Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2008

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 1


 * 1) Does anyone know the title of this painting about Galileo?
 * 2) what is in Arizona sand?
 * 3) Persistence of hearing
 * 4) SI Notation
 * 5) door chimes
 * 6) Reflection
 * 7) relativistic velocity masss ratio
 * 8) Energy Question
 * 9) The principle behind diffusion
 * 10) Human evolution
 * 11) Reverse transcriptase PCR
 * 12) composition of fecal matter
 * 13) Parent/baby size
 * 14) Moon at past
 * 15) Hot and cold areas
 * 16) how long is a piece of string????
 * 17) Casein Polymerisation Experiment

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 2


 * 1) Stoichiometric flame
 * 2) Analog Electric Gaussian Filter
 * 3) Blue flower identification
 * 4) Taq polymerase storage
 * 5) Burning CuSO4-solution on paper
 * 6) Women discharging too much of seminal fluid during intercourse affects their health
 * 7) Fat Content In Soap?
 * 8) What is "first-strand DNA"?
 * 9) Removal of sand from Sand Hills of Nebraska
 * 10) chemistry
 * 11) Steel hand soap?
 * 12) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 2
 * 13) Non-exorcise calories
 * 14) Luminescent dry-erase boards
 * 15) relativity
 * 16) Speaking of relativity-

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 3


 * 1) feeder fish
 * 2) What if Jupiter were more dense?
 * 3) Scull preservation
 * 4) physics
 * 5) Animals used to attack forts
 * 6) Oxide solubility
 * 7) Acceleration
 * 8) Energy Question
 * 9) Lice in a sauna
 * 10) what is electris current?
 * 11) Travel in Space
 * 12) Mineral residue in pan after boiling water
 * 13) Dog run and swim speeds
 * 14) Circuit analysis
 * 15) plate tectonics
 * 16) Why no self poisoning?
 * 17) Chromosome number changes

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 4


 * 1) What was the goal of the Wright Brothers?
 * 2) Glow-in-the-dark cats
 * 3) The death of Betelgeuse
 * 4) Photosynthesis question
 * 5) Equivalent of menstruation, but in men
 * 6) The Human Ship of Theseus thing...
 * 7) Insects in vegetables?
 * 8) quantity required of trypticase soy agar to test water for fecal coliform
 * 9) BBC Bird Question

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 5


 * 1) Avoiding the Nazi Swastika
 * 2) rodents with large binocular field of view
 * 3) relative calcium absorbtion into bones compared to teeth
 * 4) Physics
 * 5) Free protons? Free neutrons?
 * 6) The sweet taste of deuterium
 * 7) Is it true the Wright brothers were mocked?
 * 8) Color of hemoglobin
 * 9) Nanomedicine

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 6


 * 1) Beer and bowel movements
 * 2) Quick physics questions
 * 3) Horizontal Pressure Gradient
 * 4) Bitter chemical in broccoli
 * 5) Chemical compositions of some animal products/byproducts used in early warfare
 * 6) Familiar PTC flavo(u)r
 * 7) Aromatic Hydrocarbons and PVC or Polyethylene
 * 8) Ostrich fossil range
 * 9) Atmospheric (unit) vs. Bar (unit)
 * 10) Kylstron or RF cavity
 * 11) Synchrotron radiation
 * 12) Perigee
 * 13) What is "Free-space Laser Communication"?

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 7


 * 1) multivitamins smell bad?
 * 2) Smelly wet dogs
 * 3) Does an OH group make a molecule polar
 * 4) Tumors
 * 5) conservation of energy
 * 6) WARFARIN USE
 * 7) Metal specs
 * 8) somatic cell hybrid panel
 * 9) graphite

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 8


 * 1) sodium azide
 * 2) The Massive  Multiverse Question
 * 3) solar or wood what is best for hot water
 * 4) Siamese communication
 * 5) Schrödinger Equation
 * 6) How Halbach array works ?
 * 7) what mathematician (von neumann? erdos?) strongl argued for preemptive annihilation of Russia?
 * 8) radiation protection
 * 9) Red-eared sliders?
 * 10) Blueshifted stars?
 * 11) Image search related question
 * 12) Characteristics of skin Types
 * 13) Adding salt to boiling what-have-you

