * 2) Redox rxn.  How can I tell if a reaction is redox or not?
 * 3) Value of a microchip
 * 4) mesomeric versus inductive effects for the pka of catechol (ortho-diphenol)
 * 5) phenols as enols
 * 6) phenol-type quinoline
 * 7) acidic proton question (Prilosec & Tagamet!)
 * 8) science
 * 9) Photon
 * 10) Area of Hong Kong
 * 11) Converting from degrees K to F
 * 12) Compact florescent bulbs
 * 13) Inductive electricity through glass

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 8


 * 1) reaction of lead sulfate and sodium bicarbonate
 * 2) Rendering a planet uninhabitable
 * 3) Methods of Capital Punishment
 * 4) Air versus Marine Propeller Design
 * 5) Dreams
 * 6) Body, spinal cord and partial brain transplant?
 * 7) Valence electron counts
 * 8) Anesthesia
 * 9) ref:HEAT MODELLING
 * 10) How quickly does caffeine evaporate or decompose?
 * 11) Modelling sound in a breeze
 * 12) Vision acuity measurements

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 9


 * 1) mathematica model of diffusion
 * 2) Green lightning?
 * 3) Re: Science Question
 * 4) Veterinary anesthesia
 * 5) Freezing rain affected by a lake?
 * 6) Rhodonite oxidation
 * 7) Wind power from tightly stretched band
 * 8) DNA data bases
 * 9) Could the Hubble Space Telescope have imaged damage to the Space Shuttle Columbia?
 * 10) IPCC models
 * 11) if global warming is a problem why don't we put up a thermostat
 * 12) Health clinic in Sevilla, Spain
 * 13) Is nonhuman skin color a result of melanin levels or something different?
 * 14) Caring for surfaces while removing snow from them
 * 15) Looking for molecules with large huang rhys factor
 * 16) Echoes
 * 17) I uniformly prefer white
 * 18) moment of Big Bang
 * 19) Zombie Plan
 * 20) Smallpox eradication
 * 21) What are wastes of different industries and what are their usages?
 * 22) Compare energy released by automobiles vs. nuclear warheads
 * 23) absolute zero
 * 24) How much warning do we get before a supernova will become detectable by naked eye?

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 10


 * 1) sulfoxide functional groups in drugs
 * 2) L1 Lagrange point
 * 3) Known changes: mental function: adulthood
 * 4) Life Expectancy in 2050
 * 5) E.V.S. project
 * 6) why is Potassium chloride  caustic  if its ph   is 7  ?
 * 7) Since of touch
 * 8) Measuring magnetic susceptibility
 * 9) ammonia sanitizer
 * 10) Sodium bicarbonate  ph?
 * 11) should a shit blanket go over an awesome one or vice versa?
 * 12) Rubbing salt into the wound
 * 13) The Future Is Wild
 * 14) atom "melting" temp
 * 15) Highest temperature
 * 16) Miller–Urey-type experiments

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 11


 * 1) Sewing machines
 * 2) On the number of exoplanets that transit their stars in the milky way
 * 3) Binoculars in Games & Movies.
 * 4) Need a reliable value for the sun's illumination under variable Earth conditions
 * 5) trialkyloxonium salts and beta elimination

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 12


 * 1) Hedgehog exercise
 * 2) nitromethane
 * 3) How was the international prototype for the metre made?
 * 4) "Bleeding like a stuck pig"
 * 5) Enzymes
 * 6) Russian rocket failure
 * 7) Cavity Preparations-Dentistry
 * 8) no transmission for a car?
 * 9) What happens when a cold-blooded animal gets an infection.
 * 10) M&M

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 13


 * 1) Bleach Reactions
 * 2) Nitrogen Trichloride IED?
 * 3) Autophagy in bacteria
 * 4) on average how many pounds of fish are under a square meter of ocean?
 * 5) Europe and Asia
 * 6) Radon
 * 7) 5' Cap and Poly-A Tail
 * 8) Identify species from unusual shell
 * 9) Hunter-gatherers

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 14


 * 1) are imine groups stabilised by base?
 * 2) time/temperature formula
 * 3) depurination
 * 4) Scanning for a lost cellphone
 * 5) The connection between blonde people and intelligence
 * 6) What medicine stops the itchiness inside of nose?
 * 7) Irritation
 * 8) Faroe Islands tunnels/civil engineering.
 * 9) Tail on Human
 * 10) Theories vs. laws (Re: Einstein)
 * 11) foggy car windows
 * 12) between large vision acuity

