Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2011

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 1


 * 1) Levitation material
 * 2) Lockout Hasps
 * 3) Something about igniting salt water with radio waves - our energy savior?
 * 4) Getting arsenic out of water
 * 5) Planetary Satellites Book
 * 6) Using lasers to melt snow
 * 7) Laser dazzlers
 * 8) Dreams
 * 9) water
 * 10) Unknown bullet case
 * 11) Why can neurons only use glucose as an energy source?
 * 12) Bread-maker diagnosis

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 2


 * 1) How do microorganisms cause mutations?
 * 2) Snowstorm
 * 3) Opaque universe
 * 4) Fast cold
 * 5) Legend of the frogurt's curse
 * 6) Schizophrenia with catatonia
 * 7) Scientist Qualifications
 * 8) SS United States

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 3


 * 1) gravity was not the only force that  formed  the universe
 * 2) Help identifying mineral
 * 3) Insoluble sodium compounds
 * 4) Tesla Roadster
 * 5) What is the Emergency oxygen system bag for?
 * 6) I2Cl6
 * 7) Strongest Allergy Medicine
 * 8) Hamilton, Ichthyologist, active in 1822
 * 9) single hydrogen atom emitting light
 * 10) Magnets- where's the potential energy?
 * 11) Land
 * 12) Slimming tip
 * 13) "WHY" does diamond form out of graphite?
 * 14) not a medical question, but if something smells very moldy and you're near it, is that comparable exposure to mold as the stuff people get sick from?

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 4


 * 1) Sky Dome Bending?
 * 2) How do Lakes affect temperature?
 * 3) Again .. please help
 * 4) Diabetes and sugar !
 * 5) Internal combustion engines
 * 6) tramodal
 * 7) Are Black Holes part of the "Observable Universe?"
 * 8) Producing a blonde offspring via gene therapy
 * 9) butyl rubber
 * 10) North Korea
 * 11) Fusion reactions and aneutronic fusion
 * 12) Bond Polarity or Magnitudes of Partial Charge Vectors

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 5


 * 1) Homogenized Milks
 * 2) Hydrogen bonds
 * 3) bones
 * 4) Ceramic
 * 5) injection moulding
 * 6) "Is it really so..."
 * 7) Help identifying a spider
 * 8) Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
 * 9) female an dmale squirrels are they different colors
 * 10) What's up with Yellowstone right now?

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 6


 * 1) Beautiful sunsets
 * 2) Reducing noise pollution
 * 3) Gases
 * 4) Specific heats
 * 5) Tank filling on a cold day
 * 6) Magma
 * 7) Refilling the Ogallala aquifer
 * 8) How deep is the deepest parking garage? Could one ever be built deep enough to reach Hell, like in this commercial?

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 7


 * 1) What happens when black holes collide?
 * 2) Scientific name etymology
 * 3) Why don't we have pneumatic tubes?
 * 4) How do the birds "print" spots on their eggs?
 * 5) capillary
 * 6) the environment.
 * 7) density
 * 8) Motor oil LD50
 * 9) Veinal sins
 * 10) Dicrocoelium dendriticum or Dicrocoelium dentriticum?
 * 11) Chromatid is to sister chromatid as chromosome is to what?
 * 12) Life span of cut dogwood

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 8


 * 1) Pinhole
 * 2) Anti-Histamines + Zantac
 * 3) What causes you to want to stretch in the morning?
 * 4) A rifle with a barrel made of heat resistant ceramic
 * 5) Hot body in vacuum
 * 6) Homemade cavendish experiment.
 * 7) The straw that stirs the drink
 * 8) clouds
 * 9) Sanitary drain(industrial sewer) sizing and design discharge flow rate estimate
 * 10) Kilos instead of larger units
 * 11) Help understanding Parsec illustration
 * 12) Trampolining gives you muscles?

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 9


 * 1) What's a good nonpolar organic solvent?
 * 2) Flight control surfaces on modern airliners
 * 3) Homework question on momentum + pendulum
 * 4) are
 * 5) If the universe is not spherical...
 * 6) Why would faster than light travel mean going back in time?
 * 7) Orbits and angular momentum
 * 8) Straight line contrails
 * 9) is it a scientific fact that there is never a miscommunication between the tides and the moon that causes them?
 * 10) Is natural non-grey hair possible in old age?
 * 11) Quality of 2011 transistor radio v. 1940s top of the range valve radio?
 * 12) largest bird egg
 * 13) why is AIDS so hard to cure?
 * 14) high protein consumption and kidney damage in humans
 * 15) Dirty talk
 * 16) Teleporting particles
 * 17) Other phases of ice at room temperature
 * 18) Natural hazards and natural disasters humid continental climate
 * 19) Metabolism of alcohol
 * 20) Largest phytosaur
 * 21) Why does snow melt on cold days?
 * 22) Where should post this? I am NOT happy with the physics sections of wikipedia.

