Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2010

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 1


 * 1) Scientocracy
 * 2) nuclear versus fossil
 * 3) star composition
 * 4) Why not take from the sun?
 * 5) Three (or more)-particle annihilation events
 * 6) Native American Height
 * 7) Re: The Seinfeld Junior Mints episode
 * 8) Citric acid
 * 9) Semantic web
 * 10) LCD Clocks and Plasma Balls
 * 11) Line between species
 * 12) water
 * 13) blatter infections and pregnancy
 * 14) Colder after chewing gum
 * 15) Malitol
 * 16) Exorcists after "the Exorcist"
 * 17) TV color

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 2


 * 1) Solving a simplified 1-D time-independent Schrodinger-esque equation
 * 2) Long legged wasps
 * 3) Coreinae - Insect families/tribes
 * 4) Speckled Bear vs. Spectacled Bear
 * 5) magnetic field
 * 6) Change Simulink Algebric Loop Solver Props
 * 7) plasma
 * 8) Male and female human voices
 * 9) Super-fast spaceship
 * 10) Are chickens intelligent enough to suffer?
 * 11) thermoelectric generators

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 3


 * 1) salt peter
 * 2) brine shrimps
 * 3) Why would anyone use a pH meter instead of an indicator for acid-base titrations?
 * 4) Rate of freezing vs temperature
 * 5) Night Purge Ventilation
 * 6) general principles of pharmacy technician practice
 * 7) Why bring eggs to room temperature?
 * 8) Sexuality of Hedgehogs
 * 9) inhaling
 * 10) String theory
 * 11) mass/weight question
 * 12) Science for Dummies website
 * 13) Turbulent gas
 * 14) Traffic
 * 15) Nothing but the tooth
 * 16) Fire drills
 * 17) Is there a type of Bee/Wasp/Hornet that doesn't have a stinger?
 * 18) anti-gravaton beam
 * 19) theory of relativity
 * 20) Antimatter
 * 21) Sunlight
 * 22) cause of exponential expansion of the universe
 * 23) artificial intelligence
 * 24) anti-gravity and any violent explosion
 * 25) What is leaching?
 * 26) Reversing entropy
 * 27) Warp Drive

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 4


 * 1) In-text and Reference Citation for websites and textbooks
 * 2) euthanasia
 * 3) Vectors
 * 4) Who can make the definition of "Space" understandable to users with a high-school education?
 * 5) Inverted crater on Mars
 * 6) American Cat Scans
 * 7) Compressing Water
 * 8) What type of medical specialist does this?
 * 9) Plasma
 * 10) Sun size
 * 11) Highway-side notches
 * 12) Popcorn
 * 13) How intelligent are beavers
 * 14) PAD vs PADI (peptidylarginine deiminase)
 * 15) Unknown beetle that looks like a large ladybug
 * 16) Is there any life on the planet Earth?
 * 17) Council house with air conditioning
 * 18) energy from earth's rotation
 * 19) acidosis
 * 20) zoonoses from dogs
 * 21) Queen bee naughty bits

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 5


 * 1) Water for Hydrogen Fuel in Deserts (cont.)
 * 2) What does the integral of the position function represent?
 * 3) Sun
 * 4) Thinking brain?
 * 5) Goedel and Wikipedia
 * 6) do we benefit in any way from c?
 * 7) Entropy
 * 8) panda
 * 9) Who's the best when nature calls?
 * 10) Microbial locomotion time
 * 11) 120 volt equipment
 * 12) Matter
 * 13) Ant
 * 14) Species upper limit?
 * 15) relationship between entropy in physics and entropy in information science?
 * 16) Any known planets with satellites with satellites?
 * 17) Telescopes
 * 18) OTC Cryogenics to treat warts or moles
 * 19) 120v v. 240v
 * 20) Genus name
 * 21) A little confusion concerning E=mc^2
 * 22) Protein architecture, motif, domain, fold, topology.
 * 23) Positive and negative features of CATH and SCOP
 * 24) Atoms
 * 25) Anthropophobia?
 * 26) Changed the earth's axis??
 * 27) voltage

