Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2017

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 1


 * 1) Hydrogen versus acetylene as illuminating gas
 * 2) Is polynosic rayon particularly sensitive to chlorine bleach ?

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 2


 * 1) Odds of AIDA mission ending humanity?
 * 2) Mechanical clearance of the nasal passage
 * 3) Chemistry questions.
 * 4) Drugs
 * 5) Can a carbon triangle molecule exist, at least for a short time?
 * 6) Can dogs control their appetites?
 * 7) How can dogs eat white rice?

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 3


 * 1) How are microbial toxins broken down?
 * 2) Social norms and Asperger's
 * 3) BJT voltage divider bias
 * 4) Thorns on opium poppy engineered or natural?
 * 5) Big cylinder in the gravity well of a black hole
 * 6) Recent weather trend
 * 7) Death dreams (an experience of the dying brain not a normal dream about death)
 * 8) Do elephants get boogers in their trunks?
 * 9) Pressure on the ground, speed of vehicle

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 4


 * 1) Is this still co-evolution?
 * 2) Dating and job hunting parallels
 * 3) Eating Fish
 * 4) What is this crop?
 * 5) Tube trains and onrush of air
 * 6) Number of breasts/litter size
 * 7) Gorilla warfare
 * 8) The first humans
 * 9) Emergency room presentations of anxiety

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 5


 * 1) Early sunsets
 * 2) Is ethanol the same as 95% grain spirit?
 * 3) Origin of 4160 volts
 * 4) Pledge of Allegiance

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 6


 * 1) Do astronauts have to follow any laws?
 * 2) IQ tests (real, not Internet)
 * 3) What happens at the atomic level when two objects touch each other ?
 * 4) Brown Pelican
 * 5) Pseudoscience?

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 7


 * 1) Meaning of "angles of the jaw" (and a source if possible)
 * 2) Exercise
 * 3) Modern torpedoes aren't design to hit a ship?
 * 4) Dog regurgitating tater tots

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 8


 * 1) Is that true that things which plugged in consume electricity while they don't work?
 * 2) If humans never cut their hair, then will the hair insulate the body like fur?
 * 3) Digital audio: any advantage for whole number of cycles?
 * 4) Lizard Identification

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 9


 * 1) Non-human neurobiology, memory cues, and episodic memory
 * 2) Can a person distinguish Greenwich mean time and coordinated universal time when setting a clock manually?
 * 3) Rare events predicted by a "theory of everything"
 * 4) Learning/teaching systems thinking
 * 5) What temperature range can feral pigeons survive in?

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 10


 * 1) Ground locomotion of birds

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 11


 * 1) How hot can CCFLs get before breaking?
 * 2) Hotel body soap, hand soap, and shampoo
 * 3) Rotating an object with circularly polarized light
 * 4) Energy consumption in different contexts
 * 5) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 11#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Ftheswissbay.ch.2Fpdf.2FGentoomen.2520Library.2FExtra.2FRichard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics.252C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley.281964.29.pdf_PDF.5D._Exercise_8-4_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F18-f56c344b90.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_8_.26_9|Feynman Lectures. Exercises PDF. Exercise 8-4 JPG. Lecture 8 & 9]]
 * 6) Energy loss, planes and ships
 * 7) Relative calorie burn in air and water

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 12


 * 1) Intelligence difference between animals and humans
 * 2) How does polysiloxanes effect scar development?
 * 3) Animal intelligences.
 * 4) connect opamp outputs together?

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 13


 * 1) Do midwives have knowledge of abortifacients and induce abortions?
 * 2) What to do if you asked two experts and they have conflicting opinions?
 * 3) Temperature at which water vapour forms
 * 4) Is the wrapper by Klondike ice cream made of real aluminum?

