Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2008

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 1


 * 1) Positive vs negative selectable markers
 * 2) Time since directly related
 * 3) Literal "Fire" Hose
 * 4) Urine tap
 * 5) CCD exposure
 * 6) Glass saw?
 * 7) Microwave plasma
 * 8) Efficiency of full vs emptry refridgerator
 * 9) IEs

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 2


 * 1) Cutting the carotid artery
 * 2) zookeeper  physics question
 * 3) FETs
 * 4) high tension lines or transmission lines and archival photos of "galloping" lines
 * 5) Hydrogen ion

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 3


 * 1) Using the IUCN Red List
 * 2) Body shape and structure
 * 3) Focal distance and light intensity (camera question about f-stop)
 * 4) Lens focusing by eye
 * 5) Excessive emotional responses
 * 6) What is this object?
 * 7) ISO setting verus shutter speed
 * 8) indian resources on iron
 * 9) Falling Leaf
 * 10) I am writing a presentation
 * 11) Kidney in hagfish
 * 12) Battery effect
 * 13) Flash evaporation of a solution

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 4


 * 1) Bike mechanics - removal of rear sprocket (single speed - no cassette)
 * 2) Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
 * 3) What is the difference between Nernst equation and Nerst's equation?
 * 4) Amazonian insects and fruit for identification
 * 5) How much gas can a candle burn?
 * 6) Gluing plastics together
 * 7) Speed of Light
 * 8) Temperature data archives
 * 9) Photography: closing aperture

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 5


 * 1) Dawkins' Selfish Gene on sex
 * 2) Jet injector
 * 3) A hygiene conundrum
 * 4) Backcrossing
 * 5) Is cannabis good for you?
 * 6) Extend my antenna
 * 7) Orbital planes
 * 8) Gravity and planetary bodies
 * 9) Sex
 * 10) The varied colouration of Feral Pigeons...

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 6


 * 1) Gear Math
 * 2) Flavour Sense Perception?
 * 3) Immunoprecipitation(IP)
 * 4) Baby Dolphins and Fur?
 * 5) When is the on average coldest day each year in the northern hemisphere?
 * 6) eyes above mouth
 * 7) Old cartoon mocking Mendeleev's system
 * 8) DIY electric quadricycle

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 7


 * 1) Parasites
 * 2) Sun
 * 3) K shell
 * 4) Science
 * 5) Question on salt and excercise
 * 6) Cells
 * 7) Microscope
 * 8) why does a comet leave atrail behind it?
 * 9) Falling from an aircraft into the sea
 * 10) Going without orgasm for a long time
 * 11) Hydrogen peroxide solution still good?
 * 12) energy efficient houses
 * 13) molds and organisms
 * 14) Whiskers
 * 15) Three big cocks!

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 8


 * 1) unknown disorder
 * 2) Cells
 * 3) Cells (2)
 * 4) Annihilation - energy of photons from electron-positron interaction
 * 5) Rail Guns
 * 6) Carbon black
 * 7) Square-cube laws
 * 8) SEARCHING FOR FREE E-BOOKS BASED ON SUBJECT CALLED SYSTEM DYNAMICS
 * 9) FUEL CHARACTERISTIC STUDY RELATED E-BOOKS ALTERNATE RESOURCES
 * 10) water vapor and global warming
 * 11) Size of Earth
 * 12) Is ash carbon?

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 9


 * 1) Population genetics problem
 * 2) That double-crossing cerebellum!
 * 3) Earth's mass
 * 4) Hypersensitivity of the senses
 * 5) Advantage &disadvantages of Industry
 * 6) History of quantum mechanics
 * 7) PROVIDING LINK FOR FRESH USERS FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS
 * 8) Why do most penguins have black feathers?
 * 9) incorrect 3d structure
 * 10) Bears in the south

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 10


 * 1) Communicating Faster than Light Using a Rotating Rod
 * 2) Something removed from Wikipedia article, List of common misconceptions
 * 3) Photography
 * 4) Drugs named after places
 * 5) Gulls and countershading?
 * 6) Speedometer workings

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 11


 * 1) Dysgraphia/Agraphia
 * 2) Geiger muller tube internal quenching
 * 3) Tremulating musssels
 * 4) Poop (moved from entertainment desk)
 * 5) Would a machine be affected by Chemical, Biological, or Radiological weapons?
 * 6) What does antimatter look like?
 * 7) Do clones have introns?
 * 8) Inertia Theory of E Mach
 * 9) "Einstien said nothing can accelerate to the speed of light, beause its mass would become infinite"
 * 10) Three Phase 600V systems in Canada
 * 11) Physics of playground swing
 * 12) Looking for Standard/Info on Food vacuum packaging
 * 13) Academia and standardization buzzwords
 * 14) The Acidity of stomach acids in other animals
 * 15) Minimum input conditions for human life

