Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2016

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 1


 * 1) if you are are more biologically matured for your age does that mean you will have a shortened life span?
 * 2) Reliable evaluation of a popular science magazine
 * 3) If a skyscraper's designed for weak Cat 4 hurricanes but not earthquakes?

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 2


 * 1) Rabbit habit
 * 2) Identify a weapon used by the South African Army
 * 3) What is the reason that not any mammal can be reproductive from another different mammal?
 * 4) Why do animals have hearts ?
 * 5) Atomic particle identification
 * 6) supermassive black holes
 * 7) alcohol hand gel

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 3


 * 1) Is Glicine not chiral?
 * 2) What does the word "cis" (of cis isomer) stand for?
 * 3) What do the letters Pk stands for in chemistry (acids & basis)?
 * 4) What the heck is a "wedge connector", and should there be a Wikipedia article about it?
 * 5) 24v from PSU
 * 6) Science or Science Fiction? Professionals’ Discursive Construction of Climate Change
 * 7) Fishing spider in the house

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 4


 * 1) Erroneous Recycling
 * 2) Running crack
 * 3) Reflection of light when momentum is transferred
 * 4) no information on the bond energies of a pi bond (ALONE), separate from the C=C sigma bond?
 * 5) What large cheap vessel to use for a chloroform vapour bath?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 5


 * 1) What is the difference between these two glycines?
 * 2) Reducing the waiting period to donate blood after male-male sex - practical impact?
 * 3) Why are mitochondria called "mitochondria"?
 * 4) Is that claim proved scientifically?
 * 5) Arachidyl Alcohol
 * 6) Fire safety
 * 7) Ginkgo fruit yield

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 6


 * 1) School systems in America, England and Holland
 * 2) Which school system is better: the Dutch, American or British one?
 * 3) When photons hit solar sails

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 7


 * 1) Mountain gaps
 * 2) Air pollution and what kind is the worst for your health
 * 3) Sex with a Hepatitis C positive woman during her period
 * 4) All other things equal is building fire a bigger or smaller risk at high altitude?
 * 5) External temperature sensors on cars

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 8


 * 1) Falling from a balloon
 * 2) Beech 18
 * 3) Why defibrillator is not placed directly above the heart?
 * 4) Sleeping positions
 * 5) Star formation and Dark matter
 * 6) Are humans ever harmed by highways?
 * 7) Turing test considerations
 * 8) Apollo machete

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 9


 * 1) How many levels of carbons are there in isoleucine?
 * 2) Predicting solar eclipses
 * 3) What do speculation of raw materials?
 * 4) What was Brenda wearing?

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 10


 * 1) Men taking a pregnancy test
 * 2) In what way teachers in academy used to draw the signs of skeletal structures?
 * 3) Can norovirus be used as a non-lethal bioweapon for urban warfare?
 * 4) galaxies
 * 5) Is there any medical value when a care provider talk to his trauma patient?
 * 6) Birds seen at SeaWorld San Diego
 * 7) plane of simultaneity link
 * 8) Pleven
 * 9) Is it possible to project the human voice faster than the speed of sound?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 11


 * 1) Is the occlumotor passes in the neck?
 * 2) climate warming and record low temperature
 * 3) Can I say that the definition of "matter" is anything that has an electron?
 * 4) Is hydrophilic molecule a synonym of polar molecule?
 * 5) Polar air mass meeting tropical air mass

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 12


 * 1) what is this circuit and how does it work?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 13


 * 1) What's the chance that a random transit of Mercury?
 * 2) How much does 1 kg of air weigh?
 * 3) Power Splitter
 * 4) Storing data in ice Ih
 * 5) How do F-35s avoid colliding with each other?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 14


 * 1) Nitrogen gas VSEPR sketch
 * 2) Interpretation of size: "152 x 200 x 20 + 39 cm" of bed sheet
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 14#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_41._Ch._41–3_Equipartition_and_the_quantum_oscillator_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_41.html.23Ch41-S3.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 41. Ch. 41–3 Equipartition and the quantum oscillator ]]
 * 4) Main Battle Tanks
 * 5) Does the cold itself cause to illness or the viruses are those which cause it?

