Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2009

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 1


 * 1) Cyan stays behind
 * 2) Is this genetically possible?
 * 3) What is this thing? Strange life form?
 * 4) about gills the shark has
 * 5) Gravitation and Electromagnetism
 * 6) Gravity chat
 * 7) Question regarding dBm
 * 8) humane meat harvesting
 * 9) Pregnancy in Space
 * 10) Ungrounded alternator
 * 11) Position basis of a wave function
 * 12) What the heck is this?
 * 13) Plain water
 * 14) 'Karl Malden nose'

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 2


 * 1) Acceptability of wave function
 * 2) Solution to biting insects?
 * 3) Who has a "blood-brain barrier"?
 * 4) Ether Physics
 * 5) Second Generation Growth
 * 6) Hydrogen atom
 * 7) quantum mechanics
 * 8) conductivity of electrolites
 * 9) thermodynamics
 * 10) conductance
 * 11) fingers and toes
 * 12) Light speed clarification
 * 13) Solar Panels
 * 14) Green stars?
 * 15) Insect identification

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 3


 * 1) Nose-picking in nonhumans
 * 2) cortisone
 * 3) What sort of math is being used?
 * 4) light propogaton versus particle stability
 * 5) pocket desert
 * 6) What are the strongest and weakest points of gravity on earth?
 * 7) At what speed do galaxies travel through the universe/space?
 * 8) Neoprene wetsuit in chlorinated water
 * 9) Minimum Sample Size for a Correlation Study
 * 10) Blood pressure in cats

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 4


 * 1) what sort of atomic radius is this?
 * 2) The real reason the most shell fish should be kept live until cooking
 * 3) Dumping
 * 4) X-ray background
 * 5) Fungi-related food questions
 * 6) Viewing solar eclipse
 * 7) Physics questions
 * 8) Black or white parasol?
 * 9) Work of objects in inertial motion
 * 10) Need help identifying this... thing
 * 11) What term would describe this
 * 12) Rogue pulsar
 * 13) Is there a term for this psychological phenomenon?:
 * 14) A question of comfort

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 5


 * 1) Vacuum energy
 * 2) Aqua Regia
 * 3) Sauroposeidon
 * 4) TRYING TO FIND AN ARTICLE ON HOW COME DOES IT SNOW
 * 5) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change trends
 * 6) Cheese oxidises or loses water when exposed to air at 4 degrees celcius?
 * 7) biology red blood cells
 * 8) Pain in buttocks and legs
 * 9) Ecological Term
 * 10) lard
 * 11) Bony lumps

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 6


 * 1) Main page "Featured picture" for July 6, 2009
 * 2) Doll's rule in evolutionary biology
 * 3) How does a bicycle puncture repair kit work?
 * 4) Looking for a theory of a memory
 * 5) Cow identification
 * 6) DuPont Co. left out of General Motors history.
 * 7) Rule of thumb
 * 8) Waste disposal
 * 9) Simulate semiconductor
 * 10) Dogs and tyres
 * 11) walking across the USA
 * 12) Plant identification
 * 13) Penis
 * 14) Penis again, sort of
 * 15) Bird Rescue

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 7


 * 1) Swine flu
 * 2) Solar cell from calculator harnessing
 * 3) assessing potential fish stock / resources in a region
 * 4) fish catch effort
 * 5) Coriolis effect
 * 6) Remote iris scans
 * 7) Car solenoid(?) question
 * 8) Why do we have nerves in our teeth?
 * 9) Intraocular Lens
 * 10) Late teens/early twenties
 * 11) Is this a weevil?
 * 12) Car engine clapping
 * 13) adding to an entry for my employer, a state agency
 * 14) Aluminum Garbage cans
 * 15) output per man
 * 16) Florida vs tidal wave
 * 17) Depression and violence
 * 18) Human Body Responses
 * 19) Do cations and anions of a same molecule have different Lewis structures?
 * 20) CO2 and carbon taxation
 * 21) ovarian follicles

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 8


 * 1) Paddy Mouse
 * 2) Do birds have an equivalent to the navel, as seen in mammals?
 * 3) Dislocated knuckles
 * 4) Animal intelligence and attempts to escape captivity
 * 5) Massless patricles in quantum mechanics
 * 6) Black or white aircraft paint?
 * 7) Torque multiplication in a torque converter
 * 8) Does humidity affect hair growth?
 * 9) Glycerine + Ca(OH)2 ?
 * 10) Particles that are their own antiparticles and vice versa
 * 11) plasma
 * 12) Price of agricultural products
 * 13) anchors and tides
 * 14) B vitamins
 * 15) Ctenophores as human food source
 * 16) Relatedness of species / Last common ancestor

