Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2011

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 1


 * 1) Modified Newtonian dynamics
 * 2) How do oral ansthestics with benzocaine work?
 * 3) ear piercing
 * 4) The secret magic of color intensity?
 * 5) GPS suction cup problem
 * 6) Physical Examination and Vital Signs
 * 7) Phenobarb level
 * 8) Incomputable things.
 * 9) Contorting the human body
 * 10) PhL, Ph1, Ph2
 * 11) 3 questions of the nature of electricity
 * 12) Are phosphate esters chiral?
 * 13) Weak interaction: help
 * 14) Short English People
 * 15) Eating a diamond
 * 16) Centre of the Universe

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 2


 * 1) measuring and irrational numbers
 * 2) True or false? (about frogs)
 * 3) dimensions
 * 4) Maxwellian conflict
 * 5) Historical scientific measurements

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 3


 * 1) observing the observer
 * 2) dividing some random units
 * 3) ie (Internet Explorer)
 * 4) Sydney Basin
 * 5) Oral Polio vaccine controversies
 * 6) Immbolization and chest pain
 * 7) Allergy to Meperidine
 * 8) Gravity
 * 9) Shannon diversity, notation
 * 10) what is magnetic polarity in a electric current
 * 11) STS-133 and auroras
 * 12) One eye
 * 13) Is the Big Bang, a fact?

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 4


 * 1) Refusal to investigate the existance of God.
 * 2) Flower identification
 * 3) Einstein in the Manhattan Project
 * 4) Time-travel photography
 * 5) Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Why the glacially slow testing of the blowout preventer?
 * 6) Where do very sticky stickers come from?
 * 7) Marshmallows in the microwave
 * 8) An infestation of ladybugs
 * 9) Pouring liquids
 * 10) Apple pH

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 5


 * 1) An attempted desription of Eternity,
 * 2) What makes tape sticky
 * 3) energy
 * 4) Food spoilage rates
 * 5) Run Lola Run “sideways thru time” question
 * 6) Kolmogorov complexity
 * 7) Are gays and lesbians fertile?
 * 8) Skyscraper
 * 9) Looking for an electronic engineering journal
 * 10) adaptive features of fish
 * 11) inverting integrators and time integral of voltage
 * 12) Image of a moleclue

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 6


 * 1) Better quality rest giving better quality work
 * 2) Where is water taken up in the digestive system?
 * 3) Two questions about filters
 * 4) If there's a heart defibrillator, why isn't there a brain defibrillator?
 * 5) weather
 * 6) Testosterone as an anti-depressant in men
 * 7) Period & Bloating
 * 8) Life on meteorites?
 * 9) weird question about evolution
 * 10) lamps
 * 11) florida homes
 * 12) Energy Densiy of Vacuum Quantum Fluctuations

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 7


 * 1) Reactions with super-heavy elements?
 * 2) The highest temperature
 * 3) exploding of supernova
 * 4) Petrochemical Distallation
 * 5) Where are the batteries on this bike?
 * 6) Excavations at ancient battle sites
 * 7) Budgerigar 'charming'?
 * 8) Acrylamide in commercial breads
 * 9) Cleaning bones
 * 10) Pistol shrimp & goby fish
 * 11) doxycycline

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 8


 * 1) Blood erythritol
 * 2) Gear trains
 * 3) Autotrophic respiration
 * 4) Flight angle
 * 5) spin
 * 6) I have a question.
 * 7) efficiency
 * 8) Standardization in Redox Titrations
 * 9) Inheritance traits and DNA
 * 10) Speed of back-and-forth motion

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 9


 * 1) dust mite covers and bed bugs
 * 2) Antimatter explosion
 * 3) Aftertaste
 * 4) Activity series
 * 5) Equivalence at Inflection
 * 6) aransremen
 * 7) Life expectancy according to age
 * 8) Ants that like sweat or human sweat?
 * 9) How many human species coexisted with eachother?
 * 10) Premature babies
 * 11) Airbus 321, air speed