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 15


 * 1) What street legal road vehicle has the biggest weight to ground contact area ratio?
 * 2) What species is this?
 * 3) Crosses with more than 2 traits
 * 4) narrow width of solar system
 * 5) is it so that comets have half life?
 * 6) how can explode a bomb in vacuum space?
 * 7) Identify an office machine (checkwriter)?

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 16


 * 1) Getting microwaves deeper into food (i.e. not cold in middle)
 * 2) What weapons could damage a plane made of flawless nanotubes/nanotube composite?

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 17


 * 1) Would a man's testicles stop working if his testicles were cut open and all of his seminiferous tubules were surgically removed?
 * 2) Waterfalls get narrower at the bottom?
 * 3) Chemical ratio
 * 4) Biological organism development stages
 * 5) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 17#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_41_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_41.html.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 41 ]]

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 18


 * 1) Asthma as a consequence of fighting off lung cancer?
 * 2) Tell me about ceramic non-stick coatings
 * 3) What species of fungi is this?
 * 4) Tow hitch and rear end crash

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 19


 * 1) glass turning cloudy
 * 2) Static pile load
 * 3) Research for my book (nsfw)
 * 4) "Healthy food" vs. "Junk food"
 * 5) Does early sexual maturation predict a shorter life expectancy?
 * 6) Humans and nature
 * 7) cold and salt killing harmful bacteria
 * 8) Has any land animal evolved to become a sea animal?
 * 9) Any explanation for the Richat Structure?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 20


 * 1) Clementine
 * 2) Circumcision as HIV prevention in gay men (particularly insertive anal sex)
 * 3) Strange solid brown stuff inside banana

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 21


 * 1) Interesting effect I've noticed.
 * 2) Tallest mountains prior to those in the Himalayan Plateau? (and after)
 * 3) Gamma rays causing interference on professional video recording?

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 22


 * 1) Housekeeping in Microgravity
 * 2) Firing in context of measuring electrical activity in nervous sytem
 * 3) why do the neurons in medulla oblongata fire prior to the inhalation?

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 23


 * 1) Sweet Heavy water
 * 2) Juicy Fruit (not the snack)

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 24


 * 1) The definition of matter - space and mass
 * 2) are electrons made of by fermions?
 * 3) Question about the redox potential
 * 4) Sizes
 * 5) Are there places which don't have lightning & thunder despite they have rain and snow?
 * 6) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 24#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_41_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_41.html.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 41 ]]

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 25


 * 1) Condoms failing during perfect use
 * 2) Vocal type
 * 3) Snow References
 * 4) In chemistry are there 3 states of matter or 4 or 5?
 * 5) The differences and the definitions of proton and neutron

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 26


 * 1) stupid NMR question
 * 2) boat that can "fly" underwater like a penguin
 * 3) Deposit of fog droplets vs. fog drip
 * 4) information on a french reflecting circle by lorieux, lepetit
 * 5) Are the waves of the ECG created before the real contraction of the heart?
 * 6) Determine whether caulk is silicone or acrylic?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 27


 * 1) Distance to stars
 * 2) Lithium-ion batteries in smartphones emit more than 100 toxic gases
 * 3) Traditional and Western medicines

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 28


 * 1) Confusing pubmed article: "skin defect of hell"
 * 2) (short-term) Death Toll from catastrophic Dam failure?
 * 3) Why isn't alcohol used to treat bacterial skin infections?
 * 4) Artificial intelligence

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 29


 * 1) Commercially-canned mushrooms
 * 2) Long-term effects of high electric current on copper wire
 * 3) Global warming: have I got this right?
 * 4) Why is the non dominant side of the body is stronger?
 * 5) The chemistry of baking bread

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 30


 * 1) What if we discovered a new (caloric) macronutrient?
 * 2) Under which classification is "troponin"?
 * 3) Species of Loligo used in the landmark studies of membrane biophysics
 * 4) What is the effect of tissue hypoxia on the cellular metabolic rate?
 * 5) Climate Change

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 31


 * 1) Metal versus cloth
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 December 31#Feynman_Lectures._Lecture_42._42–2Thermionic_emission_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_42.html.23Ch42-S2.5D|Feynman Lectures. Lecture 42. 42–2Thermionic emission ]]
 * 3) What is the reason that it's not recommended to bend while the knee is not bed too?