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 10


 * 1) clay
 * 2) crude oil
 * 3) Price for quantitative analysis of chemical elements
 * 4) biology
 * 5) Cells in chicken eggs
 * 6) Human beings and ecosystems
 * 7) Speed of sound faster than speed of light
 * 8) Reverse sex change operation
 * 9) Are eyeballs always perfect spheres?
 * 10) Is human saliva alkaline?
 * 11) Roundness of the World
 * 12) Amphetamine in Aspirin
 * 13) Instinct

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 11


 * 1) Depth of soil
 * 2) When was astigmatism first detected and corrected by spectacle lenses
 * 3) The Sun during solar maximum
 * 4) Effect of damaging the Earth's core
 * 5) Castrating cats
 * 6) differentiation by first principles
 * 7) Extra 4 minutes
 * 8) Radio power
 * 9) James Watt steam engine patent
 * 10) Bengal fire

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 12


 * 1) Boa constrictor scientific naming...
 * 2) when the earth was shining
 * 3) Borosilicate glass
 * 4) capacitance
 * 5) Radio activity
 * 6) Legal chemistry
 * 7) Changing the length of a second/minute/hour/day/year
 * 8) Physics Entries in General
 * 9) Salaries
 * 10) Relationship between island size and its freshwater supply
 * 11) Odd One out of n Resistors

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 13


 * 1) Hill, James B. (1945). Autobiography
 * 2) Time when Sun is highest in the sky
 * 3) agate spatula
 * 4) Name for an auction method
 * 5) Smallpox Vaccine
 * 6) Vasectomy: Potential post-operative hormonal changes
 * 7) Temperature and wavelengths
 * 8) which software
 * 9) physics
 * 10) Pig feed
 * 11) What is this plant?
 * 12) Low-density solids/liquids?

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 14


 * 1) Sulfur hexafluoride boat
 * 2) Youtube video - mechanical glitch, other artifact or mysterious unreflective object?
 * 3) Antibacterial gels vs iodine
 * 4) Atomic structure
 * 5) The Ever Eluding Question
 * 6) Time dilation measured by radioactive decay
 * 7) Magnetic confinement fusion
 * 8) Watson the computer system

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 15


 * 1) California power plant's NOx emissions
 * 2) Decompressing the spine
 * 3) SPEED OF LIGHT
 * 4) somthing about the creation theory of earth
 * 5) Tidal Force
 * 6) Quark + Gluon plasma - Evidences
 * 7) Schwarzschild Metric
 * 8) Discontinuing a vaccine
 * 9) Chemical equation
 * 10) Immunology and parasites
 * 11) Guadalquivir - second or fifth longest river in Spain?
 * 12) Chemical thermodynamics vs. Thermochemistry
 * 13) Black holes
 * 14) Science and Miracles

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 16


 * 1) Scsbot & SineBot
 * 2) Storing DNA for decades
 * 3) perm press clothes
 * 4) Placebo effect question...
 * 5) Proton mass - How standard model can explain ?
 * 6) The Year of the Higgs? A Live Webcast From NSF
 * 7) Is milk disadvantageous?
 * 8) Shinkansen
 * 9) Chemotherapy drug
 * 10) Electron Capture
 * 11) Hydrocarbon chemistry
 * 12) Transmission question
 * 13) Electron Capture and Quark Interaction
 * 14) Top speed of TRA TEMU1000
 * 15) Adults catch between two to four colds a year and children up to 10 a year????

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 17


 * 1) Organic chemistry nomenclature
 * 2) mDNA
 * 3) Spinning knob, BMW iDrive question
 * 4) What is this?
 * 5) Spin Integer
 * 6) yogurt
 * 7) Nonvolatile, Nonflammable oil ?
 * 8) Chemistry and Lifetime
 * 9) Time in a shuttle launch video
 * 10) Gazelle
 * 11) Undulatus asperatus

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 18


 * 1) NMR is a kind of flouresence?
 * 2) L-Glucose
 * 3) Particulate Matter and Heat Convection [?]
 * 4) Aldehydes and ketones
 * 5) Organism that acts as an air pump
 * 6) Permeability
 * 7) fridge
 * 8) biochemistry
 * 9) Blocking gravity?
 * 10) Atom
 * 11) Cost of Driving
 * 12) Food spoilage - refreezing meat
 * 13) Do other apes have problems giving birth?
 * 14) Virtual black box
 * 15) Commercial airplane satellite navigation
 * 16) Mental illness and responsibility of other for own thoughts and feeling
 * 17) Tappan zee bridge cost
 * 18) Solar mass loss and orbits
 * 19) Effects to an Earth Human upon entering a parallel space-time continuum via a higher space-time continuum.

