Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2010

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 1


 * 1) Earth gear
 * 2) linear permanent magnet bearing?
 * 3) Thermal Gravimetric Analysis
 * 4) Contracting diseases via intercourse with cells?
 * 5) Scientific Film Association
 * 6) ELECTRIC WIRE
 * 7) Do wires carrying DC get corroded more or less easily than those carrying AC?
 * 8) Advice on modelling a flood
 * 9) Speed of heat transfer
 * 10) Europa (moon)
 * 11) is melvin manhoef okay?
 * 12) Can I eat my father's popcorn?
 * 13) to get to orbit, is the weight of the rocket fuel you need linear with the weight of the payload you get up?
 * 14) mRNA and secondary structure...
 * 15) Black Arrow awakened
 * 16) horse distance
 * 17) Drug expiration dates

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 2


 * 1) Ob. XKCD question.
 * 2) Death
 * 3) GLUT transporters
 * 4) ohms law and current
 * 5) My raw nuts are green - have they gone to seed?
 * 6) counterfeit stamps
 * 7) Recipe for  production of hydrogen by electrolysis
 * 8) Percent loss
 * 9) Dental Cavities
 * 10) vision acuity between 20/80 and 20/100 or 20/200
 * 11) hydrogen ion concentration
 * 12) cuts on penis
 * 13) Most recent common ancestor for humans and dogs, or How closely related am I to my two dogs?

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 3


 * 1) Stopping nuclear reactions with a jamming field
 * 2) superacids that aren't corrosove?
 * 3) Wal-Mart Orange Early Rise Drink Mix
 * 4) Different species named "E. coli"
 * 5) At what percentage alcohol does beer dehydrate rather than rehydrate?
 * 6) Putting a very small satellite into orbit in space
 * 7) Disease and disorder
 * 8) anyone here good at both ecology and materials science?
 * 9) Website that gives comprehensive info on chemicals
 * 10) Snow Depth
 * 11) Really small space probes
 * 12) Global history of Europa
 * 13) Progressive disease

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 4


 * 1) Symmetry
 * 2) concentrated alpha particles?
 * 3) Experimenting with an 18V wall wort
 * 4) film versus HDTV
 * 5) Four-dimensional universe
 * 6) cyanide poisoning or other deadly poisonous gases & residue
 * 7) Name That Beetle
 * 8) Right hand exposed to gel extraction's UV ray for 2 minutes non-stop.
 * 9) life possible on other gas giant moons
 * 10) Where does the momentum go when I put on the breaks?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 5


 * 1) How will Augmented Reality glasses work?
 * 2) Fingernails?
 * 3) Mustard pain
 * 4) steam
 * 5) three low pressure systems near each other? how do they interact?
 * 6) Question
 * 7) Find the average velocity
 * 8) Potassium supplements
 * 9) Hawking radiation
 * 10) If I step on a Mormon cricket....
 * 11) QUESTION-can magnetron be used as an amplifier
 * 12) Bio-gas
 * 13) light
 * 14) Study which shows that some People will not change their minds
 * 15) Why does Pluto's status as a Dwarf Planet bother so many people?
 * 16) Menstruation
 * 17) article on time deprivation

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 6


 * 1) How prevalent is magical thinking among   university graduates of the western world?
 * 2) life question
 * 3) particulate fluidisation
 * 4) Reptiles, snakes or evnous snakes
 * 5) Where on the r/K selection theory scale do social insects like ants and bees fall?
 * 6) sleep
 * 7) Less Deep Injuries cause Less Pain?
 * 8) Good Book on analog filter design
 * 9) Manufacturing process for Methylene Blue Injection 1%
 * 10) light (bis)
 * 11) Measuring snowfall when there are many drifts
 * 12) Camping trailers HVAC energy efficiency
 * 13) Private non-profit camp grounds shower & toilet facilities EPA
 * 14) What do astronauts do when there's nothing to fly?

