Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2012

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 1


 * 1) First aircraft developed using CATIA?
 * 2) Name of a sunset...measure-y...thing.
 * 3) "Bleached" food ingredients
 * 4) How fast is iron metabolised into haemoglobin?
 * 5) Pre-Einstein relativity
 * 6) Copper doorknobs
 * 7) Mustn't space be quantized for scale to make any sense?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 2


 * 1) I'm baffled!
 * 2) plastic biliary stent
 * 3) Orbital "what"?
 * 4) The end of time?
 * 5) Waves on an hanging rope
 * 6) Astronomy Question
 * 7) how does  stylus work
 * 8) strange temperature changes
 * 9) is this fake?
 * 10) Carbon 14 half life
 * 11) Ethenedisulfonic acid
 * 12) Molecules
 * 13) Alcohol and steam from drain gates

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 3


 * 1) How to use Hertzsprung–Russell diagram?
 * 2) Does decay heating and nuclear fission generate the same amount of energy in the end?
 * 3) is any encryption other than OTP physically secure
 * 4) about mechnical force
 * 5) about transformer
 * 6) Did Homo sapiens get their pale skin and red hair from Neanderthals?
 * 7) does near-UV light cause photobleaching of protein?
 * 8) computer screens
 * 9) Can Potassium nitrate (KNO3) be used to supply oxigen for breathing in close quarters?
 * 10) Using the turntable in a microwave oven
 * 11) Haloperidol
 * 12) Is it safer at 5 pm after dark or 8:30 pm in the daytime?

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 4


 * 1) Pterodactyl
 * 2) Cycloaddition Mechanism
 * 3) Most numerous vertebrate species
 * 4) back muscles
 * 5) Is it possible to improve vision with eye exercises
 * 6) Why can animals be classified as vertebrates or invertebrates if vertebrates only make up one phylum?
 * 7) Basic iTunes question
 * 8) Parrots (e.g. Amazon)
 * 9) binary star info

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 5


 * 1) Water decapitiation or being squashed like a pancake?
 * 2) What kind of spectrum is this?
 * 3) Earth spin and distance to the sun
 * 4) Is amphibia a paraphyletic group?
 * 5) Equation explanation
 * 6) Center of gravity below the center of mass
 * 7) lamp starters in series circuit fluorescent lamps e.g. philips lighting s2. how are these different from ordinary lamp starters e.g. philips lighting s10?

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 6


 * 1) Order of a mixture
 * 2) Boiling points and tripple points for monatomic gasses
 * 3) Relife from pain
 * 4) The Ostrich & Disemboweling
 * 5) MAGNETIC GENERATORS - Worth using?
 * 6) Should I turn off the LCD before switching off the surge protector?
 * 7) Diesel hybrid car
 * 8) Any US cars with this feature?
 * 9) Saccharides

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 7


 * 1) How big will sun be at first RGB in 5 billion years?
 * 2) Life form on Europa and Titan few billion years back in the history
 * 3) Special relativity
 * 4) Blue star-like object
 * 5) Would a "warranty cutoff switch" exist?
 * 6) science.chemistry
 * 7) lines of field
 * 8) Hawking radiation and Black hole
 * 9) Clenbuterol, doping or food poisoning
 * 10) does gelatin formation in chicken soup start during simmering?
 * 11) Not eating before surgery

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 8


 * 1) Embryological Skeleto/muscular development
 * 2) Brownian motion as perpetual motion
 * 3) Sun leaving main sequence between 1 and 5 billion years from now
 * 4) nerves to size depiction chart required
 * 5) Unusual fungus
 * 6) about electrical plug
 * 7) Earth spin redux
 * 8) Violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics leading to violating the 1st law?
 * 9) the role of hormones
 * 10) asexual reproduction
 * 11) Plutonium inventory
 * 12) How long does ice in the Antarctic ice sheet last
 * 13) Brain and learning

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 9


 * 1) Ionic gases
 * 2) The percentage of DNA sharing in Monozygotic twins
 * 3) Could someone please draw up a schematic of an obvicopter?
 * 4) Do permanent magnets generate heat at all?
 * 5) question about plutonium
 * 6) Human hair

