Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2008

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 1


 * 1) pubmed error
 * 2) impulse of photon
 * 3) Burning Sensation in the chest when exerting oneself
 * 4) chloroplasts

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 2


 * 1) Diet and prescribed drugs
 * 2) Some prehistory questions
 * 3) Winter
 * 4) Neurontin and Lyrica
 * 5) Speed of gravity
 * 6) Sky
 * 7) Getting back into a normal sleep pattern, ideas?
 * 8) Lava lake in Krakatau?
 * 9) Antimatter
 * 10) Insect in a vacutainer?
 * 11) monoclonal antibodies
 * 12) smell of eggs and farts
 * 13) Plants
 * 14) What is Gravity?
 * 15) Diet question
 * 16) Compact fluorescent lamps and flicker?
 * 17) how inefficient are wall warts?
 * 18) Teeth Whitening Strips
 * 19) ethylene
 * 20) PHYSICS MAGAZINE QUESTION ABOUT AN ELEVATOR
 * 21) Black Butterflies South American Plateau Fields of Crystals Art Bell...
 * 22) Stone dropping falcon
 * 23) Tasting heat
 * 24) Ants on the dole
 * 25) Speed of waves
 * 26) Zen monks pain suppression
 * 27) Regulatory region vs sequence
 * 28) Physics pendulum question

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 3


 * 1) Video
 * 2) Conveying thought process in audio/visual context
 * 3) Magnetic field
 * 4) Fried eggs
 * 5) Quantum Physics (again)
 * 6) what/is/the/resistance/of/humanbody/
 * 7) Doubts
 * 8) Species
 * 9) General Paper essay question: "Boys are smarter than girls. How far do you agree?"
 * 10) brain activity
 * 11) Proposed article: Sensory Illusions on the Ocean
 * 12) Voice
 * 13) Human hair growth rate
 * 14) Hair as food
 * 15) Ashes to Diamonds?
 * 16) Bromelain and other digestive enzymes
 * 17) bonds between magnesium and flourine
 * 18) Fasting
 * 19) Earth's orbit and time dilation

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 4


 * 1) Genetic code
 * 2) High-pitched TV sound
 * 3) Non-Irish joke “travelling to sun” sci fi short story - details required
 * 4) A lot of empty space
 * 5) Terminator
 * 6) Human reproduction without an intercourse
 * 7) Storing food in cans after they have been opened
 * 8) Uranus
 * 9) PHYSICS MAGAZINE QUESTION THOUGHT
 * 10) Phisical/chemical changes

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 5


 * 1) Need phase diagram for CO2 below 1 atm, please?
 * 2) Components of remote controlled battery powered car
 * 3) semen increasing foods
 * 4) Dowson gas
 * 5) True or False: Gravity Travels at the Speed of Light
 * 6) Prisoner's vision
 * 7) how can we tell "shiny black" from "grey"
 * 8) Calculating the phases of the Moon
 * 9) Bleaching chemicals
 * 10) Black Holes
 * 11) Uranium electron configuration
 * 12) "Will It Blend" -- what WON'T blend????
 * 13) fioracet
 * 14) Why does radioactive fallout occur in fission bombs but not pure fusion bombs?
 * 15) What happens if you feed a cow a cookie?
 * 16) Cloning of the PCR product
 * 17) Trees
 * 18) Why is there this much matter?
 * 19) Converting a linear force to angular momentum

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 6


 * 1) How many?
 * 2) Extreme biology
 * 3) what are these yellow flowers called?
 * 4) Thermochemistry
 * 5) Scientific reason for men or women higher%?
 * 6) Water freezing point and supercooling
 * 7) A Gulf Stream in the Pacific?
 * 8) minimum molecular weight of colloids (IV fluids)
 * 9) physics
 * 10) Hair and nails
 * 11) K2, the most difficult mountain in the world?
 * 12) Homework HELP (DO NOT GIVE ANSWER)
 * 13) Albumin and 11-year sun cycle
 * 14) ailments due to marriage in close relations????
 * 15) Why are Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears both pretty, while their parents are both extremely ugly?
 * 16) Determination of chloride in sea water
 * 17) storms
 * 18) Catalase
 * 19) 23.5°
 * 20) Evaporation of sea water
 * 21) NEWTONS LAW 1 AND 2 QUESTIONS FROM THE PHYSICS MAGAZINE GUY

