Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2012

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 1


 * 1)  happy new year
 * 2) Habitable exoplanets
 * 3) Interrupter gears
 * 4) Watts and calories
 * 5) Given that glass is transparent to infrared, how usefull are thermal (infrared) images of houses in estimating heat loss through windows?
 * 6) science assignment
 * 7) OTC Medication Safety
 * 8) Kepler-22b
 * 9) Attractiveness by percentile
 * 10) Velocities

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 2


 * 1) Carbon group
 * 2) John Daniel Titius and John Elert Bode
 * 3) What is the specific gravity of quartz sand?
 * 4) health education
 * 5) Mammoth
 * 6) Higher derivatives of displacement w.r.t. time
 * 7) immunolin
 * 8) Animal intelligence

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 3


 * 1) Unconfirmed discoveries elements
 * 2) Best solution for IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
 * 3) Use of Inhaler for Asthma
 * 4) Clock and sundial comparison in General Relativity
 * 5) Biological assignment
 * 6) Nickel content in Rhodium
 * 7) De-miting a snake and its tank
 * 8) Caterpillar identification
 * 9) Quick question...
 * 10) Distance that an electric current will arc
 * 11) Can we lose our soul?
 * 12) Conservation of Momentum and Energy

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 4


 * 1) Is caring for sources a kind of bias?
 * 2) how to calculate the tolerance of parallel resistors
 * 3) Why was Stjerneborg subterranean?
 * 4) White blood cells
 * 5) precession
 * 6) We'll skip the formulas here
 * 7) Wattles in goats
 * 8) ice cap and tundra
 * 9) Polonium - to - actinium gap

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 5


 * 1) Acidity of the female reproductive tract
 * 2) is it homosexuality?
 * 3) What is the name of the veins inside a flower petal?
 * 4) Watt hours
 * 5) Can animals think of future?
 * 6) sun and planets angles.
 * 7) Length of Radioactive Half-Life
 * 8) Planetary alignment
 * 9) Enthalpy of a reaction

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 6


 * 1) Natural occurrence of the elements
 * 2) Sex and reproduction
 * 3) What is this behaviour?
 * 4) Voltage question
 * 5) natural selection
 * 6) Jumping fish
 * 7) How LEDs display different colours?
 * 8) How much Helium-3 in the atmosphere of the gas giants?
 * 9) Glacier Image Database?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 7


 * 1) Walking from the Earth to the Sun
 * 2) Several compound names
 * 3) Accidents/Injuries jumping into sea from a height
 * 4) Imaging of potato growth
 * 5) Shooting down a falling bomb
 * 6) Thick, dripping liquids
 * 7) What does the weak field do?

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 8


 * 1) Hot peppers
 * 2) Shortest life-span
 * 3) combustion - volume of products
 * 4) Athlete's foot fungi
 * 5) what is the typical expected ultimate recovery (EUR) of traditional gas wells?
 * 6) IC Engine braking

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 9


 * 1) Neutrinos vs Neutron decay
 * 2) Ellipsoidal Dyson shell
 * 3) Shouldn't a helicopter be able to fly even without a tail rotor?
 * 4) Human chloroplasts
 * 5) Trying to recall some chemistry
 * 6) Galvanic metals
 * 7) Breathing air requirement?
 * 8) Why Ritalin against ADHD?
 * 9) E.T.
 * 10) Vacuum metastability event warning?
 * 11) Health adjusted life table

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 10


 * 1) Water-fueled car - Where are they?
 * 2) Krakatoa explosion – must it happen again?
 * 3) ATP--used by all/most organisms?
 * 4) amaloydosis
 * 5) To what extent are atoms understandable?
 * 6) Enrichment percent of Pu-239 ?

