Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2007

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 1


 * 1) Organisms
 * 2) Coilguns as infantry weapons?
 * 3) Looking for quotation: only a small percentage of the general public will ever be able to master the skill of operating an automobile
 * 4) After a cholecystectomy...
 * 5) Sabertooth Tigers
 * 6) Can I have some info on native New Zealand alpine flowers?
 * 7) Cassiopeia A
 * 8) Capsule /pill Material....
 * 9) List of countries with their positions on the world
 * 10) oal pile fire
 * 11) What is a string (in string theory) made from?
 * 12) suicidal behaviour
 * 13) Regarding numerical weather prediction modeling
 * 14) oxen or bulls grazing habits
 * 15) Fat and exercise
 * 16) Liquid Nitrogen
 * 17) THE FUTURE is wild?
 * 18) Population?
 * 19) chemistry problem
 * 20) Dark Matter
 * 21) Coldest Metal
 * 22) Basic 'design flaw' in beetles
 * 23) Enthalpy of Solution

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 2


 * 1) Colours relation to wavelenght
 * 2) eeing light while pressing eye
 * 3) straitening light
 * 4) Flipping turtles/tortoises
 * 5) Drinking water and losing weight
 * 6) Oscillation
 * 7) Hair Growth Question
 * 8) Amiodarone and D5W
 * 9) email
 * 10) solar furnaces
 * 11) nknown military device?
 * 12) oloured fire preparing safety
 * 13) Electrically Charging a liquid
 * 14) bluetooth
 * 15) Holding Your Breath
 * 16) Warning i am Bored
 * 17) Alcohol
 * 18) Raw Eggs
 * 19) Microwaved Egg
 * 20) Microwaved Egg--part 2
 * 21) science and technology dvd player
 * 22) Health and safety when casting steel
 * 23) heart
 * 24) RADAR blips from throwing food

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 3


 * 1) s there a name...
 * 2) Physics problem
 * 3) Surface Tension
 * 4) Invisibility
 * 5) Unconcesness?
 * 6) laser air ionisation
 * 7) Geological time
 * 8) Most useful scientific discovery
 * 9) environmentally friendly of disposal of dildoes (dildos?)..
 * 10) Neutralization reactions.
 * 11) Multiple state logic
 * 12) Delayed gravitational effect
 * 13) altic Sea algae
 * 14) Breast Implants
 * 15) IGF-1
 * 16) body efficiency in absorbing calories
 * 17) Why don't fish swim upside-down ?
 * 18) Unknown Flower Picture

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 4


 * 1) patenting life forms
 * 2) colloid osmotic pressure
 * 3) arva
 * 4) Lunar Eclipse
 * 5) special realtivity factor and v(∞)
 * 6) WHAT CAN SPECIAL RELATIVITY INDICATE?
 * 7) A web site that used to give advice
 * 8) Congenital blindness
 * 9) Question about Tennents Super alcoholic beverage
 * 10) chemistry
 * 11) Symbol for a dynamo?
 * 12) Synapse behavior

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 5


 * 1) Is it meant to do that?
 * 2) Ice and Fire
 * 3) Organic Chemistry Question
 * 4) Gravity wave generator
 * 5) Digital Circuits
 * 6) Super Shock Absorbing material
 * 7) Colorblindness.
 * 8) oltages in countries
 * 9) I cannot find an article about a hydraulic car hopper.
 * 10) Dangers of deep throat
 * 11) Yawning as a defense mechanism?
 * 12) Air Pressure

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 6


 * 1) Some help with thermal fuses?
 * 2) peripheral nervous system
 * 3) Muscle repair and calories
 * 4) Electrically conductive fluid
 * 5) Memory relationship to the Brain (More and more information)
 * 6) Memory relationship to the Brain (location)
 * 7) Special Drug for LTP? (brain)
 * 8) Neuron, glia, and the Brain
 * 9) What is pseudophrene?
 * 10) Agronomy/Crop Science
 * 11) an explanation for the variation of boiling points in hydrides of group 15 elements
 * 12) Differntiate between "Metal Scrap" and "Metal Waste"
 * 13) Magnets and heat
 * 14) Death Mimicry?
 * 15) Mysterious fog
 * 16) Underwater flatus increases odor?
 * 17) Muscle question
 * 18) Bad guts last night - physical symptoms
 * 19) Easy Terminology Question

