Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2012

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 1


 * 1) Trayvon and DXM (dextromethorphan)
 * 2) Why doesn't Canadian oil production match?
 * 3) Oiling the hair
 * 4) downcoast?
 * 5) Identify Wall Lizard from the Azores

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 2


 * 1) Single atom data storage
 * 2) Signal velocity faster than light
 * 3) What kind of matter is light?
 * 4) Why the planets revolve around the stars?
 * 5) Transit of Venus
 * 6) Domestic Cats
 * 7) Is this accurate about the speed of sound?
 * 8) Converting amps to watts

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 3


 * 1) Can birds see (bright) stars and planets during daytime?
 * 2) Can inchworms walk backwards?
 * 3) Question about the Shenzhou program
 * 4) How did a blue whale evolved?
 * 5) Iminosugars
 * 6) Body weight reduction and Einstein

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 4


 * 1) What is the word for different outcome probabilities?
 * 2) Transit of Earth, as seen from Mars?
 * 3) "Seed for one year, weed for seven"
 * 4) Body Vs Face
 * 5) Blood donation as a free medical test?
 * 6) Geologist versus engineer
 * 7) Why didn't anyone try to look for the transit of Venus in the pre-telescopic era?
 * 8) Why didn't they just put a color filter on the eyepiece?
 * 9) Peregrine Falcon G-forces
 * 10) 1.15 AU to survive RGB tip

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 5


 * 1) What is the difference between Julian and Georigian calendars?
 * 2) Tubular lights for DIY lamp
 * 3) Growing computer memory using bacteria - Why use gold?
 * 4) Mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids - Trans fats?
 * 5) Transit of Venus-inspired question
 * 6) Particle in a box
 * 7) Why does a power station need cooling?

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 6


 * 1) Uranus & references to its original name
 * 2) Battery charging time
 * 3) Source of uncertainty of the Earth's age ?
 * 4) bond energy of ionic compounds
 * 5) distribution of angular momentum
 * 6) Awesome Science things in Europe?
 * 7) Locating the South Pole
 * 8) unidentified monocot in South Jersey

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 7


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 * 2) chlorhexidine gluconate
 * 3) Drug Delivery
 * 4) Carpal tunnel syndrome
 * 5) density
 * 6) Acupuncture
 * 7) Is this proof correct for the geometry file?
 * 8) Is Skin Cancer More Prevalent Now Than in the Past?

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 8


 * 1) who edit Wikipedia in a sensitive subject... who is right ??
 * 2) Helium dihydride cation
 * 3) Water on the line
 * 4) What cause brownian movement?
 * 5) Radiation
 * 6) Rules of science
 * 7) cephalosporin
 * 8) Mercuroketones

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 9


 * 1) "35dB-90dB[μV]" equal to 56 - 31000 mV ?
 * 2) Why is the oldest person always 114 years old?
 * 3) Baeyer's Reagent
 * 4) Electronic eavesdropping
 * 5) Crepuscular rays
 * 6) How many times did sex evolve independently?
 * 7) What is: "colonic sorting" in biology?
 * 8) a simple table which sums up all types of reproduction?
 * 9) I don't understand how to mount the camera on a barn door tracker
 * 10) Jamming the GPS system on a global scale

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 10


 * 1) Liquid air energy storage
 * 2) Subjective experience and age
 * 3) 2012 event
 * 4) How would Uranus have been pronounced in the 1780s / 1790s
 * 5) Old newtonian problem solved?
 * 6) physics
 * 7) Physics numerical
 * 8) Shelled Pistachios lose their flavor?
 * 9) Denver heart attacks
 * 10) Exceeding the RDA of vitamins
 * 11) is a twelve minute mile impressive
 * 12) Does the Plastic to Oil Machine really work?
 * 13) How  can I remove moles on my face?
 * 14) Photoelectric threshold frequency
 * 15) Primary cortices of "other" senses?

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 11


 * 1) testosterone
 * 2) paranormal effects of Ghungroo anklet
 * 3) Boiling point for Phosphorus
 * 4) Acid (not the trippy kind)
 * 5) Hi energy protons direct conversion into electricity?
 * 6) air bag safety
 * 7) How will Venus to survive tip of RGB

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 12


 * 1) NASA Venus transit video artifacts
 * 2) Petrol engine horsepower rating?
 * 3) Motorcycle on an incline
 * 4) Sleeping
 * 5) Conker tree (Aesculus hippocastanum)
 * 6) Uses of gravitational acceleration
 * 7) Prediction reliability threshold
 * 8) Closed bottle at "room" temperature equilibrium?
 * 9) Surface Charges on an open circuit
 * 10) Polarization?
 * 11) "herpautochory" -- seed dispersal
 * 12) Speed of Response of Interconnected Ganglia

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 13


 * 1) What's in a Galileo thermometer?
 * 2) non colinearity in solar cells or solar panels
 * 3) Linearity of Lorentz Transformations
 * 4) Extreme peaks in electricity demand
 * 5) Soluble component of starch
 * 6) Essjay - grandiose delusions?
 * 7) Please identify the black spots on my garden furniture
 * 8) where can I buy lecithin for home cooking and baking?
 * 9) Stability of the Solar System

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 14


 * 1) Mir Mine vs. Grand Canyon
 * 2) Origin of atomic orbital codes
 * 3) Sputum
 * 4) X-ray lenses, will camera optics do?