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 6


 * 1) Genetics and cousins
 * 2) red shift versus blue shift
 * 3) red shift and blue shift for objects in the Universe
 * 4) Freeze data outside U.S.
 * 5) Static electricity damage
 * 6) Relativity
 * 7) Circular DNA
 * 8) Surviving in a Vacuum
 * 9) Space question
 * 10) Orders of magnitude (voltage) help.
 * 11) Uncommon features of a protein
 * 12) perfect circle
 * 13) Convergent evolution
 * 14) Appropriate Technology Film

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 7


 * 1) Saturn and Jupiter
 * 2) classifying reaction?
 * 3) star birth, life,and death equation and graph
 * 4) Life expectancy
 * 5) Temperature of outer space
 * 6) mind waves
 * 7) Corrosion of copper
 * 8) Cow pats
 * 9) pus-like sinus stuff
 * 10) Pineapple
 * 11) Oldest survival animal species?
 * 12) Extra Life expectancy for the health-concious
 * 13) Telescope
 * 14) Intron question
 * 15) Carbon planets
 * 16) Brain calories
 * 17) Single source for printed label nutrition data and all or most UPC/PLC codes
 * 18) In-text citation and reference for textbooks and websites in scientific journals
 * 19) Cyborgs
 * 20) F-ATPase
 * 21) measurement for light
 * 22) Disulfide bond connecting two adjacent helices not connected by a loop/turn
 * 23) Talking parrots
 * 24) Chicken butt

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 8


 * 1) Scientific journals
 * 2) Colour of glass
 * 3) The Lions
 * 4) bombardment of hydrogen isotopes with neutrons
 * 5) Can persistent high blood pressure be someone's fault?
 * 6) menstrual period information
 * 7) Orbit
 * 8) Why is hunger so mild?
 * 9) An interesting website
 * 10) menstrual period correlation with Metonic and other lunar cycles
 * 11) scientists
 * 12) gravity versus electromagnetic forces
 * 13) Lorentz transformations
 * 14) about thrusters used in the spacecrafts
 * 15) Happiness
 * 16) Artificial diamond
 * 17) What is meant by decreasing the "vacuum"???
 * 18) Seasonal fruits
 * 19) English name of an object
 * 20) Charting unknown part of space
 * 21) adaptaion of bones to our environment
 * 22) Truth or myth about rebuilding the brain?
 * 23) So how did we all get here in the first place?
 * 24) White Sussex hen

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 9


 * 1) Yellow hands
 * 2) plastic? it breaks weird
 * 3) plant growing
 * 4) price wiki
 * 5) Name of an "larva"
 * 6) Mobile phones on airplanes
 * 7) Half life zpe device for book
 * 8) nuclear power station sites
 * 9) What's the average amount of caffeine in a single medium roasted coffee bean?
 * 10) Convert to mhtml
 * 11) Black is black?
 * 12) magnetic field
 * 13) Reaction type
 * 14) Lorentz dilation?
 * 15) Nomogram construction
 * 16) Properties of metals

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 10


 * 1) crazy raccoon
 * 2) slouching
 * 3) Minkowski Diagram
 * 4) chrome sink
 * 5) Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
 * 6) weather
 * 7) Bubbles
 * 8) Structure of the earth
 * 9) Biogas from plant and animal waste
 * 10) Heating through air resistance
 * 11) Nanomaterials
 * 12) (Arabic question)
 * 13) Prices of some raw materials
 * 14) Dehydrated people
 * 15) is it possible to express matter in the form of sound?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 11


 * 1) Spinach and strength
 * 2) Fluorescence in polar and nonpolar environments
 * 3) nitrile gloves
 * 4) advances needed to truly democratize the Internet?
 * 5) Cooking oatmeal
 * 6) expansion of the universe
 * 7) nuclear candle
 * 8) Shielding against Electro magnetic induction
 * 9) Birds fall out of the sky?
 * 10) Pressure in a liquid
 * 11) Boiling water
 * 12) Temperature of Diet Coke
 * 13) Fermi problem: neurons vs. transistors
 * 14) Free Particle
 * 15) Too much Potassium in diet
 * 16) Chemical compounds with many elements
 * 17) Addicts -  do they prefer to be cured?
 * 18) Mix 'n' Match genetic sequencing