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 7


 * 1) Why do White Castles disagree with so many people?
 * 2) plasma to electricity
 * 3) Quntam energy compulsion cycle?
 * 4) membranes freely permeable to K+ (Na+?)
 * 5) SHARE ME THESE IDEAS
 * 6) Burglarizing snot from my nose
 * 7) What makes paper sticky when damp?
 * 8) Seagulls as game birds?
 * 9) Oil sands vs. Tar sands
 * 10) Coefficient of friction between wheel bore and axle
 * 11) indigestible edible muffins
 * 12) Full Moon Madness
 * 13) Stuttering and the neurotransmitter Dopamine
 * 14) i am trying to think
 * 15) Aerodynamics
 * 16) aking up from a bad dream
 * 17) Homework (but it's only a small part of a question in a series)
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 * 1) B (back to 120 v source) the wires here are connecting in a perallel fashion which means 120v are distributed equally however if they were connected something like this (let me try) (120)
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 * 1) Energy / momentum / mass
 * 1) Energy / momentum / mass

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 8


 * 1) Magnetic field formula derivation
 * 2) Ptolematic system
 * 3) Energy Supplements
 * 4) Inductive Heating
 * 5) Plasma TVs always have to be right side up or broken.
 * 6) issed periods
 * 7) Weight Training and Fat Loss
 * 8) Spiriling Mathematical Vortex Phenomenom - name??
 * 9) Animal species: how do they self identify for mating?
 * 10) Ductility of Uranium
 * 11) Look mum! No hands!
 * 12) erosol Deodorant Cans
 * 13) Physiology Videos
 * 14) A moon of a moon
 * 15) about the PTSD
 * 16) Looking for source
 * 17) Calculating errors
 * 18) roken solar water heaters
 * 19) First commercial portable data projector?
 * 20) Does size matter?
 * 21) separate populations and species

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 9


 * 1) info photocopiers
 * 2) Plane refuelling
 * 3) Artificial life
 * 4) Question regarding bacteria.
 * 5) Bindeez
 * 6) Rise in temperature
 * 7) Hole punch things
 * 8)  clinical medicine
 * 9) Bacteria pathogens with short incubation period
 * 10) Why? In the evolutionary sense...
 * 11) inaural Beat Brainwaves?
 * 12) wave equations that represent atomic orbitals
 * 13) Superconducting Magnetic Levitation Materials
 * 14) Sycosis
 * 15) function generator project
 * 16) Emission Spectra

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 10


 * 1) new technology
 * 2) Dove behavioural experiment
 * 3) What happens to the old heart
 * 4) hen will Wikiprotiens be avaliabale to the public?
 * 5) Motorola RAZR battery Comparison
 * 6) Spider picture: request species identification
 * 7) lecithin
 * 8) Battery power
 * 9) CCD arrrays
 * 10) Nocebo Effect
 * 11) Self-incompatibility in plants

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 11


 * 1) Acids...
 * 2) Totally worthwhile question about hamster genetics
 * 3) Does crying release endorphins?
 * 4) Medical marijuana question
 * 5) Penis Growth
 * 6) indian scientists with events and photographs
 * 7) special relativity and vn=0.633c
 * 8) Uranium Enrichment by Laser Process
 * 9) Egg sizes
 * 10) A metric to use for measuring force.

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 12


 * 1) pH value from dissociation constant
 * 2) Tin can water battery sparking experiment thing :-)
 * 3) Force of Impact?
 * 4) Artificial Sweeteners
 * 5) Ionization of acetic acid
 * 6) How much should we trust in sunglasses?
 * 7) How to add fat in raw milk
 * 8) Bizzare
 * 9) Moden physics
 * 10) Low pass filter
 * 11) Fireproofing MDF
 * 12) Lower pitch of voice
 * 13) Reccomendations for alarm clock
 * 14) Green Beer
 * 15) Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect
 * 16) Tea: the cup that cheers

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 13


 * 1) Glucose
 * 2) Cancer
 * 3) Chromosomes
 * 4) Atomic Model by Phillip Lenard in 1904
 * 5) Which way is up on a technical drawing?
 * 6) Spiriling Mathematical Vortex Phenomenom
 * 7) Pinewood derby friction
 * 8) Solution for world hunger
 * 9) tungsten heavy alloy
 * 10) Weight Loss
 * 11) fullname
 * 12) Oxygen-15
 * 13) Ear Bud Pain
 * 14) emen color/composition
 * 15) Plotting Titration Curves
 * 16) Mexican spider called El Conchlo