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 7


 * 1) Tornados in the American South - why?
 * 2) Batteries heating up
 * 3) Olympus Mons climb
 * 4) Device to locate devices
 * 5) properties of electromagnets?
 * 6) How to select marker bits for data communication
 * 7) biology
 * 8) Minimum amount of useful sleep?
 * 9) Disowning our distant relatives.
 * 10) Calculating the speed at which pressure travels
 * 11) Tandem genes
 * 12) is eating potato skins unhealthy?
 * 13) Drugs and GI motility
 * 14) Which was the LCA of plants and animals?

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 8


 * 1) Does cheap alcohol get worse hangovers?
 * 2) Permille
 * 3) duration of human pregnancy?
 * 4) Identify this Hibiscus
 * 5) Common corpse perception
 * 6) planetary orbit
 * 7) Twisted transistors
 * 8) More common corpse perception
 * 9) counselling
 * 10) Gamma Radiation's effect on matter
 * 11) Wind loading
 * 12) Mass death of forest tent caterpillars
 * 13) Why is 98 degrees uncomfortable?
 * 14) Light
 * 15) Show me the light!...for photosynthesis
 * 16) Printing a full-scale map of the Earth.
 * 17) Digestion
 * 18) Helicopter Physics
 * 19) sky digibox
 * 20) Electromagnetic pulse effects on storage devices
 * 21) Nitrocellulose underwear

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 9


 * 1) Is it possible to hide somewhere on Earth
 * 2) Do we have a space station orbiting the moon?
 * 3) B12 and Folic Acid Masking
 * 4) Parts of thr skull?
 * 5) Why is a car moving in a circle at a constant speed said to have accleration?
 * 6) The natural world: snails
 * 7) thermoacoustic refrigerator
 * 8) Books on science history
 * 9) Difference between a penny and a penny.
 * 10) trivial querry...
 * 11) Odd-looking moon tonight...
 * 12) colour of sky

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 10


 * 1) copper sulfate and potassium hydroxide
 * 2) DNA replication
 * 3) fuzzy control of dc to dc converter
 * 4) Sassafras wood - safe to burn in fireplace?
 * 5) Pure nucleic acid
 * 6) Please help me understand some "cookbook" chemistry
 * 7) Jellyfish
 * 8) Viviparous (common) lizard
 * 9) colon cancer
 * 10) Orkney Isands

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 11


 * 1) Melting points of ice in cold
 * 2) Orbits
 * 3) Force+chair
 * 4) What is Adjunctive Therapy and how does it work?
 * 5) Can you think of any major new organs or adaptive behaviours which evolution might throw up in the next few million years?
 * 6) AIDS
 * 7) Military Tattoos
 * 8) RD stress
 * 9) Looking for northern lights
 * 10) re:thermoacoustic refrigerator
 * 11) Vacuum in space
 * 12) plastic beads
 * 13) Big-Bonedness
 * 14) Chemistry helper software
 * 15) Juxtacapillary (J) receptors
 * 16) Using the Hall Effect to Find the Speed of a Flowing Ionic Liquid
 * 17) Bouncing Squash Balls
 * 18) How dangerous are Moka express machines...
 * 19) Does reading ruin your eyes?
 * 20) HCl Crystal Structure
 * 21) Circumcision Controversy

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 12


 * 1) sodium chlorate
 * 2) chemistry
 * 3) Decrease of Earth’s orbital angular momentum (around the Sun)?
 * 4) Using a 200V machine in a 220-240V country.
 * 5) Strange light
 * 6) time of twilight
 * 7) Nearest star of spectral class O
 * 8) Space?
 * 9) Golf
 * 10) Calculating power use
 * 11) Killing a cold virus by Exercising?
 * 12) Questions about EMP
 * 13) Are all indoor heaters 100% efficient?
 * 14) Eyeglass prescription relation to 20/20 scale
 * 15) Photosynthesis vs photovoltaics
 * 16) Tandem Repeats
 * 17) empty space?

