Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2010

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 1


 * 1) NGC identification in Veil Nebula
 * 2) Plastic-mirror
 * 3) Laser distance meters
 * 4) Global Warming and Ice Age
 * 5) Cats and chocolate
 * 6) That little black strap that depends from the backs of cars and scrapes along the road?
 * 7) bladder-caused sleep interruption
 * 8) white poop
 * 9) Bismuth reaction with acid
 * 10) Drinking seawater
 * 11) NASA astrobiology news
 * 12) Synapse structure
 * 13) Christmas lights
 * 14) Dinosaur Combs and Wattles
 * 15) Is this for reals?
 * 16) Circuits with LEDs

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 2


 * 1) Scientific Child Rearing
 * 2) The Marshmallow Trick
 * 3) Chemistry Laboratory technique
 * 4) Question from ANI
 * 5) Birds = Dinosaurs?
 * 6) Draft
 * 7) Evolution of the wavefunction
 * 8) Can you safely drink rusty water?
 * 9) Objective scientific evidence for PMS?
 * 10) Intelligent prey
 * 11) Split down the middle
 * 12) Forces in space

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 3


 * 1) Drinking from a lake
 * 2) Better than ice bottles
 * 3) UPS watt, volt-amp question
 * 4) Getting a guinea pig to drink from a bottle
 * 5) Purifying Iron
 * 6) Cat's nipples
 * 7) human hunting
 * 8) Bismuth(III) iodide dilemma
 * 9) Parrots cracking bones to get the marrow...
 * 10) is it a coincidence that there are 12 months and 12 hours?
 * 11) Sail and oar power
 * 12) if all small arms and heavier munitions disappeared, would the world be a safer place?

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 4


 * 1) Camera error
 * 2) What kind of SIMUTANEITY make sense?
 * 3) time dilation
 * 4) on p block elements
 * 5) Time travel question
 * 6) Cars/trucks with fixed axles
 * 7) problems with WWVB NIST time radio broadcast
 * 8) Step-by-step method for writing the electron configuration of an arbitrary atom

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 5


 * 1) Do other animals have blood types?
 * 2) Questions about Light: 1. Why 186k miles/sec? 2. What would a "photic boom" look like? 3. (see for yourself)
 * 3) How DID I lose 3 pounds while I sleep?
 * 4) Boiling water
 * 5) traction between the wheel and the tire
 * 6) Dream time vs. real time
 * 7) Zincate
 * 8) A hot water will cool faster or a cold water will heatup faster.......?
 * 9) How can I design a gearbox (geartrain) to rotate a 2ton load using airgun.
 * 10) coffeciant of friction.......i really don't get it...practically...
 * 11) Why N2 is used in bladders for curing rubeer in tyre industry...?
 * 12) alcohol + water = less?
 * 13) Light pipe into fibre optic cable
 * 14) dreams predicting the future
 * 15) The problem with chocolate milk
 * 16) Rainbows around light
 * 17) (Hypothetical) Gravitation in the Center of the Earth
 * 18) Health effects of reflective heater
 * 19) Help with electricity (mAh calculations and whatnot)

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 6


 * 1) Restriction endonuclease - etymology
 * 2) Bladder - when you're empty, are you really empty?
 * 3) Is there even such a thing as a hybrid motorcycle?
 * 4) I'm CLEARLY alive-and-well. Why am I STILL barred from donating blood/plasma?
 * 5) Normal decibel level in an office?
 * 6) Brine instead of broth
 * 7) Eyeball judder
 * 8) Bismuth oxychloride appearance
 * 9) Sources of gas and electric in the UK
 * 10) simple:Halophile
 * 11) Color in anodization
 * 12) Why Lorentz Transformation (LT) is correct?
 * 13) Physics Textbook
 * 14) Chicken meat and pork
 * 15) Perfect machines?
 * 16) Relativity and Time Dilation
 * 17) The Ariel Sharon Diet

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 7


 * 1) How to identify something I had photographed in the sky this morning?
 * 2) LED Street Lights
 * 3) Testing for tobacco use
 * 4) michael douglas
 * 5) Climate change
 * 6) Railgun vs. Coilgun efficiency
 * 7) Standard practice rounding significant figures
 * 8) Transduction, transformation and transfection
 * 9) Sun-Jupiter Barycenter
 * 10) Bermuda rigs

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 8


 * 1) tonneau cover areodynamics
 * 2) Why are the planets almost spherical?
 * 3) Volcano benefits?
 * 4) Pseudo-morning sickness
 * 5) Dreams
 * 6) Dark matter: black holes
 * 7) Cheapest source of ethanol for sterlisation
 * 8) Synthetic Organic Schemes for Pharmaceutical Compounds
 * 9) Alternatives to silicon for computers?
 * 10) volcanoes
 * 11) Multiforce members (statics)
 * 12) Acid with nylon