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 10


 * 1) Cyclohexane smell
 * 2) A "fuel savings device" question
 * 3) cdma2000
 * 4) entanglement
 * 5) Myasthenia Gravis
 * 6) Feeling cold in the morning and body weight
 * 7) Will Global Warming cause the Moon recede faster or slower from the Earth?
 * 8) Chemical catalog
 * 9) Solution of NaOH at 40% m/m
 * 10) Does copier or printer ink contain metal?
 * 11) Probability cloud of a free electron?
 * 12) magnetic earth

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 11


 * 1) 18 year Lunar Perigee effects on tides?
 * 2) Diet theory
 * 3) monopole
 * 4) Drugs
 * 5) Big rip or Big crunch?
 * 6) Zoologist  specialising in Lepidoptera, "Busck", active beginning to mid C20?
 * 7) A F Braun, Lepidoptera, active mid C20
 * 8) Japanese and Chinese earthquakes
 * 9) Changing # of chromosomes in evolution
 * 10) Strange breakers on Japanese Tsunami
 * 11) Air circulation
 * 12) This should be a synch...
 * 13) Starvation and blindness

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 12


 * 1) how does a vacant space,hole( in electronis) have a mass?
 * 2) Beyaz and Natazia
 * 3) Why is blood typing routine in Mexico, but not in the United States?
 * 4) Tokyo's earthquake
 * 5) India a super power?
 * 6) F.A.G.E?
 * 7) Potentiometric Titration
 * 8) How did mid-twentieth-century fixists explain the dovetailing opposite coasts of the Atlantic Ocean?
 * 9) Limestone flakes changing color
 * 10) Preventing earthquake/Tsunami damage by triggering them?
 * 11) Seamounts and faults focus tsunamis?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 13


 * 1) Changes in personality test results and IQ when the subject is drunk
 * 2) Why do nuclear reactors have batteries for cooling?
 * 3) production of hydrogen from cooling water in nuclear accident -- was it a thermal decomposition?
 * 4) say me what are you thinking about this subject
 * 5) Hypertension and Asthma
 * 6) Why so cloudy on Venus ?
 * 7) Video
 * 8) To boldly go, though dead, where no man has gone before...
 * 9) With so many power plants out of commission, how will Japan import the needed power in the shorter term?
 * 10) Form work of Plinth Beam   or   Shuttering of Plinth Beam
 * 11) R68: Possible risk of irreversible effects
 * 12) Relativity postulates/ Frames of reference/ Escape velocity
 * 13) Bus travel

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 14


 * 1) Best tsunami strategy for boats?
 * 2) How far inland did the Sendai tsunami wave travel?
 * 3) A wave question
 * 4) Lack of preparation for foreseeable events at nuke plants
 * 5) The optical properties of ptfe (teflon)
 * 6) Characteristics of crab nebula
 * 7) Evolution of the solar core?
 * 8) My BS detector ...
 * 9) nuclear plant questions
 * 10) Sound of the Japanese earthquake
 * 11) Largest earthquake in human history
 * 12) What would happen, if wet hair would get into contact with electricity?
 * 13) Thirsty nuclear reactor
 * 14) Science Fiction Detachable Fingertips
 * 15) What is the difference between convection and conduction
 * 16) Silicon boiling point
 * 17) when diesel power failed why not restart one of the reactors & it's generator?
 * 18) Mattress

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 15


 * 1) Were Neanderthals more intelligent?
 * 2) atomic structure
 * 3) Space colonization
 * 4) Hormones
 * 5) Simple chalk oscillator
 * 6) Grains of salt/sand/sugar in a cup
 * 7) after effects of radiation in india

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 16


 * 1) Possible causes for temporary blindness due to car crash
 * 2) Which salt water, with a lot of salt or little salt, absorbs heat more quickly?
 * 3) Real E.T. or Hoax
 * 4) remote controlled helicopter
 * 5) Question about light clocks/ time dilation?
 * 6) Cooling the inside of the building
 * 7) what happens if signal peptidase malfunctions and fails to cleave the signal sequence?
 * 8) Flocking birds in SE England
 * 9) Arrow of time
 * 10) Energy Catalyzer
 * 11) How effectively can control rods stop fission?
 * 12) Bird ID help...
 * 13) Speed of WiFi
 * 14) What substance has the highest known melting point?
 * 15) Where are the robots?