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 9


 * 1) Rubbish/Garbage Island
 * 2) What type of tick is this? Is it even a tick?
 * 3) Railroad train wheels
 * 4) Can you legally have hypodermic needles in rochester new york without a perscription?
 * 5) Latex vs polyisoprene condoms
 * 6) Purification of fish oil
 * 7) oscillators and frequency.
 * 8) Calculating time to full battery recharge
 * 9) Can lightning strike an airplane?
 * 10) Preparing for war
 * 11) Dark skin vs. fair skin
 * 12) NH4CL
 * 13) Plasma weapons
 * 14) Barton's pendulums
 * 15) Freeview (UK) - software updates?
 * 16) Milky Way colliding with another galaxy

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 10


 * 1) SAT identification
 * 2) Amytriptyline
 * 3) Coriolis force
 * 4) dino to bird query
 * 5) cauterize instead of suture
 * 6) the clap
 * 7) Ear infection
 * 8) Brain Freeze
 * 9) Zigzag pattern on railway tracks
 * 10) distance between plants
 * 11) Why is the temporal bone classified as irregular?
 * 12) Smoking tea or coffee
 * 13) Evolution of the anus
 * 14) Dirty Question
 * 15) Drafting
 * 16) Dirty Question II
 * 17) Horse

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 11


 * 1) Washboard effect on gravel roads
 * 2) Fire
 * 3) Fire particles
 * 4) Airplane glory shadow
 * 5) can i say so
 * 6) Orbital Capture of Moons
 * 7) H and O in H2O
 * 8) Combined dynamo and starter motor
 * 9) Swine flu versus ordinary flue

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 12


 * 1) What are these structures?
 * 2) Life span of the Voyager Golden Record
 * 3) Pain
 * 4) About time dilation
 * 5) Dumb sheep
 * 6) Trading agro products
 * 7) Why do men and women exist? (evolutionary biology)
 * 8) Plz help me quickly(some science related questions)
 * 9) General all-over soreness and tenderness when ill
 * 10) What mechanisms trigger vasodilation?
 * 11) Abdominal muscles
 * 12) Video... thing to I.D
 * 13) Cartanium?
 * 14) Primate Relatedness
 * 15) Gametogenesis in Hermaphrodites (earthworms)

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 13


 * 1) Tornado Hypothesis
 * 2) INMARSAT segment
 * 3) What do mango pleco's eat?
 * 4) Alcohol and Exertion
 * 5) Einstein equations for scalar field plus gravitation
 * 6) Amount of life on Earth
 * 7) white paint to fight golabal warming plan?
 * 8) Optical Contact Bonding
 * 9) amateur astronomy questions.
 * 10) A spring in space
 * 11) Sky colors on remoter stars

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 14


 * 1) Electonic ab belts/abdominators/whatever they're called...
 * 2) Does anything help unjoin PVC?
 * 3) Possibility of a strabismus drug?
 * 4) distance light travels per cycle
 * 5) Gaviotas sleeve pump
 * 6) What is this plant?
 * 7) Wellness and the Wellness Wheel
 * 8) When is it too cold for Mosquitos?
 * 9) HUAUZONTLE - red or green or both ???
 * 10) Mercury
 * 11) Lack of hunger
 * 12) Jenkem
 * 13) faster then the speed of light?
 * 14) Periodicity of ionization energies?
 * 15) Artists' impressions of planet surfaces
 * 16) Big Bang, how did it happen?
 * 17) Alumina ceramic
 * 18) Backup Heart
 * 19) What are the odds?
 * 20) Solubility of Ionic Compounds
 * 21) The Limit of heat?

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 15


 * 1) Beetle factoid
 * 2) Ultimate Revenge/Punishment - Paralysis with no possibility of communication
 * 3) Staying upright on a bike
 * 4) light beams repel each other?
 * 5) Psychology / Lying Videos
 * 6) torque
 * 7) Jade
 * 8) Water Wheel Power
 * 9) What are pavement cells?
 * 10) Cleaning oil stain from thermal plastic elastomer
 * 11) Computer chassis of sisal?
 * 12) decarboxylation
 * 13) coommon cold
 * 14) question about ticks
 * 15) Calculating the odds
 * 16) What is the danger of using 3-ohm speakers with 4-ohm receiver?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 16


 * 1) The Cancer Genome Atlas
 * 2) Plants listed by oxygen production/toxin removal
 * 3) Parasympatholytica
 * 4) Atmosphere and Gravity
 * 5) Pluto's diameter and why gas giant's moon number keep growing
 * 6) Glycerin free personal lubricants
 * 7) African plate
 * 8) healthy diet and muscle spasms
 * 9) Man on Moon