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 12


 * 1) Cyanide
 * 2) Water vapor
 * 3) Procedures for the Laboratory Synthesis of Polymers
 * 4) Food protein in blood plasma
 * 5) Metabolism (Not really a medical question)
 * 6) What if two black holes were near eachother?
 * 7) Alcohol through a straw
 * 8) Weather Balloons

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 13


 * 1) Help! I have woodlice in my house!
 * 2) Mercalli scale
 * 3) Methysergide
 * 4) molecular weight
 * 5) Obesity/popular culture
 * 6) Does light stop at the surfaces it's reflected from?
 * 7) Precisely how do baleen whales exist during the many months they abstain from eating?
 * 8) Microwave cooking
 * 9) tweaking a pellet fired boiler
 * 10) Subatomic particles

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 14


 * 1) Why does food taste delicious?
 * 2) What will happen if...
 * 3) Odd question
 * 4) Name of medical condition ?
 * 5) A delicious 9V battery
 * 6) Body Language
 * 7) water and fire
 * 8) Traditional Japanese sitting arrangement
 * 9) 9V battery on the tongue again...
 * 10) Insect maturbation and animal in general
 * 11) Electrical question
 * 12) Permanent Marker
 * 13) Feline Breeding
 * 14) Spice effects
 * 15) Gene synthesis
 * 16) Blood Clot
 * 17) Diet Coke/Pepsi, ice, and foam
 * 18) Ripply heat effect

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 15


 * 1) Big Pupils
 * 2) Yep,I`ve got another Physics Magazine Question For You
 * 3) Are we all "free floating brains in space?"
 * 4) Concussion?
 * 5) Stochastic Resonance
 * 6) Tea, caffeine and health
 * 7) Oil spills
 * 8) Grief
 * 9) 10x Loupe Eyepeice
 * 10) Looking for a study or news article relating to nightmares

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 16


 * 1) Simple decomposition question
 * 2) Water density fluctuations?!?
 * 3) Towel snapping, water, and pain
 * 4) Energy determination
 * 5) 'Company doctor'
 * 6) ARUN S BAGH QUES ABOUT PLUTO
 * 7) Most Toxic
 * 8) Salty water
 * 9) determination of percentage for aspirin
 * 10) Does stretching a muscle increase muscle mass?
 * 11) Car polution
 * 12) self-heating food
 * 13) Memory Battery
 * 14) renewable energy street lights
 * 15) Carbon Monoxide resonance forms
 * 16) Date genus Bubo was first given(for want of a better word)

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 17


 * 1) Macaw training
 * 2) Itchy ears
 * 3) Momentum Of A Chicken
 * 4) Rocket in vacuum
 * 5) Camping lantern - glowing white netting
 * 6) A proton and electron in an atom
 * 7) LASER mixing questions
 * 8) A doorbell that rings itself
 * 9) Canalphones
 * 10) Electrostatic Problem
 * 11) Why do newer rifles have a lower rate of fire (typically) than older rifles?
 * 12) Unidentified Plant
 * 13) MESSENGER and the white spot
 * 14) Does wood burn faster in colder temperatures?
 * 15) Can someone explain this to me?
 * 16) why dont we heat with rocks from hot places and cool with rocks from cool placse.

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 18


 * 1) capillary force vaporizer
 * 2) Radiation "build-up" in high-atomic weight materials
 * 3) Cloning
 * 4) easy stable magnetic levitation
 * 5) Seasoning a cast iron skillet
 * 6) Tempature
 * 7) Biogas
 * 8) Twisted trees!
 * 9) Common cold aid

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 19


 * 1) Eyelid Vision
 * 2) 3-D without glasses (parallax barrier?)
 * 3) Stirling Engine formula
 * 4) how to improve in transcription?
 * 5) Long Term Climate Change
 * 6) Time travel and parrelle univerises
 * 7) Standard deviation devide by N or by N-1
 * 8) weather and climate
 * 9) Coordination
 * 10) urea

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 20


 * 1) Can you name any of these tropical flowers?
 * 2) solar energy per square centimeter per magnifying power
 * 3) 'Bibliography trees' etc.
 * 4) Tunguska event
 * 5) Black Widow spider
 * 6) Correction Fluid
 * 7) Virus vs opium poppies
 * 8) Lack of spatial awareness
 * 9) Chinese cabbage?
 * 10) Sex determination
 * 11) ιλεος εντερο
 * 12) passing a drug test

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 21


 * 1) MEDICAL X-RAYS
 * 2) mineral identification question
 * 3) Creatine and Fibromalagia
 * 4) Pegasus
 * 5) How does radium glow?
 * 6) Nicorandil
 * 7) water supply pressure and surges
 * 8) Thermocouple power generation
 * 9) Twin earth
 * 10) do you know an antidote for peg intron?
 * 11) Little tiny flies on my chives!
 * 12) Spring Composition