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 12


 * 1) Looking for a bird
 * 2) Reflex subwoofer query
 * 3) Likely outcome of an all-out thermonuclear war between the US and Russia at the height of their nuclear capabilities?
 * 4) csi
 * 5) orbit of moon
 * 6) is there intelligent sleep like beauty sleep?
 * 7) Lorentz invariant
 * 8) do you retain information better if you sleep on it?
 * 9) center of mass
 * 10) Deriving the Lorentz transformations
 * 11) tidal forces
 * 12) Animals that feed only on animals of their own kind
 * 13) Terminal cancer
 * 14) lab rats
 * 15) galactic spiral arms

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 13


 * 1) Sodium bicarbonate
 * 2) The mass of a singularity
 * 3) the frog still alive
 * 4) Was there sex in the biosphere?
 * 5) Cylindrical Fuels rods??any
 * 6) MATERIALS USED IN BATHROOMS
 * 7) is it possible to boil water through the power of the mind alone?
 * 8) Radio waves
 * 9) acid reflux
 * 10) Feigning death drug

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 14


 * 1) Is it possible to cause a prolonged temperature increase (eben a small one) in the skull just through mental activity?
 * 2) A silly question
 * 3) Brain acceleration?
 * 4) Temperature of a high-gravity planet?
 * 5) Is Chrysler 300 equiped with brake override system?
 * 6) Marine Creatures
 * 7) Methane
 * 8) How can i analyse......subject
 * 9) barbs
 * 10) Moments in space
 * 11) A simple Buffer Question
 * 12) no longer on speaking terms
 * 13) Drainage Systems in New York State
 * 14) Fission Reactors
 * 15) is it possible to detect, at a distance the power of the mind?
 * 16) egg sexer or egg sexing

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 15


 * 1) "Survival of the fittest"
 * 2) Applications of Quantum Electrodynamics
 * 3) interstitial defects in ice
 * 4) Ammonium chloride as a Korean condiment?
 * 5) Oddball coordinates/geolocation
 * 6) gsp
 * 7) Software for synchronising separately recorded sound to HD video
 * 8) Feeding stick insects
 * 9) the 80s
 * 10) suicide
 * 11) A.I. Apollo Program
 * 12) Sneezing and hair length

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 16


 * 1) 3,3-Dimethylmalic acid
 * 2) Squirrel identification
 * 3) Compression of purely digitally animated films
 * 4) a question about light
 * 5) Scientific results on animal telepathy?
 * 6) Treadmill vs uphill
 * 7) Psychological tests, job interviews
 * 8) Photon
 * 9) Economical preference gene?
 * 10) Noise in MRI scan
 * 11) Avocado pit use and safety
 * 12) Programmable food
 * 13) "Te voy a llevar a﻿ un pinche vaile!"
 * 14) Flow through a pipe
 * 15) Electrode potential of ethanol
 * 16) Bee Flies
 * 17) most effective footrace training?
 * 18) Flour from Grasses
 * 19) Chemistry
 * 20) strontium iodide

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 17


 * 1) Chocolate/Theobromine poisoning
 * 2) Galaxies as iron filings
 * 3) Chart
 * 4) Question on Sapphire and Blue Emrald.
 * 5) My telescope
 * 6) Decomposition
 * 7) Digoxin in health
 * 8) Animal clitorises
 * 9) Time Dilation
 * 10) nitrogen temp
 * 11) if you eat too much, will your body not digest it?
 * 12) Cyclooxygenase-1 in thrombocytes
 * 13) Organic  chemistry
 * 14) choking
 * 15) don't we want to use non-nucleophilic base to form epoxides? (unwanted diols)
 * 16) New York State Regions