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 17


 * 1) Some people smell bad. Why?
 * 2) Putting fiber in my fiber
 * 3) Perception of square-wave sounds
 * 4) lcd and tft
 * 5) voltage and charging batteries.
 * 6) Theory vs. law
 * 7) Falling objects
 * 8) kindly help....for spectrophotometer
 * 9) Documenting 2009 solar eclipse
 * 10) gold plated connectors
 * 11) REPORTING
 * 12) A thermometer broke in a hot tub
 * 13) Dry mouth
 * 14) looking for information on a type of water-powered hammer
 * 15) Mercury again
 * 16) ethyl acetate formation by cooking?
 * 17) Acidic bitterness
 * 18) colour of the moon
 * 19) green chlorophyll
 * 20) Cigarettes against tear gas?
 * 21) airspeed indicators
 * 22) Stomach aches and depression

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 18


 * 1) Car incident types
 * 2) Miscarriage question
 * 3) Can all animals store fat?
 * 4) Irreducibility of multivariate polynomials
 * 5) Gravity
 * 6) infertility
 * 7) How far can people shout?
 * 8) Apollo Lunar Rovers
 * 9) How well known was the gravitation of the moon?
 * 10) Cute bug
 * 11) WQ Test

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 19


 * 1) Who was the first man to masturbate in space?
 * 2) Bioavailability of calcium
 * 3) Reflecting light vs color
 * 4) firefly
 * 5) Needles on the skin
 * 6) What's the resolution of our eyes?
 * 7) Long-term storage of water
 * 8) Coal liquefaction economical at how many dollars per barrel?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 20


 * 1) Green things growing in water
 * 2) How much energy remains in the spent nuclear fuel produced yearly from US nuclear reactors?
 * 3) Calorie/Kilocalorie
 * 4) Little greedy bastard
 * 5) Beetles nesting in old disks
 * 6) Fusion of vertebrae with age - painful?
 * 7) Capillarity
 * 8) Temperature X-Treme
 * 9) Influenza A epidemic
 * 10) Breast implant's rejection
 * 11) Explain about Prion Diseases
 * 12) Rabies vaccine
 * 13) Earth's Net Charge
 * 14) North and Suth America

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 21


 * 1) Why don't birds ever get rabies?
 * 2) Is Attachment Resistance Disorder the same as Reactive Attachment Disorder?
 * 3) Flash memory and chargeable devices
 * 4) Two identical piece of tachyon stuff hitting each other
 * 5) Common House Plants
 * 6) Medical/Scientific Term for Non-Aging
 * 7) Gravity dependence
 * 8) What kind of intelligence do mathematics require?
 * 9) Infinite amount of mass in the universe?
 * 10) ART (Active Release Techniques)
 * 11) Does this budgie have a disease?
 * 12) Neomogroside
 * 13) Blind
 * 14) African plate motion

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 22


 * 1) Wikipedia articles on planets have little/no mention of the origins of the names of the planets in other languages
 * 2) Balloon chain for solar power?
 * 3) Flat satellite dish
 * 4) Pervasiveness of popcorn
 * 5) Binary poisons
 * 6) Distribution of total solar eclipes
 * 7) molar mass
 * 8) what is a megafauna?
 * 9) Darwin, evolution, etc...
 * 10) Chemical formula of waterproofing oil used by birds?

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 23


 * 1) Three-part Organic Chemistry Question
 * 2) Eliminating Cat allergens
 * 3) SOLAR ECLIPSE !!!!!
 * 4) BICYCLE BALANCING???
 * 5) Dreams.
 * 6) Braininess..
 * 7) I Q
 * 8) coca-cola as a source of edible phosphoric acid for fischer esterification
 * 9) Boobs and Butts
 * 10) parallel people and universes
 * 11) Healthy Weight
 * 12) How do wireless led devices work?
 * 13) Copenhagen interpretation versus many worlds.

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 24


 * 1) Mercury Biological Effects
 * 2) Intelligence
 * 3) Medicinal use of "Cineraria[e] maritima"
 * 4) Venus
 * 5) what is TDSi engineSaurabhasks (talk) 06:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 6) Mosquito and HIV
 * 7) temps of stellar objects
 * 8) Animals that eat 'meals'
 * 9) Cats purring
 * 10) Electric Shock
 * 11) How dehydrated was I?
 * 12) angular momentum to momentum
 * 13) medicine
 * 14) Wavelength versus radius
 * 15) DC vs AC
 * 16) Do electromagnetic waves have any width?
 * 17) Engines in Space
 * 18) Eiffel Tower sticks to the Moon !!!!!!!!!!
 * 19) E=mc2
 * 20) Impacts into Jupiter
 * 21) wave versus particle