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 14


 * 1) Interested?
 * 2) Alcohol and Muscle loss
 * 3) smd vs. through-hole (moved from Computing desk)
 * 4) science behind the instrument triangle
 * 5) When you touch something, your atoms don't actually hit its atoms?
 * 6) Planet Fire
 * 7) Magnetic strip
 * 8) Acidity of oil
 * 9) How does taking breaks restore mental capacity?
 * 10) Improve hearing with training
 * 11) Rumour
 * 12) base metals
 * 13) PE at absolute zero
 * 14) what is the difference between denaturing and melting?
 * 15) What is rescued virus?

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 15


 * 1) Want to disinfect clothes during washing but without disinfectant smell
 * 2) SMD VS. through hole
 * 3) Is Miconazole nitrate safe to apply long-term to skin?
 * 4) Old age memory loss
 * 5) Solar Energy
 * 6) Cancer and Tumors
 * 7) glasses
 * 8) capacity of an electrical circuit
 * 9) Penguins and white bears habitat
 * 10) Has there been any research in the effect of visual cues on the perception of temperature?
 * 11) ipe & Delicious", "Green
 * 12) Science Magazine
 * 13) Veins
 * 14) ow Do E-Mail, FTP, Newsgroups and Message Boards, Mailing Lists, Chat Rooms, and Instant Messaging Work?
 * 15) about algae growth
 * 16) Coffee Question
 * 17) Loss of memory caused by aging
 * 18) Technology

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 16


 * 1) Osteon
 * 2) earthquakes
 * 3) incandescent/florescent bulbs
 * 4) If it isn't glowing, then what is it?
 * 5) Fall in a barrel of water
 * 6) Real Population Density
 * 7) Butter or Spread
 * 8) Singularity and the universe
 * 9) Medical lifting and transfer devices
 * 10) Physics graphs
 * 11) rticle of Faith in Evolution
 * 12) Parrots as artists...
 * 13) ision Question
 * 14) Radio direction finding
 * 15) Is
 * 16) Germination of mustard seeds and the effect pH has on the germination.
 * 17) Cream separation
 * 18) Plate Tectonics Question
 * 19) Racist biology
 * 20) Interview
 * 21) ET's map?
 * 22) Determining Our Expressed Genes

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 17


 * 1) Zero gravity
 * 2) Electric outlets
 * 3) Properties
 * 4) Myopia
 * 5) Cleaning improves the quality of Methamphetamine
 * 6) Body odor question
 * 7) Growing Bamboo in my House
 * 8) CMB and temperature of the universe
 * 9) Greenest Bottle
 * 10) Can someone identify this insect?
 * 11) Long, multilegged, hairy bugs
 * 12) is there a magic pill for getting smarter?
 * 13) Tire illision
 * 14) Can batman take pills?
 * 15) Pigs Eat Their Own Young
 * 16) Labia
 * 17) alt
 * 18) Today's Wikipedia Featured Picture...
 * 19) hockwave theory break?
 * 20) Itch
 * 21) Testosterone types

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 18


 * 1) Thyroid Hormones
 * 2) narcotics
 * 3) Lifestyle Change With Dramatic Results in One Year
 * 4) Superconducting Super Collider
 * 5) formula for an electric fan cooling a closed room
 * 6) Trend and Pattern
 * 7) Pig Gametes
 * 8) LEP vs Tevatron
 * 9) High blood pressure - can it be alleviated by controlled blood-letting?
 * 10) Memory Retrieval Technology
 * 11) Blood test
 * 12) lum

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 19


 * 1) CO 2 recovery and reuse
 * 2) Sub-Lightspeed Craft
 * 3) direction of rotation for IC engine
 * 4) More PSU Shocks
 * 5) molecular vibrations
 * 6) reticular fibers
 * 7) Liquid conversion
 * 8) Ear bleeding
 * 9) Treadmills
 * 10) peaker wiring question
 * 11) Affordable solar panels
 * 12) utation in nectariens
 * 13) earth and space science
 * 14) What is the complete breakdown for X55 Cr Mo V14?
 * 15) out feet
 * 16) science
 * 17) Focal point of an earthquake

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 20


 * 1) Medical term needed
 * 2) Magnavox MWD2205 4 Head VCR/DVD Player Issues
 * 3) MONTREAL PROTOCOLS
 * 4) ody colour changes due to diet
 * 5) CRO
 * 6) Blonde Hair/Blondes
 * 7) Splitting Hairs
 * 8) good control theory book?
 * 9) swollen legs
 * 10) aily intake of nuts
 * 11) blood type and sub antibodies
 * 12) METAR report
 * 13) Body heat - How's it done?