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 15


 * 1) Why isn't t-butyl (as a carboxylate protecting group) sensitive to base?
 * 2) Boiling water simply by adding kinetic energy?
 * 3) Car windows again
 * 4) Shatika
 * 5) Acetone/Water Mixtures: Flammability
 * 6) What are the arm blades of a preying mantis made from?
 * 7) Tree question
 * 8) Movement of the sun and moon around the sky
 * 9) What happens when you mix hydrogen peroxide and liver?
 * 10) Earth Changes
 * 11) How do we know the speed of light is constant?
 * 12) Interpreting life expectancy
 * 13) Why am I able to see depth in this video?
 * 14) plastic laminate
 * 15) Gallium
 * 16) Southern Hemisphere deciduous forests

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 16


 * 1) Nuclear Warfare
 * 2) Stars, black holes, and motion...
 * 3) Condensation Between Propanoic Acid and 3-Aminopropanal
 * 4) Total weight of all insects in the world
 * 5) Atoms
 * 6) combined serial and parallel circuits
 * 7) new planets
 * 8) "vascular" headaches
 * 9) p-phenylenediamine
 * 10) CHARGED BLACK HOLES
 * 11) how far we go back things become less accurate?
 * 12) ICP-Chapter 11 Review-Motion
 * 13) ANNs

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 17


 * 1) testicular torsion
 * 2) Explain why cancer has a genetic code?
 * 3) computer CD ? DVD
 * 4) Particles And Black Holes, are They the Same Thing?
 * 5) Why does once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10^(-8) hertz?
 * 6) Wormholes and Blackholes
 * 7) Collective Human Mind Connection to the planets Ecosystem
 * 8) Is a hot radiator disrupting my TV's remote control?
 * 9) silicone or rubber compound used for grips etc...
 * 10) following migration routes leading to discovery
 * 11) Ice in My Freezer "Sublimates". Why?
 * 12) Jello

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 18


 * 1) Lone pairs
 * 2) Getting your car hot.
 * 3) If each spatial dimension extends in two dirrections, why does the time dimension only go in one?
 * 4) What is this object ?
 * 5) anyone here really knowledgeable on Circadian rhythms?
 * 6) vector or scalar quantity
 * 7) Autonomous behaviour on Guitar Hero
 * 8) Science help desk thank you for Christmas
 * 9) Why isn't the sky bright white at night?
 * 10) Meteorites from Vesta and Mars?
 * 11) Hawking and the LHC
 * 12) will hairdye

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 19


 * 1) Urban gulls on a cold day...
 * 2) consuming lab products
 * 3) Ether
 * 4) Quantum Field Theory
 * 5) Solar System and Orbits
 * 6) Effects of moving from hot water to cold water on vision
 * 7) Elephants
 * 8) Epiblast and primitive endoderm (Developmental biology)
 * 9) Downforce
 * 10) General relativity
 * 11) Wormholes and Time Travel
 * 12) Junk food
 * 13) Absolute Zero and Special Particles

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 20


 * 1) Tunneling marbles
 * 2) Strings
 * 3) SETI question
 * 4) Why is "modern physics" approached so historically in textbooks?
 * 5) Black hole time
 * 6) Storing a spring clock
 * 7) I over-analyzed Amphoterism and over-analyzed pKa and now want to resolve a pedagogic discrepancy between Wikipedia vs my 3 independent chem books
 * 8) power generation using hybrid wind-water turbine
 * 9) How does this thermometer work?
 * 10) Zero Point Energy Power Source
 * 11) Voltage and curent in series and parallel circuits
 * 12) Longevity of the British royal family
 * 13) Go out for a spacewalk in that?
 * 14) Physiology of states of boredom or high motivation?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 21


 * 1) Y-DNA different from groupings of associated mt-DNA in the Near East?
 * 2) human sex determination
 * 3) Wireless video transmission solutions for HD video
 * 4) Branes and Strings
 * 5) Avatar (2009 film)
 * 6) Superstring Theory and the Large Hadron Collider
 * 7) Battery voltage
 * 8) Chinese / Mongolian plant?
 * 9) Cholecalciferol
 * 10) Is L-alanine l or d?
 * 11) Genetics
 * 12) Recycleability of yellowed paper?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 22


 * 1) Manned landing on Venus
 * 2) snoring while "awake"
 * 3) Reading while thinking about other stuff...
 * 4) M-theory
 * 5) Snow defrosting on cars - patterns
 * 6) How is gasoline delivered to gas stations?
 * 7) Suicide jump balloon
 * 8) LEDs
 * 9) epidemiology of symptomatic osteoarthritis
 * 10) Why so many people at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station?
 * 11) Would cannibalism have saved Captain Scott?
 * 12) Would a coffee-grinder grind flax seeds?
 * 13) Lipid mobilization and utilization from adipose tissue
 * 14) bubbles

