Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2011

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 1


 * 1) When beer is left in an open container for a long time
 * 2) White precipitate
 * 3) Complex/Quadrature Sampling
 * 4) Black hole
 * 5) Sound
 * 6) Dumping snow in the sea

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 2


 * 1) Manganese(II) oxide color
 * 2) I-joist
 * 3) LASERs for every wave?
 * 4) Secure flying without sexual harassment
 * 5) Snow as fertiliser ?
 * 6) I need a strong argument about throwing away incandescent lights to replace them with CFLs right away.
 * 7) Can some deaf people hear what they see?
 * 8) What are the lines in this picture?
 * 9) Strange Weakless Universe
 * 10) Ricocheting cannonball
 * 11) endocrine disruptor

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 3


 * 1) Quantum Electrodynamics
 * 2) Size of Casimir effect vs observed dark energy
 * 3) Recording sound from a moving car?
 * 4) where did all the mass go?
 * 5) Theory of everything
 * 6) Coloured light
 * 7) Chimney drought or draft
 * 8) moons
 * 9) Aspirin
 * 10) Light speed

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 4


 * 1) Lines when you squint at a bright light
 * 2) Relatively invariant.
 * 3) How will Black & Decker get a Hydrator to work in just 4 years?
 * 4) Phosphenes!!!
 * 5) Active Stealth
 * 6) Number of cell in a human body -- a contradiction?
 * 7) Hammer and feather
 * 8) Spring
 * 9) The Importance of Science
 * 10) Breathing underwater
 * 11) mesons
 * 12) Blackbirds falling from the sky
 * 13) LHC
 * 14) benzene
 * 15) Baking soda as deodorizer

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 5


 * 1) Jet engines
 * 2) Chemical formulæ
 * 3) How did the Big Bang escape its Schwartzschild radius?
 * 4) grueblers equation
 * 5) Color of food and nutritional value
 * 6) A six month old orange.
 * 7) Dog Knot
 * 8) Dark side
 * 9) Wine Grape variety abreviations
 * 10) Soap  making
 * 11) Miracle Mineral Supplement
 * 12) Formula pronunciation
 * 13) Plant food

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 6


 * 1) Dragonfruit question
 * 2) Oscar (fish) question
 * 3) evolution propaganda
 * 4) Rotating momentum exchange tethers in LEO, drag and space debris
 * 5) Cause of vibration of a string
 * 6) What's the single best case for evolution?
 * 7) Lost in taxonomy
 * 8) Followup on element symbols
 * 9) Why does a grape soda stain on a white paper towel look like a bird map?
 * 10) ER

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 7


 * 1) Yellow zinc passivated screws and chrome-6 carcinogen
 * 2) New Jersey Department of Fish and Wildlife field guides
 * 3) Speed of gravity
 * 4) Alan Guth's inflation period.
 * 5) At what temperature does the volume of water decrease, regardless of whether your increase or decrease the temperature?
 * 6) ball bearing
 * 7) gravitational acceleration
 * 8) electronics
 * 9) Ceramic flat iron
 * 10) Removing a mole
 * 11) The loneliest thing in the universe
 * 12) Primordial black hole evaporation as gamma ray bursts
 * 13) Relativity
 * 14) Microwave oven flavor transfer
 * 15) Definition of life
 * 16) Gould on transitional fossils

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 8


 * 1) Gravity/Conciousness
 * 2) Brain
 * 3) Motor
 * 4) Cosmology
 * 5) Faking carbon/radioactive decay
 * 6) Dedendum circles
 * 7) SnCl2-Sn(OH)Cl vs. SbCl3-SbOCl conversion
 * 8) Dioxin in Germany
 * 9) 2D holographic display

