Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2008

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 1


 * 1) Adultration
 * 2) Unmanned Aircraft
 * 3) Freezing Cheese:  Good or Bad
 * 4) QAM query
 * 5) statistics
 * 6) Help with electronics
 * 7) Additional Help with Electronics
 * 8) Figure of the Earth image
 * 9) Space program benefits
 * 10) physics
 * 11) Endorphin as drug
 * 12) Insulators for copper wiring

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 2


 * 1) Infantry vs. tank
 * 2) Evolution - Woman as Well?
 * 3) What is the process of decompossition of the human body?
 * 4) Cavity in a Unifomly charged solid sphere..
 * 5) Can I get fully solved IIT-JEE question papers in Physics (mechanics only) of past 10-20 years?
 * 6) What defines a yeast?
 * 7) How fast does the "wind" go when we blow on something?
 * 8) Tree identification
 * 9) Crude oil estimates
 * 10) Drafting
 * 11) Biting fly
 * 12) Why are Galaxies disc shaped?

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 3


 * 1) House water pressure from flow rate?
 * 2) Tell diffrence
 * 3) Skin color of ancient Egyptians
 * 4) hypoglycemia vs hypertriglycerides
 * 5) Why don't spaceships turn into blackholes
 * 6) Wheat allergies
 * 7) botanical name
 * 8) Species with long luteal phase
 * 9) Material acting like Maxwell's demon?
 * 10) Shooting down the barrel of a tank
 * 11) Strange skull
 * 12) basic difference between stroke and depression?
 * 13) Gnat ID

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 4


 * 1) Trivalve moluscs
 * 2) Is tungsten ferromagnetic?
 * 3) where do herring gulls and black back gulls sleep at night?
 * 4) Battery-powered microphone amplifier
 * 5) Termite control in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
 * 6) Overlapping tidal radii
 * 7) convert -
 * 8) Simple mechanics.
 * 9) Bounce
 * 10) Relativity and communication speed

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 5


 * 1) Houdini exhumation
 * 2) Future Indian Ocean Earthquake
 * 3) Antarcticine
 * 4) Metrication in Greece
 * 5) Spin
 * 6) Quantum numbers
 * 7) Can crouching, breathing deeply, rising quickly lead to fainting?
 * 8) electromagnetic force uses photons as a mediator
 * 9) Why do s-orbitals always take part in hybridistion?
 * 10) Platypus evolution
 * 11) The LHC and the end of the world
 * 12) What the hell is going on here!?

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 6


 * 1) Colorado 14ers
 * 2) Trans Ischemic Attack - same symptoms as stroke in sever cases?
 * 3) brilliant blue fcf
 * 4) Unexplained Magnetic Phenomenon - Childhood question
 * 5) Evolution of Evolution
 * 6) Unleaded fuel
 * 7) Courage
 * 8) Life in free-fall
 * 9) Iron lattice
 * 10) Flashes from Zen Vision W
 * 11) Citing
 * 12) Breeding spiders

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 7


 * 1) what kind of snake?
 * 2) What percent of heart attacks go undetected each year?
 * 3) Similiar heartbeats
 * 4) Can vets tell what Animal species
 * 5) Hertz.
 * 6) chemitry
 * 7) Need Help Identifying Scary and Fast Bug.
 * 8) "Universe in My Thumb"
 * 9) How could this be?
 * 10) sunrise and sunset
 * 11) Hertz.
 * 12) menigocele
 * 13) About Hedgehogs
 * 14) orgasms
 * 15) If poisoning occurs (with depilatory wax)
 * 16) Color and Smell changes, Why?
 * 17) Measuring Power
 * 18) Pet Budgerigars and mirrors
 * 19) Airplane engines "opening" up
 * 20) Strips of metal hanging in unfinished buildings
 * 21) Organic chemistry reaction

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 8


 * 1) Saving electricity by unplugging apliances?
 * 2) Survival versus reproduction
 * 3) Space Time
 * 4) science
 * 5) ibs
 * 6) Brain communication and handedness
 * 7) bond energy
 * 8) holes in chest
 * 9) How to determine the right direction of an insert in a plasmid?
 * 10) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 8
 * 11) Talk:Composition of the human body