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 23


 * 1) fiberglass rot
 * 2) Per-unit-cost energy content of different battery sizes
 * 3) Icosahedrons or Dodecahedrons?
 * 4) The comparative values of specific health behaviours
 * 5) Density of heavy water
 * 6) Average time of sunlight worldwide

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 24


 * 1) Earliest  sunset
 * 2) Returning isolated human and immunity
 * 3) Mass and Weight Physics
 * 4) acylation of benzene rings with amino acids
 * 5) Is salt a spice?
 * 6) Would this work to generate (small amounts of) electricity?
 * 7) Any downsides to eating lots of sugar-free candy?
 * 8) Gene Therapy
 * 9) easily transported survival rations
 * 10) trying to find out about a plant I saw in Mexico
 * 11) what's with the weird alkynyl-cyclopropane group in Efavirenz?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 25


 * 1) Holes in sandstone
 * 2) Marine life and decompression sickness
 * 3) Is this real?
 * 4) Viscous flow of granite
 * 5) Keeping people alive on Xmas day
 * 6) Wind mill & water turbine
 * 7) Relativistic mechanical reactionless drive?
 * 8) Unofficial battery charger
 * 9) Elements and the three states of matter
 * 10) El Niño-Southern Oscillation
 * 11) replacing -COOH with -CH3
 * 12) Attaching a light to a wall
 * 13) Gears
 * 14) Why is Swine flue in decline this winter?
 * 15) Color Of Rosiglitazone Maleate (Avandia)

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 26


 * 1) Is galactic red shift not really the Big Bang singularity’s time-dilating effect?
 * 2) The act of Sex
 * 3) Mystery red plant between Incheon International and Seoul, Korea
 * 4) What causes our windup toy to spark, and what are sparks?
 * 5) Coughing while asleep?
 * 6) what is the evolutionary advantage of appreciating natural beauty?
 * 7) does MSG change taste with pH?
 * 8) Problem with Japanese appliances in European plugs

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 27


 * 1) Male involvement in pornography
 * 2) Big bang?
 * 3) diamond vs ceramics
 * 4) nanocrystalline materials
 * 5) Naked Singularities, Hawking Radiation, and Quantum Gravitation
 * 6) Tomato
 * 7) Nonlinearity of the sRGB and Adobe RGB color spaces
 * 8) Sound pressure, sound intensity, sound loudness, and decay with distance
 * 9) PTSD and hippocampus
 * 10) Finite element method - solid or shell?
 * 11) Lost question

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 28


 * 1) most appropriate article
 * 2) strange astronomical sight
 * 3) Fischer esterification with amino acids -- worried about the protonated amino group
 * 4) Extraterrestrial intelligence
 * 5) Anatomy classes - Truth or myth?
 * 6) If we inject oxytocin into a female
 * 7) New way to generate electricity - has this been proposed before?

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 29


 * 1) Electronic locator
 * 2) Weird phenomonon
 * 3) Sulfuric acid and wax
 * 4) are hydride donors compatible with thionyl chloride?
 * 5) Reason for the variable names in the Lagrangian
 * 6) What is Quantum Action?
 * 7) Is this plausible?
 * 8) Autonomous Intelligence
 * 9) Death by starvation
 * 10) pHILOSOPHY
 * 11) The Truman Show.
 * 12) How does snorting vodka work?
 * 13) Rate Law for Heterogeneous Reactions
 * 14) Costs of test devices
 * 15) female lubrication and mucous membranes
 * 16) the ether oxygen in morphine and related opiates seems ring-strained
 * 17) inner ear and the nervous system
 * 18) Cutaneous nerve endings
 * 19) can't remember the name of a cognitive idea
 * 20) how to measure the basicity of lithium aluminum hydride? will it deprotonate RNH2?
 * 21) How can change the color of mercury

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 30


 * 1) Fish stomachs in Chinatown
 * 2) House mouse factoid - debunk or confirm...
 * 3) What are those marks on the skin of Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria?
 * 4) power generation by hybrid wind water turbine
 * 5) Human joints
 * 6) Coca Cola with cocaine in it
 * 7) Thank you
 * 8) Human cloning
 * 9) Titanium alloys
 * 10) dreaming language
 * 11) Gyroscopic exercise tool
 * 12) parathyroid hormone mechanism of action
 * 13) fibre intake

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 December 31


 * 1) drinking rubbing alcohol
 * 2) Reference desk
 * 3) Sky
 * 4) Calculating radioactive decay
 * 5) Asbergers versus Williams syndrome
 * 6) I want to make my own battery-powered heating pad.
 * 7) How did the church sign know the temperature?
 * 8) Flower identification