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 9


 * 1) Why does any number muliplied by nine add up to nine?
 * 2) When and how are 1920s–30s lighthouses lit?
 * 3) Time lapse from brain to tongue.
 * 4) electromagnetic waves
 * 5) circular motion
 * 6) What did, and will, toilets look like?
 * 7) Why is the Washlet hard to penetrate the bathroom fixture market here in the US?
 * 8) Wet-Bulb Temperature vs Dew Point Temperature
 * 9) People in coma
 * 10) Balancing of reciprocating masses
 * 11) Dissolving gases in liquids
 * 12) Mass/Energy
 * 13) Car battery
 * 14) Bailey bridge girders
 * 15) Rotary mechanical toothbrush
 * 16) Genealogy
 * 17) Sugar Chirality.
 * 18) Tooth Decay/Heat

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 10


 * 1) Single Photon/Electron emision.
 * 2) Laser and polarization filter
 * 3) Zero Transit Time
 * 4) Motor oil leakage in cold weather
 * 5) Does the skull grow at the Sutures?
 * 6) electricity through eco friendly means
 * 7) Engineering
 * 8) Hiding gold in ink
 * 9) Why did Alorica close its office in Manhattan, KS?
 * 10) If I get homeless but still have my Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, how do I make money online with little/no overhead?
 * 11) Cheapest source of ethanol for sterlisation
 * 12) Linearization
 * 13) frost on windows of vehicles
 * 14) MnCl2 formation
 * 15) Effective range for a buffer
 * 16) The term "critical mass" in relation to repopulation

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 11


 * 1) Why are the 8 planets so far from the sun?
 * 2) Lewis structure
 * 3) Theory of Evolution
 * 4) Negative Matter
 * 5) Chevrolet Volt heater operation
 * 6) inversions
 * 7) flicker
 * 8) condensation in car
 * 9) Nectar as a food
 * 10) Anyone with new ideas for theories in creation of solar system
 * 11) Black holes and big bangs
 * 12) Prison nutrition and strength training
 * 13) Excitation of electron
 * 14) what is this red and yellow flower/plant
 * 15) Top speed of the NHSL
 * 16) bubbles
 * 17) History of explosives
 * 18) Organometallic compounds
 * 19) Dymaxion map

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 12


 * 1) Obesity and diabetes caused by low carb diet?
 * 2) Something aliens do on TV that I wonder if it's true
 * 3) Which Animal has the biggest brain?
 * 4) Synthetic elastomeric polymer
 * 5) viral inactivation in hpv blood
 * 6) Energy efficiency: bicycle vs. diesel motor
 * 7) Four bar mechanism
 * 8) CRO
 * 9) Pancreatic cancer image
 * 10) Earnshaw's theorm: magnetic levitation
 * 11) Winter
 * 12) Hypnosis
 * 13) Woibbly fridge
 * 14) Electroweak interaction
 * 15) Flower identification/information needed
 * 16) dogs and cats

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 13


 * 1) What vehicle is indestructible in any typical commuter's crash?
 * 2) When will Harley-Davidson get a hybrid powertrain?
 * 3) Imprinting (biology)
 * 4) Hydrogen fuel cell weight advantages in airplanes
 * 5) Six Sigma and Human Resources
 * 6) skipped lines in raw Cassini images
 * 7) Is vacuum really vacuum or not
 * 8) Snow glow
 * 9) Do vaginas scale?
 * 10) Primitive extant members of Carnivora
 * 11) wha t happens to the body after death?
 * 12) Medical Doctors in Canada
 * 13) The origin of the term "HVAC"

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 14


 * 1) Sail
 * 2) Positive beta decay
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 14#Kindly_help_me_find_some_good_used_solar_panels_for_the_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.k-state.edu.2Fumcm.2FK-State_Wesley.2FAbout_Us.html_K-State_Wesley.5D|Kindly help me find some good used solar panels for the K-State Wesley]]
 * 4) Hiroshima/Nagasaki and radiation
 * 5) Birds and animals living along the Rhine River
 * 6) Biomass into Crude Oil
 * 7) Follow-up: What looks like peas?
 * 8) Anticoagulant in donated blood

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 15


 * 1) The abundance of chemical elements in the planets of Solar System?
 * 2) Sulfuric Acid
 * 3) slingshot effect & Manned Space Travel
 * 4) Eating cold foods
 * 5) Half-life
 * 6) RADIAL TYRES
 * 7) Momentum
 * 8) Power to weight ratio
 * 9) Particle decay
 * 10) Melting and snowing?
 * 11) Sharks living in inland seas?

