Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2010

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 1


 * 1) Center of mass question
 * 2) Methanol in water
 * 3) Sodium acetate heating pads
 * 4) The Relative Passage of Time
 * 5) Simvastatin toxicity
 * 6) Huge sinkholes in Guatemala
 * 7) Crayfish
 * 8) tendinosis or tendonitis?
 * 9) What's a "Twin Cylinder Reversible Turbine"?
 * 10) force
 * 11) Sima Martel and Sima Humboldt
 * 12) Mafeking Oil - obsolete veterinary preparation
 * 13) Live bacteria in food
 * 14) Gull wings
 * 15) Stukas
 * 16) Sinkhole

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 2


 * 1) Decaffeinated coffee acclimatisation
 * 2) Different kinds of cold?
 * 3) "Dirty dozen" fruits and vegetables
 * 4) Terraformation of Mars
 * 5) Linde's chaotic inflation: why only one level of bubble universes?
 * 6) Lake Okeechobee
 * 7) Reverse jet filter - pressure drop
 * 8) mortality percent
 * 9) Oxidation of copper by iron(III) chloride
 * 10) drug interaction checking
 * 11) Remote sensing and GIS
 * 12) History of Science:  What did Islamic Science invent or discover?
 * 13) density of liquid mixture
 * 14) plumbers putty
 * 15) Trigonal Bipyramidal Molecular Geometry
 * 16) What are we seeing when we look at the sun?
 * 17) Contents of Organic Pesticide

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 3


 * 1) Propagation of bloodline
 * 2) Chemical solution for producing infrared liquid.
 * 3) Cooking oil contamination?
 * 4) Water boiling question
 * 5) Weller soldering
 * 6) cold fusion
 * 7) variations of h2o
 * 8) interactions of colloidal gold
 * 9) Reduction potential of selenium
 * 10) cell phone

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 4


 * 1) How does a battery-less moisture-meter work?
 * 2) Does Synthetic Vanillin / Vanilla contain Alcohol
 * 3) Mercury and Dental Fillings
 * 4) Technological family tree.
 * 5) RESOLVED! -- Houseplant identification please... -- RESOLVED!
 * 6) Oil floating under water
 * 7) Doorbell Continually Hums or Buzzes
 * 8) The difference between fire and plasma
 * 9) Archimedes principle???
 * 10) Why did my bonfire burn 'blue'?

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 5


 * 1) Reduction potential for nitrate
 * 2) Who first hypothesized/discovered/elucidated gluconeogenesis?
 * 3) Brass
 * 4) Asa Gray and John Edward Gray
 * 5) Brass (30% Zinc and 70% Copper)
 * 6) Information on Planting lilies in green house
 * 7) Deepwater Horizon valves
 * 8) Nature/environment/biotope
 * 9) Energy efficient of distillation
 * 10) Beer question
 * 11) Vegetable cooking oils - two groups of questions
 * 12) Standard Atmosphere...
 * 13) tobacco

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 6


 * 1) Can the Deepwater Horizon oil spill slow or even stop the ocean conveyor?
 * 2) Plugging holes in ducts
 * 3) Lee Smollin: author of "baby universe" book, adversary of multiverse? huh?
 * 4) BBC Report
 * 5) Space travel
 * 6) How can using algae to make fuel be net energy positive?
 * 7) Iron(III) acetate
 * 8) chloroform mishap
 * 9) Size of Rhinovirus
 * 10) Private Moon base...

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 7


 * 1) Avalanches
 * 2) Lithium phosphide cell
 * 3) Elder people
 * 4) Neural basis of learning
 * 5) CNG engines and simple engines
 * 6) Eye Structure Of Toads
 * 7) gravitation
 * 8) ph
 * 9) Twin Paradox - How will be the pulse count of the traveling twin?
 * 10) What determines the frame of referance for spinning?
 * 11) Production of phosphine and glow from white phosphorus
 * 12) Why can't we get energy for free from a magnet?
 * 13) What are corn syrup solids?
 * 14) Straight lines in Nature
 * 15) How could moth sleep in day?
 * 16) Columbia nuclear fission vs. Chicago Pile-1
 * 17) whitening armpits
 * 18) Mystery not-quite-electrical component
 * 19) Unable to focus camera beyond certain zoom
 * 20) why don't tertiary amines react with acyl chlorides?
 * 21) Pendulum
 * 22) Melting points of various ionic solids
 * 23) Fusion reactors... what the hell.
 * 24) hard wood floors
 * 25) Spaceship without windows