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 11


 * 1) Mercator projection of Earth for a different rotation axis position
 * 2) Incremental cost per nuclear bomb
 * 3) Molecular form of carbon gas
 * 4) Suicide bombing
 * 5) Black lung
 * 6) Electron in a magnetic field
 * 7) Buying a Telescope : list of celestial objects versus magnification required
 * 8) Pure energy
 * 9) "wrought iron" vs "forged iron"
 * 10) steroids before steroids
 * 11) Are identical twins common in any non-mammalian species?

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 12


 * 1) suicide rate vs gdp
 * 2) Pellagra experiment article?
 * 3) seawater intrusion
 * 4) Angular momentum question
 * 5) Exploding moon rocket = nuclear weapon?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 13


 * 1) Plant Identification
 * 2) meaning of bracketed terms in chemical reaction notation
 * 3) Cognitive enhancement deadlocks
 * 4) Thermonuclear
 * 5) hologram
 * 6) relation between video format and video codec
 * 7) Two black hole questions
 * 8) "Genetic analysis" of fossils
 * 9) One-point implosion
 * 10) Nuclear tank ammunition

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 14


 * 1) Why is my light bulb Power only half of what it's supposed to be?
 * 2) 1957 ufo
 * 3) Dynamite gun
 * 4) Electrical wiring question
 * 5) What would happen if the earth blew up?
 * 6) Field of vision... can we experience it?
 * 7) 'Magic numbers' in chemical bonding & more
 * 8) Degree of Unsaturation
 * 9) Electric chair and accidental electrocutions
 * 10) Probabilities of extremely rare events
 * 11) Does water possess an electrochemical state?
 * 12) Arcs of plasma
 * 13) Plank mass black hole dangerous?

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 15


 * 1) Clove oil coagulating in alcohol
 * 2) how anal sex possible?
 * 3) Is the Costa Concordia salvageable?
 * 4) Genetic disorders
 * 5) Finding a particular old biology textbook.
 * 6) Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 16


 * 1) Ice fossils
 * 2) Information transfer Faster Than Light - DIY
 * 3) Persistent BO
 * 4) Time is stopped
 * 5) Hyperbolic lines around radio towers
 * 6) Tau-catalysed fusion
 * 7) climate data

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 17


 * 1) Order of chemical reaction
 * 2) Energy density greater than diesel petrol
 * 3) How does constructive/destructive interference work in a chorus?
 * 4) Gravitational time problem.
 * 5) 'Blue' Veins in the Heart, elsewhere?
 * 6) lens as spatial filters
 * 7) Searching for medical term (not advice)
 * 8) Deepest drilling

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 19


 * 1) What was "opening medicine"?
 * 2) superconducters
 * 3) Blot (biology)
 * 4) Evolution again...
 * 5) Genetically engineering healthy foods
 * 6) Why is it easier to make an electric car than it is to make an electric airplane?
 * 7) Photosynthesis Poster
 * 8) Forging a ring from fountain pens
 * 9) In which U.S. states are capybaras legal?
 * 10) crazy

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 20


 * 1) odd rabbit behavior
 * 2) Blood dye
 * 3) Farming fish
 * 4) solar panel construction
 * 5) drug test
 * 6) Efficiency Test for Evolutionary Algorithms
 * 7) Polyneuropathy and GABA
 * 8) Atomic explosion in your hands
 * 9) Escape velocity of major star

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 21


 * 1) Resource Monitor, Maximum Frequency
 * 2) Formula from normal magnitude to apparent magnitude
 * 3) Optimism bias toward one's own profession
 * 4) Please identify the animals
 * 5) Any evidence?
 * 6) Could the Rosenhan Experiment happen today?
 * 7) Distribution of individually wrapped chocolates within a box
 * 8) Offroad vehicle
 * 9) Gender & emotions
 * 10) What road-legal production vehicle model line has had the fewest traffic fatalities thus far?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 22