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 15


 * 1) Buoyancy and pressure
 * 2) "clear" safety glasses
 * 3) Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
 * 4) A theory about alternate timelines
 * 5) Brownian motion of water molecule
 * 6) Sidewalks that generate energy with our stepping?
 * 7) Microbiological terms
 * 8) Human facial hair growth stimulation

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 16


 * 1) Canadian geese
 * 2) Are plastic bag bans worth it?
 * 3) Warmth from friendships
 * 4) Weight training science
 * 5) Why don't tightrope poles go much lower?
 * 6) Chemistry in cooking and baking

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 17


 * 1) Orgasms
 * 2) Betadine and hydrogen peroxide
 * 3) giraffes
 * 4) lump
 * 5) Goose imprinting

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 18


 * 1) Rhenium
 * 2) Bird song identification
 * 3) Xenon diiodide and krypton dibromide
 * 4) Clues to calculate sun's future
 * 5) HV Electrical transformers - do they really need a hand to help them go bang?

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 19


 * 1) Is there a medical term for the physical feature of a very "triangular" head?
 * 2) I don't think I understand Modulation (music), but I did have a question about it.
 * 3) On propositional logic
 * 4) Inventory of asteroid contents?
 * 5) milk and aging?
 * 6) illegal immigrants in the us
 * 7) Paramagnetism
 * 8) NO and BN2-
 * 9) Radium
 * 10) AIR BUS A380
 * 11) Shower Cream
 * 12) Thermodynamics
 * 13) Inventory of asteroid contents per body?
 * 14) Why would Body surface area be the perfect measure for medication dosages?
 * 15) Diamagnetism

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 20


 * 1) Weird brown egg
 * 2) Do fish have tongues ?
 * 3) Are plastic houses doable?
 * 4) Smokeless powder compared to bullets

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 21


 * 1) Boiling hotter, boiling faster?
 * 2) Using genetics to determine the potential for undiscovered species
 * 3) Solar Energy and Its Production
 * 4) What is RNA ‘Ribonucleic acid’ and what is DNA 'Deoxyribonucleic Acid'
 * 5) Cells(*for cells questions)
 * 6) after classifying plants
 * 7) TV with a particular type of EPG
 * 8) how much friction does water flowing through a (decent-sized) pipe undergo? if the pipe is long enough, would it not flow out, even vertically?
 * 9) Science of weight loss and fitness
 * 10) gauss and gauss meters
 * 11) What feels like a throat but isnt'?
 * 12) Robots
 * 13) Refractive index
 * 14) Creep (deformation)
 * 15) Why exactly does water stop bullets?

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 22


 * 1) Photosynthesis, CO2, etc.
 * 2) Deflecting a lead bullet with a magnetic field
 * 3) Why are mammals smarter than other animals?
 * 4) Clindamycin
 * 5) Explosive question
 * 6) Nuclear fusion in black holes
 * 7) I want to import chemical feedstocks from Chinese suppliers at alibaba.com
 * 8) why don't swampies use non-exchanging heat exchange with air?
 * 9) Why do Neon lamps burn out?
 * 10) Skin color and temperature
 * 11) Sun's magnetic field doubled?

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 23


 * 1) Dissolving sulfur
 * 2) Entomologist named "Nonfried" (fl. 1893-1900)
 * 3) Status of a request for a qualified expert to create a Wikipedia article on the concept of "new water".
 * 4) Would it be possible to dream with one eye open?
 * 5) If there are no pain receptors in the central nervous system, why do headaches hurt?
 * 6) Pre-amp for oscilloscope?

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 24


 * 1) yoga asanas as therapy for herniated disc
 * 2) Papaver somniferum
 * 3) Trying to make equivalent colors match equivalent return rates
 * 4) 100-year floods

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 25


 * 1) Help needed to identify tiger breed
 * 2) Big Bang (not TV show) kickoff
 * 3) Do choanoflagellates have distinct personalities?
 * 4) Any updates on Lake Vostok search for life?
 * 5) Plant identification requested
 * 6) Is it theoretically possible to make an artificial sweetener that tastes exactly like sugar?
 * 7) water cooled centrifugal chiller delta pressure across dooler/condenser
 * 8) HEMOLYSIS IN BLOOD SPECIMEN
 * 9) Telescopes one and two - new or used? what resolution?
 * 10) Hard contact lenses vs soft lenses
 * 11) How to improve chandelier efficiency ?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 26


 * 1) Sucking on a button to combat dehydration?
 * 2) Discovery of Uranium in Russia
 * 3) Medical treatments for "Exhaustion"
 * 4) What are galaxies made of?
 * 5) Why does new year start from Jan 1? Why not synchronize it to vernal equinox or winter solstice?
 * 6) Is it possible to make a sneaker that makes you run faster?
 * 7) Rectal Swab vs Stool Test
 * 8) Sodium fuel

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 27


 * 1) Why do dolphins kill sharks?
 * 2) Which model of Citroën DS?
 * 3) BSP WASHER SIZES
 * 4) Friction

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 28


 * 1) skin flora
 * 2) trees of interest
 * 3) Sorbothane
 * 4) Effect of over speed test on large steam turbine (>600mw) last stage lp blades->900 mm length
 * 5) Climate change evolution
 * 6) Resistivity of plastic cover to heat in presence of water
 * 7) Where was the first ever plastic bag ban implemented?
 * 8) 12th Century people in 21st Century times
 * 9) Evolution
 * 10) Cost of interstellar colonization

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 29


 * 1) Rat poison
 * 2) iodine reacting with titanium
 * 3) Glucosamine and tendonitis

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 June 30


 * 1) given that gold foil averages 2 atoms thick...
 * 2) science
 * 3) What is this machine
 * 4) How to fix scrolling/tiling interference