Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2016

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 1


 * 1) Process capability index
 * 2) Other compounds of Krypton not included
 * 3) Wedge-Tailed Eagle eyesight
 * 4) Chess computer calculations
 * 5) U.K. ceng
 * 6) Humid desert climate?
 * 7) Sulfuric acid spill
 * 8) Senior scientist

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 2


 * 1) Identification of little egret's prey
 * 2) Name for when a person's face turns red when they are mad

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 3


 * 1) Air quality index and highest takes all
 * 2) Manhunt for suspect in recent TA shooting: Were tracking dogs used? If not why not?
 * 3) Which is more comprehensive regarding exercise problems? The Feynman Lectures on Physics or Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau & Lifshitz?
 * 4) Biology
 * 5) Mercury bubble time-of-use meter
 * 6) Sharpness of cutting device a physical unit

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 4


 * 1) Medication Dose and Weight
 * 2) Italian scientific journal
 * 3) Are there dozens of models of computational linguistics?
 * 4) Reservoirs are pernicious
 * 5) Ground glass joints with 2.5 bar pressure relief valve?

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 5


 * 1) Fighting fire with fire
 * 2) Where can I find a map of average daily temperature range in the US?
 * 3) How many viable human DNA combinations are there?
 * 4) radio-activity
 * 5) anthropology
 * 6) Elements past period 7

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 6


 * 1) Homocysteine elevated
 * 2) Destroyer
 * 3) How tall could an artificial mountains be?
 * 4) Rules restricting use of centi, deci, deca, hecto SI prefixes.
 * 5) What's the smallest or shortest building that'd be measurably weaker if it didn't follow Earth's curve?
 * 6) Aversion to IQ tests

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 7


 * 1) Why does $ 80 cdot 10^{-6} = 8 cdot 10^{-5}$?
 * 2) Carbon monoxide
 * 3) Microwave oven entrance plate?
 * 4) Dignitas death experience
 * 5) CO2 filter that let's O2 through

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 8


 * 1) argh! what is the standard industry term for this kind of plug?
 * 2) Does eggs contain (free) H2O?
 * 3) World's lowest maximum voice
 * 4) Is it true that ethnic Swedes will be a minority by 2050?
 * 5) Does the stroke volume of the right ventricle equal to the left ventricle (heart)?
 * 6) Does the right and left ventricle have the same BPM?
 * 7) Nobel prize nominee but never won
 * 8) hazards of abandoned buried electrical cables
 * 9) slower/bigger molecule = bigger cross-section / more reactive? (second-order / SN2)

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 9


 * 1) When is technology not just equal to applied science?
 * 2) Is there something in alternative medicine that's not considered as pseudoscience?
 * 3) Mirrors flip...
 * 4) does Truvada (used in anti-HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) have significant binding activity to human telomerase reverse transcriptase?
 * 5) Which organs of human body can be regenerated?
 * 6) el Chapo escape engineering
 * 7) Opposite sex monozygotic twins without Turner syndrome

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 10


 * 1) Does an atomic explosion send EM waves radiation into outer space?
 * 2) Benoit - binomial authority for Euphrictus squamosus?
 * 3) Sleeping pill effects

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 11


 * 1) Wind direction confusion
 * 2) Wood's metal
 * 3) synthesis of tetrabutylammonium borohydride versus a PTC reaction of sodium borohydride + tetrabutylammonium bromide
 * 4) How does this atom have such high valence?

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 12


 * 1) Intra-species violence
 * 2) does degeneracy in antibonding orbitals (e.g. dichloromethane) affect reactivity?
 * 3) Why do dead bodies get swollen?
 * 4) How do animal duels (clashing horns or others) and getting the female partners work?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 13


 * 1) Tutoring biology in a creationist curriculum
 * 2) Commercialisation of healthcare
 * 3) Why do some viruses have silly names?
 * 4) Fructoselysine article - need categories

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 14


 * 1) Electric motors and hybrid vehicles
 * 2) History of puberty blockers
 * 3) Platinum electrode
 * 4) What's the difference between transvestites and transsexuals?
 * 5) popping zits
 * 6) Eka-, dvi-, tri-, and chatur-
 * 7) solubility of zwitterions in organic or lipophilic solvents
 * 8) Do amino acids sometimes combine in water?