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 21


 * 1) Bullet velocities and wound types
 * 2) lisps(speech impediments)
 * 3) ravel to the Asteroid Belt
 * 4) nzymes
 * 5) Permanent magnets drain
 * 6) Refrigerators
 * 7) ooking wine & spoilage
 * 8) genetic epidemiology questions
 * 9) Vasopressin and caffeine
 * 10) Nuclear bombs

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 22


 * 1) Cyclops evolution
 * 2) Eyes
 * 3) Women inventors, inventors of colour
 * 4) Accretion disks
 * 5) slotted arrays
 * 6) what is to thrive?
 * 7) Too much sodium in the diet
 * 8) molectronics
 * 9) Viagra
 * 10) Saying about acceptance of an idea
 * 11) Video Out on graphics card > Broken TV?
 * 12) Picture of the Day
 * 13) What kind of squirrel is this?
 * 14) eight and gravity
 * 15) Helping a friend study physics
 * 16) Vasopressin and caffeine (again)
 * 17) atomic physics
 * 18) Ideal gas
 * 19) Snakeboards and non-holonomic locomotion
 * 20) Bottle Rockets
 * 21) Sinus tachycardia
 * 22) Verizon credit approval
 * 23) Dream recall and masturbation
 * 24) Question on the chemical composition of "crocodile" tears
 * 25) A new reward!
 * 26) Hydraulic transformer
 * 27) CO2 recovery method
 * 28) de broglie's wavelength
 * 29) MINALK GASOLINE SWEETENING
 * 30) Juvenile gulls
 * 31) How little sodium intake is too little?
 * 32) The TwinTowers Collapse
 * 33) Methodological naturalism's acceptance among scientists
 * 34) Coins and Bomb like things
 * 35) Music Enjoyment

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 23


 * 1) Ideal gas
 * 2) Snakeboards and non-holonomic locomotion
 * 3) Bottle Rockets
 * 4) Sinus tachycardia
 * 5) Verizon credit approval
 * 6) Dream recall and masturbation
 * 7) Question on the chemical composition of "crocodile" tears
 * 8) A new reward!
 * 9) Hydraulic transformer
 * 10) CO2 recovery method
 * 11) de broglie's wavelength
 * 12) MINALK GASOLINE SWEETENING
 * 13) Juvenile gulls
 * 14) How little sodium intake is too little?
 * 15) The TwinTowers Collapse
 * 16) Methodological naturalism's acceptance among scientists
 * 17) Coins and Bomb like things
 * 18) Music Enjoyment

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 24


 * 1) why is an ionic compount neutraly charged?
 * 2) identify birds?
 * 3) Why do different sugar ferment at different rates?
 * 4) Biology: looking for a word that describes the synchronzed movements of a swarm (fish, birds, insects, etc.)
 * 5) Fuel cell size and weight versus capacity
 * 6) Distance to sun
 * 7) tuberculosis
 * 8) smell of photocopying rooms?
 * 9) Are the spellings of minor planet names official?
 * 10) Odour question
 * 11) Butane
 * 12) Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
 * 13) Visibility of geostationary satellite
 * 14) Epidemiology is to disease as "_______" is to benefit
 * 15) Mental Health statistics

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 25


 * 1) Mental illness rates by US state
 * 2) Electromagnetic Spectrum
 * 3) kidney
 * 4) Ergography
 * 5) helpppppppppppppppp
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 * 1) What plant is this?
 * 2) physics
 * 3) Frequency and Tapering
 * 4) interpreting tensors
 * 5) Apple tree
 * 6) Charges of cations/anions influencing chemical behaviour?
 * 7) Occupational Statistics
 * 8) Geckoes of the Kalahari
 * 9) Popcorn