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 9

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 9


 * 1) Animal behaviour
 * 2) DNA sequencing
 * 3) Energy
 * 4) Firing on all pistons
 * 5) Which Australian native frog?
 * 6) Quantum Mechanics: Operator and Eigenvalue
 * 7) how do astronauts refer to spacesuits
 * 8) Chemistry
 * 9) A gamma ray burst extinction scenario
 * 10) Another birdsong?
 * 11) Tortoise speeds
 * 12) How do astronauts swallow ?
 * 13) Is it possible for someone of mixed race to be born transparent as a result?  Why not?
 * 14) Thermosynthesis & Radiosynthesis --
 * 15) Query: Name of inedible string/fiber found in bananas?
 * 16) What plant are these people selling?
 * 17) Lithium sunsets?
 * 18) This week's meteor
 * 19) Hawking radiation emission rate inversely proportional to black hole mass - why?

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 10


 * 1) Circular Motion
 * 2) Energy Drink Death
 * 3) Hair loss (non-balding)
 * 4) What is naphtha?
 * 5) Question
 * 6) Biosphere ?
 * 7) How can you ever fall in a black hole?
 * 8) Intermolecular Forces
 * 9) Batteries in series vs. parallel arrangement
 * 10) What bodily function is not possibel in space?
 * 11) One man's meat is another man's poison
 * 12) Molecular Excitement

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 11


 * 1) type 2 diabetes and hair loss
 * 2) Electron configuration in Lawrencium
 * 3) elements
 * 4) The Speed Of Dark......?
 * 5) Why do Rabbits hop?
 * 6) What is this equation?
 * 7) Why not swing?
 * 8) astronomy
 * 9) Alcohol injection
 * 10) Electron and Hole Concentration in Carbon

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 12


 * 1) vitamin A
 * 2) CHloroacetic acid
 * 3) chemotherapy or radiation therapy for obesity
 * 4) steroids
 * 5) Quantum Mechanics: Entangled Wave Function
 * 6) Cancer
 * 7) Hepatitis C
 * 8) Who makes the 120mm fans used on the space shuttle?
 * 9) Biochemistry
 * 10) Panic Attack while teaching my kid
 * 11) heat conductor
 * 12) we are looking for info regarding mining
 * 13) Cuttlefish wants to cuddle
 * 14) urea formation
 * 15) The "fish scales" in the clouds are back!

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 13


 * 1) Recent rise in oil prices?
 * 2) climate modelling simulation map-based continental land-influenced scenario?
 * 3) non-medical placebos?
 * 4) "Random outbursts give people cancer"?!?
 * 5) Goatse - how does he do that with his butt?
 * 6) psa levels
 * 7) About Albert Einstien (E=mc^2)
 * 8) Tell me if it' snot a good idea....
 * 9) volume of space
 * 10) buisness
 * 11) Gases "dissolved" in liquids; fish breathing
 * 12) International Space Station
 * 13) IV nurse (medicine)
 * 14) What are the night-blooming vegetables?
 * 15) if cocaine is just a molecule, why dont peeple synthesize it?

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 14


 * 1) physic
 * 2) Quantum Physics
 * 3) What species of seal or walrus is this?
 * 4) RL circuit
 * 5) Ozone in the interstellar medium
 * 6) what decides the direction of rotation of diesel engines?
 * 7) Knee problems
 * 8) Omnipresent God
 * 9) Indian pharmaceutical companies
 * 10) Chemical Process Pipe Labeling
 * 11) Evolutionary biology and sexual selection in humans
 * 12) 3000 Farad "ultracapacitor". Is it a joke?
 * 13) Windy metro entrances
 * 14) Gustatory table of elements
 * 15) Speed of fire ant destruction
 * 16) Can you look up this physical property for me? I've exhaused my available references
 * 17) Thunderstorms

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 15


 * 1) Quantum Physics II
 * 2) can we produce 50,000 units of electricity from solar energy
 * 3) Observes & speed of light
 * 4) Kinetic energy and related matters
 * 5) Effect of carbon dioxide on photosynthesis
 * 6) Wikimania - is it an academic conference?
 * 7) Metabolism and conservation of energy
 * 8) Skeleton

