Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2015

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 1


 * 1) How plate tectonic works
 * 2) Where can I print or download the computer models which are currently accepted by the scientific community which prove climate change incontrovertible?
 * 3) Q-carbon
 * 4) Medication allowed by a blood donation
 * 5) Living things consisting physical forms
 * 6) Abiogenisis
 * 7) Smallest thing in the Universe
 * 8) Psychology of phobia of needles

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 2


 * 1) Midget Jockeys
 * 2) Universe is infinitely old??
 * 3) Boxelder bug or Small Milkweed bug?
 * 4) Transportation industries
 * 5) Replacing a fuse of a microwave grill oven

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 3


 * 1) Has the density of the Universe ever been greater than 1.0?
 * 2) Gay Bomb
 * 3) Masturbation for Astronaughts
 * 4) Stages of non-grief emotions
 * 5) Are  Modal Realism and the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis the same thing?
 * 6) Fake snow that feels liquidy but no apparent moisture on your hand?
 * 7) Why do real flowers feel so soft on the fingers?
 * 8) Will water-based personal lubricants work for non-sexual purposes?
 * 9) Disasters / International space station

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 4


 * 1) Humans without junk DNA
 * 2) Alcohol rubs when drawing blood
 * 3) Holographic universe and Simulation hypothesis

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 5


 * 1) What's the cheapest fully automatic car that has a clutchless manual mode?
 * 2) Making human males female
 * 3) Guy on earth looking at a camera inside a spaceship.
 * 4) transistor as a switch/oscillation
 * 5) Exaggerated colour in old movies
 * 6) Routine blood test draw locations
 * 7) An ionic bounding can occur between metals to metals or nonmetals to nonmetals?
 * 8) Can it be an cation in the metals or an anion in the nonmetals?
 * 9) Kidney Stones / Hernia prior modern medicine

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 6


 * 1) Does light accelerate?
 * 2) What does the VIIA of periodic table stand for?
 * 3) Element can lose or gain more than three electrons?
 * 4) DIY fabrication of articles using resilient silicone material
 * 5) Radios in trucks?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 7


 * 1) Relating to heat transfer
 * 2) Anyone recognise this insect ?
 * 3) Trade secrets and labs
 * 4) Civil engineering
 * 5) cleaning the dye off money

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 8


 * 1) From Computer Science to Civil Engineering?
 * 2) Thiourea Reactions

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 9


 * 1) Eroded teeth
 * 2) TianQin planned gravitational wave detector
 * 3) During prehistoric times, what was the likelihood of growing up to maturity and reproducing for humans?

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 10


 * 1) Americans and the metric system
 * 2) Bird identificaton
 * 3) Are smiling faces more attractive than not-smiling faces?
 * 4) Why is it so hard to walk on all fours?
 * 5) Concentration of minerals in the Earth crust

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 11


 * 1) Calculating orbital distance based on 2 observations
 * 2) Super attacks
 * 3) Two questions about steroids and testes

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 12


 * 1) Alcohol's effect on CNS
 * 2) Do insects learn?
 * 3) Name of physical property when solid object touches water
 * 4) What is enq in the following context?
 * 5) When and how Saddam Hussein destroyed his WMD?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 13


 * 1) Leadership skills
 * 2) Why can ethanol be used as a rocket fuel but gasoline can't?
 * 3) How do waves and winds interact?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 14


 * 1) Were coalition troops prepared for/expecting an attack with chemical/biological weapons?
 * 2) Measuring the mass of non-detected dark matter
 * 3) Bowel Movements
 * 4) Poorly designed battery: fire by discharging?
 * 5) Gravity trains and the rotation of the earth

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 15


 * 1) finding the work according to the blood pressure and the heart rate
 * 2) A medium-size object
 * 3) high blood pressure/donating blood
 * 4) Orangutan humor?
 * 5) What does the exact moment of sunrise and sunset signify?