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 16


 * 1) What kills Sudden Oak Death?
 * 2) Mass of the Earth or any Planet?
 * 3) How are improved measurements of the speed of light reported?
 * 4) Hexafluoroethane and fluorine
 * 5) Diesel passenger cars without diesel particulate filters
 * 6) What is density?
 * 7) Is pH applicable to non-water solutions?
 * 8) German dioxine contamination: how long does food take to pass through retail system?
 * 9) Image identification
 * 10) can human beings destroy life on earth?
 * 11) Massive spring
 * 12) Makara Jyothi star
 * 13) Cardiac pressure-volume loop
 * 14) Evolution of poison dart frogs
 * 15) Medical question
 * 16) Feynman diagram art help

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 17


 * 1) Suffocation
 * 2) Future space journeys
 * 3) Electromagnet.
 * 4) Bread
 * 5) gastric acid
 * 6) Vikrell wha
 * 7) Gaseous compounds without gaseous elements
 * 8) Citric acid in fruit
 * 9) Flash flood tanks

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 18


 * 1) Rocking Cooking Pot
 * 2) undetectable viral load risk
 * 3) Accessing Previous Questions and Dates asked.
 * 4) Light Sails.
 * 5) Energy in a magnet.
 * 6) Will an object past the event horizon of a black hole inevitably reach the singularity?
 * 7) Ticklish sensation near forehead
 * 8) what killed Dinosaurs
 * 9) Sprouts with quickly growing roots
 * 10) never say death star for pulsars
 * 11) when the earth was shining
 * 12) Pre-existing conditions and Medical Insurance
 * 13) Tidal Locking Formula
 * 14) An object hanging on a string
 * 15) Planck length for Idiots
 * 16) Coal mining efficiency
 * 17) Stability

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 19


 * 1) Volume (sound)
 * 2) Fire in a Microwave Oven?
 * 3) Need a Formula
 * 4) Why do frozen vegetables taste so bland?
 * 5) Electrical
 * 6) Rephrased: relaxing voices
 * 7) Ice expanding, minimum density
 * 8) Allergen
 * 9) Water and brick question
 * 10) t (radiation and testosterone)

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 20


 * 1) Plant hardiness - temperature versus sunlight volume
 * 2) Pregnancy and radiation-blocking smocks...
 * 3) Biology vs. the Cosmetics Industry
 * 4) Calcium oxide reaction
 * 5) Is there anybody to reply me positively
 * 6) Electron proton collision
 * 7) Research of Light-Dependent reactions as an energy source

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 21


 * 1) S2O32-
 * 2) Could Erta Ale be the biblical Mount Horeb?
 * 3) I'd like to report an abuse.
 * 4) trusting science?
 * 5) Volume of subatomic particles?
 * 6) Decaffeination
 * 7) Radius of Black Hole
 * 8) Oklo reactor and the fine-structure constant
 * 9) Cells
 * 10) Proton target fusion

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 22


 * 1) Interstellar travel using asteroid rubble for shielding
 * 2) Death by Alzheimer's?
 * 3) Hazelnuts
 * 4) gravity waves
 * 5) gravity did not form the universe
 * 6) Different brand of growth hormone
 * 7) How to identify used-up batteries with a multimeter?
 * 8) Volume of sound at cold temperatures
 * 9) E=mc²
 * 10) Discovery of link between food and energy
 * 11) Head-splitting volume of fire and other alarms
 * 12) Weight
 * 13) Are stromatolites our direct ancestors?