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 13


 * 1) how many delegates per state
 * 2) Who discovered the peanut allergy?
 * 3) Ammonia and copper sulphate
 * 4) lowenstein-jensen media...?
 * 5) Human Spleen
 * 6) Passenger Zeppelins LZ120 and LZ121
 * 7) Penicillin
 * 8) advantage of science
 * 9) Neural system viruses
 * 10) ROCKET ENGINE
 * 11) Cryo-insulation gel?
 * 12) Atomic bomb
 * 13) I have another Physics Magazine,Question For You and It`s not a Homework Question
 * 14) Length/Width measurement

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 14


 * 1) Lunar Eclipse
 * 2) Mercury Perihelion
 * 3) Anthropology?
 * 4) Colour
 * 5) Repeting things to help retrograde amnesia?
 * 6) Matter to energy conversion using black holes
 * 7) The Position and Speed of Matter
 * 8) War
 * 9) Igniting gunpowder (smokeless powder)
 * 10) Microwave radiation health effects - alternative questions
 * 11) can marijuana be consumed anally
 * 12) crystal meth
 * 13) Dinosaur names
 * 14) Earthquake question
 * 15) mixing chemicals

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 15


 * 1) Science
 * 2) Japanese Monkey
 * 3) Energy
 * 4) Full-on beak-locked combat in gulls...?
 * 5) Black hole evaporation
 * 6) What exactly is a magnetic field?
 * 7) science fair
 * 8) RDI
 * 9) Wrist watches that read your heart rate
 * 10) Radiation Scope Thingy
 * 11) A commerical Freeze Dryer used for making instant coffee
 * 12) Nuclear bomb effects in space?
 * 13) Can humans hibernate?
 * 14) Poison through the ear
 * 15) WTH?
 * 16) visual acuity conversions

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 16


 * 1) EMP and safe deposit boxes
 * 2) James Randy and Aliens
 * 3) EMBRYOLOGY
 * 4) physics/water barometer
 * 5) Cowling nozzle?
 * 6) How much elecricity does an solar panal of a sq mts produce.
 * 7) Positive and negative load tests
 * 8) Deep space travel - Voyager and Pioneer
 * 9) can we reabsorb water from the bladder?
 * 10) Reverse engineering in baking
 * 11) Why do some people turn green when they get sick?

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 17


 * 1) Carbonyl reduced to Hydroxyl
 * 2) Sleeping standing up
 * 3) Electron microscope staining
 * 4) Variable Speed of Light
 * 5) Speculative Science Question
 * 6) Use of Opiates in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in women!
 * 7) absorption
 * 8) Photoreceptors
 * 9) Why is there more static electricity in dry weather?
 * 10) absortion1
 * 11) If a helium filled airship wants to gain altitude...
 * 12) Absolute frame of reference
 * 13) Pitch Drop experiment
 * 14) Sudden tics when drowsy?
 * 15) Who would win?

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 18


 * 1) Tube guitar amplifier humming/rustling sound problem
 * 2) bug/insect identification
 * 3) Volume of solution
 * 4) I want an stream eletric generator to produce 80000 units of current annually
 * 5) claustrophobia
 * 6) inclined planes
 * 7) Blindness versus deafness
 * 8) Non-foaming shampoo on first wash, explosion of foam second wash.
 * 9) Newtonian Physics
 * 10) Incorrect textbook?
 * 11) Is it physically possible...

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 19


 * 1) About time dilation and planet habitation
 * 2) Aircraft carrier design
 * 3) The Hall Voltage in Ionic Fluids
 * 4) Supermagnet
 * 5) When my foot falls asleep
 * 6) MATERIALS/CHARATERISTICS (Homework?)
 * 7) Fuel efficiency of a Hot Air Balloon (and other questions)

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 20


 * 1) what would you call a small mountain range
 * 2) Does the human brain have limits?
 * 3) Strange Picture
 * 4) Spots
 * 5) First robin in February?
 * 6) Meerkats
 * 7) Menstruation and lunar cycle
 * 8) Electric Flux Units
 * 9) Becoming a Spaceman
 * 10) Science Fair (Quantum Dots)

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 21


 * 1) Environmental Effect of Al Gore
 * 2) Explain about the working of  nMOS super buffers in VLSI?
 * 3) Rabbit skeleton conservation
 * 4) press machine
 * 5) starch vs. sugar
 * 6) Is the universe 100% logical and 100% consistent 100% of the time?
 * 7) Building a voltaic stack
 * 8) Body wastes H2O?