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 19


 * 1) Explosively formed penetrator efficiency
 * 2) Relativity
 * 3) Carbon black
 * 4) height (and body size, really) variance in animals besides humans -- or the lack thereof?
 * 5) Dog mortality and longevity
 * 6) Milk of Magnesia/Mike and Ikes
 * 7) Why is the sun not purple or why is hydrogen plasma not yellow?
 * 8) Common hazel (Corylus avellana)
 * 9) comments on this experimental design to test homeopathy?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 20


 * 1) gas central heating
 * 2) Lab rats
 * 3) Measuring orbital and rotation periods
 * 4) Donating blood, good for health?
 * 5) Radiation
 * 6) Calculating Jerk in a BUS...
 * 7) Upper bound of the size of the universe
 * 8) Decay constant and half-life
 * 9) Quark Gluon Plasma Experiments - trillions of Celsius degrees ?
 * 10) cell wall in plant cells
 * 11) Gholson, Mississippi
 * 12) Why Doesn't the recoil from Handguns hurt?
 * 13) Basic Phsyics
 * 14) Light waves/photons
 * 15) Faking cold fusion
 * 16) Collapsing pyramids?
 * 17) General Relativity and Conservation of Energy
 * 18) Electrolysis of urine/Urine powered cars

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 21


 * 1) Conservation of (angular) momentum
 * 2) Infinite universe and probabilities
 * 3) Diving: max. depth without minding
 * 4) DNA and RNA
 * 5) how much of an effect do daily multivitamins really have?
 * 6) Cold
 * 7) Plants
 * 8) Deeply ingrained superstitions...
 * 9) Gasoline Octane - can you FEEL the difference when you drive?

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 22


 * 1) checks
 * 2) Convolutor worm?
 * 3) Running an ordinary gasoline powered car on ethanol
 * 4) World oil consumption
 * 5) masonary
 * 6) atom
 * 7) Internal state
 * 8) Etymologies of methane, ethane, propane, and butane
 * 9) Bacillus cereus and alcohol prep pad contamination
 * 10) is there a link between gender orientation to sexual orientation?

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 23


 * 1) An interesting physics problem
 * 2) Pepper seed
 * 3) Keeping soda carbonated longer
 * 4) Stripping all electrons from metal
 * 5) Effect of atmospheric pressure on reaction?
 * 6) Electrical Circuit Analysis

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 24


 * 1) What is the effect of alcohol and drugs on non-human animals?
 * 2) Question on collision between hydrogen atoms (momentum / energy question)
 * 3) What is this compound?
 * 4) Consequences of (admittedly magically) preventing every cell in your body from ever dividing again?
 * 5) Battery rack earthing
 * 6) Electric Field strength at a distance x from an infinite charged sheet
 * 7) Semen omelet
 * 8) Focusing camera mounted on biological gel imager
 * 9) Where is KT?
 * 10) Uncertainty Principle - Doubt
 * 11) Voice perceiving
 * 12) Electric shower temperature fluctuations
 * 13) Pulsar Dyson ring
 * 14) 100 Oct LL Aviation fuel in car engines
 * 15) The fate of Voyager 1
 * 16) Pioneer Anomaly
 * 17) Natural gas
 * 18) infra red radiation

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 25


 * 1) Shine-Dalgarno sequence
 * 2) Greenhouse effect from producing methane
 * 3) Rest mass
 * 4) medicine gaity-400
 * 5) pvc
 * 6) Surge Protection
 * 7) how to find hot and cold temp
 * 8) EM wave and magnetic field
 * 9) Malaria - could I be infected with malaria and not know about it?
 * 10) water survival
 * 11) Round and round the cell pellet goes.... how fast do you spin yours?
 * 12) Carbon dating
 * 13) Singular Value Decomposition and prediction

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 26


 * 1) Entropy Quote
 * 2) Sucking the wind
 * 3) Availability of the generic Adderall XR
 * 4) Humbucking pickups and 60Hz hum
 * 5) What's the problem with non-native species?
 * 6) Converting % and ppm to g/kw-hr
 * 7) Victoria waterlily
 * 8) Electrons circular orbit frequency
 * 9) Ruhmkorff lamps
 * 10) Tricky physics problem
 * 11) Is there a documented possible link between gender identity to sexual orientation?

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 27


 * 1) Why is blood iron test taken from finger?
 * 2) Destroy secret papers
 * 3) Ability to understand accents
 * 4) Flavored condoms and infections
 * 5) polycarbonate
 * 6) Weak interaction: figures
 * 7) cloud formation
 * 8) mass & motion of earth
 * 9) Bond angle of water
 * 10) Decay products (further questions)
 * 11) Circuit of Unique Equivalent Resistance

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 February 28


 * 1) Spaying and neutering of feral animals
 * 2) where do aliens come from
 * 3) Pureed Food
 * 4) UV-A, UV-B, UV-C of metal halide lamp
 * 5) Birds and eyelashes
 * 6) Can holograms work in broad daylight?
 * 7) MOND or MOG theory
 * 8) Snake venom myokymia
 * 9) Christchurch volcano
 * 10) Chromosome numbers and speciation
 * 11) Toxorhynchites?
 * 12) Relativity and nuclear bombs