Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2017

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 1


 * 1) multimeter died - why
 * 2) Why was the page associated with Günter Bechly removed from Wiki? (previously "Evolution")
 * 3) Is spacetime a manifold?
 * 4) pH logarithm

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 2


 * 1) Who first analyzed the 'particle in a box' model?

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 3


 * 1) Do facial toning exercises work?
 * 2) Fire nozzles
 * 3) Construction of Britain’s railways in the 1800s
 * 4) Difference between natural gas and coal for global warming.

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 4


 * 1) Color and pattern convergence across unrelated species
 * 2) What's this arachnoid?
 * 3) Modifying magnetic pendulum circuit for larger pendulum swings
 * 4) Winding

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 5


 * 1) "Elastic collisions" and time travel
 * 2) Speed of molecular machines
 * 3) Anthropology and VO2 max
 * 4) Venlafaxine
 * 5) Ice-free northern Greenland

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 7


 * 1) Effect of CO2 emissions on the metabolic energy obtained from glucose
 * 2) Natural satellites of planets
 * 3) Modified Atmosphere Article -Clarification Questions & Suggestions
 * 4) Why isn't bitcoin mining causing the price of bitcoin to level off?

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 8


 * 1) Please identify a weapon
 * 2) Cheese Curd
 * 3) Square signal as only clock signal?
 * 4) current mass ULAS J1342+0928
 * 5) Bytownite - industrial uses?
 * 6) Could x moles of acid or base stochiometrically react with more liters or molarity of reactant if it's added quicker?
 * 7) Using air bubbles to stabilize a ship

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 9


 * 1) Is there a way to know that NASA didn't know about an asteroid?
 * 2) Big bang and size of the universe
 * 3) Cold-tolerant trees
 * 4) Why isn't northern Vermont covered in ice?
 * 5) The way snow melts
 * 6) United States map

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 10


 * 1) Towed array
 * 2) Submarine crew
 * 3) Nitrate testing chemical
 * 4) Glock pistol's walls design
 * 5) mental activity during unresponsiveness
 * 6) Secondary car mirror reflections

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 11


 * 1) Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants vs. POP Air Pollution Protocol

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 13


 * 1) Are these oranges there in the background?
 * 2) Thermodynamics of flame front propagation in a closed chamber (two-phase model)
 * 3) Looking for youtube video that showed a cartoon train in scenarios near the speed of light?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 14


 * 1) Location of mission critical controls
 * 2) Cone cell responses to violet
 * 3) Not following an example from the book The Fabric of the Cosmos
 * 4) Organ connection

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 15


 * 1) Rod vision color
 * 2) An positron and proton have opposite charges.
 * 3) Mechanical hemolytic anemia

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 16


 * 1) What is the opposite of Nootropics?
 * 2) on sugars and carbohydrates
 * 3) Safety in construction vs transport
 * 4) seashore crustacean ID (Southern California)

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 17


 * 1) Evolution death
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 17#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_15-1_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F45-11be04713e.jpg_JPG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 15-1 JPG]]
 * 3) Different causes of death
 * 4) How does a cold environment affect human health

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 18


 * 1) circuit breaker
 * 2) How fast could a specialized company produce generic drugs on demand?
 * 3) Project lifecycle

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 19


 * 1) Jumbo jet

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 20


 * 1) Cognitive task where children were much better than adults
 * 2) Crop rotation
 * 3) Looking for any reliable sources regarding "brainwashed" experiment
 * 4) Pharmaceutical trademarks/patents?
 * 5) Recycling cardboard that has stickers on it
 * 6) How do plants deal with dust coating their leaves?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 21


 * 1) Oddities of "entombed" toads
 * 2) Effects of water in the body on sleep
 * 3) Nutrition in mutton/chicken soup
 * 4) Daily CNS adult apoptosis VS Daily CNS adult neurogensis
 * 5) What normally happen to micro foreign bodies that penetrates the skin?
 * 6) Trazodone#Priapism

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 22


 * 1) Hawking radiation
 * 2) Does being drunk increase the smallest earthquake you can feel?
 * 3) Religious views on Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 23


 * 1) The † symbol in biological nomenclature
 * 2) Can ultracold neutrons form into pairs of neutrons that would be proton-free nuclei?
 * 3) Ocean photographs
 * 4) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 23#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_15-1_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F45-11be04713e.jpg_JPG.5D_2|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 15-1 JPG 2]]
 * 5) Weird space launch shot

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 24


 * 1) Military presence on the moon
 * 2) "species-preserving captivity"

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 25


 * 1) is it possible to upscale old TV series into 4K
 * 2) Time travel
 * 3) Alleged moon phenomenon of 1882

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 26


 * 1) Are any indoor plants or domestic animals endangered?
 * 2) fish reproduction
 * 3) Troposphere
 * 4) TV phosphorescence
 * 5) tanked hot water heaters

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 27


 * 1) Grohe Eurodisk

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 28


 * 1) Exact value of the strong interaction (constant)?
 * 2) What do aircraft throttle numbers above 100 mean?
 * 3) Köppen climate classification in the US
 * 4) Modern equivalents of chief engineers such as Brunel

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 29


 * 1) Absorption (skin) article
 * 2) Year of description of a new species

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 30


 * 1) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 30#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_16-5_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F47-dd98071fcf.jpg_JPG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 16-5 JPG]]

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 31


 * 1) How many of a 100 year old's atoms have been in their body their whole adult life?