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 9


 * 1) Math problem
 * 2) Reproduction and rate of erythrovirus B19
 * 3) Potential and kinetic energy
 * 4) technology run wild stories
 * 5) Earliest driven wheels
 * 6) swiss watch
 * 7) Evolution
 * 8) Cube planet
 * 9) Yogurt
 * 10) Makeup for the eyes in the form of airbrush
 * 11) Nasal saline solution
 * 12) Tapiridae (Tapirs)
 * 13) Another improbable planet question
 * 14) Uranium star
 * 15) touchscreen technology
 * 16) do magnetic interactions EVER change the magnitude of velocity of a charged particle

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 10


 * 1) Dear New Yorkers, why haven't I seen buildings built ABOVE your streets?
 * 2) Physics trouble
 * 3) Turbocharging in motorcycles..
 * 4) Transporting Gases....
 * 5) what percent of people are using 3G technology.....in world..
 * 6) Hawking Radiation and negative mass
 * 7) La Nina
 * 8) airplanes that run on car fuel
 * 9) What should I do with this jelly?
 * 10) Plateosaurus and bipedal walking

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 11


 * 1) chlorine dosing
 * 2) circuit idea
 * 3) Mercury sulfate
 * 4) ..BURNING DIMOND....
 * 5) Musical volume
 * 6) Unidentified Mineral
 * 7) Examples of specific halophiles
 * 8) High pressure = good weather
 * 9) Mass Energy and Black Hole evaporation

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 12


 * 1) squirrels
 * 2) Sunflower seeds changing colour
 * 3) why do people say MSG is bad for you?  Is it true?
 * 4) On psychology
 * 5) Balls
 * 6) black slime on dripping taps
 * 7) Nutrition
 * 8) Compound identification
 * 9) Planet Brightness
 * 10) The act of observing an object affects the object

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 13


 * 1) Burp, hiccup, sneeze at the same time
 * 2) Neutrinos
 * 3) Power cable doesn't heat up with surge protector, why?
 * 4) Two scientific/medical review articles
 * 5) Problem with ChemSketch
 * 6) Opening a .mol file in Accelrys Discovery Studio Visualizer
 * 7) Appropriate way to describe the breaking of the neck
 * 8) Taste
 * 9) Meridiungulata out of Xenarthra?
 * 10) Interfamiliar hybrid
 * 11) Thallium production

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 14


 * 1) Native Americans
 * 2) The Continents of Earth
 * 3) The Eyeball
 * 4) Highly troubled, self-acclaimed saint of logic seeks epiphany
 * 5) Repeat pneumonia
 * 6) How many brain cells do gasoline fumes kill?
 * 7) crude oil, a part of earths design
 * 8) Anodes, salts, and cathodes for water electrolysis
 * 9) pure rotational spectra
 * 10) Are mad people always mad at something?
 * 11) Would terraforming the Moon have any effects on Earth ?
 * 12) blue light/energy from gummed envelope
 * 13) What does nothing look like?
 * 14) Can inaudible "noise" cause physical damage to people?
 * 15) Noble gas compounds

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 15


 * 1) computable universe
 * 2) Full name for "Issiki", Japanese Lepidoptrist active ~1930 - ~1960
 * 3) Milk Powder
 * 4) What if Newtonian mechanics were the correct model of reality?
 * 5) binary stars in Centauri system
 * 6) Earth Rotation
 * 7) Siping rubber soles?
 * 8) Thallium(III) hydroxide
 * 9) Grass as edible food source for humans
 * 10) building on buoyant coral

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 16


 * 1) What is a Hill sphere of Sun?
 * 2) A poem and its related biological/neurological functions:
 * 3) Current electricity
 * 4) Prison Riot
 * 5) Whip scorpion
 * 6) Boat movement problem
 * 7) Paul Dirac Equations??
 * 8) A bomb’s flash, Why would it happen?
 * 9) Does the volume of cylinder affects Pressure
 * 10) Why fog is mostly seen in morning ?
 * 11) Why on every Wathc they write Quartz ?
 * 12) Thallium(I) oxide production

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 17


 * 1) Pterodactyls
 * 2) Untreated ringworm does... what?
 * 3) Tiger cheese
 * 4) Crazy kid again... with more subjective thoughts that y'all will hopefully objectify
 * 5) About Styrofan (construction Chemical from BASF  )
 * 6) Maxwell's demon (MADE IN JAPAN)
 * 7) Cryogenic revitalization
 * 8) Error in Image
 * 9) What percentage of the air expelled rearward from a jet engine actually thrusts an aircraft forward?
 * 10) Does gravity slow down time?
 * 11) My fuzzy potatoes

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 18


 * 1) Maize recycling...
 * 2) MCAT en Français
 * 3) Why does warm air hold more moisture than cold air
 * 4) ACMA blacklist
 * 5) A lead on leads
 * 6) The Degradation of the Human Race by Doctors
 * 7) Night vision of seagulls and other birds

