Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2012

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 1


 * 1) PC to PC communication using laser torch
 * 2) wiggly line in molecule diagram
 * 3) question about foreskin retraction
 * 4) Does the Abyssinian Highland Zebu exist?
 * 5) probablity of ejection in the photoelectric effect
 * 6) about universe
 * 7) No Drinking on Dialysis
 * 8) What level of weight loss causes stretch marks?
 * 9) Solar electrolysis

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 2


 * 1) strange respirator
 * 2) Can you survive without drinking fluids?
 * 3) Suppositories - and the people who eat them
 * 4) Turkey Turquoise
 * 5) Restricted FTL Without Causality Violation?
 * 6) Making a primitive bathtub
 * 7) Local robot SETI
 * 8) Energy in a mass of fluid
 * 9) Please help me
 * 10) Why isn't solid combustion a popular topic?
 * 11) Genes coding for brain stuff
 * 12) Salt water fuel

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 3


 * 1) Succulent plant ID and advice please
 * 2) Why fungi was differ of green plant?
 * 3) ID Please (Cixiidae)
 * 4) Does swimming make you lose muscle mass?
 * 5) addmision

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 4


 * 1) Pollination
 * 2) Artificial Insemination for "Lonesome George"?
 * 3) Higgs boson
 * 4) apricots
 * 5) Mixing old and new batteries
 * 6) Independant existance of protons and neutrons in the nucleus
 * 7) Quantum field theory
 * 8) Higgs implications and hydrogen radii maximum (was: Hi! two completely unrelated questions)
 * 9) Mosquitoes
 * 10) Glue and Plant Tissue

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 5


 * 1) Why do humans seem to prefer drinks at extremes of temperature?
 * 2) evidence for evolution, as opposed to adaptation.
 * 3) Heat Transfer
 * 4) 2012 summer weather
 * 5) Anal flu
 * 6) Higgs field
 * 7) Waste heat differential recycling in air conditioning
 * 8) Kayaking and physics
 * 9) LHC energy compared to mosquito
 * 10) What sort of eye color is considered black?
 * 11) Academic sources for nutrition

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 6


 * 1) Angiosperms
 * 2) I need to know
 * 3) Extreme weather damage
 * 4) Calcium-48
 * 5) Detonator ?
 * 6) Why do consumer electronics use DC?

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 7


 * 1) Genetic variation between humans
 * 2) Sweet Potatoe vs kumara
 * 3) large hadron collider
 * 4) Large Hadron Collider (Part 2)
 * 5) Gas phase 3rd order reaction rates for various M
 * 6) Law of cause and effect
 * 7) stupid and speculative optical media question
 * 8) Whitewashing coal

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 8


 * 1) On Growth and Form
 * 2) Electrides of elements with Z>173
 * 3) Brain dead pregnant woman
 * 4) about wireless electricity transmission
 * 5) How to change the way the jet stream flows
 * 6) How (in terms of physical motions and mechanics) does a slug foot walk?
 * 7) When was this ice age?

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 9


 * 1) EQUATION HELP;;;
 * 2) Silicone dioxide in vitamins for hair
 * 3) Why can't the extra dimensions of M-theory be temporal?
 * 4) environmental science
 * 5) Newton's atoms in my body
 * 6) environmental science
 * 7) the white whale
 * 8) Terrell rotation matrix
 * 9) Higgs boson
 * 10) Habitatable zone at the tip of RGB
 * 11) Product of animal menstruation?

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 10


 * 1) What is an extended structure?
 * 2) How do ants detect rain long before it arrives?
 * 3) How can air conditioning units be measured in BTUs?
 * 4) HIV transmission by insect
 * 5) Evolution of the four fundamental forces
 * 6) Infant eye glasses
 * 7) What's the street value of testogel?
 * 8) Domestic wiring
 * 9) Why wasn't there fusion in the early evolution of the universe?
 * 10) Electromotive force in an unclosed circuit
 * 11) What causes a material to reflect light and why does light travel slower through matter than vacuum?
 * 12) Mysterious behavior of high-speed projectiles

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 11


 * 1) Dangerous Good Classification
 * 2) Bell / clapper
 * 3) Ant evolution question
 * 4) Air Conditioning
 * 5) Neutralize soap?
 * 6) Why are commercial aircraft round?
 * 7) Size of Earth's orbit last 2000 years
 * 8) Airliner cabin air

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 12


 * 1) derivation of the kintetic theory equation
 * 2) Oughterlony immunodiffusion
 * 3) looking for a chart
 * 4) Lasers
 * 5) Timeline for noticeable adverse effects from 100% recirculated commercial airline cabin air
 * 6) Middle Eastern climate
 * 7) why are IAU constellations biased towards the West?
 * 8) Dark Energy as the Quantum Error Correcting Code of the Universe