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 22


 * 1) What else is there?
 * 2) Belated bruise
 * 3) 3600rpm 1000 HP electrical motor. Need bibliography. Vibration
 * 4) Power factor in electric circuit
 * 5) Old voice recordings
 * 6) Modem
 * 7) Electromagnet
 * 8) Paper Clip Capacitor
 * 9) Medicine
 * 10) answers plz (refrigeration vs. air conditioning)
 * 11) Chemical reaction question
 * 12) is it two seconds or four seconds to moon and back?
 * 13) Purple veins
 * 14) What makes protiens

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 23


 * 1) Ideas for prosthetic communication devices for 'locked in' syndrome
 * 2) How Composite Quantum System Relates to Tensor Product?
 * 3) worst animals
 * 4) Built-in Radio
 * 5) How did water form?
 * 6) Solving scrodinger equation for particle in a potential well
 * 7) Strange sun halo
 * 8) are silicone implants safe?
 * 9) Can glasses induce oil secretions?
 * 10) tissue
 * 11) A kind of gambling machine
 * 12) Grapefruit seeds

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 24


 * 1) Here comes the sun
 * 2) Breitling Orbiter 3
 * 3) Human genome conservation with dogs
 * 4) RNA amplification
 * 5) Question about Salmon (but don't Rushdie answer)
 * 6) Photon bouncing?
 * 7) Boiling oil
 * 8) Salinity of saline solutions
 * 9) Other salts
 * 10) Coriolis Effect
 * 11) Moon and Sun having the same apparent size
 * 12) Weird Taste and Smell lingering days after taking Advil Cold and Flu

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 25


 * 1) Alternate method of boiling
 * 2) Electric Car
 * 3) Why did the use of Greek fire stop?
 * 4) earthworms
 * 5) Purchasing Explosives
 * 6) color
 * 7) Role of Urea in concentrating uring

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 26


 * 1) MORE PHYSICS MAGZINE QUESTIONS,FROM THE PHYSICS MAGAZINE GUY
 * 2) the ocean
 * 3) food processoring
 * 4) Taigas
 * 5) Plugging both speakers in to one channel of a preamp
 * 6) Unidentified bathroom fly or moth
 * 7) "Shut-in" oil production
 * 8) knee surgery
 * 9) Does hand sanitizer kill viruses?
 * 10) SRS statistics
 * 11) Harmonics (?) with RF emissions causing lights to go out
 * 12) Engineering(Naval Arts) - detrimental effects on ship cause by twisting propulsion engines
 * 13) Killing the Bass
 * 14) Dream More...
 * 15) Faster Hair
 * 16) Shadow Dexterous Hand

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 27


 * 1) Alcohol Rub
 * 2) How deep
 * 3) Unidentified ocean animals
 * 4) How high is the sky?
 * 5) How far to a star?
 * 6) How to clean up acid/base spills.
 * 7) My invention
 * 8) Who discovered or invented rock candy?
 * 9) Role of sweat and body odor in Human attraction
 * 10) At the speed of sound
 * 11) Wires
 * 12) Gain in a transistor
 * 13) Mental illness in children
 * 14) Thermodynamics and antimatter
 * 15) Temperature sensation
 * 16) Evolution
 * 17) Reducing power consumption by ice machine and misc.
 * 18) high frequency photons
 * 19) Article on speech/thought disorder

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 28


 * 1) Chemistry: vapor and ideal gas
 * 2) algae
 * 3) decibel levels of human screaming
 * 4) determination of urea
 * 5) Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis
 * 6) Mutation notation
 * 7) Misunderstood
 * 8) Looking for a name of
 * 9) MathsGeometryThaumaturgic triangle
 * 10) Eggs
 * 11) Identify this bird?

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 February 29


 * 1) Matrix algebra
 * 2) Water
 * 3) Concentration
 * 4) Light photons and other EM radiation
 * 5) Question about scientific theory vs. law
 * 6) Kanab ambersnail: two species? sub-species?
 * 7) Cold trap adequate to protect vacuum pump from HCl?
 * 8) nitrogenous
 * 9) Gradient rings in constant voltage particle accelerators
 * 10) number of
 * 11) First morning cigarette
 * 12) Hydrogen Peroxide
 * 13) Looking at the sky