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 15


 * 1) Is there such as "aspiration center" in nerve system?
 * 2) Is there such as "motive entropy"?
 * 3) Norovirus and Pathogenic Escherichia coli
 * 4) Question about Quarks
 * 5) Crude Oil

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 16


 * 1) If a person has an MBA, is it wrong to say he's an economist?
 * 2) Questions about EM radiation
 * 3) Cartilaginous fish outcompeting bony fish as predators
 * 4) Why are women bad at chess?
 * 5) Follicular lymphoma
 * 6) Is the “ankle” on both sides of the foot?
 * 7) Radio tuning by analog-to-digital conversion?
 * 8) how do I add the partition coefficient data to an article?
 * 9) How often mentally ill people know they are mentally ill?
 * 10) what is it the partition coefficient of 1-octanol defined as?
 * 11) Alcohol and exercise

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 17


 * 1) Is one of the following option right?
 * 2) what is it called the compounds that occur between metals to metals?
 * 3) Science(Physics?)   Question
 * 4) 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
 * 5) Bigger microclimates
 * 6) universal basic income
 * 7) How can black holes form?
 * 8) How much as human DNA changed along the centuries

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 18


 * 1) ASASSN-15lh ‎
 * 2) Cost of Space Missions and Materials
 * 3) CO2 pressure in a soda drink
 * 4) Asian eyes (epicanthic fold)'s protection from the sun
 * 5) Urine specific gravity
 * 6) Electric transferring machine
 * 7) Syn-Bio-Sys
 * 8) How to make a Sea water drinkable
 * 9) Time dilation and speed being relative
 * 10) Underground depth measuring device

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 19


 * 1) Carbs in Stiegl Radler
 * 2) what field studies maximum world population carrying capacity?
 * 3) Why do humans sometimes classify themselves as animals and sometimes not?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 20


 * 1) Strings At Absolute Zero
 * 2) low boiling point solvents have lower enthalpies of vaporization than water, yet they feel cooler to the touch than water.
 * 3) Carbon based Zeolite
 * 4) CD jitter
 * 5) Natural habitat of birds in the city
 * 6) How much time can a fish survive outside water?

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 21


 * 1) Is it true a lot of people with down syndrome sound German/Russian when they talk?
 * 2) Anti-animal armor ?
 * 3) Lost mathematics and Scientific discoveries
 * 4) Could STIs that are tolerable in one human population be deadly in another?
 * 5) Force of gravity at the center

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 22


 * 1) gravitons
 * 2) Parachute jump
 * 3) N-A=S what these letters stand for?
 * 4) Spanish electric connector
 * 5) Top British medical Schools?

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 23


 * 1) Developmental stage of cells and freezing
 * 2) Why we stop producing lactase as adults?
 * 3) Video and scientific racism
 * 4) Why does powdercoated metal, like the inside walls of a microwave, not spark?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 24


 * 1) "freeform" electromagnetic coils
 * 2) Analogue live TV
 * 3) Considering starting a new project on here
 * 4) Did the universe start with only neutrons?
 * 5) Reverse polarity Schottky diode
 * 6) Why do they make pipes out of lead?
 * 7) Coefficient of friction between nickel and polyethylene

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 25


 * 1) Why do Northeast Megalopolis snowstorm records look like this instead of a northern bias?
 * 2) Stupid physics question (How can we see things more distant than the age of the universe?)
 * 3) Liquid non-Newtonian fluids?
 * 4) Are long underwater submarine cruises harmful to human health?
 * 5) IR laser line generator.
 * 6) Little bugs in uncooked pasta
 * 7) My refs above

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 26


 * 1) Atmosphere of Venus / compressing C5O10N2
 * 2) Research article query
 * 3) Earliest predictions of man on moon in 60s?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 27


 * 1) Can a man's epididymis grow back if *all* of it is removed?
 * 2) U.S. currency subjected to microwaves
 * 3) Are dogs racist?
 * 4) Why don't some species have a common name?
 * 5) Disadvantages of iontophoresis for administering drugs ?
 * 6) Why do humans around the world cover the genitals?
 * 7) Scientific description of Anelasmocephalus hadzii (Martens, 1978)

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 28


 * 1) Acquired resistance to diseases such as Zika virus
 * 2) East Asia and Stroke
 * 3) What if we could eradicate the bad mosquitoes?
 * 4) physiology
 * 5) Mounting with adhesive

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 29


 * 1) Challenger Deep vs. mantle and magma
 * 2) Dateline as applied to historical dates
 * 3) Gas giants and fast winds
 * 4) How do I generate radio waves?
 * 5) Family authoritarianism

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 30


 * 1) Sewing machine oil
 * 2) The odds against us being here
 * 3) Is electricity made up of electromagnetic or mechanical waves?
 * 4) January_2016_East_Asia_cold_wave in Thailand.
 * 5) Volcano

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 31


 * 1) Alkanes
 * 2) KY
 * 3) Cats and dogs
 * 4) Clashing colors.
 * 5) Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Colorectal cancer and Ileus
 * 6) Geodesics near a black hole
 * 7) What is World Health Organization's guidance on the longevity of Bti mosquito abatement strains?
 * 8) AIDS in the middle east
 * 9) LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH MELANCHOLIC DEPRESSION
 * 10) Measuring the universe – Henrietta Leavitt