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 18


 * 1) Wild bird with a foot band
 * 2) has anyone ever been born completely reversed?
 * 3) Inflation (cosmology)
 * 4) Trains
 * 5) Purpose
 * 6) Multiverse
 * 7) blue chemical
 * 8) bleach
 * 9) Narcissus in the aquarium
 * 10) Calculation of lifespan of the sun
 * 11) expansion exceeding speed of light
 * 12) Which converter?
 * 13) auxins - geotropism and photo-tropism
 * 14) string theory and space
 * 15) Freshly-made Bradford Reagent
 * 16) 3D TV and Animals
 * 17) Current over large distances
 * 18) How long does a snake need to be in order to constrict an average-sized man?
 * 19) Decay of large dead animal in water
 * 20) Aquarium bugs above the waterline

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 19


 * 1) 360 degree lightmeter
 * 2) Using a digital camera as a light meter
 * 3) psychology
 * 4) I'm quite curious how these tricks are done:
 * 5) Learning Fourier Transform in 2 days
 * 6) Fourier transform 2
 * 7) CFL Afterglow
 * 8) Reusable chemical, cyronic or organic movie camera?
 * 9) PROJECT WORK
 * 10) ignitor and voltage
 * 11) NMR
 * 12) Extractor fan overrun timer
 * 13) effects of alkaline on carbohydrates
 * 14) Anti-plasmodial

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 20


 * 1) Location of herpes hideout
 * 2) Symbol for angular impulse
 * 3) Angular friction
 * 4) <<>>  Is it possible to excite BOTH light particles (in a small area) and the air surrounding them, with the SAME charge?
 * 5) Confused about Fourier Transform
 * 6) Phase
 * 7) Essential oils
 * 8) Relationship between Bragg planes, atoms, unit cells in crystallography
 * 9) determining a person's age
 * 10) Solar power satellite
 * 11) raw data on smoking deaths
 * 12) Testosterone and intelligence

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 21


 * 1) Intermittent blood supply
 * 2) Lorentz invariant
 * 3) Short-pulse NMR
 * 4) speaker and receivers
 * 5) guns in video games
 * 6) Copperhead lookalike?
 * 7) hairdryers
 * 8) Natural Gas
 * 9) Medical Advice
 * 10) Meaning of retrolateral and prolateral
 * 11) Reaction quotient, dependent on standard state?
 * 12) Teleportation
 * 13) Fourier Transform
 * 14) are thermal baths bad for the skin
 * 15) CO2 in Antarctic Ice Sheet

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 22


 * 1) Tides
 * 2) How did the Atlas ICBM navigate?
 * 3) Cloud base measurement
 * 4) Number of conjugated double bonds and photon energy absorbed
 * 5) Radiocarbon dating
 * 6) Sabbath feeling
 * 7) Theory of relativity
 * 8) Angular frequency in x-ray crystallography
 * 9) Emission (Fluorescence) in Polar and hydrophobic environments
 * 10) Is E2 (17beta-estradiol) a dioxin?
 * 11) Orbiting junk

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 23


 * 1) "Forces of Potential"?
 * 2) Coriolis Force
 * 3) Air pollution UK
 * 4) Question about blackbodies and emissivity.
 * 5) aircrafts
 * 6) Pressure in a liquid
 * 7) Damage due to loss of circulation in extremities
 * 8) What is the quantum model for refraction of light?
 * 9) National Medal of Science
 * 10) Thiomersal/Thimerosal
 * 11) Scrambled eggs
 * 12) Thermal Radiation
 * 13) Trailing off...
 * 14) UH-60L data busses ....
 * 15) Rh disease and James Harrison
 * 16) Avalanches

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 24


 * 1) Bone marrow donations
 * 2) About coefficient of mastication
 * 3) Question on Scientists
 * 4) Editing Wikipedia
 * 5) DC supply  in tripping circuits
 * 6) Screw Compressor
 * 7) testicles
 * 8) has anything impossible ever happened for sure, well verified, with scientific consensus (there will be a followup question)
 * 9) How much of the Sun's energy is used for light and how much is used for heat?
 * 10) standing on one leg with eyes closed
 * 11) How long does it take to see changes in blood cholesterol levels?
 * 12) Another vacuum cleaner drive belt bites the dust
 * 13) household voltage and frequency
 * 14) population stratification in a normal sample of the general population
 * 15) Dentists identifying need for fillings by x-ray
 * 16) What's in a can of tuna?
 * 17) supermarket salt + vinegar
 * 18) Unusual rock
 * 19) Finding amount of chloride in a solution using ion-selective electrode