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 26


 * 1) Battery operated power strip?
 * 2) 6N Chromosome Number
 * 3) GPS
 * 4) What are the Effects of Orgasm/Ejaculation Cessation in Males
 * 5) Fish and drowning
 * 6) Naturally Shaped Eyes
 * 7) First personal knowledge of sex
 * 8) US territory Antarctica and Who has control over the south pole
 * 9) true cause
 * 10) Characterization
 * 11) Computer radiation
 * 12) van der waals question
 * 13) Memorial size for traffic deaths versus deaths from military conflict
 * 14) Blackhole evaporation
 * 15) Ionic Equations
 * 16) Mie Scattering and Cylinders
 * 17) Some math
 * 18) Value of fp in the Drake equation
 * 19) Neutral methyl orange
 * 20) GPS Signal degradation
 * 1) Neutral methyl orange
 * 2) GPS Signal degradation

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 27


 * 1) What kind of squirrel is this?
 * 2) Electrical Resistance Of Rubber
 * 3) Cost of argon
 * 4) piston analysis
 * 5) Rolling bush
 * 6) concurrent multiplier in nephron
 * 7) atom
 * 8) Markers
 * 9) Common chimp vs. bonobo
 * 10) Crossed covalent bonds
 * 11) Gas Laws
 * 12) Search for life
 * 13) Pluto, still technically a planet?
 * 14) Dehydrated fruit
 * 15) Saponification
 * 16) Burning Question
 * So, if we were to detect a fleet of alien ships entering orbit above the earth tomorrow...
 * 1) silencer
 * 2) In the event of alien spaceships arriving at earth
 * 3) Cinema sound v. ordinary sound
 * 4) How to increase IQ

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 28


 * 1) Spitting and wiggling
 * 2) WP styling mystery
 * 3) hormone therapy capillary breakdown
 * 4) Multimillion dollar idea?
 * 5) Limit?
 * 6) Photosynthesis.
 * 7) Energy = Photon?
 * 8) Energy
 * 9) Chaos Theory
 * 10) Linear beam theory
 * 11) ethylamine
 * 12) Fire preservation
 * 13) airborne radio direction finder
 * 14) lood pressure during sickness
 * 15) what the ****
 * 16) Are teeth techically considered bones?
 * 17) Photons
 * 18) Bug
 * 19) Below Freezing Temperatures & Pipe lines
 * 20) Possible explanations for the hexagonal storm on Saturn?
 * 21) Observing drug resistance developing by mutation
 * 22) Iapetus (moon of Saturn) as a Death Star-style artificial alien world/spacecraft thing...
 * 23) physics
 * 24) The farting vegitarian
 * 25) Color of light
 * 26) Seeing under water
 * 27) Barometric reading and water-vapor pressure
 * 28) How to reduce the temperature of something

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 29


 * 1) Female Vs. Male Orgasm
 * 2) self propulsing water vortex
 * 3) microprocessor heat
 * 4) Domestic Mains LED
 * 5) Linear and squared heat dissipation
 * 6) piston analysis details..
 * 7) Breathylizers & Smoking
 * 8) water in a container for a long time
 * 9) How can I stop my macaw going broody this year?
 * 10) Descendants of a common ancestor
 * 11) Viruses
 * 12) How does microwave crisper paper work?
 * 13) Glycolipid & Electric Microscopes
 * 14) assignment help--speed of light/color question
 * 15) LM3914/5/6 IC
 * 16) Does Einstein have a bacon number?
 * 17) Radiation sickness
 * 18) Allergies and Plasmapheresis
 * 19) Half-life

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 30


 * 1) glasses
 * 2) How do compass work?
 * 3) some organic stuff
 * 4) Blood Pressure
 * 5) Rhinitis vs. Cold
 * 6) how does a bidirectional turbine function?
 * 7) The upside of smoking - less minor, annoying colds?
 * 8) exemestane
 * 9) Suckling young
 * 10) What's the average price to build a wind turbine?
 * 11) The Hum
 * 12) Finding Alien Intelligent Signals - So What?
 * 13) Nuclear Steam Generator

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 March 31


 * 1) Comparing European Magpies with Black-backed Gulls again...
 * 2) science project build a volcano
 * 3) Bullet in the air?
 * 4) Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
 * 5) Magnetic energy
 * 6) Animal fat and Boric acid
 * 7) A Health Diet
 * 8) Bladder size
 * 9) flame temperatures
 * 10) Psychology !!
 * 11) Sexing at Great Panda
 * 12) HELP PHYLLIS CREATE A SAMPLE TREE DESTINED FOR CUTTING?
 * 13) Coke vs Speed
 * 14) Excercise and body heat
 * 15) I'm the most intelligent person in the world
 * 16) What makes things soft?