Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2013

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 1


 * 1) Industrial Revolution and Coal
 * 2) Eliptical Machines
 * 3) Alexander graham bell
 * 4) Lizzie Velazquez - A Rare Condition
 * 5) Air refueling stealth fighters
 * 6) Gravitational and magnetic force
 * 7) Any studies on whether whale strandings may have analogue in human stampedes?
 * 8) Understanding the EPR paradox
 * 9) Astronomical naming conventions
 * 10) Rydberg molecular hydrogen
 * 11) Brain question
 * 12) CO2 laser - output power versus input.

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 2


 * 1) New comet and meteor shower
 * 2) Plants on Mars
 * 3) At what distance from our sun would Sirius and the sun have the same brightness?
 * 4) Physics and chemistry questions
 * 5) Professional engineers
 * 6) Logic
 * 7) nicotine inhaler

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 3


 * 1) Hobbitses
 * 2) Name that fish part 2: Green-eyed monster
 * 3) Name that flower
 * 4) Galvanic action between stainless steel pot and aluminum lid
 * 5) Why do you get x2 times the kinetic energy from x times the joules?
 * 6) Facial recognition after many years
 * 7) Taj Mahal question
 * 8) Clean big city water supplies
 * 9) Why doesn't color-safe bleach (or bleach in general) oxidize the material of cotton clothes ?
 * 10) Solving linear equation
 * 11) Inhaling baby powder
 * 12) Cleaning a fish tank
 * 13) Is this aircraft an A330?
 * 14) Alcohol and illness

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 4


 * 1) Observable universe
 * 2) Microscope image identification
 * 3) Electromagnetic wave
 * 4) Validating the Big Bang or is it unfalsifiable?
 * 5) Frame of reference
 * 6) bitcoin
 * 7) Coastal armoring thoughts
 * 8) what is the pH of borate-carbonate-bicarbonate solution? why is no formula given for the pH calculation of a hetereogeneous buffer solution? is the pH of an amino acid solution its pI?
 * 9) Syrian missiles
 * 10) Railroad switch question

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 5


 * 1) "Acute in age"
 * 2) Science Olympiad
 * 3) Lever frame
 * 4) Recession
 * 5) sleeping with makeup  on -- does your skin really need the oxygen?
 * 6) Sintering Metal and Ceramic together
 * 7) Pineapple pee

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 6


 * 1) Freezing water
 * 2) turning flourescent lights off and on
 * 3) Pseudosynesthesia
 * 4) How long will blood stain and semen stain persist, respectively?
 * 5) why did people evolve to feel "hot"?
 * 6) Moon and milk
 * 7) Questions About Pregnancy
 * 8) Tangential velocity of galaxies

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 7


 * 1) Choke holds
 * 2) Bug identification
 * 3) Synchronous motor
 * 4) Existance of Truly Non-Symmetrical Creatures
 * 5) Is it true that the more human hair is smoothstraight, the more it is likely to dropout?
 * 6) Quantum fuse
 * 7) I've always experienced basements to remain at a comfortable temperature, but now I live in a house where it's nearly as hot/cold as outdoors. Why?
 * 8) Does paper really dull scissors faster than cloth does?
 * 9) Sawtoothed bayonets

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 8


 * 1) How strong magnetic field at a distance from a magnetic source?
 * 2) Syrian airforce
 * 3) IC4-trains
 * 4) Electrons
 * 5) Is Anthropogenic Global Warming falsifiable?
 * 6) How Ears and Eyes Extract Frequency?
 * 7) liquid nitrogen condensing liquid oxygen
 * 8) Rainbow colored clouds?

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 9


 * 1) a map showing the international date line in the middle
 * 2) Hand grenade
 * 3) North Pole & South Pole questions
 * 4) Why do electrons, nucleons, stars, and planets have spherical shape ?
 * 5) Capacitor article, what does Pand Vc stand for?
 * 6) Strength of gravity anomalies on earth
 * 7) AL Amyloidosis Prognosis
 * 8) Electronic configuration of copper and chromium
 * 9) Why are all milk frothing mugs made out of stainless steel?
 * 10) Three questions
 * 11) nanotube compressed air storage
 * 12) What is the difference between anode rays and canal rays ?
 * 13) Buoyant force
 * 14) Butterfly flight

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 10


 * 1) Hand grenade, part 2
 * 2) Oxygen, fire, and inorganic
 * 3) Why is the ampere and not the coulomb an SI fundamental unit?
 * 4) Precor treadmill's interval settings
 * 5) How does the Mola Mola defend itself