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 10


 * 1) Meter definition
 * 2) BOMA
 * 3) Electronic color code
 * 4) Permission
 * 5) UV light from sun
 * 6) Hemoptysis
 * 7) Age and intelligence
 * 8) Relativistic (polar) jet directed in one direction
 * 9) How much processing power would be needed to emulate a 4D visual cortex?
 * 10) Visualizing point data
 * 11) Astronomy stuffs
 * 12) Light

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 11


 * 1) Average lifespan of the stars
 * 2) Valence of argon in argon fluorohydride
 * 3) Why do we find baby animals cute?
 * 4) Magnetic liquid
 * 5) Stefan–Boltzmann law
 * 6) Some isotopes of superheavy elements
 * 7) Effect of exercise on metabolism
 * 8) Owl faces
 * 9) Hysteresis loss in ferrittes
 * 10) Testing medicine by ignorant tested person
 * 11) Brain transplant
 * 12) Race, gender, testing, intelligence, ability, and predisposition by distraction
 * 13) Absolute temperature ?
 * 14) light speed limit

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 12


 * 1) Dihydrotestosterone
 * 2) The distance of the hair matrix to the scalp
 * 3) Alkali metals
 * 4) Almond appleseeds
 * 5) Formula question
 * 6) Novim
 * 7) T Tauri
 * 8) Mice
 * 9) how does the body metabolise alkenes and alkanes?
 * 10) Symbol?
 * 11) data interpretation
 * 12) Wound inductor

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 13


 * 1) Analytical mechanics
 * 2) Is there a name for Banak (Arabic word)
 * 3) What Is The Use Of Risperdone?
 * 4) What is done with the mice babies?
 * 5) Why does my tervis tumbler attract cat lint?
 * 6) Effect of exercise on metabolism, continued...
 * 7) occurence of man made plutonium
 * 8) Black hair
 * 9) Uniform current distribution

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 14


 * 1) The Biohazard Symbol
 * 2) Flourescent lights
 * 3) Arachnids vs Opiliones and Body Segments
 * 4) Snellen vision
 * 5) Speed of gravity waves to an observer at relativisitic speeds
 * 6) Effect of an EMP on a positive current
 * 7) System of particles in special relativity

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 15


 * 1) Why has life evolved to use rare elements for essential functions?
 * 2) government brainwashing campaign
 * 3) Will a black blanket keep you warmer than a white blanket?
 * 4) Sun as a rd giant
 * 5) Can flu cause Epistaxis?
 * 6) Diamond cubic crystal structure
 * 7) Nitrogen(V)
 * 8) Astronomy stuff
 * 9) Amount of calories in different beers
 * 10) Negative weight
 * 11) Statistics books, applied to science
 * 12) Benzisoxazinone
 * 13) Snowflake symmetry
 * 14) Fukushima
 * 15) Molten fuel reactor

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 16


 * 1) Flogging
 * 2) Black holes
 * 3) iodine
 * 4) chaos and indeterminacy
 * 5) silver
 * 6) Distance formula to stars
 * 7) Few questions about the second law of thermodynamics

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 17


 * 1) Motion sickness and flying
 * 2) Loss of appetite
 * 3) Relativity: what's wrong with this logic?
 * 4) angular velocity
 * 5) Chameleons distance from lizards and geckoes
 * 6) Basic concept of Ideal gases
 * 7) Gulls and distance from Skuas...
 * 8) Deriving the number of quantum states
 * 9) ?Uniform magnetisation/saturation of thin ferrite sheet
 * 10) Ancient Astronomy, Calendars & Leap Years
 * 11) X-rays
 * 12) Chernobyl on the Moon

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 18


 * 1) Heterocycle-pi bonds
 * 2) Swallowing (human) blood causes nausea.  Why?
 * 3) Query moved from Talk:Vaccination#"vaccination only works if you do it to everybody"
 * 4) Adiabatic cooling and magma
 * 5) Road Dust Reduction
 * 6) DIssolving soap scum
 * 7) Formula doesn't work why?
 * 8) Abundance of chemical elements - graph
 * 9) name that tree

