Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2010

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 1


 * 1) Full Moon on New Years
 * 2) Is this a solution for gravity?
 * 3) El Nino Southern Oscillation
 * 4) The never dying fruitcake
 * 5) Lunar exploration and Moon rock
 * 6) yield for reduction of amides with LiAlH4
 * 7) Diesel automobiles without diesel particulate filters
 * 8) Gluten free bacon
 * 9) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
 * 10) Measuring vitamin C
 * 11) Slim elderly people
 * 12) Triple point
 * 13) Carcinoma in Situ

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 2


 * 1) formation of amides by reacting amides with esters
 * 2) Calculate time and direction of Moonrise
 * 3) Insomnia
 * 4) How do birds shelter themselves in winter?
 * 5) Reverse orgasm/sinking feeling?
 * 6) Transmissible cancer
 * 7) Aurora/solar wind as an Earth power source?
 * 8) Replacing a diode
 * 9) Music/sound
 * 10) Schizophrenia and the human ear
 * 11) Shampoo "build up"
 * 12) Non-Ejaculatory Semen Removal from Testicles
 * 13) Tortoise species

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 3


 * 1) Cirrus clouds and snow
 * 2) Common cold in animals
 * 3) Thrust Curve
 * 4) Distance time graph
 * 5) Plant species mentioned in "Guns, Germs and Steel"
 * 6) percentage illumination of moon's surface by sun light
 * 7) percentage illumination of moon's surface by sun light
 * 8) Why is the Large Hadron Collider underground?
 * 9) Amateur 3D video, also sound editing question.
 * 10) So humans have feet, dogs have paws, horses have hooves...
 * 11) Mercury-vapor lamp usage
 * 12) Results of oppositely charged or poled bodies in outer space
 * 13) Battery life
 * 14) Avoiding the British winter

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 4


 * 1) Auxetics utilization in model?
 * 2) jap heating
 * 3) Verification Needed - unlikely cite check.
 * 4) cramped legs
 * 5) Animal intelligence
 * 6) Expansion in a matter of time
 * 7) Cause of death
 * 8) "protecting plastics" for cargo
 * 9) what do you call this alkene? is it a good dienophile?
 * 10) Frozen organisms
 * 11) pull of gravity or magnetism or any force
 * 12) Frozen citrus fruit?
 * 13) LCD TVs and their Manufacturers
 * 14) Plantain herb
 * 15) What people believed about science in earlier times
 * 16) Does the body need to "breath" oxygen?
 * 17) Unknown animals
 * 18) Nutrient Deficiencies
 * 19) planet surviving being engulf by sun
 * 20) redshift/blueshift hypothetical

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 5


 * 1) sky colors over a blue stars
 * 2) french spiderman
 * 3) The Pacific Gull's huge beak...
 * 4) Power Curtain
 * 5) Impreza
 * 6) From nothing to electricity
 * 7) For example, O +ve, and A1 -ve are rare types.
 * 8) Why are some metals more conductive than others?

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 6


 * 1) How the hell do people get AIDS?
 * 2) Climate Change and work done by Professor Cox at Princeton University USA
 * 3) Anti nuclear anti bodies
 * 4) Rice type
 * 5) Physics and Chemistry
 * 6) LMC/SMC Not orbiting Milky Way?
 * 7) catalytic dehydrogenation
 * 8) Cursus honorum
 * 9) Spots on Betelgeuse, or just an imaging artifact?
 * 10) Decay
 * 11) Muonic matter armour?
 * 12) Flesh covered android?
 * 13) Special dreams
 * 14) Exploding olive oil
 * 15) butter churning
 * 16) Palm Trees in Eastern Coast, USA
 * 17) Sound of sloshing water in home heating system
 * 18) Life sensors
 * 19) Reacting vicinal diols with formaldehyde hydrate (methanediol)

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 7


 * 1) what does antimatter look like?
 * 2) duphaston tablet
 * 3) Virtual Reality?
 * 4) Fronts
 * 5) How do I change my ocular dominance?
 * 6) Large Hadron Collider question
 * 7) Plastic bowl used in microwave
 * 8) Aqua Amino: "An energised vortex implosion" | Clean up your amino acid loading bays |  Restore water to its original crystal structure
 * 9) Why do cold fingers get pruney?
 * 10) in vitro use of enzymes

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 8


 * 1) californium
 * 2) Chewing medicine capsules
 * 3) Bacteria and Human feces
 * 4) Water/Hydroxylic acid
 * 5) Question related to Carbon-Capture and Sequestration
 * 6) powering a stepper motor
 * 7) Well water smell
 * 8) Spectrophotometer operating manual?
 * 9) Books about the creation of new breeds
 * 10) Trabant automobiles and Umweltzonen
 * 11) What is a "tail bridge"?
 * 12) Tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron + reducing silanes
 * 13) Ohm's Law
 * 14) name of a littoral creature - nasty looking phallic thing
 * 15) Color preference vs. gender

