Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2012

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 1


 * 1) Magic bread or...?
 * 2) How should "望闻问切" in Traditional Chinese medicine be translated into English?
 * 3) Why in some countries, HIVHepatitis C tests are after 2 months and in others 3 months (of suspicious contact) ?

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 2


 * 1) Garlic supplements
 * 2) I want to know some intersest things about how metal found
 * 3) Photobiolysis
 * 4) what does burn in nature
 * 5) what do you thinking about this questions?
 * 6) difference between theory and law
 * 7) Looking for research on Tetrahydrocannabinoids (THC) use as appetite simulant in cats diagnosed with CHF vs: azotemia (cardiac vs: kidney) problems  - common in some cats.
 * 8) Synchronous belt as serpentine belts
 * 9) Fungus ID
 * 10) Battery and voltage
 * 11) what are the specific enthalpies of fusion of the chocolate phase transition temperatures?
 * 12) The birds and the bees
 * 13) Placebo overdose

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 3


 * 1) Chromosomes Question
 * 2) Are there any blood vessels in the skin? (Skin = Epi, Dermis, Hypo)
 * 3) Bicameralism (psychology)
 * 4) Binary Black Holes
 * 5) Origin of Intelligence and Mental Illness Linked to Ancient Genetic Accident
 * 6) relationship between conductivity and mean free path
 * 7) Thermodynamics of a microwave
 * 8) Watertight compartments
 * 9) Neutron decay and atomic weapons
 * 10) Why issue placebos to control groups for objective treatments?
 * 11) Global warming
 * 12) Travelling to star
 * 13) Mars Curiosity findings

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 4


 * 1) How long do water molecules last (live?)
 * 2) centripetal acceleration and linear acceleration, assuming "constant effort"
 * 3) Mauser 98
 * 4) what's the differences between forged steel and wrought steel?
 * 5) TEXTABLE LANDLINE TELEPHONES! - Where can I buy one?
 * 6) House wall mold sensor?
 * 7) Neurasthenia

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 5


 * 1) Subjective time
 * 2) Buttons
 * 3) Light traveling to a star
 * 4) Variable displacement with open exhaust valves
 * 5) Antidepressants
 * 6) why is it that advantageous for RBCs not to have nuclei?
 * 7) Phylogeny

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 6


 * 1) heavy cream in a blender
 * 2) how can waterproof camera lenses work both underwater and above water?
 * 3) Which substance in urine smells like wheat?
 * 4) kitchen water vs. bathroom water from the tap
 * 5) take of and landing on moon or planets
 * 6) plant morphology
 * 7) showing who is online.
 * 8) Pocket self-contained "GPS"
 * 9) Jump Starting a Car
 * 10) Accessing the journal Science from home via institution
 * 11) power with a highly damped, frictionful system
 * 12) Purpose of flat tunnel roof
 * 13) Africans and headlice

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 7


 * 1) Why aren't all houses made of brick?
 * 2) Venus in a small telescope
 * 3) Speed of light, etc.
 * 4) How much, or, In what ways, except from hormonal action, does Aging related to the Nervous system in compare to Genetic contorl?
 * 5) About not eating for 4 days straight, and subsisting only on fluids...
 * 6) Lung shot
 * 7) Are German Turks darker than normal Turks?
 * 8) In what ways, except from hormonal action, does Aging related to the Nervous system in compare to Genetic contorl?
 * 9) Nullification of time dilation effects via deceleration?
 * 10) What was the format of a single sample of audio recorded on a cassette tape?