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 16


 * 1) Toxicity of non-stick pan lining?
 * 2) Horizontal search functions (in visual perception)
 * 3) Is Energy relative?
 * 4) DBasing the money supply
 * 5) artificially macerated food
 * 6) How much human evolution is yet to come?
 * 7) Winter Solstice
 * 8) Radiography in Thailand?
 * 9) what is the most effective toothpaste?
 * 10) Speed in space(not the drug)

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 17


 * 1) Brushing teeth with bleach?
 * 2) what is the plant in this picture?
 * 3) Did the Big Bang go bang
 * 4) eggs
 * 5) Sodium-potassium pumps
 * 6) Phosphodiester bonds
 * 7) infrared raman spectroscopy
 * 8) Minimum entropy
 * 9) swing??
 * 10) temp & fire
 * 11) Speed of ...
 * 12) Diabetes
 * 13) It brings tears to my eyes...
 * 14) 1-Octen-3-ol CAS numbers?
 * 15) Magical self cleaning wound
 * 16) Searching for massively-multiplayer synonyms in PubMed
 * 17) Chem Acid Stoichimetry problem
 * 18) Part of the USS Pampanito's hull
 * 19) Paraffin/aluminium foil

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 18


 * 1) More quantum physics...
 * 2) Infrared raman spectroscopy
 * 3) global warming
 * 4) MSM expiry
 * 5) Radio transmitter power
 * 6) Atomic Radio clocks in Bulgaria
 * 7) Genetic probabilities
 * 8) 300,000 Elephants in Chad?
 * 9) Paramagnetic metal that do not become magnetized.
 * 10) What is cyclooctatetraene?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 19


 * 1) Insanity...
 * 2) Biology: What are these caterpillars doing?
 * 3) Science in my gloves
 * 4) Two questions
 * 5) How do you poison a dress?
 * 6) hey
 * 7) Tantalum hafnium carbide
 * 8) New car smell
 * 9) New Solar Chip
 * 10) Gravity
 * 11) Battleships in space
 * 12) Wiki Myth Busters...
 * 13) medical terminology, not sure of spelling or existence
 * 14) Turtle identification

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 20


 * 1) Capacitor-Batteries
 * 2) Tuberculosis
 * 3) Foxes in the UK
 * 4) sound transducer
 * 5) Quantum Mechanics: Orthogonality of Dirac Delta Function
 * 6) VHF/FM Radio Frequencies
 * 7) spin and (hyper)complex numbers -- why is the quanta of angular momentum 1/2
 * 8) Tapdancing gulls
 * 9) Hallucinations making everything appear very big or very small
 * 10) Radioactive decay
 * 11) scientific name

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 21


 * 1) Free falling human body
 * 2) amplifier
 * 3) Specific Heat Capacity
 * 4) Modeling Friction
 * 5) universe
 * 6) Boomerang returns in space. Make 'splain that one now!
 * 7) Metric expansion of space
 * 8) "He's got balls..."
 * 9) dimethyl sulfone decomposition

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 22


 * 1) Automatic crossbow
 * 2) water heater is making a whining sound
 * 3) Best Food
 * 4) Garlic for treatment of wounds
 * 5) Genetic mutation resulting in deformities of the offspring
 * 6) Children's medicine 100 years ago.
 * 7) The Smallest?
 * 8) Resolution of the naked eye
 * 9) speed of an ant
 * 10) The fabric of space
 * 11) Where is the centre of the universe?
 * 12) Leap from a burning building
 * 13) Non-pop popcorn
 * 14) How the brain processes visuals
 * 15) Could physicians work as epidemiologists?