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 7


 * 1) Scurvy - 133 year delay
 * 2) Weird TV interference
 * 3) Animal/plant hybrid
 * 4) Concrete/abstract knowledge
 * 5) How common is the lack of understanding of the probability concept?
 * 6) keeping roses in tip top shape
 * 7) radioactivity
 * 8) Another Avatar question - helicopters

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 8


 * 1) Kangaroos
 * 2) light (2)
 * 3) light (3)
 * 4) Scar removal?
 * 5) "beanie" or "paint" taste of soy flour
 * 6) Sport: Baseball Pitcher vs Cricket Bowler
 * 7) Two ton wheel
 * 8) faster than light?
 * 9) Melamine microwave
 * 10) Protein structure and function
 * 11) time machine

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 9


 * 1) Attraction of metal to magnet.
 * 2) ADM formulation
 * 3) Meiosis
 * 4) Dinosaur eggs
 * 5) Trepanation
 * 6) capacitor
 * 7) Flame Proof tests in USA and Europe
 * 8) light(4)
 * 9) anti-graviton (angriton)
 * 10) Ancinet landmass plotting becomes less clear
 * 11) death
 * 12) chemical names
 * 13) Water

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 10


 * 1) black hole event horizon
 * 2) Blue gold
 * 3) EPR_paradox and uncertainty
 * 4) Burning down stone buildings?
 * 5) heat pump
 * 6) soft iron
 * 7) The Future
 * 8) how many moons dwarf planets have total if we found all of them
 * 9) earth-moon double planet
 * 10) teleportation
 * 11) Diethyl ether
 * 12) Chemistry question in regards to chemical bonds

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 11


 * 1) What kind of tree is this?
 * 2) Does this group of compounds exist?
 * 3) Paxil
 * 4) Shape of Human foot
 * 5) how do ants get into a house
 * 6) stages of urine decomposition
 * 7) h1n1 swine flu
 * 8) How do the satellites move on their orbits?
 * 9) Time Travel
 * 10) Gravitomagnetic guage conditions
 * 11) Question on Photography
 * 12) Mains transformer with open circuit
 * 13) Bread made with yeast
 * 14) Non-sodium baking powder
 * 15) Plotting lines of force (computer graphics)
 * 16) Square Wave
 * 17) Possible to make a small quantity of harmless "smoke" for assessment of PC airflow?

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 12


 * 1) Apollo 13 and teflon
 * 2) Time Travel question
 * 3) Moon Question
 * 4) Capacitors
 * 5) mic
 * 6) Sunscreen and acne
 * 7) Dr Kevorkian
 * 8) Scar removal/ Erase Scars
 * 9) About burden of proof and scientific method
 * 10) Popping ears
 * 11) Civil Engineers Only .....reinforced concrete column behavior under load
 * 12) Does a flame cast a shadow?
 * 13) thoracentesis
 * 14) ant poison methanol
 * 15) Human field of view
 * 16) Chemistry diagrams
 * 17) Cryogenics

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 13


 * 1) Travelling to the future
 * 2) Carbon dioxide and plants at night
 * 3) magnetic vector potential actual meaning?
 * 4) Paranormal
 * 5) Why did the Challenger shuttle explode in a white cloud?
 * 6) drag vs Reynolds #

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 14


 * 1) boiling
 * 2) Signal White Now - Why?
 * 3) heat loss
 * 4) Malicious pigeon
 * 5) good alternative to chess?
 * 6) why is formic acid so much more toxic than acetic acid?
 * 7) Miller-Urey

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 15


 * 1) Cooking rice under pressure
 * 2) Is this girl lying to me?
 * 3) Fujiwhara effect
 * 4) Relative temperature of fabrics
 * 5) about the wounds
 * 6) torro ant poison
 * 7) Is clear a color?
 * 8) Java loving roaches
 * 9) Scientific experiments on brainwave activity when chanting nam myoho renge kyo
 * 10) Snowfall in Hawaii
 * 11) Chess
 * 12) Malt Beverages and brewers yeast
 * 13) INFORMATION ABOUT ENGINEERING VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS
 * 14) Can soda cans rust?
 * 15) Radar silence
 * 16) Physics for launching rockets.
 * 17) Iron sulphide
 * 18) Broken glass
 * 19) Do non-spatial countable infinities occur in nature?
 * 20) Antibiotic vs. antimicrobial
 * 21) Alpha Centauri
 * 22) Humans to become extinct
 * 23) Stupid question about molecular symmetry
 * 24) Emergency, normal care, etc
 * 25) Why does Energy Information Administration predict a fall-off in wind power growth?
 * 26) Brain damage and pacing in animals