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 8


 * 1) The Hoverboard in just roughly 2 years, 1 month - how will Mattel prepare?
 * 2) Computer Scientists and Ayn Rand
 * 3) Syria
 * 4) I blame Luna for low Helium-3 ratios
 * 5) Request for bug identification
 * 6) Drugs not working the first time
 * 7) Sweat drops and electric resistance
 * 8) head shave vs bald

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 9


 * 1) Is the refrigeration technique advanced enough to preserve ice in July in Hittin during the 12th century?
 * 2) Subconscious phrases in mind
 * 3) Humidifiers and temperature
 * 4) entropy in information science and thermodynamics
 * 5) Chloromethane on mars

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 10


 * 1) Does Quantum entanglement apply to the entire visible universe?
 * 2) Lack of carb in meat
 * 3) Curie temperature of welding steel
 * 4) When toilets flush
 * 5) Why is solid carbon at room temperature much denser than minus 300 degree oxygen solid?
 * 6) AIDS
 * 7) Dilated eyes
 * 8) Spontaneous generation vs. abiogenesis
 * 9) Transportation gunpowder ingredients world war I era
 * 10) Gays and noses
 * 11) Leaving the Solar System

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 11


 * 1) Medical degrees
 * 2) Rocks
 * 3) Flow rate
 * 4) how much power does humanity consume with respect to the amount of solar power it receives?
 * 5) Astronaut Lifestyle

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 12


 * 1) how did the discoverer of prussic acid / hydrogen cyanide not get like majorly killed or hurt
 * 2) pKa of hydrogen
 * 3) in what types of cells, except Haploid reproduction cells, does meiosis occur?
 * 4) Not quite night terrors
 * 5) Question regarding the orbital period of the Earth around the Sun
 * 6) Blue sky?
 * 7) Burning oil at low rate using catalyst for "greenhouse".
 * 8) Candle and Carbon Monoxide
 * 9) Critical Illness cover
 * 10) word for a type of visual disturbance
 * 11) wrist-mounted mini rocket launcher?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 13


 * 1) Gold complex solubility
 * 2) Animal extract for industrial use as an emulsifying agent (cattle semen & neem oil)
 * 3) Oxygen deficiency
 * 4) Best Alternative of Nose Surgery?
 * 5) Cerebellum Palsy Spastic
 * 6) Why are Antioxidants believed to be fat burners?
 * 7) Takeoff distance for Gulfstream G550
 * 8) Leaving the Solar System, Part 2
 * 9) Jeffersonian curved brick walls
 * 10) Is Unha  a ballistic missile?
 * 11) Amount of friction depends on direction, about hair
 * 12) Opposite of  Liebenberg syndrome?
 * 13) Peer review and research merit
 * 14) Pipeclay triangle

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 14


 * 1) Does the electrical conductivity of graphite increase as temperature increases(for some lower temperature)?
 * 2) Bloating or concussion?
 * 3) Are there any non-sterile hybrids?
 * 4) Alexander Siddigs eye color
 * 5) Quantum theory, constructivism, and postmodernism
 * 6) Proof of life on other planets

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 15


 * 1) Volitional Consciousness
 * 2) promising technologies in natural resource management
 * 3) CNS vs PNS
 * 4) Can you blame someone for appearing to be lazy?
 * 5) Aura (paranormal)
 * 6) Absent spiders
 * 7) Relativity

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 16


 * 1) Restoring a faded receipt
 * 2) Microfibre 8 848 metres long weights 0.4 grams?
 * 3) (xkcd) why is text in the mirror backward, but not upside-down?  what's so special about the horizontal axis?
 * 4) Evolutionary fate of siblicide

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 17


 * 1) Doppler Phase and Frequency shift
 * 2) Electromagnetic waves and bathroom tiles
 * 3) "As irregular as the light curve of Alpha Ceti"

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 18


 * 1) Lithium-ion cell phone battery
 * 2) Time travel paradox name?
 * 3) Are there any transparent Non-Newtonian fluids?
 * 4) I want to learn how bad the optics of a -13.50 polycarbonate lens are. How can I?
 * 5) How long would the sun last if a small black hole was placed inside it?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 19


 * 1) Apparent position of sun
 * 2) Furthest object not moving away from us
 * 3) Relation between mass -radius -density of star
 * 4) Cold concentrating sulfuric acid
 * 5) Pigment of my imagination
 * 6) promising technologies in natural resource management
 * 7) map of the universe
 * 8) Perpendicular force
 * 9) gardening
 * 10) Hardy viruses
 * 11) Mains electricity by country: why the differences?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 20


 * 1) What is the melting point of diamond?
 * 2) Myans accuracy
 * 3) Champ
 * 4) Possible footprint in Curiosity photo.