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 8


 * 1) Sparrows are Lousy Parents
 * 2) NFPA 704
 * 3) Bicycles and biomechanics...
 * 4) how does water eat thru polyurethane thou?
 * 5) titanium
 * 6) color of elements
 * 7) Fox mauling baby - motivation?
 * 8) Annihilation
 * 9) Hexamminecobalt(III) ion
 * 10) Clay
 * 11) Sapphire Windows
 * 12) anyone familiar with saccharides and gold nanorod aggregation?
 * 13) Electrical Doubt Clarifying
 * 14) Eating rotten eggs
 * 15) Rhino Virus and Nanometers
 * 16) Molecular compexity
 * 17) Naturally Occuring Dendrimers
 * 18) Pikachurin
 * 19) Cobalt(II) hydroxide solubility
 * 20) Extract From Dry Ingredients?

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 9


 * 1) Lightbulb question
 * 2) Nodules on high tension lines
 * 3) Red liquid in sprinkler
 * 4) Titanium  Cup
 * 5) Muntjacs
 * 6) Curved horizon?
 * 7) Vernier calipers
 * 8) Photons
 * 9) Mushroom cloud
 * 10) Endurance of an unused automobile
 * 11) how to functionalise a carbohydrate with acetylene?
 * 12) Blue and red cobalt(II) hydroxide
 * 13) using a car 12 volt alternator as a generator when its removed from the car
 * 14) Question about birth change
 * 15) Sinkhole debris
 * 16) Cobalt compounds yet again!!!
 * 17) Phenol

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 10


 * 1) Crystal Glass
 * 2) Growing fruits & vegetables indoors...
 * 3) Pikachurin 3D structure
 * 4) What if... we're the only intelligent life
 * 5) Interesting properties of acetic acid
 * 6) Tiger question (not about the big striped cat)
 * 7) baking soda
 * 8) question on cars and automated transmission...
 * 9) Sapphire Question
 * 10) indoor  door frames
 * 11) glycemic load determination
 * 12) the best it could be?
 * 13) nothingness
 * 14) Can we have more Lay explanations for phenomena under the physics heading?
 * 15) Do fish get mardy?
 * 16) Chloroform

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 11


 * 1) hollow core door
 * 2) Katla eruption VEI
 * 3) Energy numbers to open a black hole
 * 4) if someone is scared into not riding in automobiles OR scared into not smoking, which would improve their mortality more?
 * 5) Infra-terrestrial species
 * 6) Gyromagnetic ratio of mesons
 * 7) Sentience/consciousness
 * 8) Spoof SETI
 * 9) Etching on the cheap
 * 10) Windmill on a car ?
 * 11) Protein breakdown for energy... trigger?
 * 12) Right Handed Dominance
 * 13) energy harvesting is so stupid
 * 14) Ant stamina

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 12


 * 1) Atomic mass unit
 * 2) Tornado recurrence rate
 * 3) Female Survival
 * 4) A transverse wave
 * 5) Computer components from petrochemicals
 * 6) heat
 * 7) BP gulf oil issue: Geology question
 * 8) Cats and mirrors
 * 9) Breathable boots
 * 10) Grass in flower beds
 * 11) gear box vs belt pulley
 * 12) Vellus hair
 * 13) How to get a sponsorship
 * 14) Using sea water in toilets
 * 15) Watering plants
 * 16) brushed nickel
 * 17) Rechargeable Battery: voltage rebound
 * 18) Cauterization as an emergency measure

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 13


 * 1) Flaming blood
 * 2) Wouldn't humankind be capable of surviving an overacting solar flare after all?
 * 3) virus more active during rainy season?
 * 4) Maximum/Minimum Irradiance..?
 * 5) is risk from smoking linear with amount smoked?
 * 6) Primary afferent axons
 * 7) Ruth's Chris Steak House
 * 8) Allium Care
 * 9) Dog whistles.
 * 10) Nuclear fusion physics and tokamak reactor design: from the ground up.
 * 11) formaldehyde
 * 12) Body hair
 * 13) Ploughing a field with dogs