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 25


 * 1) Currency manipulator
 * 2) Questions about casting resin
 * 3) cosmology
 * 4) what, in a physical sense, is an impossibility?
 * 5) this question's for you SteveBaker - is this demo rigged?
 * 6) How might a person be exposed to (x number of) rems?
 * 7) Political spectrum
 * 8) Space colonisation
 * 9) JASSA
 * 10) meat products
 * 11) Are ad hominen reasons sometimes reasonable?
 * 12) Nicotine and the kappa-opioid receptor
 * 13) Terminology for planetary orbits
 * 14) Converting from eV to cm^-1
 * 15) Taxonomic promotion

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 26


 * 1) Biology (Incompatible bloods?)
 * 2) Cityscape and skyline
 * 3) G-23 paxilon hydrochlorate (PAX)
 * 4) Moon crashes into the Earth
 * 5) black and white
 * 6) Ethanol
 * 7) Rusted hammer
 * 8) Pyrophoric qualities of Ni-MH cells
 * 9) Diet defined by required and forbidden foods
 * 10) Chile

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 27


 * 1) Do topical vitamins still work if dietary intake is sufficient?
 * 2) Interference (wave propagation)
 * 3) gravity
 * 4) dark matter
 * 5) F-CENTERS IN CRYSTAL DEFECTS
 * 6) Air pressure drop
 * 7) How do we make a bathtub full of lather and bubbles like how they show in the movies?
 * 8) What is the spin rate of a black hole?
 * 9) Flying Black Holes
 * 10) Salty garlic
 * 11) Hydrogenation of vinyl chloride
 * 12) If your tongue was removed...
 * 13) Yawning
 * 14) Missed beats

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 28


 * 1) Stomach Cancer Genome
 * 2) Where to start with extreme theoretical physics?
 * 3) The Russian Sleep Experiment
 * 4) Dust Bowl
 * 5) Lowering tone as I stir drink mix
 * 6) will bleach oxidise hemiacetals?
 * 7) Anyone know about Victoria building and guttering?
 * 8) Turnover number
 * 9) If there was a giant hole through the Earth...

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 29


 * 1) Electroweak theory
 * 2) What muscle is this, and how do I exercise it?
 * 3) Heat producers
 * 4) Space Radiation and the Earth's Atmosphere —how are high-frequency light rays affected?
 * 5) Nuclear bomb on Jupiter?
 * 6) theobromine's effect on pets like dog or cat
 * 7) The patterns on windows made by frost
 * 8) Sinus Infections
 * 9) Torque and angular momentum
 * 10) Defrosting and re-freezing
 * 11) Grasping the EPT
 * 12) What is the psychological term denoting the strong reaction (weeping, sobbing) when divulging a traumatic experience?

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 30


 * 1) US household voltage
 * 2) Role of the Pudendal Nerve in male sexual function?
 * 3) PAC MAN MOON
 * 4) Number of organs
 * 5) Evolution - E. coli
 * 6) why pumice stone
 * 7) transpiration
 * 8) Scalar energy
 * 9) Why does swishing water help my toothache?
 * 10) Cancer disease
 * 11) number of sites
 * 12) calorie consumption
 * 13) Broom handle manufacture

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 31


 * 1) Dying from "old age"/"natural causes"
 * 2) I'm not seeing the cataclysm here.
 * 3) Light Cones in GR
 * 4) E. vigintioctopunctata or H.  vigintioctopunctata?
 * 5) Electronvolts
 * 6) Galileo & GPS
 * 7) LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS
 * 8) melting ice
 * 9) Pouring antimatter into a black hole
 * 10) What kind of animal is this...
 * 11) Hurricanes