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 22


 * 1) how do i get taller
 * 2) leg stab
 * 3) Things spinning really fast
 * 4) Western blot
 * 5) Location of spleen (in humans)
 * 6) Testing an electric fence
 * 7) Chemistry: molarity vs. normality
 * 8) Which better to go after if being sexually assaulted (not for the squeamish)
 * 9) Snap crackle pop
 * 10) Glass dust?
 * 11) Post-coital urticaria in a penicillin-sensitive patient
 * 12) Melonized Steel
 * 13) Circular motion/ conservation of energy.
 * 14) Creatine

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 23


 * 1) discovery of how to measure blood glucose with a home blood glucose meter
 * 2) Ichthyophobia
 * 3) Anchoring a Ship
 * 4) Analyzing notation H7h6 and similar notation
 * 5) Training my Macaw (reposting because noone replied)
 * 6) In the universe, light exists most abundandtly at what wavelength/energy?
 * 7) physiology
 * 8) If you could give neutrinos a negative charge...
 * 9) Science and Consciousness
 * 10) Sirius
 * 11) alka seltzer
 * 12) Fever: Better to tough it out or bring it down?
 * 13) Does light move slowly at absolute zero?
 * 14) Identification of this rock and minerals

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 24


 * 1) Developmental Biology - Maturation after pairing
 * 2) Soluble solids of coffee
 * 3) Cool experiment ideas
 * 4) U bend in steam pipes
 * 5) colliods
 * 6) Two non-medical questions related to health
 * 7) Gas leaks
 * 8) Firing flare guns at people

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 25


 * 1) cardiac muscle tissue
 * 2) Gulls again...
 * 3) urea again
 * 4) science fair, please help
 * 5) Subconsciousness
 * 6) is there any sensor that checks the intensity of light
 * 7) Old people leaving the gas on
 * 8) Hangover, sleeping position dependent
 * 9) what is the areodynamic function of flaps
 * 10) Hydrocodone
 * 11) Moon and Sun visible at the same time
 * 12) trippyfans and turkey
 * 13) phenogenomics

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 26


 * 1) Time Travel
 * 2) MMR Vaccine
 * 3) Producer Gas through fixed bed coal gasification
 * 4) What kind of bird is this?
 * 5) Do we want experiment pages?
 * 6) Bright object in the sky last night...
 * 7) Setting toaster timer: stand by...
 * 8) cheap scientific tools
 * 9) Are RGY and RYB monitors possible?
 * 10) Highest village in Tibet
 * 11) Sykeds ?
 * 12) Reason for lack of sense of time - i.e.: thinking it's years ago?
 * 13) pyro
 * 14) Sitting too close to TV
 * 15) Thermochemical tables
 * 16) Malonic acid
 * 17) RC Copter Problem

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 27


 * 1) Summer Solstice
 * 2) Cross breeding of rats and squirrels
 * 3) Medical one way material
 * 4) Inhaler dream
 * 5) Ideal tax rate
 * 6) Mesozoic bird taxonomy
 * 7) Fossils from mountains and islands
 * 8) Big flashes of flame while cooking
 * 9) Danger of collecting blood samples for experiment
 * 10) Glaciers
 * 11) Prehistoric love
 * 12) What do dogs search for?
 * 13) Calendar calculation

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 28


 * 1) Irreversible enzymes?
 * 2) "Down's Syndrome" in animals
 * 3) Depth of ignition
 * 4) Musical brains
 * 5) Phage titration / Identify bacteria
 * 6) Digital modulation transmission rates
 * 7) Classifying transformed bacteria (biohazard)
 * 8) What major would this fall under?
 * 9) British Rail Steam Locomotives
 * 10) IMAX lamps --  as hot as the sun?
 * 11) How well would modern body armor stand up to musket fire?
 * 12) Do British men have higher pitched voices than American men?
 * 13) Species Identification
 * 14) β-mercaptoethanol uses

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 29


 * 1) Alkaline drinking water
 * 2) Global Warming/Greenhouse Gases
 * 3) Are these whales using tools?
 * 4) Does light have a finite distance it can cover?
 * 5) the mute button
 * 6) Gravity
 * 7) Expansion and contraction
 * 8) seeing through metal
 * 9) Detailed info (with pics) how cable internet works
 * 10) zero order hold
 * 11) Relation of ohms to watts in speakers
 * 12) Divergence of a species (speciation)
 * 13) Mystery metal
 * 14) Rotten Coconuts
 * 15) Commercial aspects using License Plate Identification software
 * 16) Unknown husk

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 30


 * 1) dissapation of light
 * 2) Best way to destroy an old, (almost) non functional hard drive?
 * 3) s z qasim
 * 4) CPR
 * 5) Destroying matter
 * 6) Auderiense
 * 7) How far into the ear canal is the ear drum located?
 * 8) Pet Parrots need 12 hours or more sleep a night?
 * 9) feel like crap

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 31


 * 1) Cause of gravity- what is it?
 * 2) Quantum Physics
 * 3) Songs written by drummers
 * 4) Shower mold
 * 5) minerals and rocks
 * 6) Sick again
 * 7) astrologly
 * 8) virus
 * 9) Square drums
 * 10) carbon dioxide
 * 11) August eclipse times