Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2007

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 1


 * 1) Why do we need a continuous supply of air?
 * 2) How to muffle the sound of dripping water
 * 3) Please Help
 * 4) Ignition Coil (Update)
 * 5) dB
 * 6) The first chemical equation
 * 7) Twin "Paradox"
 * 8) oxygen outcome from pongamia plants
 * 9) Global warming
 * 10) Airplane safety.
 * 11) Breathable liquid
 * 12) Torsion and Twisting
 * 13) Spider identification
 * 14) This never got answered in computing, is it more appropriate here?
 * 15) unCircumcision
 * 16) The Dust Bowl, man made?
 * 17) Mailing address of Professor Richard Dawkins
 * 1) The Dust Bowl, man made?
 * 2) Mailing address of Professor Richard Dawkins

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 2


 * 1) Blood transfusion: what about the antibodies in the donor blood?
 * 2) Elastic Potential Energy
 * 3) Magnetism
 * 4) Temperature
 * 5) writing technology
 * 6) How to add wings
 * 7) DoD carbon emissions
 * 8) arsh Acidity
 * 9) Dolomitic Conglomerate
 * 10) Vacuum Cleaners and Fine Dust as an Explosive Hazard
 * 11) cost of power transmission infrastructure?
 * 12) Earwig identification

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 3


 * 1) batteryless flashlights
 * 2) plant's Water purification
 * 3) Sunrise Sunset Time Differences
 * 4) Difference between Sagittal and Medial planes in human Anatomy
 * 5) Catheter ablation
 * 6) Frogs and lily pads

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 4


 * 1) Bug found in house
 * 2) Los Angeles cable landing station
 * 3) Multi-coloured hair
 * 4) DNP + fat loss
 * 5) Thyroid Function
 * 6) life of plastics
 * 7) Indigenous peoples of the Americas
 * 8) Being fertile

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 5


 * 1) Binary Planets
 * 2) Questions about wasps
 * 3) Exclusion principle and electrons in atoms
 * 4) reenland map, no ice
 * 5) Earth's hot core.
 * 6) Ping times towards a destination in Africa
 * 7) arunbrainy
 * 8) Prozac
 * 9) Should zeaxanthin and lutein be called vitamins?
 * 10) Dead Gill
 * 11) Universe
 * 12) Starvation in cats causes liver disease?
 * 13) Ichthyosis vulgaris
 * 14) If I reduce the pressure of a packet of air in space, will it still get colder?
 * 15) Jatropha Energy
 * 16) Can there possibly be a cure for cancer?
 * 17) Altering DNA
 * 18) People of India contrasted to Caucasian
 * 19) Flame temperature increased by electric arc?

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 6


 * 1) Wrestling
 * 2) Indian Race
 * 3) Were early indians white
 * 4) Christmas tree lights
 * 5) Any theories of an early global religion?
 * 6) Modafinil and Bupropion
 * 7) gravitomagnetic acceleration ???
 * 8) Brightest object that we can see in our night sky?
 * 9) Genetic related deseases
 * 10) Humans on planets with gravity greater than the earth's?
 * 11) Question
 * 12) Highest Temperature Possible
 * 13) Number of Muscels in Wolves

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 7


 * 1) Umbrella cockatoo info needed
 * 2) dark energy
 * 3) What is the possible effect of AIDS on human evolution?
 * 4) Powdered alcohol
 * 5) Neural engineering
 * 6) time of flight
 * 7) Lithium-Iron Phosphate Batteries
 * 8) Wal-Mart interior lighting
 * 9) Immunoprecipitation(IP)
 * 10) Atomic orbitals, lineair combinations of
 * 11) Vitamin K Fortification in foods
 * 12) Harvest
 * 13) List of genetic disorders
 * 14) Brain Transplant
 * 15) Robot with just LEDs capable of followwing lights?
 * 16) dark energy question about nature
 * 17) Lat and Long conversion
 * 18) Equidae
 * 19) psychology