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 17


 * 1) How often does Sansevieria trifasciata bloom?
 * 2) Scent
 * 3) More examples of millisievert doses?
 * 4) Full meltdown?
 * 5) Earths axis
 * 6) Storing electricity via “counterbalance” batteries?
 * 7) What exactly is the reason for the radioactivity?
 * 8) Iodized salt instead of iodide tablets
 * 9) Why does the World suffer from nuclear phobia?
 * 10) Elastic - is it okay to keep it stretched?
 * 11) Virgil C. Summer
 * 12) High oxidation numbers: above 8?
 * 13) Deliberate meltdown

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 18


 * 1) Breast milk and iron
 * 2) How the following time dilation senario in three frames of reference can be explained?
 * 3) Efficiency of nuclear reactor
 * 4) Radiofrequency ablation for typical atrial flutter
 * 5) Resource starvation or Maximum throughput scheduling for doing office paperwork?
 * 6) How much warning of the Japanese tsunami was given?
 * 7) How much radiation protection from an Armored car (military), Armored Personnel Carrier or Tank?
 * 8) Messenger Mercury orbiter
 * 9) Using nuclear bombs to generate power
 * 10) Evolution and sex
 * 11) Earth going in a straight line while spacetime is curved
 * 12) transmutation of nitrogen
 * 13) Safe energy?
 * 14) Leg injury
 * 15) Would painting your pool bottom and sides black made the water any warmer?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 19


 * 1) car
 * 2) lights
 * 3) Liver question
 * 4) Does bicarb remove the acidity of acetic acid (apple cider vinegar)?
 * 5) Identifying an actual triquetral bone
 * 6) Which is this?
 * 7) Matter to energy
 * 8) Aquatic minibeasts
 * 9) Ocular dominance vs. amblyopia
 * 10) Identifying the contents of a 55-gallon drum by the torn remnants of its MSDS
 * 11) Humans from Africa

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 20


 * 1) What would it take to invent a vacuum-operated toilet?
 * 2) How do Tomahawk missiles get to the target without getting shot down?
 * 3) Not a conspiracy theory question but a true scientific question
 * 4) global warming
 * 5) Expression for Thrust and Power coefficients
 * 6) Flat roof vs. sloped roof
 * 7) Birdsong, UK
 * 8) Why do old AA batteries appear to sweat?
 * 9) About duck being a red meat...
 * 10) Potassium Iodide
 * 11) Sea kelp and iodine
 * 12) Tidal energy from the Wash and the Severn
 * 13) Chernobyl vs Deepwater Horizon

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 21


 * 1) Why aren't Washlets common in the US yet?
 * 2) Radiation dose inside a working nuclear reactor?
 * 3) Buffalo
 * 4) Neurons and memories
 * 5) Expiry date of bottled water
 * 6) Annoying. Annoying. Annoying.
 * 7) vacuum electricity
 * 8) Abnormal darkness
 * 9) Big Bang echo
 * 10) Isn't space a gas?
 * 11) Why is work - often - not enjoyable?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 22


 * 1) Earth's tilt and space radiaton.
 * 2) tidal energy backup
 * 3) Escape velocity - vector or scalar?
 * 4) What is the most efficient wind turbine design, in terms of dollars-per-watt?
 * 5) 1. What are some tougher game shows for Watson to tackle? 2. ...
 * 6) High altitude effects indoors
 * 7) What is the maximum recommended amount of salt in water for dairy cattle?
 * 8) Time dilation
 * 9) Another question about neurons
 * 10) Real-time glacier data
 * 11) Poppy seeds

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 23


 * 1) Why isn't irradiation used on sushi and sashimi?
 * 2) Environmental Improvement Equipment
 * 3) Inflation, Big Bang terminology
 * 4) Thyroxine and circadian rhythm
 * 5) manmade earthquake
 * 6) Null 4 vectors
 * 7) Direct cell-phone to cell-phone call
 * 8) Carbon filter for iodine
 * 9) Amino acids and fatty acids in durian
 * 10) Shape of the Universe

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 24


 * 1) Falling of the Newton's Apple
 * 2) Sex in Space
 * 3) What is this owl?
 * 4) Time dilation 2
 * 5) Identifying sperrylite ore
 * 6) Triggering an earthquake
 * 7) Mystery mountain
 * 8) Body heat sun's heat
 * 9) Why iodine from nuclear reactor?
 * 10) coriolis effect in deep space?