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 11


 * 1) Bonus question: the Mola Mola 'Niche'?
 * 2) Last grenade question, I promise
 * 3) Death
 * 4) hydraulics question
 * 5) ImageJ macro for batch merge of images
 * 6) is Asian male facial hair easier to wax than Caucasian facial hair?
 * 7) Laser harp making
 * 8) The clock's onomatopoeia
 * 9) The current flu going around

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 12


 * 1) Apophis 2029 and satellites
 * 2) Mali
 * 3) Measuring sleep deprivation while on prescription stimulants
 * 4) Human evolution
 * 5) A question about Ions
 * 6) Science behind dry hair
 * 7) Do Identical twins have the same type of DNA and if so,why their behavior is different?
 * 8) a wormhole is two black holes?
 * 9) large quasar group
 * 10) Oriole question
 * 11) Black swallow-wort
 * 12) Mottaphobia
 * 13) melting point

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 13


 * 1) Polarization of light
 * 2) Iron man
 * 3) Tuatara - a third eye in humans too?
 * 4) DNA Testing
 * 5) Tellurium suboxide = tellurium monoxide?

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 14


 * 1) The oxide layer of magnesium ribbon
 * 2) Dietary supplement question
 * 3) force versus pressure diagram
 * 4) Bulk Viscosity
 * 5) Brightness-dependent monitor buzzing
 * 6) Rainbow and stars
 * 7) Computer analysis of writing style
 * 8) Fossil Diatoms in a New Carbonaceous Meteorite
 * 9) Why can I sometimes understand meow intonation (I think)?
 * 10) Will earth change its axial tilt
 * 11) Estimated solar radii

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 15


 * 1) Piggyback IC picture?
 * 2) I perused the archives but . . . anal sex question
 * 3) iPhone 5 Vibration in Response to Rubbing
 * 4) Evolution (type)
 * 5) Chimney cleaning
 * 6) Gender differences in autism spectrum disorders
 * 7) K in KCl
 * 8) Acceleration of acceleration
 * 9) milliequivalent
 * 10) Pluto and Neptune collision
 * 11) is this correct?

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 16


 * 1) File:Unknown hairy creature on stump.jpg
 * 2) Mars may get humid and muggy?
 * 3) Hamiltonian
 * 4) Harmful effect of excessive masturbation - Cortisol production
 * 5) Please help (weight of air)
 * 6) Vitamin K2 in ((Vitamins)) nav-box
 * 7) Animal behaviour
 * 8) Sudden blindness
 * 9) ImageJ macro for batch merge of images
 * 10) effect of touch
 * 11) How hot?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 17


 * 1) Nickel replacing magnesium in geoporphyrin
 * 2) Atomic/Ionic Radii
 * 3) Olive-colored matters in cooked crabs and crayfish
 * 4) Perception of time between age groups?
 * 5) Tangerine peel oil and styrofoam cup
 * 6) Boeing 787 manufacturing locations of windshields and fuel tanks
 * 7) Which article is this?

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 18


 * 1) V-engine with unequal stroke lengths on different banks
 * 2) Seismic morse code
 * 3) Reason for glass being transparent face on but opaque edge on
 * 4) 12cm
 * 5) Neurotransmitters - if someone is being hard with dancing in clubs
 * 6) Alex Hum
 * 7) mrsa
 * 8) heatwave?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 19


 * 1) About AHL
 * 2) Astronauts talking in space
 * 3) Aurora
 * 4) Two bar magnets tied together
 * 5) Gas from posterior side of body
 * 6) Semiautomatic cook off
 * 7) Is there relation between yank and work ?
 * 8) How images of galaxies are taken?
 * 9) if light is just electromagnetic spectrum, why don't we have electric web cams with equal precision?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 20


 * 1) What happen to helium in our sun
 * 2) why is this not used in air?
 * 3) oligomers and monomers
 * 4) polymerisation
 * 5) chemistry [polymer chemistry]
 * 6) RF interference
 * 7) Altitude / temperature
 * 8) why when people have fever the feel colder?
 * 9) Out of battery detonation
 * 10) Electrical conduction
 * 11) tDCS for insomnia?
 * 12) Nuclear fusion to produce phosphorus
 * 13) Electric current through gases
 * 14) Hydrolysis of Phosphodiester bond in DNA
 * 15) compressing gas into a cylinder