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 8


 * 1) Spring board jump
 * 2) Google Maps satellite imagery artifact
 * 3) Which bird is that?
 * 4) Cat Savaging.
 * 5) Current Carrying Capacity
 * 6) HDTV
 * 7) Sugar Maple burning
 * 8) future eye colour change
 * 9) Red Rice Vs. Brown Rice
 * 10) Dietary fiber
 * 11) Stopwatch issues
 * 12) DNA change

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 9


 * 1) Magnesium ribbon
 * 2) What gull is it?
 * 3) study of electron microscope
 * 4) Spider identification?
 * 5) Patient Zero
 * 6) Genetic Linkage
 * 7) hiiiiiii
 * 8) Is there any way to change the color of you're eyes if a person is Indian?
 * 9) Altering DNA
 * 10) Indian/white people/
 * 11) Noncompetitive Research Funding
 * 12) Why is the placement of our internal organs asymmetrical?
 * 13) Information Transfer
 * 14) Chemistry bewilderment
 * 15) Seasonal Distribution of Precipitation
 * 16) Go back in time?

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 10


 * 1) What is it?
 * 2) AIDS (accuqired immune deficeincy syndrome)
 * 3) UV light from halogen lamps
 * 4) Height of land + sea level change
 * 5) Discontinuous
 * 6) Theists thumbing their noses at science despite the fact that they rely on it every day
 * 7) Brain Cells
 * 8) Genetic Mapping
 * 9) "Sweating out toxins"
 * 10) Is there anything that my doctor can proscribe me...
 * 11) Paleontology question

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 11


 * 1) Gliese 581c
 * 2) Glass
 * 3) Animal anatomy:
 * 4) What is a shaft passer?
 * 5) Hypothetical Runaway Greenhouse effect
 * 6) A website for getting introduced to quantum mechanics
 * 7) menstrual cycle
 * 8) Crow identification
 * 9) Lightning and Grounding

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 12


 * 1) car engine question
 * 2) Asparagus - might as well ask this now...
 * 3) Intranasal NSAIDS
 * 4) Insect cacoomb? cucomb? ARRRG!!
 * 5) nitrogen in tyres
 * 6) lens
 * 7) Temperature
 * 8) argling with salt water
 * 9) Gas cylinders
 * 10) A question of conciousness
 * 11) Sicknesses
 * 12) Psychoactivity of Coleus?
 * 13) Criteria for Sluggish cognitive tempo
 * 14) References
 * 15) Help needed badly

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 13


 * 1) Transpiration rates for pineapple and oak
 * 2) Energy is an adverb; Force is a noun, the real nature of energy - what is it?
 * 3) Function of resin in plants
 * 4) colas effect on bacteria
 * 5) Parts of a Cell
 * 6) Does contact dermatitis always itch?
 * 7) Rainfall Volume
 * 8) Leg disease in gulls
 * 9) amarant
 * 10) Author abbreviation
 * 11) Primate Cities
 * 12) Medicine exams
 * 13) Sapient computers
 * 14) Los Angeles in the year 2040

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 14


 * 1) Galaxies
 * 2) Common ancestor of modern human beings (Homo saipens)
 * 3) Synthetic Science
 * 4) Ship propeller efficiency
 * 5) Burning sensation in throat
 * 6) olor force and free quarks
 * 7) photons consist of an electric and a magnetic field . but why are not they affected by electric or magnetic field ?
 * 8) Nuclear explosions...
 * 9) pposite side of the Earth
 * 10) 006 Construction
 * 11) injured parrot
 * 12) Dissolving Powder
 * 13) Irradiated Blood

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 15


 * 1) What's the name of this plant?
 * 2) pyelonephritis
 * 3) Boat rudder
 * 4) Altimeters
 * 5) Removal of SIO2 from Iron Ore
 * 6) Kinetic Energy of Light
 * 7) geology
 * 8) exploding cars
 * 9) Genetics question
 * 10) alaxy size