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 9


 * 1) Instruments to track plate motions
 * 2) putting Pluto back to planet status
 * 3) Unknown animals
 * 4) exploding halo planets
 * 5) hybrid wind water turbine
 * 6) Radon in milwaukee
 * 7) Dark skies
 * 8) The electronic structure of anhydrous oxide crystals
 * 9) dissolving sodium in water ... a pentuple enthalpy whammy?
 * 10) Vitamin E
 * 11) Shut eye
 * 12) How is this possible?
 * 13) Hot spots in cold water
 * 14) Data mining, data is doubling every three years
 * 15) About Sinkiang, phillippine sea and Noha’s flood
 * 16) Disrupted food chains
 * 17) Gulf stream collapse & European winter storms of 2009–2010
 * 18) Structure of guanosine
 * 19) Human-great ape hybrid
 * 20) heater efficiency

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 10


 * 1) Relationship between sleep and seme* production/quality/maintenance
 * 2) Conversion efficiency.
 * 3) The name of this flower?
 * 4) Alcohol hangover cause of insomnia?
 * 5) biosynthesis of LSD-like compounds: how do tryptophan and asparagine end up fusing to share the same nitrogen atom?
 * 6) environmentally friendly oxidation of aldehydes
 * 7) LHC - cooling
 * 8) 1,1-diacetoethylene

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 11


 * 1) Pace of CO2 Capture
 * 2) Human hair: stripes and dots?
 * 3) Mirrors and their color
 * 4) Bathroom Bacteria Aerosol
 * 5) 1,3,5 trihydroxyhexane
 * 6)  Mass Difference of Chemical Bonds
 * 7) Better Question
 * 8) F. B. H. Brown
 * 9) explain the name of acetoacetaldehyde
 * 10) Proton NMR
 * 11) Derailed on the uses of trona
 * 12) Protein Shakes

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 12


 * 1) Thioglycolic acid depilatories in "sensitive" areas
 * 2) cyclisation of tryptophan (C-4 self-acylation)
 * 3) speaker wires
 * 4) are carboxylates still electron-withdrawing groups?
 * 5) Design for a wood shelf bracket
 * 6) Tea
 * 7) Old weather data?
 * 8) Synthetic Feather
 * 9) are Zinc  pills caustic?
 * 10) Bacteria abundance
 * 11) first zero-net energy development of single family homes on the planet?
 * 12) physics
 * 13) radio waves and their structure
 * 14) Alien Technology
 * 15) Genius Offspring
 * 16) What's the sampling limit of human hearing?
 * 17) Magnetic Permeability of Free Space
 * 18) CYMK space models
 * 19) Gall stone disease urine dipstick results
 * 20) Vacuum energy level in heterojunctions
 * 21) Animal optical illusion
 * 22) Elements

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 13


 * 1) Pain caused by discussion of pain or 'medical' issues
 * 2) mirrors
 * 3) Fanuc Ac servomotor
 * 4) time machine.
 * 5) Fanuc material
 * 6) Flying Flat Bug
 * 7) Average adult vitamin D status of the Maasai people of Kenya?
 * 8) The "cc" rating of a car battery charger
 * 9) Mechanics of cancer death?

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 14


 * 1) Could you explain why all parrots seem to be able to communicate with each other?
 * 2) Would a spaceship travelling through a nebula leave vortices behind?
 * 3) Which combination of neutron flux and gamma rays decontaminates nuclear waste best?
 * 4) Assessed earthquake risks
 * 5) true surface area
 * 6) Least likely place for an earthquake?
 * 7) Entomophobia
 * 8) Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series : The Mule
 * 9) what if my mom dies
 * 10) Bad Electrical Outlet?
 * 11) How long to pedal to the moon from Orbit?
 * 12) Quickest way of dissolving steel

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 15


 * 1) Requirements for cloning
 * 2) Cats and plastic garbage bags
 * 3) Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen
 * 4) Cheap hurricane and earthquake protection?
 * 5) Gas furnace ignitor
 * 6) Building construction standards in earthquake-prone areas
 * 7) water liquid temps
 * 8) Stress on a shelf bracket
 * 9) minibeasts