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 14


 * 1) Synthroid versus Armor thyroid
 * 2) Rifling and slower bullets
 * 3) Why did SI standardize the mole?
 * 4) Old medical terms
 * 5) why water form fountain as it goes up?
 * 6) B2O3
 * 7) Sliver nano
 * 8) (Cr - Pt)
 * 9) Relativity
 * 10) C L I
 * 11) The web page below needs to be updated with the correct new information regarding the list of SVHC's.
 * 12) How does pre-birth gender selection work?
 * 13) Birdsong Study
 * 14) How hot am I ?
 * 15) Explosion
 * 16) soy
 * 17) Definition of Horology???

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 15


 * 1) Help resolve date discrepancy of an event by finding contemporaneous citation(s)
 * 2) laxatives
 * 3) Digital Camera
 * 4) Nanostructure induced flavorings
 * 5) Blackberry Vs I Phone
 * 6) meringue food technology
 * 7) Instability of Manganese(III) fluoride
 * 8) Bats, birds and convergent evolution
 * 9) question about the supernova
 * 10) Beer nutritious
 * 11) Transplanted lungs
 * 12) clump of matter
 * 13) Definition of "Earth's surface" for purposes of defining meteorites
 * 14) Memory
 * 15) matter versus spirit
 * 16) "Microrefineries" in the Gulf states
 * 17) Carbon-based life more plentiful if system richer in Carbon?
 * 18) Hummingbird feeders
 * 19) why doesn't centrifugation do some major damage to live cells?
 * 20) Isolating elemental silicon
 * 21) reducing agents milder than NaBH4
 * 22) using one aldehyde to reduce another aldehyde (product: alcohol and carboxylic acid)
 * 23) Unknown concentration of NaOH

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 16


 * 1) What value is associated with "low impedance"?
 * 2) Atom with some muons
 * 3) overcharging a handycam or mobile phone battery
 * 4) yawning + stretching euphoria
 * 5) Will poppy seeds in processed horse feed test false positive for Synephrine in the urine or could slippery elm bark powder contain Synephrine.
 * 6) Volume of a drop
 * 7) ~ (Tobacco vs. other illegal, recreational drugs)
 * 8) Regrowing of human skin and its color
 * 9) A display that doesn't suffer from glare
 * 10) Conservation of energy
 * 11) Spider indentification
 * 12) Protein percentage in muscle by mass
 * 13) Stronger reducing agent than azide
 * 14) Strongest base
 * 15) How can I make it not possible to throw things
 * 16) The telomeres of Turritopsis nutricula
 * 17) Number of deep sea oil rigs worldwide
 * 18) Cumberland Slider Turtles
 * 19) Is it fair to say that Nuclear Power plants are environmentally friendly?
 * 20) star classification

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 17


 * 1) Lapping water
 * 2) tuna as cat food
 * 3) Rigid airships vertical control
 * 4) How do they test for performance enhancing drugs in an atheletes urine?
 * 5) Alumin(i)um
 * 6) Metals used by the human body
 * 7) Plasma weapons
 * 8) papers
 * 9) Antimatter
 * 10) help with Gaussian fitting and airy disks
 * 11) IP Address
 * 12) EMP
 * 13) (where) do humans fit in?

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 18


 * 1) Angle grinder -lidl/aldi/netto
 * 2) conservation of PH
 * 3) Mobile phones in supermarkets
 * 4) Life on mars
 * 5) Radio Interference on a 'dead' radio.
 * 6) breasts full of milk
 * 7) Why are there no Herring Gulls in Hampshire?
 * 8) Immunosuppression drugs -> skin like tissue paper?
 * 9) Sodium bromide as salt substitute
 * 10) Windmill on an airplane
 * 11) Does abstinence cure any addiction?
 * 12) 'natural' alkyl halides?
 * 13) Amino acids in a vegan diet
 * 14) Natural sea salt
 * 15) Organic Materials
 * 16) Blossoms and leaves: coming and going
 * 17) Why is the speed of light relative to an observer constant regardless of the velocity of the source of light or of the observer?
 * 18) Paper cuts vs. "normal" cuts
 * 19) semiconductor doping

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 19


 * 1) Ammonia
 * 2) Production of carbon tetrachloride
 * 3) Potato Chips
 * 4) sperm sorting
 * 5) why do gas (petrol) stations have the same characteristic roof over the filling area?
 * 6) Spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma
 * 7) Simulator
 * 8) Radioactive minerals on other planets?
 * 9) Purpose of Addiction
 * 10) Experiments in quantum mechanics?