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 25


 * 1) Could a gull lift a cat in its beak?
 * 2) HIV cure
 * 3) wavelength distribution
 * 4) purpose of neutral wire in household supply
 * 5) Man With 'Two Brains'
 * 6) Viruses - what's the point?
 * 7) David Merrell's mouse experiments
 * 8) rabbits and Hopping mouse
 * 9) Maximum sustainable population
 * 10) Substance Dependence
 * 11) Mysterious carpark bumps
 * 12) What happened to the US space VLBI program?
 * 13) Why do buildings have foundations?
 * 14) example of easy irrational problem?
 * 15) Which cow breed is this Swiss cow?

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 26


 * 1) Cat bird owl?
 * 2) Light energy
 * 3) Is it common to imagine that puffins are bigger than they are?
 * 4) Name of tree?
 * 5) Black Box
 * 6) Relative velocity
 * 7) Heart transplant: nerve connections
 * 8) Elevator logic control

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 27


 * 1) Chesty Coughs
 * 2) Common mistake
 * 3) Knee surgery procedure
 * 4) Automotive suspension
 * 5) Powering a guitar amplifier outside (in DRY conditions, of course)
 * 6) XTraordinary stuff !!!
 * 7) Resources for cultivated plant identification?
 * 8) which vein is involved in echymosis over mastoid process in battles sign
 * 9) Butterfly effect - Changing the evolution of species with time travel
 * 10) What are these creatures/objects?
 * 11) day and night on gas giants
 * 12) Shotgun backfiring

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 28


 * 1) gaps
 * 2) What pH ranges denature melanin?
 * 3) Super fast raster scan
 * 4) Chlorine
 * 5) Unsolved problems in astronomy
 * 6) code for jpg please..
 * 7) When maths go horribly wrong
 * 8) Vibrating parts of the body
 * 9) killed while having sex
 * 10) How much does a ton of carbon cost at the Chicago Exchange?
 * 11) Gears
 * 12) What is it called when a swallowing attempts to pull down your own throat?
 * 13) Hot air
 * 14) Chains and Pulleys
 * 15) Birds vs. Insects
 * 16) apparent size of celestial body?

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 29


 * 1) Is this true or made-up? Thanks.
 * 2) Hypothetical math!  Volume of water required for "the Great Flood" in Genesis?
 * 3) Oblation
 * 4) Conservation of energy
 * 5) Trees showing the undersides of their leaves before a summer storm
 * 6) Chlorhexidine
 * 7) Charging an 18V battery for a drill
 * 8) Calcium Chloride in Damprid?
 * 9) Bunsen Burners and Gas stoves
 * 10) Volume to pressure ratio?
 * 11) Damps in coal mines
 * 12) Flufenamic acid
 * 13) Dragons of Eden updates
 * 14) Eurasian plate
 * 15) Help idenfying the following yard plants
 * 16) Drugs to make me smart

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 30


 * 1) New word phenomenon?
 * 2) Spider identification
 * 3) Mortality rate relating to refusing blood and/or medical procedure on religious grounds?
 * 4) Did human muscles mutate to become weaker than those of apes and other animals?
 * 5) Eating packing peanuts
 * 6) Are there really 32 AA batteries hidden inside a 6V lantern battery?
 * 7) Waking up on falling
 * 8) Global stress meter
 * 9) Perpetual motion from electrolysis of water under high pressure?
 * 10) Casimir effect-flotation in a vacuum?
 * 11)  ammonium stearate??? Ammonium distrate
 * 12) "Phase shifts" in brain and IQ
 * 13) Saddle joints
 * 14) Practical problem - something light and compact to stand on
 * 15) For a women to lose weight after pregnancy
 * 16) homemade radiation treatment of food without cooking

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 31


 * 1) Grated Puffin
 * 2) Two heat transfer questions
 * 3) Retain Martian water using deuterium!!??
 * 4) Do artificial sweeteners taste like sugar to non-human species?
 * 5) how are scientists able to see something that is billions of light years away
 * 6) Did the Apollo lunar missions have a contingency plan for damaged space suit during EVA?
 * 7) Name of body groove?
 * 8) Why do attractive parents have more daughters?
 * 9) Water for both nuclear coolant and hot coffee?
 * 10) A course of drugs that can be taken before conception to reduce the risk of fetal abnormalities?
 * 11) Identification of an NZ tree
 * 12) Not hungry in the morning
 * 13) DST Boston Mass 1964
 * 14) neurons
 * 15) Vaccines
 * 16) F-104 engine
 * 17) What proportion of people with flu have swine flu?
 * 18) great-grandfather