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 16


 * 1) Strength of a wood-screw joint
 * 2) are these EWGs?
 * 3) Electrical circuit loading
 * 4) protection of aromatic substitution sites
 * 5) Toilet bowl - the cleanest place in school?
 * 6) Lorentz transformation
 * 7) computer symulation for the theory of general relativity of Einstein
 * 8) Crop yield
 * 9) Does milk spoil or taste old faster the less of it is left in the container?
 * 10) How does Parathyroid hormone work on the kidneys?
 * 11) the asymmetry of acetic anhydride

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 17


 * 1) Any limit to bandwidth?
 * 2) Red dwarfs proportion to all stars
 * 3) Old school cathode ray television superior?
 * 4) Polarization of radio waves for extra signal capacity?
 * 5) How warm should the water used with yeast in bread machines be?
 * 6) Effects on mood: a) stuffy atmosphere, b) gloom or time of day
 * 7) liquid diamond
 * 8) Coconut water
 * 9) why don't diamonds oxidise?

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 18


 * 1) Cryogenic metal compared to traditional thermal energy storage
 * 2) Animals with colorful names (literally!)
 * 3) gun
 * 4) Gaines Adams - latest enlarged heart... victim?
 * 5) Osteological signs of birth
 * 6) Name for a symptom
 * 7) Why is diamond metastable?
 * 8) texting
 * 9) Short Life of Light Bulbs
 * 10) Antarctica again
 * 11) Palezoic climates
 * 12) periodic table question
 * 13) Efficiency of Einstein refrigerator
 * 14) Running the Einstein refrigerator in reverse as a heat pump

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 19


 * 1) Circuit Problem
 * 2) Empirical studies of emotion
 * 3) illusion of wheel's direction
 * 4) circuits
 * 5) plate changing speeds
 * 6) Tree of Life in circular form
 * 7) Electrical Heating Distribution
 * 8) difference between sea and ocean
 * 9) facebook
 * 10) cyclisation of tryptophan
 * 11) Woman sentenced to 4 years for torching boyfriend's penis
 * 12) Autocrine signalling
 * 13) Technical vs managerial career track
 * 14) Gaussian and SI Units of Charge
 * 15) Relation between angular velocity and torque
 * 16) The path of the moon through the sky
 * 17) unlikeliest thing to happen that did in fact happen? (that we know of)
 * 18) escaping black holes
 * 19) Resistance/Stress
 * 20) Relationship between moon phase and the azimuths of moonrise or moonset
 * 21) gene concepts
 * 22) EADS Astrium orbital power
 * 23) Where do Squirrels go in the Winter?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 20


 * 1) freckles
 * 2) Ohm's Law
 * 3) Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
 * 4) What mean east and west speaking of the Antartic ?
 * 5) What kind of fish is this?
 * 6) Do Solids burn
 * 7) Latitudes and longitudes with the most land or the most water
 * 8) Virginity

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 21


 * 1) Plants
 * 2) Numbers
 * 3) Could you harness the energy from an avalanche?
 * 4) Cryogenic eutectic exergy
 * 5) pressure gauges
 * 6) driving force for sigmatropic rearrangements
 * 7) very small question
 * 8) dianionic copper
 * 9) Orgasm
 * 10) Dienogest
 * 11) Salt and water balance
 * 12) Pluto habitat for life in 7 billion year sun
 * 13) Darwin

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 22


 * 1) Pelvic cavity capacity
 * 2) Why can't water freeze when salt is added?
 * 3) Prilosec and Prevacid
 * 4) Genetic mutations, human electromagnetic fields and electronics
 * 5) immunity and cancer
 * 6) Red dwarfs: proportion to all stars
 * 7) coil spring life
 * 8) Calculating Pressure
 * 9) Golden syrup versus sugar
 * 10) Heroin addiction
 * 11) Speed
 * 12) Quantum mechanics and probability
 * 13) About human evolution
 * 14) longjack
 * 15) Consumer Medication Guides
 * 16) life on other planets
 * 17) Preventing deterioration of rubber-made articles
 * 18) Surface temperature of planets and moons

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 23


 * 1) Avalanche season in the Canadian Rockies
 * 2) Hudson Bay ice
 * 3) Help explain "bandwidth" in wired connections
 * 4) Best long-term energy storage?
 * 5) oxygen's diradical nature ... what about the halogens?
 * 6) Over-watering my Philodendron
 * 7) Circulation in Whitefish
 * 8) hot water storage
 * 9) why no hair in biodegradable waste?
 * 10) What is energy?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 24


 * 1) Maps of Australia
 * 2) Hypochondria paradox
 * 3) live jasmin
 * 4) Expression of ratios
 * 5) Use of Enoxaparin sodium in aortic dissection.
 * 6) Quick seagull question

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 25


 * 1) why is THF called THF?
 * 2) name of those fenced-in forests of powerlines and insulators etc?
 * 3) Menstrual period pregnancy
 * 4) Circadian rhythm studies
 * 5) wind turbine generator manufactures
 * 6) volumetric display using microscopic hemispheres? Has this been thought of yet?
 * 7) Voltage divider
 * 8) extrasolar planets
 * 9) Laws of Thermodynamics
 * 10) do E. coli process cellulose?
 * 11) indonesia plate
 * 12) how do I get rid of awful vibration artifact in my speaker setup?