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 25


 * 1) An interesting light wave problem
 * 2) 7 log = ?
 * 3) Emulating squinting
 * 4) Reverse osmosis versus evaporation for concentrating an aqueous solution
 * 5) vacuum space
 * 6) Electromagnetic waves
 * 7) Bird Identification - Junco?
 * 8) Flammable plastic
 * 9) red/blue. Exactly same speed?

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 26


 * 1) time
 * 2) prediction
 * 3) Question about the sub-division of "g"?
 * 4) Name/purpose for this railroad bridge feature.
 * 5) mosquito bites and race
 * 6) Fission products in environment => nuclear reactor breach?
 * 7) Does symbolic actions make people change their behaviour?
 * 8) collecting water ... using oil
 * 9) Solution to the colatitude part of Schrödinger in a Hydrogen atom
 * 10) another current
 * 11) Noah's Ark
 * 12) how did engineers calculate loads and stresses before the arrival of Newtonian physics and calculus?
 * 13) Double Recombination
 * 14) Math and radiation
 * 15) Fuse interrupted during oven use

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 27


 * 1) Is all life on earth decended from a common ancestor
 * 2) Relativity Question
 * 3) Getting rid of hazardous nuclear plant parts
 * 4) Galactic rotation
 * 5) snow on tree flowers
 * 6) Speed of light question
 * 7) Tourmaline in hair care appliances
 * 8) Blossoming wild shrubs in SE England
 * 9) angular momentum in beta decay
 * 10) Movement inside the body cavity
 * 11) Pinhole glasses v. sunglasses

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 28


 * 1) Melting point of graphite: Lower in Japan?
 * 2) car (celebrities registration of)
 * 3) Pressurized storage of liquids
 * 4) Methanopropylenes
 * 5) time 2
 * 6) Cow dung to absorb gamma rays
 * 7) Psychology of spending
 * 8) Physics of insect wings
 * 9) Headlights of a spaceship if turned on  relative to two different observers
 * 10) Vanadium oxidation
 * 11) Game theory: paying ransom
 * 12) Question regarding extraterrestrial radio pulses
 * 13) Interface for communicating with blind people

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 29


 * 1) Rendering Equations
 * 2) A test where E. Coli is not exceeding 3/g ???
 * 3) What percentage of the atoms in our bodies were born in the hearts of dying stars?
 * 4) gas heat
 * 5) Could you fit a model V12 or W16 onto a motor scooter and make it really work?
 * 6) Neutron star matter, on Earth
 * 7) What did the retired US Air Force nuclear missile commanders tell the National Press Club?
 * 8) What experimental recreational drug am I thinking of?
 * 9) Identify my skull
 * 10) carbon-dioxide atmosphere
 * 11) Superallowed beta decay.
 * 12) ingesting radiation

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 30


 * 1) Spreading  mineral matters  on earth
 * 2) Milligram scale
 * 3) I can't be bothered with the elaborate brown rice recipes.
 * 4) Protein subunit names vs gene names?
 * 5) Acceleration and relativity
 * 6) Antimatter, antigravity, spacetime, retrocausality, and antispace

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 March 31


 * 1) Space and matter shortly after the Big Bang
 * 2) Shrinking Sun
 * 3) Size of the universe
 * 4) Would I be able to donate extra skin and fat cells for $?
 * 5) Obsolete or speculative physical theories
 * 6) Temperature induced nuclear fission
 * 7) Isn't there an anti-hunger pill anywhere?
 * 8) Green Laser
 * 9) Identifying an old timey flying machine
 * 10) What is fertilising the blossoming shrubs in England?