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 20


 * 1) Oxidation of antimony
 * 2) Why don't Harleys ever have headlamps in other shapes?
 * 3) smelly vitamins.
 * 4) butterfly / moth
 * 5) uv / urine
 * 6) Risk of catastrophic methane explosion in Gulf of Mexico
 * 7) Why is the power output of a series-connect array of solar cells so affected by partial shading?
 * 8) Remote video camera
 * 9) Seeing the past
 * 10) Ammonia-based life

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 21


 * 1) How the planet and why is divided to different countries; who made this?  God, humans or nature?
 * 2) Exploration of the ocean bed
 * 3) the supernova
 * 4) No antimony nitrate
 * 5) animal tool use
 * 6) if I sterilise my kitchen knife with the flame from my gas stove, will I ruin it?
 * 7) Tin(II) hydroxide and related compounds
 * 8) is it possible to fool a plant cell into thinking a gold nanoparticle is a starch particle?
 * 9) effect of color of iris on image formation
 * 10) wood
 * 11) Cell disruption, movement proteins and apoptosis
 * 12) Amount of water that "sticks" to dipped object.
 * 13) Operating of Transverse flux motor
 * 14) CALORIE BURN RATE FOR EXERCISE
 * 15) Faraday cage from water?
 * 16) Bacteria in Spoiled Milk

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 22


 * 1) basic physics question about inertia, riding the bus, balance, etc.
 * 2) A few more questions on quantum mechanics.
 * 3) Fossil fish
 * 4) Geophysics survey
 * 5) Potato battery
 * 6) monofilament cutting string
 * 7) Inner asteroid belt?
 * 8) Ferrofluid heart assist jacket?
 * 9) Metal mesh interfere with WiFi signal?
 * 10) power electronics
 * 11) Cheetah attacks
 * 12) saltation velocity vs choking velocity
 * 13) Dense phase flow vs dilute phase flow
 * 14) Petroleum detergent in Dawn
 * 15) any way to get plant cells to grow along a surface?
 * 16) terminal velocity of flour?
 * 17) Latitude
 * 18) RDA percentage for calories
 * 19) The psychology of hog drivers
 * 20) Absorption of sugars and carbs
 * 21) what is a "thin cell layer explant"? (TCL)
 * 22) human brain and language
 * 23) Fiber Optic Duplex Communication
 * 24) culturing pollen tubes
 * 25) Does sulfuric acid ignite matches?

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 23


 * 1) Dingman mouth gag
 * 2) Alkyd Resin Paint
 * 3) Temperature of water in Kettle
 * 4) Photon exists? or just a Concept?
 * 5) Probability in Quantum Mechanics
 * 6) Cr-V
 * 7) Zombies
 * 8) Bioavailability of iron
 * 9) Attracting flies to my fly paper
 * 10) A type of memory disorder
 * 11) sodium borohydride and hydrogen peroxide
 * 12) Delayed death after serious injury
 * 13) Identify wasp or insect

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 24


 * 1) Thrust vectoring
 * 2) Difference of animals
 * 3) Grebe
 * 4) Piezoelectric body armor?
 * 5) TO220 heat sinking
 * 6) astrophotography with the webcam
 * 7) Strange parrot behaviour
 * 8) finite element
 * 9) Spacetime and diverging timelines - not really a question, just a request for more information
 * 10) how many g's can a gourmet salad be subjected to without being ruined?
 * 11) breakup/thinning of plant calluses into solution via ultrasound/high-frequency sonication
 * 12) pros and cons of immortality