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 21


 * 1) Ozone resupply
 * 2) Eight compartments in the rectus abdominis - which comprise the six pack?
 * 3) Wireless energy and magnetic field
 * 4) Could the hand have a more ideal anatomy?
 * 5) If we started all over again, and ignoring that humans like to use the number of fingers they have, which number base is best to use?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 22


 * 1) Generating electricity from a hypothetical magnetic monopole
 * 2) Dry ice fog
 * 3) charcoal and salt related to earthing
 * 4) Scratching a cat's spine
 * 5) Perceiving numbers
 * 6) pipes history
 * 7) Invariant mass

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 23


 * 1) Columbia River Dams
 * 2) Scientific racism and pseudo science?
 * 3) oranamental conifer
 * 4) Why is the charge of quarks exactly proportional to the charge of electron?
 * 5) Instinct and sex positions
 * 6) Have a question about Avogero's law.. Can anybody solve it?
 * 7) boltzmann brain
 * 8) Bromeliad species?  Prognosis?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 24


 * 1) Balangoda_Man is homo erectus or Homo Sapien
 * 2) "alkaline gargle"
 * 3) calculate ph change that takeplace when 100ml of .05m naoh and .05m hcl are added to 400ml of buffer soln that is .2m in nh3 and .3m in nh4cl
 * 4) Suitable conditions for ventilating a residential property to reduce humidity
 * 5) Flame is matter or not
 * 6) Fire in absence of oxygen
 * 7) Is the electric field a side effect of the Pauli exclusion principle?
 * 8) Highest altitude for manned post-Apollo mission

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 25


 * 1) Acetone
 * 2) surface tension
 * 3) balloons and fire
 * 4) tests for reality
 * 5) Is the ability to fart in a controlled manner a rare talent or a mundane skill?

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 26


 * 1) rare and hazardous research chemicals
 * 2) Bacterial infection before antibiotics
 * 3) Train related engineering questions
 * 4) Roche limit for black holes
 * 5) Past article from the Lancet medical journal.

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 27


 * 1) measuring in a hypodermic syringe
 * 2) decline of space expansion and exploration
 * 3) quantum effects in processors
 * 4) hair/fur, not pelt
 * 5) Hydrogenated Polyisobutene in cosmetics
 * 6) Daily Comet Ison pic?
 * 7) Mystery mineral

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 28


 * 1) Mr Edelweiss type of bird
 * 2) Name that fish (Halfbeak -- ballyhoo?)
 * 3) Can a tunnel flood?
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 * 5) Can curing of paints change tensile properties
 * 6) telling if we are in a Virtual Machine
 * 7) A drug meant specifically to induce pain

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 29


 * 1) meteorites from EARTH to Mars, rather than vice versa
 * 2) Confusion in article Atomic mass and bond order greater than 6
 * 3) Biochemistry of Seizures

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 30


 * 1) Morse code
 * 2) Lorcaserin and what else? - FDA approved Obesity medication
 * 3) What kind of chemicals would be produced when a Polyethylene plastic bag is burnt? How?
 * 4) Does infrasonic results resonance in human body?
 * 5) Properties of blood
 * 6) why do doctors tell women not to douche
 * 7) Add indicator lamp to heater
 * 8) Why do some carbon compounds burn and others not?
 * 9) Article on energy effects of direct sunlight?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 December 31


 * 1) Light illumination?
 * 2) Eating meat from a venom-killed animal
 * 3) How can i Make a Ligand substance be SELECTIVE on specific receptor areas ?
 * 4) Specific capacity... What the heck is it?
 * 5) Scientific explanation for ESP (Extrasensory perception)
 * 6) What accounts for the heavy taste of Beer?