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 13


 * 1) Gravitational potential energy
 * 2) term meaning
 * 3) Testing for an Alzheimer's gene
 * 4) Does gravity remove space?
 * 5) MTT assay in vivo
 * 6) mole as a fundamental SI unit
 * 7) The usefulness of knowledge of Higgs Boson etc.
 * 8) Deflecting photons with electricity or magnetism
 * 9) Order of treatment in cancer

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 14


 * 1) Cognitive biases and predictions of the end of Moore's Law
 * 2) Can Cannabis grow in the Colorado high country?
 * 3) Question about Big Bang theory.
 * 4) Blood test after getting infected by HIV....
 * 5) Do Sounds Played at the Same Time Add?
 * 6) Black Holes and Dark Energy/Matter
 * 7) Polyvinyl fluoride and PubChem name. A little confusion.
 * 8) Genetic difference between Africans
 * 9) Name for numbers in chemical notation?
 * 10) Making graphite out of wood
 * 11) Do algae like or even need darkness once in a while?
 * 12) What color skin did the earliest humans have?

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 15


 * 1) CIELAB color coordinates
 * 2) Blood agents
 * 3) Yet another Higgs question
 * 4) Preserving body part for future genetic sequencing
 * 5) Sticky robots
 * 6) Lightning captured in nuclear explosion photograph
 * 7) Name the Lamp - please!
 * 8) Strength training
 * 9) Alcohol absorbition from mouthwash
 * 10) Is aging slowing as life expectancy increases?
 * 11) Chimmney-like thing in boats
 * 12) How long does it take for wind turbines to pay for themselves?
 * 13) Hydrogen critique?
 * 14) Science disciplines
 * 15) Mathematical Formulation of the Standard Model

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 16


 * 1) How long can you thrive/survive on water and calories?
 * 2) Is it unhealthy to smoke tea?
 * 3) Experience of submariners ascending from USS Tang?
 * 4) hot and sneezy
 * 5) Horticulture question
 * 6) 3-pole magnetic field
 * 7) Preserving sugar
 * 8) Shock wave faster than the speed of sound?
 * 9) A secondary question (on shock waves)
 * 10) organic chemistry
 * 11) Is there a "how long you've been asleep"/awake calculator?
 * 12) Could they DNA test athletes and their pee so they don't try to cheat by giving other peoples' urine?

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 17


 * 1) First law of Thermodynamics
 * 2) Damselfly identification
 * 3) Please check my maths
 * 4) What flower is this? (Seen in Chihuly Garden)
 * 5) Satellites
 * 6) quaternary ammonium compounds
 * 7) Is there a list of yeasts that infect Humans?

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 18


 * 1) were the apollo missions classified
 * 2) Pluto / Charon satellites
 * 3) Creationist time line refuted by Neandertal DNA
 * 4) airlifting a diver to hospital
 * 5) Circles, flares around sun in photography.
 * 6) Camera on a timer in 1850?
 * 7) Noise reduction
 * 8) Meowing bird sound in western Montana
 * 9) Radio comedy live audience
 * 10) London Weather

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 19


 * 1) Image artifact of purplish and greenish/yellowish stripes
 * 2) To what extent are astronomical observations automated ?
 * 3) Gluconeogenesis image review
 * 4) Galactic wind-up problem
 * 5) Li-ion current price per kWh
 * 6) energy drink
 * 7) Earth and Jupiter
 * 8) Cell Signalling in Development
 * 9) Equivalent Animal Processing Power of Modern Computers
 * 10) Energy requirements for reverse osmosis
 * 11) Neurodynamics of biomusicology
 * 12) Medical Term

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 20


 * 1) Do different languages have different IUPAC names?
 * 2) Freezing a liquid evaporating a part of it
 * 3) What would happen if a whale hit a deepwater petroleum pipe?
 * 4) Thermoelectric materials
 * 5) What components of cigarettes keep weight down ?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 21


 * 1) Is is possible to be a sociopath in a narrow area?
 * 2) Effect of Electric or magnetic fields on crystallization
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 21#How_is_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.youtube.com.2Fwatch.3Fv.3D1GCf29FPM4k_this.5D_.28the_Poincaré_recurrence_theorem.29_consistent_with_the_second_law_of_thermodynamics.3F|How is this (the Poincaré recurrence theorem) consistent with the second law of thermodynamics?]]
 * 4) Homo Erectus (et al) Extinction?
 * 5) Does this physicist literally want to go back in time to save his dad?
 * 6) How is steam weighed?
 * 7) missing sub-topic under either Buprenorphine or Substance Abuse on "Methods of detxiing off of Long Term Buprenophine Maintenance"
 * 8) Micro-stuttering and perceived frame rate
 * 9) Will-o'-the-wisp
 * 10) Has the Altair spacecraft been cancelled?
 * 11) Gold and non-gold pendants together?
 * 12) Production of chemical fertilisers

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 22


 * 1) Short-term memory fading
 * 2) 3rd order gas phase reactions - pressure limit
 * 3) Effective power of a satellite dish turned into a solar cooker
 * 4) Water
 * 5) Confusion on proportional sign
 * 6) Why has this kid got fecal matter in his or her armpit?
 * 7) Working of rockets
 * 8) What do butterflies eat?
 * 9) Objectum sexuality and orgasms without physical stimulation
 * 10) heat wave
 * 11) Added reference DOI not linking and same reference showing multiple times.