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 25


 * 1) Probability distributions in Quantum Mechanics
 * 2) scientific name of the plant( ?or substance?) called "Lapland sesame" in the Wikipedi- article about hand of glory
 * 3) Measurment change by interacting
 * 4) DIY inspection camera
 * 5) paint and primer in one
 * 6) Is it possible to clean a pool with just Baking Soda and Bleach?
 * 7) query regarding B.TECH
 * 8) Big cases of correct theories largely ignored because they came from amateurs
 * 9) Ants in my vacuum cleaner
 * 10) Urologists
 * 11) Memory
 * 12) Silicone solvent?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 26


 * 1) Cobalt (III) oxide
 * 2) Alpha Centauri at 1 G acceleration
 * 3) Production of Mn oxide
 * 4) Ion nomenclature
 * 5) Eating late leads to weight gain?
 * 6) Sensing colours
 * 7) toxic to fish ?
 * 8) Life expectancy in the UK
 * 9) Calcium Hypochlorite
 * 10) Relatively high incidence of lactose tolerance in Spaniards
 * 11) automotive question
 * 12) Opal vs clear in old incandescent bulbs
 * 13) Power supply to the town sewage works

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 27


 * 1) endocrine disruptors
 * 2) Fan curve derivation
 * 3) 'Metallic conduction' in non metals
 * 4) Metallic appearance
 * 5) Can woodlice breath underwater?
 * 6) oysters
 * 7) Switching mobile phones while flying.
 * 8) Superoxide reactivity
 * 9) Ants
 * 10) Scientific term for species who don't take care of their young.
 * 11) Flying wings

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 28


 * 1) Listed ingredients
 * 2) Sigma additivity in quantum mechanics
 * 3) Signal processing
 * 4) Quantam Handwaveing
 * 5) Wind chill and perspiration
 * 6) Pitot tube constant
 * 7) Contents of Cold Pack
 * 8) documentary
 * 9) Do OLED displays degrade with UV exposure?
 * 10) Most toxic element
 * 11) High level nuclear waste
 * 12) wormholes
 * 13) Battery chemistry labs
 * 14) Photonic computers
 * 15) Least dangerous compound
 * 16) Applications of Wormholes
 * 17) asteroid mining
 * 18) Getting rid of freezer odour
 * 19) On swallowing food items larger than one's own head...
 * 20) NFPA 704
 * 21) evolutionary history of apoptosis and vertebrate immune systems
 * 22) anywhere I can buy movement protein?
 * 23) Ancient lead

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 29


 * 1) Polaroid film powered radio...
 * 2) Double slit prob
 * 3) Einstein twin paradox confusion
 * 4) Sumo
 * 5) "Chronical outfit of disposition" - jargon or gibberish
 * 6) Blended wing bodies
 * 7) Are dogs capable of love?
 * 8) free radicals
 * 9) Manganese
 * 10) Making Fatty Acid Methyl Esters
 * 11) General anesthetic
 * 12) Tin(II) sulfide formation
 * 13) Mercury(I) oxide
 * 14) what are these strange holes in the ground in afghanistan?
 * 15) Soreness from a Shot
 * 16) Where did this stupid idea that investment is a trade-off between risk and returns come from?
 * 17) Name these plants?
 * 18) Stopping time in a fall on concrete
 * 19) What are the worms that create this red moss formation

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 June 30


 * 1) Are sodium chloride crystals always square?
 * 2) Drugs
 * 3) why does my sink solution turn cloudy when I add baking powder to it?
 * 4) reason of raining
 * 5) V-tails
 * 6) Chromosome Location
 * 7) Telescope Eyepiece
 * 8) Make more time
 * 9) Fabry-Perot filter
 * 10) Why do cars go slower in reverse than they do going forward?
 * 11) Acidity of warm water
 * 12) I tried to sanitise my potato peeler by sonicating it in acetone
 * 13) Parasite?
 * 14) how to remove cuticle from a leaf?
 * 15) Extinct Volcanoes in North America and Asia.
 * 16) which type of plant cells (and species) tends to have the biggest / most permissive  plasmodesmata
 * 17) Do any nonhuman animals possess a conscience?
 * 18) Neutron star vs. quark star vs. black hole