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 23


 * 1) where does the RNA stored?
 * 2) Solute property
 * 3) sex
 * 4) electrical
 * 5) Schizophrenia AntiBiotics - 52%? success rate that treats and requires no anti psychotics
 * 6) Sussex cricket meteorite
 * 7) Heat generating gel
 * 8) Planck constant constant ?
 * 9) is it true that Scientists think people walked around for 150,000 being as intelligent as us but without written culture?
 * 10) State of the art of photorealistic computer animated actors
 * 11) Disease from eating sheep's lungs?
 * 12) Bamboo in laptops
 * 13) Permutation of position weight matrix for biological problem solving
 * 14) Sterile chicken tells no tales

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 24


 * 1) 2012
 * 2) the lower dendrites
 * 3) c-1 m/s
 * 4) Herpes virus
 * 5) Inside a mirrored sphere
 * 6) Parts of a horses skull
 * 7) Eye bone
 * 8) Registering a new rock
 * 9) Pure proteins
 * 10) Hypothetical question
 * 11) Taraxacum
 * 12) Moon

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 25


 * 1) minerls
 * 2) Lip cells
 * 3) Loss of cabin pressure / oxygen at high altitude flight
 * 4) Independence Day
 * 5) Energy as a measure of damage?
 * 6) h (home depot)
 * 7) Genomic DNA in northern blot
 * 8) What comes after Blu-Ray?
 * 9) Jupiter," Posibly a furter STAR ?"
 * 10) Orbit
 * 11) Autoclaving a bottle of liquid

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 26


 * 1) What's the difference between van der Waals forces and London forces?
 * 2) The amount of energy in houshold rubbish
 * 3) Rubbish Island
 * 4) Submarine speed
 * 5) Endosome/endocytic vesicle
 * 6) Why the "Coma" Cluster?
 * 7) KBOs and TNOs
 * 8) Proton spheres

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 27


 * 1) Best way to dissolve methane in a liquid that mixes with scintillation fluid
 * 2) Geographic center of the world
 * 3) ORME Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements
 * 4) Mean distance in a square
 * 5) Religion, mental health and education
 * 6) Anal sex in the 1800s
 * 7) Sky photography
 * 8) incipient fusion
 * 9) Practicality of experimental procedure for measuring microwave wattage
 * 10) Safe to store water in garage?
 * 11) Smallest meaningful length

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 28


 * 1) Artemisia absinthium
 * 2) Chemistry and Calculus
 * 3) Hadron collisions
 * 4) Firing a gun underwater
 * 5) Full name for invertebrate zoologist "von Linstow" active late C19, early C20?
 * 6) Fuel efficiency
 * 7) Can vets determine the cause of death in a hamster?
 * 8) If the gas pressure decreases what happens with temperature?
 * 9) please explain binary stars in simpler language than the article
 * 10) ear piercing
 * 11) Physics, conservation of linear momentum-collisions
 * 12) Aside the obvious answer
 * 13) A hydrogen bomb in an undersea volcano= add new land?

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 29


 * 1) Sweet crude oil
 * 2) giving m2=0 for newton formula
 * 3) Anal orgasm
 * 4) Balloons
 * 5) Graphite
 * 6) Converting ohm to siemens
 * 7) Central American Bat Identification

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 30


 * 1) My Honda Accord will be 10 years old this year. Why no rust?
 * 2) How do I customize GPS navigation voices?
 * 3) What's at the edge of a piece of diamond or graphite?
 * 4) fruit
 * 5) the temperature of  crab nebula
 * 6) Tidal Locking Formula
 * 7) Can anyone provide clear, simple answers to these Mandelbrot Set questions needed
 * 8) Delivery
 * 9) What do nebulae look like in visible light?
 * 10) cell sonicator
 * 11) A scientific test to determine if Blacks are dumber than Whites
 * 12) How to remove glue?
 * 13) Codeine and its counterparts
 * 14) Highbeam's offer of scientific magazines
 * 15) Big alignment
 * 16) Subterranean flows of water (contains spoiler of Philip Pullman's The Tiger in the Well)

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 31


 * 1) Star formation
 * 2) color changing mug
 * 3) Identify unknown mineral
 * 4) Damiana
 * 5) Paternity
 * 6) Monatomic elements?
 * 7) WiFi laptop or home PC amateur radio packet network equivalent
 * 8) Brace, brace
 * 9) ear piercing (2)
 * 10) Insulated windows
 * 11) Handheld missile/rocket launchers with multiple missiles
 * 12) what the species name?
 * 13) Processing of metals: casting
 * 14) Parachutes