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 19


 * 1) Properties of liquid diamond
 * 2) Halophiles
 * 3) Jet stream time lapse?
 * 4) networking
 * 5) physics
 * 6) Science and God
 * 7) Degeneration Redux
 * 8) Megapnosaurus name meaning
 * 9) Unusual Vision?
 * 10) [For Concentration] ADD meds (stimulants) vs. benzodiazepines/anxiolytic meds (depressants)
 * 11) Birds' ability to map the night sky
 * 12) Taking high dose vitamin D supplements every 5 days

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 20


 * 1) Add salt to hot water bottle?
 * 2) Drinks when sick
 * 3) Augmented Nasal Passages?
 * 4) How does quantum entanglement / quantum mechanics "know" that you know the positions of their particles?
 * 5) Parallel RLC network
 * 6) embryology
 * 7) Propsopagnosia and specific face parts
 * 8) best thing for teeth after vomiting
 * 9) Metallic vs. nonmetal antimony
 * 10) Tobacco
 * 11) Dawn chorus (birds)
 * 12) Lunar eclipse on Winter solstice
 * 13) Antimony trifluoride

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 21


 * 1) Does an Alpha emitter also emit Beta?
 * 2) Poison mushroom
 * 3) wet dreams
 * 4) Straight back, diaphragm
 * 5) c
 * 6) The colour of this morning's lunar eclipse
 * 7) Does sleep deprivation do permanent damage to the brain?
 * 8) radio-metry  and its uses in optical instrumentation
 * 9) why does skin on your face get wrinkled and how does cream help?
 * 10) Basement temperatures

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 22


 * 1) glowing embers on the road
 * 2) Normal human body surface area = 1.73 m^2
 * 3) Arsenite color
 * 4) hear sine wave vs square wave
 * 5) Space between particles
 * 6) Arsenic trisulfide's NFPA health rating

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 23


 * 1) ASB THE POLYMATH- opc question
 * 2) Two questions about lightning
 * 3) Light
 * 4) Thermoelectric
 * 5) Dragon's breath
 * 6) is flow of holes called current flow?
 * 7) Climate change and biodiversity
 * 8) drug
 * 9) Beer pong

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 24


 * 1) When two metal panels with different work functions  approach, what happens?
 * 2) Why do superstrings "vibrate"?
 * 3) makeshift loudspeaker
 * 4) Heavy luggage in small, light car
 * 5) meningiomas (a.k.a. brain tumor;angle tumor)
 * 6) Testosterone levels
 * 7) Mercury's mineral status

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 25


 * 1) Astronomy question
 * 2) White copper peroxide
 * 3) Species names by C. Linnaeus
 * 4) Arun S Bagh question about opc drum
 * 5) earth flip
 * 6) Ungulate reptile/(amphibian/bird/...)
 * 7) Magnet

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 26


 * 1) Fog
 * 2) What is the scientific term for levels of activity by time of day?
 * 3) Solar sails
 * 4) has any famous scientist ever expressed doubts about the moon landing authenticity?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 27


 * 1) Crocodile Dundee II
 * 2) Is the earth gaining weight?
 * 3) voilation of parity in beta decay
 * 4) People getting fat
 * 5) Blister
 * 6) Materialism, Reductionism and Determinism in science
 * 7) there was  blizzerd today and it looks like a very cold winter... THEREFORE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING
 * 8) How many years off are we from cell phones working as well a regular phones did 40 years ago?
 * 9) Smoke when a candle blows out
 * 10) Meter

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 28


 * 1) What Makes A Human Voice Sound Male Or Female?
 * 2) Kit fox or coyote?
 * 3) Resistricted Earth fault protection for electrical Power system
 * 4) What exactly is the "Postulate" in Newton's Laws ?
 * 5) How much would it cost to invent & construct a solar wind hybrid streetlight?
 * 6) Fox barks
 * 7) Using spy satellite film to take pictures on the ground
 * 8) What does this mean?
 * 9) Density
 * 10) rubber cement
 * 11) Brie cheese
 * 12) Saliva
 * 13) Clover
 * 14) would using and electric welder demagnetise a rare earth magnet

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 29


 * 1) what makes tuning fork prongs oscillate oppositely?
 * 2) Why do we fear or 'over react' when something falls from our hand?
 * 3) What kind of holly?
 * 4) Dark energy and antimatter
 * 5) How much damage would a missile do?
 * 6) Elipitical Orbit
 * 7) Does cancer cause hair to fall out?
 * 8) Animal slime?
 * 9) Intelligence of a sleeping human
 * 10) Oxygen difluoride

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 30


 * 1) Wormholes
 * 2) Sugar Maple
 * 3) An unusual problem with viewing a 3D film.
 * 4) Amount of Lanthanum Chloride in a solution.
 * 5) Where are the new inventions?
 * 6) Dry cleaning chemical
 * 7) Measuring my PC's power consumption with an oscilloscope
 * 8) Molybdenum#Compounds_and_chemistry

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 December 31


 * 1) A question that is about 15 years overdue: What'll it take for beanies to actually fly the wearer?
 * 2) Effects of drunkenness on physical ability
 * 3) How can the universe be infinite?
 * 4) Antimony trichloride
 * 5) Best length of radio aerial