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 16


 * 1) list of stars about 30000 ly distant please
 * 2) What is the precise length of a day?
 * 3) Will global warming slow down or speed up the earth's rotation speed?
 * 4) Journal Articles
 * 5) Energy expended per newton per second
 * 6) What sense is my betta fish using to detect the arrival of food?
 * 7) How did Races/ phenotype features originate?
 * 8) Optometry
 * 9) Voice pitch of brunette and blonde women
 * 10) Perception of own health in an isolated group

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 17


 * 1) sodium iodide catalysis of SN2 reactions of diols on dichloromethane
 * 2) black holes, space physics stuff
 * 3) Cloud seeding to prevent floods
 * 4) Glaciers on Pluto
 * 5) Infrastructure asset management

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 18


 * 1) How will moving to the Grand Cayman Islands change my DNA?
 * 2) Artificial Eggs

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 19


 * 1) Baumgartner's balloon
 * 2) Orion, Sirius, and sunrise on Dec 25
 * 3) Truss type
 * 4) Weather balloons
 * 5) How do evolutionists explain that life appeared just once?
 * 6) New charity article may need a look for promoting AIDS denialism

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 20


 * 1) Electrochemistry of rust restoration by electrolysis
 * 2) Snoring
 * 3) Ageing of heart
 * 4) Electronics in ovens
 * 5) Pistol Star magnitude

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 21


 * 1) Vitiligo
 * 2) Does libration cause tidal effects ?
 * 3) What is the reverse of being tidaly locked?
 * 4) DC railway traction power supply
 * 5) Engineering asset management to operational management
 * 6) Garnier's new "micellar technology" in their makeup remover / facial cleanser
 * 7) How did humans cope with pain before widespread opiate use?
 * 8) Are the sizes of noses becoming smaller in recent generations?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 22


 * 1) Hospital pain management and heroin addicition
 * 2) Falcon 9 first stage
 * 3) Soyuz TMA-19M
 * 4) Mysterious Benoit Species Description
 * 5) Volume of the observable universe
 * 6) Photo details
 * 7) Railways
 * 8) Share of scientific publications written in English

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 23


 * 1) Falcon 9 Flight 20 and why it is historical
 * 2) No large moons for gas giants and ice giants ?
 * 3) U.K. Rail
 * 4) Birth control v. MTF hormone replacement therapy v. anti-aging hormone replacement therapy

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 24


 * 1) Removing stains from white clothes with UV cross linking machine
 * 2) Refraction of particles
 * 3) How bad is it for a scientist to ignore publications not written in English?
 * 4) Tetanic convulsion

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 25


 * 1) Project management
 * 2) "Language Development"
 * 3) Good introductory book on algorithms for a middle-school kid
 * 4) Calculating joules without distances
 * 5) Is there H2O (water) in milk?

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 26


 * 1) Gas on a planet and saterites
 * 2) Cats and dogs and rock and roll
 * 3) Engineering fields
 * 4) Prince Rupert's sugar
 * 5) Engineering design
 * 6) Does excessive strength training and exercise in youth really stunt growth?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 27


 * 1) Tablet usefulness?
 * 2) virus
 * 3) How fast would Moore's Law be if most surplus productivity was applied to Moore's Law?
 * 4) How many names could one learn?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 28


 * 1) Microaggression theory
 * 2) Why does "benzylamine hydrochloride" point to "Motion sickness"?
 * 3) Which algorithm to use
 * 4) Bleach and vinegar reactions
 * 5) Hydration retardant
 * 6) Disorder name sought

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 29


 * 1) Fire simulator
 * 2) Bacterial growth number of phases are 4 or 6?
 * 3) The Universe is Flat?

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 30


 * 1) Why do large ships have water shooting out of their hulls?
 * 2) Epidemiology of scoliosis
 * 3) Driverless cars and the future of radio
 * 4) elephants
 * 5) Feet

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 December 31


 * 1) What is the programming language in which vineyard bots program is written?
 * 2) Pre-natal genetic screening and rare diseases
 * 3) Year-round averaged air quality score
 * 4) E as a chemical element symbol
 * 5) Mineral identification
 * 6) separating L-DOPA from dopamine
 * 7) preventing sodium borohydride from reacting with alkyl halides (including iodides) and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (enones)