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 19


 * 1) Why doesn't the common cold infect nonhumans?
 * 2) Mating the winner of a fight
 * 3) Occurance of multiple cancer types
 * 4) How does intake of food acids affect the human body?
 * 5) Carnitine
 * 6) Orbits of stars within globular clusters
 * 7) Securing data physically

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 20


 * 1) in an unstirred bulk polymerization that proceeds to 100 percent conversion how can the effects of shrinkage and heat of polymerization be handled?
 * 2) Rechargeable battery
 * 3) Infectious non-contagious diseases
 * 4) which insect is this ?
 * 5) Spectrum of stars
 * 6) Flying a tethered quadrocopter
 * 7) Dissolution of Biphenyl
 * 8) Aluminum pot
 * 9) Pregnant cats
 * 10) Heliocentrism

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 21


 * 1) blocking unsolicited junk email
 * 2) SIngle-Atom transistors—The end of "Moore's Law?"
 * 3) Accuracy of the speed of light in relation to FTL Neutrinos
 * 4) Falling balls
 * 5) Discharge tubes
 * 6) event horizon
 * 7) Earth/Moon tidal locking - timescale
 * 8) Living planet
 * 9) Mars analogue mission and food study

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 22


 * 1) Waterworld planet?
 * 2) Oxidation of Cyclohexanol to Cyclohexanone
 * 3) Kalate or potassate
 * 4) do lobsters use their claws
 * 5) question
 * 6) Peripheral nerve injury specialist
 * 7) 'Timing' a Year
 * 8) No hair theorem?
 * 9) Hydrogenated Corn Syrup?
 * 10) Cooling speed
 * 11) Concrete Resistant Materials

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 23


 * 1) Mpemba effect
 * 2) Sheep Shearing? Surely!
 * 3) Fasting blood glucose
 * 4) dark matter is a time gap
 * 5) What is highly substituted double bond?
 * 6) Safety of Ground Zero After A Nuclear Blast
 * 7) Relation between government deficit and debt
 * 8) Do parrot view their cages as prisons?
 * 9) Plumbane and other metal hydrides

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 24


 * 1) Dual and quad satellite LNBs
 * 2) 100% efficient engine violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
 * 3) Tidal acceleration and the stopping of the Earth
 * 4) psych question
 * 5) Difficulty with understanding
 * 6) Earth proportion to blue whale
 * 7) Paintings and time
 * 8) young's modulus
 * 9) Extra moons and tides
 * 10) Pressure and the nonmetal-to-metal transition
 * 11) An astronaut on a very small moon...

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 25


 * 1) Hermitian condition in Dirac notation
 * 2) Electric trains and rails
 * 3) Extreme oxidation states
 * 4) Transistor question
 * 5) What's the point of the "being" portion of Human Being
 * 6) Oxosulphuric acid

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 26


 * 1) Molality calculation
 * 2) Lightning in Hawai'i
 * 3) How do they measure genetic proximity for unrelated individuals?

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 27


 * 1) Time travel
 * 2) Binocular vision and microscopes
 * 3) He fathered seven point five children in one night and about Genghis Khan he only laughed
 * 4) Can a Silicon atom get split into smaller atoms, like a carbon and oxygen atoms?

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 28


 * 1) can an exothermic reaction create ice?
 * 2) Semi conductors
 * 3) A ball rolling down an incline
 * 4) What does Lidocaine have to do with wood?
 * 5) distance and time to orbital velocity at tourist-acceptable G's at sea level, assuming vacuum?
 * 6) Animal fat fuel
 * 7) Slaughtering with a guillotine
 * 8) Real, Physical Status of Odyssey Moon
 * 9) How much of time dilation is a consequence of signal lag?
 * 10) Nuclear disasters
 * 11) The air-powered car isn't around - lobbyist conspiracy?
 * 12) Adding/subtracting sine waves of the same frequency
 * 13) Tryptophan in milk

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 February 29


 * 1) Compressed water
 * 2) Elemental Composition of Clay
 * 3) copper sulphate
 * 4) Other than water, expand as they freeze?
 * 5) Active galactic nuclei obvious?
 * 6) Matryoshka doll pressure chambers
 * 7) Baryons, Quarks and the Pauli Exclusion Principle
 * 8) Spectral line chart
 * 9) Hunger for exercise
 * 10) Air gills