 * 1) Spraying water with alcohol to evaporate faster
 * 2) Men: shaved or with beard
 * 3) Machine
 * 4) c is fastest but what is slowest speed possible?
 * 5) Dyson sphere/swarm surrounding planet rather than star
 * 6) Time of sunrise and sunset as viewed from the Moon
 * 7) Equinoxes on the moon
 * 8) How can we join the definitions of entropy?
 * 9) Helium hydride ions
 * 10) Hydraulic Pressure
 * 11) Resting Membrane Potential
 * 12) Chunks of ions
 * 13) Rain vs. snow
 * 14) regarding to communicatio
 * 15) Fusor weapon
 * 16) Dyeing one's brain
 * 17) Lettuce
 * 18) Poisonous contrails?
 * 19) Nerveagentase

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 23


 * 1) Difference in airplane fuel needs going to/from equator
 * 2) How "wrong" is string theory
 * 3) BHeF3
 * 4) Exploding ions
 * 5) Why build up instead of down?
 * 6) Pressure at the bottom of Mariana Trench
 * 7) How much egg white do I have?
 * 8) Coilguns and railguns
 * 9) Why do animals use the thyroid hormone?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 24


 * 1) T-shaped versus trigonal planar
 * 2) Does balsamic vinegar go bad ?
 * 3) Could it be that pets are evolving to understand language?
 * 4) Airplane pressure
 * 5) Diminishing star brightness curve
 * 6) Cold gas thruster and heat
 * 7) Thought experiment: the walking stick problem revisited (Pt. 2 - rotation)

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 25


 * 1) Complexity and dynamism of systems
 * 2) A massive sun storm
 * 3) Earth life elsewhere
 * 4) Bacterium in the bloodstream
 * 5) Radiation from airport x-ray machines

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 26


 * 1) liquid nitrogen in an electric kettle
 * 2) Black umbrella in summer???
 * 3) solar storm
 * 4) Gamma ray lenses?
 * 5) Liquid Thorium Reactor
 * 6) Voltage characteristics of bike dynamo
 * 7) Can you make plastic from biofuel?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 27


 * 1) Maximum number of isomers from asymmetric Diels-Alder?
 * 2) alien missionary
 * 3) "Cat years" versus "Human years"
 * 4) Dr. vs. Ph.D.
 * 5) What health hazard does sand or glass particle which are used in sand blasting causes?
 * 6) permanent cure of stye.
 * 7) Energy density of algae produced biodiesel and biogasoline
 * 8) Farsi Island
 * 9) Size of the Universe at the Big Bang.

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 28


 * 1) structure of hair
 * 2) Folding spacetime
 * 3) If "Solubility in Water" is 58.2% at 20 °C, what does that mean in practical terms?
 * 4) Japanese bird name mix-up

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 29


 * 1) Terminology question
 * 2) Artificial melatonin
 * 3) Horses in roller skates
 * 4) diabete melitus
 * 5) If everything is heavier than the air we breathe why do clouds and fog ( which are water droplets) apparently FLOAT ?
 * 6) Sleep deprivation
 * 7) Incandescent light bulb self limiting current?
 * 8) Ships flying out of water
 * 9) Nukeproof armor
 * 10) Bacteria ID50
 * 11) Benefits of eating meals ?

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 30


 * 1) Mustard seed
 * 2) Colder on high mountains
 * 3) Does HIV can live on alcohol?
 * 4) Skepticism and learning
 * 5) Compass points South instead of North
 * 6) Culm power
 * 7) Why is there a lot of soot in most diesel exhaust but not a lot in most gasoline exhaust?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 January 31


 * 1) Running and Coughing up Greyish Matter
 * 2) Bad invention idea ?
 * 3) Fuschias
 * 4) Why use a mechanical shutter to determine exposure time?
 * 5) Cycling over hills vs cycling arouund them
 * 6) Ice islands
 * 7) frequency limit
 * 8) Big legs through running or jumping
 * 9) Saltiness of salt
 * 10) Studies on factual beliefs being proven wrong
 * 11) Unwanted CDs
 * 12) Voluntary Eye Divergence