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 14


 * 1) Julian lunar calendar
 * 2) Is it really true that vomit doesn't affect men as much as women in the tendency to vomit when others are vomiting?
 * 3) Appetite suppressant to to point of starvation and death
 * 4) "Smartphones Hijack Cognitive Capacity" -exact quote

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 15


 * 1) What happens when the current is too strong for the electrode to measure?
 * 2) What is the difference between a magnet and the thingy that deionizes water?
 * 3) Which US coal basin deliver which coal?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 16


 * 1) Losing streams
 * 2) GPS, Gravity affecting time on earth and space, and so on
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 16#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_9-8_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F23-9262cea7c6.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_09.html_9.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 9-8 JPG. Lecture 9]]
 * 4) How visible/noticeable is the Aurora borealis expected to be tonight in the northern US?

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 17


 * 1) Animal identification?
 * 2) 3/8" Diameter Hose
 * 3) Eyes Bandaged After Brain Surgery
 * 4) Can a vibrating net produce sound?
 * 5) Bowel epithelium regeneration
 * 6) Inappropriate usage re "Before Adam"
 * 7) Using an air conditioner after a power outage
 * 8) Better version/correction to Bekenstein–Hawking entropy formula?

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 18


 * 1) Thinners for painting with blood

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 19


 * 1) Endurance running hypothesis and eating meat
 * 2) motor shaft adapter
 * 3) Why is magnetism not "toxic"?
 * 4) Can methane emissions trigger other GHGs?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 20


 * 1) Simulation of persistence hunting among humans in industrialized societies
 * 2) "Hand laser cutter for nuclear decommissioning"
 * 3) 61905-2Z vs 6905-ZZ
 * 4) Machining
 * 5) Why do we have split forearms?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 21


 * 1) Is water's high surface tension compared to say ethanol another plus for life like it's "universal" solventness/heat capacity etc.?
 * 2) How far in the future can air temp+sunniness anomalies cause sea surf temp anomalies?

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 22


 * 1) Snake behaviour
 * 2) Kraft Dinner + multivitamins = nutrition?
 * 3) Chronic dehydration and pronunciation of K's
 * 4) "Ross 128" signal

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 23


 * 1) Judgement of "healthy" and "sick"
 * 2) drilling and reaming
 * 3) North Korea fissile material

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 24


 * 1) Meteoritic vugs
 * 2) Comet tail fitting in a suitcase
 * 3) Pipe wrench
 * 4) Color of wet rocks
 * 5) Medical printer
 * 6) Strength of non-drug related addictions

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 25


 * 1) Ant-covered food
 * 2) Does sport oxydate us?
 * 3) Open circuit power draw of an SMPS
 * 4) Birds eating fried potatoes
 * 5) Animal population control

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 26


 * 1) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 26#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_9-16_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F25-873642d57c.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_09.html_9.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 9-16 JPG. Lecture 9]]
 * 2) Where does this drop of water push down with a million-g force?
 * 3) Does quickly removing a plaster/band-aid/waxing strip result in quantifiably less pain than doing it more cautiously?
 * 4) Unidentified seashore life (San Diego)
 * 5) Novice magnifier question
 * 6) Another mysterious San Diego sea creature

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 27


 * 1) Television (What is the relationship between QLED and Quantum Mechanics?)

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 28


 * 1) Where to find timelapse images of Sun (ultraviolet, I suppose but I don't know)

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 29


 * 1) Is sneezing after the first sip of a stiff drink a thing?
 * 2) Scale of everything
 * 3) Memory - remembering but not knowing it

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 30


 * 1) Steam train
 * 2) Identifying a butterfly
 * 3) Outdoor thermometer time delay
 * 4) Influence and borrowed content
 * 5) Minimum half-life below which a nuclide isn't a nuclide?
 * 6) Turning orange juice into an alcoholic drink

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 31


 * 1) What elements or molecules does the Earth have more than half the non-sun solar system's quantity?
 * 2) Well-portioned food supply
 * 3) Alpha= stronger?
 * 4) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 July 31#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_9-16_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F25-873642d57c.jpg_JPG.5D._Lecture_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.2FI_09.html_9.5D._.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FWikipedia:Reference_desk.2FArchives.2FScience.2F2017_July_26.23Feynman_Lectures._Exercises._Exercise_9-16_JPG._Lecture_9_Archive.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 9-16 JPG. Lecture 9. Archive]]
 * 5) What % of the food we eat is converted to energy, and what % left as waste?