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 16


 * 1) discharging batteries
 * 2) thermotropic crystals and mood rings
 * 3) heat and sound
 * 4) Hypersensitivity Classification
 * 5) Panama canal
 * 6) Muscles
 * 7) walking power source
 * 8) Popcorn
 * 9) Fusion
 * 10) Cranial nerves and the brainstem
 * 11) norepinephrine
 * 12) Plants and drugs
 * 13) Noise in hi-res cameras

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 17


 * 1) Lead into Gold
 * 2) Kaganaias - Expert help needed...
 * 3) Atom's ionoc charge and bonding
 * 4) hat is the oldest matter in existance?
 * 5) s there a maximum temperature?
 * 6) Wax Solubility
 * 7) Speaking  into a fan
 * Re:Amputation
 * 1) elp to identify an Australian bird
 * 2) Viral proteins with cleavage
 * 3) TV set power supplies
 * 4) How would you go about purchasing a meerkat if you really wanted one?
 * 5) Effect of people on FM reception
 * 6) Where will alien life forms be put in the Linnaean taxonomy?
 * 7) Help understanding a simple circuit
 * 8) Are tea and coffee harmful to parrots?
 * 9) Fabric softener
 * 10) Science Organizations

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 18


 * 1) Attractiveness
 * 2) Atomic mass of 5
 * 3) Idle question about Blood pressure
 * re:heat and sound
 * 1) Global Warming and Precipitation
 * 2) why can I aim a gun?
 * 3) o clones have introns
 * 4) disease polices
 * 5) geography
 * 6) Re-using Satellite TV Receivers
 * 7) Deserts in Europe
 * 8) Hang nails not at the nail
 * 9) Dental hygiene
 * 10) Open and Close stomata
 * 11) Lepton number
 * 12) Unknown moth

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 19


 * 1) "Plant" Identification
 * 2) Spring Constant Discrepancy
 * 3) Confusion with electrical units
 * 4) Parrot jaw strength
 * 5) Carcinogens
 * 6) ost destructive particle
 * 7) Lost matter!
 * 8) Retractable claws
 * 9) Who in their right mind would answer this question?
 * 10) to random questions.
 * 11) Two of my 9v adapters got fried
 * 12) Plants that tend to produce hollow seed pods?
 * 13) Calculating required force for gym lifts

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 20


 * 1) Abnormal Color Correlations due to Psychological "illness"
 * Er, and article please? :)
 * 1) Bare Necessities Only for Survival
 * 2) Muscles
 * 3) antibiotics
 * 4) oda expiration date
 * 5) Raising HDL
 * 6) gasoline
 * 7) name that rock
 * 8) Real hospitals vs. the hospital shown on House MD
 * 9) aterpillar Food
 * 10) ppy
 * 11) J-cough hurting more than usual
 * 12) xy-liquid
 * 13) ses of gas solutions
 * 14) as - air or something else,  Hydraulics

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 21


 * 1) Relative Motion - how I loathe thee
 * 2) Resonances in cylindrical tube.
 * 3) Global Warming
 * 4) Food test
 * 5) Help me to ans.what is the ex.of sympathetic and parasympathetic
 * 6) thermodynamics
 * 7) Geostationary Orbit
 * 8) Theory of Relativity Question
 * 9) Messy/illegible handwritting correlated with certain segments of the population
 * 10) Birds
 * 11) air vortex s and inverse square law

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 22


 * 1) Amino acid analysis: Asn and Gln always missing
 * 2) Bugs
 * 3) thermodynamics:
 * 4) Definition of temperature units
 * 5) Insulation
 * 6) accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit
 * 7) can we have non functional Mc1r on purpose
 * 8) Budgerigar/sparrow hybrid?