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 21


 * 1) Hot water in pan
 * 2) Battery paradox
 * 3) Railgun on the moon
 * 4) Microphone physically attached on a string
 * 5) Disposing of Cooking Oil
 * 6) Quantum mechanical question.  in a physical sense of actual reality (what is true) does the mathematical identity function (
 * 7) common ways to relieve heart palpitations
 * 8) Why do airships exploit lift so little?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 22


 * 1) In time of need, can the Male body metabolize Gynecomastia's Connective tissue?
 * 2) RNA primer instead of DNA prime
 * 3) Why were my questions removed?!
 * 4) Bad guys drugging good guys
 * 5) Experimental Medicine
 * 6) Trip hammer mechanics
 * 7) Requirements of control panel for seismic relay.
 * 8) Fire Drills
 * 9) Barter prices for iron in ancient and medieval times compared to other goods
 * 10) Help me identify an insect
 * 11) Unknown plant

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 23


 * 1) Do grass grow?
 * 2) Why doesn't the sun float away like a balloon?
 * 3) Passing out when hurt and evolution
 * 4) Curricula/syllabuses for math & science education in secondary education
 * 5) The Chinese "Popcorn" Cannon
 * 6) Voltage required to accelerate a proton?
 * 7) Lifespan of a blackhole
 * 8) Sound
 * 9) Does this show us something new about African Grey Parrot behaviour?
 * 10) Math for astronomy degrees?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 24


 * 1) USAGE OF DNA PRIMER
 * 2) Neurotheology
 * 3) Displacement of a body on a circular path
 * 4) Why do electrons emit photon, not other particles ?
 * 5) "Best" university of natural sciences / math in New York City
 * 6) Some simple questions
 * 7) Why do we feel more pain in winter than in summer ?
 * 8) Klebsiella pneumoniae
 * 9) Typesetting and the perception of wordy/terse prose
 * 10) Inner horizon of a supermassive black hole
 * 11) body turning to stone
 * 12) Exercise and Sleep

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 25


 * 1) Cellular co-transport
 * 2) Different types of pepper
 * 3) Why do we cry?
 * 4) Prenates and Being Alive
 * 5) Poor eyesight and the black death
 * 6) Tidal locking planets
 * 7) Can insects get angry?
 * 8) Danceable pulsars

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 26


 * 1) Opel truck
 * 2) Nutrition facts of cooked chicken
 * 3) Rain = snow depth
 * 4) Formal term for re-mapping of a set of values to other values.

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 27


 * 1) Does the dog recognize me?
 * 2) Interchangeable parts?
 * 3) Wooden coffer
 * 4) Stone Age Malthusianism and Cornucopianism
 * 5) Proton Density of Various Materials
 * 6) Contributing to medical knowledge
 * 7) If they give an IQ test to someone who's had a coma, do they subtract the coma length from the chronological age?
 * 8) Seasonal changes in temperature

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 28


 * 1) Why don't the the sunrise and sunset times go the other way at the solstice?
 * 2) ninhydrin
 * 3) T90 and leclerc tanks autoloader
 * 4) Great Lakes region before last glacial period
 * 5) Chicken nutrition revisited
 * 6) Resonant frequency of an inductor
 * 7) Sci fi
 * 8) diabtes
 * 9) Leg cramps
 * 10) The rank of gram positive bacteria

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 29


 * 1) Question about the Sunrise and Sunset
 * 2) why isn't drinking yourself to death a more popular suicide option?
 * 3) Genus outbreeding
 * 4) Aakash Institute
 * 5) Planet or satellites with the direction revolution opposite to that of its rotation
 * 6) Manometery equation
 * 7) No sound
 * 8) music and heat

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 30


 * 1) Existance of solid state variable inductors?
 * 2) Menopause for trees
 * 3) Name of the diagnostic test shown in the movie Exorcist
 * 4) Dynamics of a planetoid being captured by a star
 * 5) National Geographic's raving review of biochar
 * 6) measuring decarboxylase activity
 * 7) Sick
 * 8) 13.7 billion years

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 January 31


 * 1) I asked this but maybe wasn't clear enough... (3D depth detection)
 * 2) I feel like I'm programmed to be racist
 * 3) RF interference - update
 * 4) the temperature of nucleon
 * 5) natural elements
 * 6) The difference between ice and snow?
 * 7) Electric discharge in vacuum
 * 8) Armour and Antiarmour I
 * 9) Armour and Antiarmour II
 * 10) Funny taste when reboiling water
 * 11) Armour and Antiarmour III
 * 12) Turtle survives 30 years in a storage room?