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 16


 * 1) Very large cube
 * 2) Effect of temperature change on skiing?
 * 3) The Planets
 * 4) If Titan do not heat to earthlike temperatures
 * 5) Hydrogen
 * 6) Ground State Energy
 * 7) KOH + CO2 → KHCO3
 * 8) sterno in racing
 * 9) Wings and the human anatomy
 * 10) Signal White Now II
 * 11) Ferris/Chelsea wheel?
 * 12) Parts of brain responsible for street smartness and academic intelligence
 * 13) Ganymede
 * 14) Fuel Consumption Problem - (How Much Extra Fuel Would I Use by Carrying More Fuel to Begin With?)
 * 15) Mars Colony

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 17


 * 1) Cabbage, salt and water... blue?
 * 2) Orientation of the International Space Station
 * 3) Linear density
 * 4) Medical devices, WWII-era occupied Poland
 * 5) I'm on a barge travelling across Neptune, towed by a cable connected to the moon Psamathe...
 * 6) Time Capsule
 * 7) Average world temperature
 * 8) Ion list
 * 9) Eating coffee beans
 * 10) Cosmological argument and the fine-tuned Universe
 * 11) Capacitor
 * 12) Geological history of CT or North Eastern US coastline
 * 13) Semen and skin
 * 14) Variables in procession
 * 15) Outgassing on Earth and Mars
 * 16) Atmosphere to boil away on Earth
 * 17) Question about male genitalis
 * 18) glacial lake in siberia

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 18


 * 1) A greenhouse on Mars
 * 2) a little help with equilibrium constants and partition coefficients as they relate to solubility
 * 3) Angular momentum in collisions
 * 4) Math in physics
 * 5) Hydrogen bond position transition
 * 6) Black hole
 * 7) Strange bug
 * 8) What would happen to photon
 * 9) How much sodium in 1g of Baking powder?
 * 10) File:refraction.jpg
 * 11) Monarch Butterflies
 * 12) Addiction
 * 13) Twin Cities
 * 14) Freezing Point Depression and Boiling Point Elevation

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 19


 * 1) Altered taste buds after toothbrushing
 * 2) Integrating Partition Functions
 * 3) transformers
 * 4) washingg labware
 * 5) Apollo Missions
 * 6) Cause of Menopause
 * 7) Are kale stems edible?
 * 8) H2O a covalent compound
 * 9) Rings around Earth
 * 10) Always radioactive?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 20


 * 1) star size limits
 * 2) Why are croc's more closely related to birds than lizards/snakes?
 * 3) Decaying Copernicium
 * 4) Erupting vanilla extract
 * 5) Cooper Sulfate use
 * 6) focal length of lens
 * 7) Ideas for activity
 * 8) Bendroflumethiazide mechanism of action

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 21


 * 1) Green cones in the perception of colour
 * 2) Spectroscopy spectrum order
 * 3) how does magnet  works in space?????????
 * 4) Coed Olympic Events
 * 5) Litmus paper
 * 6) field lines of magnet
 * 7) Stars ejected from the Milky Way
 * 8) nutrition labels
 * 9) research methods

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 22


 * 1) Minimum Temperature For Human Survival
 * 2) Speed skating
 * 3) Nuclear isomers
 * 4) Birthday
 * 5) Salt in the Great Lakes
 * 6) When the water and other fluids in comets evaporate, do they become hollow asteroids?
 * 7) Insulin secretion in healthy adults per 24 hours
 * 8) Uranus change in Orbit
 * 9) Human Survival to Exposure
 * 10) Pipes
 * 11) Chemical differences between E150a, E150b, E150c, and E150d.
 * 12) L-DOPA is less water-soluble than dopamine?
 * 13) Human Survival to Exposure (on Earth)
 * 14) Thai (?) translation request
 * 15) Egg Whites
 * 16) Supervised and Unsupervised Learning