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 9


 * 1) Just thinking
 * 2) my BG sound
 * 3) Megabats as “flying primates”?
 * 4) Lice
 * 5) Lice 2
 * 6) Mortice Locks
 * 7) Minnesota Skid
 * 8) Black people, poison ivy, lice
 * 9) primates
 * 10) Engine slows you down?
 * 11) Muscles
 * 12) some naive hypothesis at odds with basis of physic- what wrong with them ?
 * 13) Self-replication in open thermodynamics??
 * 14) Why does the temperature decrease with increasing altitude?
 * 15) "cynical but open minded" etc
 * 16) Formula to determine water flow rates and temperatures to maintain tank temperature.
 * 17) Name of hard cardboard-like stuff
 * 18) Perfluorocarbon
 * 19) Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his glasses.
 * 20) Penises
 * 21) I'm really looking for an answer other than "carefully" here...
 * 22) Mindtrap

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 10


 * 1) PMS citation needed
 * 2) High Frequency Electric Signal Over a Buffered Solution
 * 3) Do trees ever grow up ?
 * 4) Ammonium methanide
 * 5) Decibel question
 * 6) GAS TO ELECTRIC POWER
 * 7) pharmacy education in europe
 * 8) Exercise
 * 9) African Americans and Sickle Cell Anemia
 * 10) Non-steam coal engine technology?
 * 11) Static build up on my cable modem?
 * 12) inequalities for one-dimensional Schroedinger equation (moved from Math desk)
 * 13) Process Engineering
 * 14) some naive hypothesis at odds with basis of  physic- what wrong with them   ?
 * 15) Clawed Lobster Population
 * 16) quantum mechanics, laplacian
 * 17) Oil from plant cuttings and wood chips
 * 18) Two questions about calorie use
 * 19) Closed Timelike Curve question

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 11


 * 1) Can I feed Rich tea and other hard biscuits to the larids?
 * 2) Auditioning loudspeakers - is it a con?
 * 3) I have no interest in physics and math
 * 4) Antimatter into Matter
 * 5) I haerd rumors about this? In 2012, the Earth will be gone?
 * 6) Hooke's Law
 * 7) Infra red lamps
 * 8) Losing a finger
 * 9) Myth: darkest night
 * 10) Oxidation of potatoes
 * 11) ELECTRIC CURRENT
 * 12) growing potatoes.
 * 13) Systems engineering

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 12


 * 1) bee-wasp from Rockton, Illinois
 * 2) dopamine meaning in evolvement history
 * 3) chronic eye infection
 * 4) Mechanism of phase boundary catalysis with 18-crown-6
 * 5) Is this an ant?
 * 6) Tyre pressure
 * 7) ohm resistance
 * 8) telescope
 * 9) habits of cobras of Thailand
 * 10) Miacis
 * 11) Shaolin Monks
 * 12) BDA
 * 13) fractionating column

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 13


 * 1) The other week someone said that the African grey parrot was probably the most intelligent dinosaur ever
 * 2) Danger of downed wires during a flood
 * 3) My potato question
 * 4) question about baseballs and wind resistance
 * 5) Atoms
 * 6) High temperature changes on the human body
 * 7) Two-liter bottle (PET) adhesive
 * 8) Body weight
 * 9) negative effects of cooking gas
 * 10) Blood types: who is my father
 * 11) Conductive napalm? Railgun + conductive flammable liquid = long range flamethrower?
 * 12) Ultraviolet light

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 14


 * 1) colostrum
 * 2) Bond Energy & EN
 * 3) economics
 * 4) Gyroscopic Precession
 * 5) Question about contantness of physical laws
 * 6) bones transformation
 * 7) 50 - 75 - 83 - 91 - 96 - 98 - 99% - clone
 * 8) Fetus blood type

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 15


 * 1) Is it safe to mix isopropyl alcohol and ammonia?
 * 2) Hemispheres
 * 3) Eye sight & Dental Infections/dental procedures
 * 4) Can anyone help out the Natural History Museum
 * 5) Sugar in a gas tank
 * 6) history question
 * 7) Can one person create the sound of a barber-shop quartet?
 * 8) Running vs Walking
 * 9) about "some naive hypothesis at odds with basis of physik "
 * 10) Why don't leaves form a thin layer like a bag over  a tree?
 * 11) wearing glasses