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 23


 * 1) microorganisms
 * 2) pH - 2 little questions
 * 3) Seeing what isn't there.
 * 4) Boeing 747 and Airbus
 * 5) differential gear(battle tank, wheel chair)
 * 6) the old relativity pole and barn paradox with a twist
 * 7) heart attack
 * 8) car batteries
 * 9) Cloud brightness
 * 10) Mammary glands

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 24


 * 1) Cat Milk
 * 2) Lunesta commercial
 * 3) Why do stars look like that?
 * 4) Kaiser Permanente's origens
 * 5) The evolution of annoying fish bones
 * 6) Electroblotting
 * 7) Which city in the U.K are you most likely to find Rats?
 * 8) How was matter created in the universe?
 * 9) Earth
 * 10) Polyester
 * 11) The cytotoxic T cell that wasn't
 * 12) Circular orbits -- Saturn's rings?

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 25


 * 1) Leg cramps
 * 2) Fluorescent lighting and human health
 * 3) Flight of a plane
 * 4) Ringing of copper versus zinc pennies
 * 5) Airbus 300 and 330 & Boeing 747
 * Re:Speed of light
 * 1) Australian Aborigines and race
 * 2) nipples
 * 3) cruelty-free toiletries
 * 4) Scientific names Iulus maximus and Everyx myron
 * 5) What are the byproducts of mixing Sodium Bicarbonate with Aqueous Chlorine?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 26


 * 1) Harvesting Static Electricity
 * 2) Land/Water ratio for Northern Hemisphere
 * 3) Notch Signalling - Why capital 'n'?
 * 4) Cowper's Glands
 * 5) Speed of turbulent incompressible flow
 * 6) Boeing 747 Vs Airbus 340
 * 7) Yellow tabs on heavy vehicle nuts
 * 8) Cat bite
 * 9) Dark energy and wormholes?
 * 10) omega 3 or omega minus 3?
 * 11) Electrical resistance of the earth
 * 12) Acupuncture and Hypnosis
 * 13) bentonite
 * 14) facial gymnastics and face lifting
 * 15) Tongue pickier than nose?
 * 16) Eyes Very Sensitive to Bright Light
 * 17) Survival of the fittest - winner
 * 18) Timekeeping

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 27


 * 1) Aphids among the thorns
 * 2) Chief Executive Officers
 * 3) History of the "direct" current term
 * 4) What is a 'return vector'?
 * 5) calling mobiles
 * 6) Yeast Infection
 * 7) Mars Direct
 * 8) Why would spot or arc welding not electrocute someone holding non-insulated metal?

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 28


 * 1) Are all flamingos pink?
 * 2) Bird first aid
 * 3) Is this game a pyramid scheme?
 * 4) Fibroblast growth factors (FGF)
 * 5) recovering from nail-biting
 * 6) toxic/ heavy metals
 * 7) Einstein's Concept of relativity....
 * 8) Bohr Model
 * 9) Our solar system.
 * 10) Twin paradox
 * 11) Atomic Radius and Melting Point
 * 12) Audubon copyrights

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 29


 * 1) One really strange effect...
 * 2) hydrometallurgy in situ leaching
 * 3) Largest cow
 * 4) If a Butterfly Flaps its Wings
 * 5) The Flight of the Bumblebee
 * 6) When you push your eye...
 * 7) What's up with lightning?
 * 8) Liquid metal technology
 * 9) What is this plant?
 * 10) How to explain holding a balloon in an air stream?
 * 11) Can tooth enamel be restored?
 * 12) Shaggy cows?

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 30


 * 1) Black spots in front of eyes after vigorous coughing?
 * 2) manufactured prescription drugs
 * 3) Job
 * 4) If a Tree Falls in the Forest ...
 * 5) Blood-sampling for measurement of sex-related hormones
 * 6) FGFR
 * 7) event horizon
 * 8) water purification of plants
 * 9) TV letterbox and 16:9 TVs
 * 10) Microwave oven accident
 * 11) Hybrids different... how do you call this?