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 23


 * 1) Material in Servo Motor Winding?
 * 2) Making tea with zingless water
 * 3) Ice on car Windscreens.
 * 4) Orbits
 * 5) freezing point
 * 6) liver
 * 7) Octanediol
 * 8) LOGIC GATES
 * 9) Agni III
 * 10) time dilation?
 * 11) Do most people get enough vitamins and nutrients from their regular diet?
 * 12) Linus Pauling
 * 13) Sodium
 * 14) acid
 * 15) "local hour angle" in astronomy

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 24


 * 1) Traffic fumes versus tobacco smoke
 * 2) what is the most likely avenue for curing cancer?
 * 3) bleach cover up
 * 4) Does gasoline float on water?  Will it dissolve sugar?
 * 5) Electrolysis and Photolysis of Water
 * 6) very hot water + some cold water = just warmed water?
 * 7) Surface of Gas Giants
 * 8) Aspirin from a tree?
 * 9) r-tree structure for image retrieval
 * 10) rebok
 * 11) why is the universe so dumb?
 * 12) Salt ionizing in water
 * 13) Galactic Plane and Rotation
 * 14) Weather and Axial Tilt
 * 15) Joseph Jenkins
 * 16) Black holes
 * 17) is this a rigorous procedure?
 * 18) Object at center of Black hole
 * 19) Liquid-mixing scintillation effect
 * 20) Subject catgeorization

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 25


 * 1) salt in water
 * 2) Chemical looks.
 * 3) Nonrenewable Energy
 * 4) moon mission
 * 5) Steam
 * 6) Donating plasma
 * 7) milk  ph
 * 8) Articles about plants and animals
 * 9) Mood Rings
 * 10) Killing those fun guys.
 * 11) What is A and what is AH2?
 * 12) Are we all immortal?
 * 13) Tallow
 * 14) Is this Edge Peak?
 * 15) Fog

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 26


 * 1) Turning a switch backwards
 * 2) Lorentz transformations
 * 3) Mistake in Textbook?
 * 4) difference between distance and displacement
 * 5) Countering momentum
 * 6) fuel oil
 * 7) Animal tastebuds
 * 8) NE Snowstorm
 * 9) Using mouthwash and brushing teeth
 * 10) Sand grains on earth
 * 11) How long do preserved animals "keep"?
 * 12) Circular logic? How was Avogadro's number originally determined?
 * 13) Geochemical/Mineralogical Equilibrium
 * 14) Becoming an engineer in the UK with a Msc.
 * 15) Radiometric dating of dinosaur fossils
 * 16) euthanasia
 * 17) Curling
 * 18) FIDEL CASTRO TRAVELS TO THE USA
 * 19) Dark Energy not needed if gravitation converges to r instead of r^2 for large r ?!?

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 27


 * 1) Age of a tree
 * 2) Falling stick
 * 3) Torque and pseudo-forces
 * 4) Why are the roofs of factories shaped the way they are?
 * 5) are there any original sound recordings of the moon missions where Houston forgets to wait at least 1 second before answering?  (ie "hoax"?)
 * 6) I heard that relativism and quantum mechanics in contradiction with each other
 * 7) Places to live that never require heating or air conditioning
 * 8) pulsar
 * 9) different locations
 * 10) How many stars?
 * 11) FTL travel
 * 12) LIQUID LATEX
 * 13) Citation Journals Exercise
 * 14) Detecting blood with light
 * 15) can someone help me identify this leaf impression or the material surrounding it?
 * 16) bitter tasting iceberg lettuce

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 28


 * 1) The Final Theory
 * 2) Desalination in the 19th. century
 * 3) Water for Hydrogen Fuel in Deserts
 * 4) Enclosure effect
 * 5) Exploding Chicken?!
 * 6) 4 Life Together, Building People
 * 7) Sealing or contracting
 * 8) Physical exercise vs. E=mc^2
 * 9) Water Heater
 * 10) Expanding space
 * 11) Phosphenes
 * 12) Strange, repetitive movements in "pseudo"-epilepsy?
 * 13) Electricity usage
 * 14) Real Medical Heroes.
 * 15) Spontaneous pair creation (quarks)