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 23


 * 1) Can our scientific knowledge be understood any other way than it is?
 * 2) Pseudo-freezer
 * 3) Passive smoking locked
 * 4) Will science come to an end?
 * 5) Sulfonamide antibiotics
 * 6) How does the seat push when a pilot ejects?
 * 7) a puzzling biophysical relationship
 * 8) SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHROMATOSUS
 * 9) LHS and RHS differentiation
 * 10) Value of second square
 * 11) Body hairs
 * 12) "Musical orgasm"
 * 13) Why California Highway 57 south extension were never built
 * 14) Determining gender of peachfaced lovebird using a pendulum?

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 24


 * 1) volcanos
 * 2) latex usage statistics
 * 3) Ansul Fire Suppression Systems
 * 4) Specific heat capacity
 * 5) Is there a correlation between incidence of type 1 diabetes and vitiligo?
 * 6) Blood filter
 * 7) How many quantum fields are there?
 * 8) Why don't constellations move?
 * 9) Urban OS
 * 10) Why can milk splatter so high?
 * 11) Mallorca sea levels 1 m higher 81,000 years ago than today?
 * 12) Carbon balance

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 25


 * 1) Angle of Vega in Summer Triangle over time.
 * 2) Transition hydrides
 * 3) Synthesizing HeO using alpha decay
 * 4) Cryonics and its Viability
 * 5) Melted cheese
 * 6) H1 antagonist and sleepiness
 * 7) Hell's Kitchen taste taste
 * 8) hunter education program
 * 9) How does curvature correlate to velocity in a random walk (Brownian motion) ?
 * 10) Converting a density into Daltons/A^2
 * 11) On Superman breaking and entering
 * 12) Location of Big Bang
 * 13) Camel humps and dehydration
 * 14) Sexual peak
 * 15) Efficiency of Solar Water Heaters

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 26


 * 1) Entropy decrease in disorder
 * 2) Who is the Oldest Living African-American Man Right Now?
 * 3) Were Any Verified Male Supercentenarians Jewish?
 * 4) cell
 * 5) Hyperdimensional Three-Jet Events
 * 6) Superbig Bang Theory ?
 * 7) Another question
 * 8) Why has Pluto a different orbit?
 * 9) Is shooting star is faster than a comet?
 * 10) using dialysis in cooking
 * 11) hunting in county parks
 * 12) Foul smell from mouth

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 27


 * 1) Synthesis of ZnS
 * 2) Sun
 * 3) Follow up.     Can our scientific knowledge be understood any other way than it is?  2
 * 4) Spider identification needed
 * 5) Latent heat
 * 6) Calculate properties of chemical compounds given the properties of chemical elements
 * 7) Rectifier
 * 8) Camel urination and defecation
 * 9) Densest substance at standard conditions?

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 28


 * 1) Cloning
 * 2) Psychology and historical context
 * 3) Most important genes of life
 * 4) Wireless energy
 * 5) What would it be like to walk on Gliese 581g?
 * 6) Physics of  mace (club)-like weapons
 * 7) Levelling

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 29


 * 1) Need a flat metal surface for heat sinking - suggest melting aluminium or solder?
 * 2) Does atrioventricular block benefit the heart of athletes?
 * 3) Origin of HIV/AIDS
 * 4) Argon fluorohydride
 * 5) Radon
 * 6) Locking car doors to prevent being thrown out
 * 7) Kinky tails on asian cats
 * 8) my daughter has apha thalassemia
 * 9) Collimated electromagnetic field
 * 10) de-colorized iodine
 * 11) What is exceptional about the human body ?
 * 12) Melted cheese, part 2

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 30


 * 1) Explain how ducks & chickens stay alive without their heads.
 * 2) Names of a couple of extremely hazardous chemicals
 * 3) Sustainable athletics
 * 4) Rough food
 * 5) Energy density of springs and the like
 * 6) Human interaction
 * 7) 7 billion pieces of paper
 * 8) Foraging worker ant behavior

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 31


 * 1) Very specific spider question
 * 2) What Do Women and Gay Men Find Attractive in Men?
 * 3) Does Occam's Razor Make the Existence of Gods Unlikely?
 * 4) Why would the heat shield fly forward and not go back into the parachute?
 * 5) How much space and time is required to compute a simple weather model?
 * 6) Should I trust these kinds of websites?