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 23


 * 1) Trying to recall something I read years ago
 * 2) Long-term effects of 0 g
 * 3) "Jumping" of blood vessels around the eye
 * 4) can someone identify this flower for me?
 * 5) Science+nutrition
 * 6) Calcium Chloride re Dehumidifier
 * 7) Black Hole Question
 * 8) The Cat's Brain Compared to a Human's Brain
 * 9) Why The Sky Is Blue?
 * 10) FingerPrints
 * 11) Does water "go off"?
 * 12) Snake venom - quick question
 * 13) Eggs?
 * 14) Bronner's liquid soap turns white when cold

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 24


 * 1) Mean tropical year
 * 2) how do i become taller?
 * 3) Bamboo
 * 4) How come so many invasive species come from Japan?
 * 5) Big bang expansion thing
 * 6) Forgive me for asking a homework question, but how many different hormones are there in the human body?
 * 7) Movie science: what can or can't you tell about a torpedo from its sound?
 * 8) arsenic weight per gallon
 * 9) collapsible longboard???
 * 10) Static zappage
 * 11) Why is violet reddish?
 * 12) Cladistic definition of crown groups
 * 13) Balloons and teleportation
 * 14) More Teleportation

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 25


 * 1) Red wine "breathing"
 * 2) Hormonal Cycles In Men
 * 3) How do I become a stuntman?
 * 4) Hanging swamps
 * 5) online versus offline wetlands
 * 6) Atomic Force Microscopy
 * 7) What model Saab is this?
 * 8) Stuck in fetal position?
 * 9) Battery life meter
 * 10) Axes of rotation, revolution, magnetic field, of the earth
 * 11) Effect of elliptical orbit of earth on climate
 * 12) Concentrating DNA samples
 * 13) Dutch tulip forecast
 * 14) The scientific method
 * 15) Mobile Phone Noise
 * 16) Why do deep footprints in snow look blue?
 * 17) Quantum Number Sets

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 26


 * 1) Faster than light/Big Bang question
 * 2) Red cross society in Taiwan?
 * 3) Blood/urine tests
 * 4) Hail
 * 5) Regenerating Limbs
 * 6) Intestinal Dysbiosis
 * 7) global warming
 * 8) Time on the moon
 * 9) Medical equipment grounding

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 27


 * 1) Turtles
 * 2) Why a Horseshoe-shaped Gamut of Visible Colors?
 * 3) Alternative medicine
 * 4) Moon falling into Earth
 * 5) E=MC^2

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 28


 * 1) Shape of the Milky Way Galaxy
 * 2) Quantum: Measurement vs. Schrödinger Equation
 * 3) Nuclear fission
 * 4) STS-123
 * 5) doctors whose expertise is diabetics
 * 6) Climate change
 * 7) Wilkins Ice Shelf
 * 8) Earth Hour - feasable or not?
 * 9) what causes water drops to join up?
 * 10) Thermal ballast
 * 11) Talking Budgerigars - sex difference

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 29


 * 1) Canned tuna
 * 2) cd recycling
 * 3) Sodium Bicarbonate Vs Constipation?
 * 4) What is the difference between a UPS and a inverter ?
 * 5) blackout --- caused by global warming?
 * 6) Rules for making Baryons
 * 7) Top Ten Chemicals Produced
 * 8) Do residential security lights reduce burglary?
 * 9) efficiency question.
 * 10) What do you see?

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 30


 * 1) Tongue rolling genes
 * 2) gas molecule unpredictability
 * 3) "japanese algae" keychain
 * 4) Hawaii up from Alaska...?
 * 5) Reversing the effect of Sun tanning on skin colour.
 * 6) MA and VR Can Opener
 * 7) What do t hese mean?
 * 8) add milk now or later?
 * 9) North American bird ID, complex song, PBS "life of birds"
 * 10) Calculating Mechanical Advantage
 * 11) Friction
 * 12) Would a radio work under 1 foot of water?
 * 13) Drinking water
 * 14) Slowpitched softball
 * 15) Global warming
 * 16) Mirror, Mirror

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 March 31


 * 1) Something semi-interesting about Cockatiels...
 * 2) Sharing genes with bacteria
 * 3) DIY Lab hood
 * 4) Dosage of medication
 * 5) Nanoparticles
 * 6) hair loss
 * 7) Buffer solutions
 * 8) Pain of death
 * 9) Commercial aviation  Airports: Penalty box
 * 10) Thermoregulation
 * 11) Architects in construction project
 * 12) Radio waves, microwaves, cancer
 * 13) Bekenstein Bound