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 16


 * 1) astronomy
 * 2) More odd bird behaviour on YouTube...
 * 3) Size of the Internet
 * 4) JITENDRA ARYA QUESTION ABOUT DISEASE
 * 5) An inter-fabric-of-cosmos-wormhole/grayhole
 * 6) Energy Drinks (E.g. Lucozade)
 * 7) The discrete movements of chickens
 * 8) Calibration
 * 9) Unknown plant
 * 10) astrophysics
 * 11) are these people crazy??
 * 12) is there a distance where eye focus and binocular effect disappears?

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 17


 * 1) Question regarding chemical hybridization
 * 2) Can a kangaroo outbox a human boxer?
 * 3) Concentration of biotin in egg yolk.
 * 4) litmus
 * 5) Dream length
 * 6) Chicxulub & the Deccan Traps: Antipodal Connection?
 * 7) Funny feeling in your forehead
 * 8) Why would a dark brown haired man find about 4 red beard hairs?
 * 9) Zebra foals
 * 10) Free articles
 * 11) Beer head
 * 12) What is the coal-fired power plant with the highest capacity?
 * 13) Electromagnetic hover thingy
 * 14) Webless spider
 * 15) Research in statistics

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 18


 * 1) Over-the-counter diet pills/supplements
 * 2) Carbon dioxide benefit
 * 3) first human lunar mission
 * 4) Carbon dioxide risk
 * 5) Blood supply
 * 6) How is body mass index really defined?
 * 7) A Possible Method for Tachyon Formation and A Possible Method for Superluminal information transfer
 * 8) hypopthetical global warming
 * 9) Peruvian tropical cyclones and the Humboldt current?
 * 10) CP-violation and the shape of the universe
 * 11) Zipcodezoo
 * 12) Disadvantages of coilguns and railguns

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 19


 * 1) Obesity
 * 2) AIDS Cure Deadline?
 * 3) Alcohol dimer formation
 * 4) Aspartame lead to drowsiness?
 * 5) Dominant trait = better trait?
 * 6) Ultimate fate of the universe/black holes
 * 7) Establishing a space colony
 * 8) This chemistry is impossible
 * 9) Effects of a Small Ice Age on Hay Fever Sufferers

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 20


 * 1) Sildenafyl Citrate
 * 2) gas flaring
 * 3) Universe Expansion
 * 4) Salt in medicine
 * 5) Olive oil in medicine
 * 6) Disadvantages of cholesterol drugs
 * 7) asteroid - earth impact
 * 8) Midget sub in Birkenhead
 * 9) Can someone help me in my own noble pursuit of all the world's (scientific) knowledge?
 * 10) How does the odor of rotten food make us gag?
 * 11) Blowing up nuclear powered vehicles
 * 12) Seagull dawn chorus of squawks

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 21


 * 1) Iron magnet
 * 2) Microwave oven
 * 3) Wind vortex experiment
 * 4) Skin Bleaching
 * 5) Shallow seas
 * 6) Stability of bikes with different wheel-sizes
 * 7) POPCORN EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUALS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES, INSULIN DEPENDENT?
 * 8) Fan blades and turbine blades
 * 9) Recycling, is it a stupid thing to do?
 * 10) Sugar water wine
 * 11) Another question about wind farms
 * 12) Charcoal

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 22


 * 1) vapour adsorption refrigeration system
 * 2) The brightest question on the science desk!
 * 3) So, how did a butterfly end up being named 'Common Gull'?
 * 4) Do We Reduced Brain Power (Energy Save Mode like a laptop)
 * 5) Boiling Water at a different tempreture to its boiling point.
 * 6) Named storm in Atlantic crossing over into Pacific
 * 7) Aphasia only when alone? Or just refusing to talk to oneself?
 * 8) Rodent identification
 * 9) Heat and tiredness

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 23


 * 1) Theory of subspace model
 * 2) hamburger
 * 3) science
 * 4) repetitive behavior
 * 5) Methotrexate in use for RA
 * 6) mostly water
 * 7) biochar
 * 8) Temperature scales
 * 9) physiology of respiratory system
 * 10) Water turns cloudy after boiling
 * 11) Salmons - polyphyletic or paraphyletic?
 * 12) Nuclear Physics
 * 13) is cortisone synthetic cortisol?