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 26


 * 1) Cloning question
 * 2) moonrise
 * 3) Red bull exhaust pipe and rust
 * 4) is this a valid question here?
 * 5) Refrigeration not supported at low ambient temperature
 * 6) Hall effect EEG?
 * 7) Psychological reason for former students talking about how strict/tough teachers were
 * 8) Improving Loudspeakers
 * 9) Tyre pressure
 * 10) Human Underwater Speed Record
 * 11) Evolution
 * 12) Happy Brains à gogo, TMS Experiment
 * 13) why has no one investigated the acid-base properties of chloramines?
 * 14) planetary nebula
 * 15) Planet to keep a descent atmosphere
 * 16) Number of seeds contained in a grape

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 27


 * 1) What is the meaning, and/or purpose of human life?
 * 2) Brown lines and sections on house plant leaves
 * 3) Tobacco's body count and total excess deaths of drugs
 * 4) Capturing a comet inside an asteroid for an aquarium
 * 5) Superball
 * 6) joule thief
 * 7) Heat death of the universe
 * 8) Role Directory - Municipal Solid Waste Industry
 * 9) Milk
 * 10) The sound of a fractal?
 * 11) Gray Whales
 * 12) Boxer's Diet
 * 13) chemistry solubility
 * 14) Are handbooks the Reader's Digest of academia?
 * 15) Gadolinium
 * 16) Irrational numbers
 * 17) Near Airports : Blocked Radio Waves
 * 18) burning hashbrowns
 * 19) Humane biological warfare - incapacitating the enemy
 * 20) SHM in a RLC circuit
 * 21) the chemisty of seating gels
 * 22) corrosive gun primers
 * 23) vicinal halogenated compounds

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 28


 * 1) Circuit simulation
 * 2) Nuclear power
 * 3) Placebo and Control
 * 4) power electronics
 * 5) Minimum number of cameras needed for HD volumetric reconstruction?
 * 6) What's the difference between hairline skin and crown skin?
 * 7) Blood pressure and fitness
 * 8) The Scientic Method
 * 9) Predator Fish Species in Farm Ponds
 * 10) SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOUr mental health
 * 11) what could we do with unlimited free energy?
 * 12) neutron up quark color
 * 13) spores
 * 14) Bird identification

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 29


 * 1) Bismuth
 * 2) Bacteria hitchhiking on manmade sattelites?
 * 3) Questions on quantum mechanics
 * 4) An optical (digital?) microscope
 * 5) magnetic piston thermodynamics.
 * 6) Most Green Company in the World
 * 7) Stinky drawers
 * 8) A difficult undertaking
 * 9) I'm having me an All-U-Can-Eat Dolphin Meat-a-thon Dinner in Japan
 * 10) Swiss Climate
 * 11) how does carbon dioxide poisoning induce lesioning and fluid discharge, etc.
 * 12) NSA, FBI, CIA Automatic KEYWORD Internet Search for BODY of Electronic-Messages
 * 13) hanging
 * 14) Sun's position throughout the year
 * 15) Pluto's atmosphere
 * 16) visibility on the moon
 * 17) How much heat loss through a door slightly open?

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 30


 * 1) itching
 * 2) Saline Faraday cage
 * 3) touch screen
 * 4) super-simple question about life on other universe
 * 5) why are winter winds so strong?
 * 6) Clouds id
 * 7) moles
 * 8) Furnace efficiency vs. exhaust gas temperature
 * 9) Clothes Washer and Dryer
 * 10) Wronger than wrong
 * 11) The only paper ever published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal on Intelligent design
 * 12) Question re: Magnetic pole switch

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 31


 * 1) take a solution of enantiomerically pure lactic acid in water ... pH 4-5
 * 2) Thinking about other things and performance in minesweeper while tired
 * 3) No matter how much I eat, I don't gain weight.
 * 4) Polyethylene foam bed vs Urethane
 * 5) Horrible Insects
 * 6) Depth and temperature
 * 7) What gas is green?
 * 8) Order of reaction Mg + HCl
 * 9) Chemical formula of cellulose
 * 10) Energy from reversing desalination
 * 11) Perpetrual-reality