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 24


 * 1) Arctic flora?
 * 2) Sunglasses
 * 3) Nano water
 * 4) Can hydrogen peroxide destroy a man?
 * 5) Helicopter: blades vs. turbine
 * 6) Several dozen at least ?
 * 7) Seeing colours where there are none
 * 8) Quasers
 * 9) Building projects
 * 10) Pre Bigbang Theory
 * 11) Apothecary symbols
 * 12) Is there any drug that does this?

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 25


 * 1) Evolution of dogs
 * 2) The mechanics of graden furniture (AKA "garden furniture")
 * 3) High Fructose corn syrup
 * 4) Antimatter and matter
 * 5) Sign of the wavefunction
 * 6) Neonatal Circumcision as a preventative measure against HIV...
 * 7) Catalyst?
 * 8) Collisional quenching rate constants for some excited states of N2 and N2+ in helium
 * 9) Insect Survival
 * 10) Shark vs. Crocodile. Who is stronger?
 * 11) Electronic interference on airplanes
 * 12) EMP against guns
 * 13) Why do some birds have long tails?

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 26


 * 1) Brain development
 * 2) Treated or untreated lumber?
 * 3) Anti-Light
 * 4) A question on civilization and cooling
 * 5) Rashes from insect bites
 * 6) Getting Punched in the Stomach And Its Effects On The Digestive System
 * 7) biology
 * 8) bacteria longevity
 * 9) Antlions and Rain
 * 10) What is this plant?
 * 11) black hole theories

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 27


 * 1) Where is you stomach?
 * 2) Polycarbonate against glass causes oily looking adhesions
 * 3) The insecure narcissist?
 * 4) g-force
 * 5) Removal of spleen, lymphnode and thymus
 * 6) "the button"
 * 7) Is Purell safe to drink?
 * 8) Suicide thoughts sympton or illness
 * 9) Foam on the beach
 * 10) Collection of gas over water
 * 11) Information!
 * 12) New surgical procedure
 * 13) Quality of medical reliable sources

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 28


 * 1) Is there a combination of foods that can explode in a peron's stomache?
 * 2) A confusing post
 * 3) Dolmen construction
 * 4) which kidney works first?
 * 5) Refridgerators
 * 6) Energy efficiency of a human compared to a robot
 * 7) Common cold and sense of smell
 * 8) Panadol and fever
 * 9) How to answer this child's question
 * 10) Respiration
 * 11) I just saw a bat!
 * 12) Why do black things radiate more?
 * 13) question about Uniform circular motion

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 30

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 29


 * 1) What was the last species to become extinct?
 * 2) Organ Donation
 * 3) Feasibility of a vapor and vacuum-based engine?
 * 4) Teeth during pregnancy
 * 5) Nature paper
 * 6) Organic chem
 * 7) igneous rocks
 * 8) do we explode in outer space?
 * 9) fast room cooling solution
 * 10) Tallest mountain in Earth's history?
 * 11) So I'm driving in my car
 * 12) Missed or irregular heart beats

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 30


 * 1) Redefining the metre
 * 2) Diamagnetic materials
 * 3) Grizzly bear
 * 4) Faraday vs. Lenz
 * 5) Fleas on Horses or Cows
 * 6) Ocean smell
 * 7) PLZ GIVE ME THE FORMULAE
 * 8) Does the photon exist?
 * 9) rember?
 * 10) The abbreviations "T.C." and "T.C.D." on a plot plan
 * 11) The shortest research paper abstract
 * 12) Cat behavior
 * 13) Maximum size of a star
 * 14) The Development of Oxygen
 * 15) Rubber band plane.

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 31


 * 1) Touch pads
 * 2) Odor spectrum
 * 3) Name of measure of time
 * 4) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 July 31
 * 5) Capillary waves on a lake
 * 6) Optical illusion, disappearing image
 * 7) semiconductors
 * 8) Bug I.D. of the day
 * 9) Tree I.D. of the day
 * 10) Logical calculation
 * 11) unidentified bird
 * 12) mega-tsunami dynamics
 * 13) Quad-core processors