Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2012

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 1


 * 1) Number 27
 * 2) How did ruminant animals evolve?
 * 3) Is tree-free paper recyclable?
 * 4) Asteroid deflection
 * 5) Hypersaline sensitivity
 * 6) Missing percent daily value on Food Nutritional information
 * 7) Electromagnetic railgun firing projectiles at 9,000km/h!
 * 8) Cube (film)
 * 9) Iridium windows ever really used in teletherapy devices to treat cancer?
 * 10) Baryons, Quarks & the Pauli Exclusion Principle
 * 11) Motorola RAZR V3i - Voicemail Problems
 * 12) Hardiness (plants)
 * 13) Gravitational vs Relativistic time dilation
 * 14) Cherry blossom front - formula
 * 15) In a PnP BJT transistor, the base, or the n is connected to both a negative terminal and a positive one. How can it be so?
 * 16) Joints - not medical advice, just curiosity
 * 17) Genetic recombination

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 2


 * 1) Question about experiment
 * 2) GRAVITY
 * 3) P-N junctions forward biasing problem.
 * 4) How can IR temperature sensors get readings no matter what angle they're pointing at?
 * 5) Piranha bite
 * 6) The Coriolis effect in relation to dogs (possibly stupid question)...
 * 7) Could Wheatley have obtained lunar escape velocity?

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 3


 * 1) Nuclear fission catalyzed by a high energy proton
 * 2) Question about Higgs data
 * 3) Ronni Kahn claims CO2 reduction
 * 4) Which Insect is this ?
 * 5) How many shades of gray can the human eye see?
 * 6) Which large predators can't see you if you don't move?

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 4


 * 1) iodine reacting with titanium?
 * 2) Differences in sizes of thighs
 * 3) Iron(III) electron configuration
 * 4) Unknown possible succulent from Southern California
 * 5) Noise-cancelling headphones and microphones
 * 6) Heavier Objects falling faster due to air resistance
 * 7) Pascal's principle
 * 8) Dimension
 * 9) Fuel synthesis cost
 * 10) Tunnel through the center of the earth
 * 11) Does conservation of energy for unsteady ideal fluid hold?
 * 12) Newton's cradle with 2 or more balls lifted
 * 13) Why don't I bruise?

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 5


 * 1) Which tree is this?
 * 2) Brain Tumor & Migraine
 * 3) Sporting equivalent of Spearman's g
 * 4) Black hole (Singularity and Evaporation)
 * 5) A unreferenced statement on the bothriocephalus acheilognathi wiki page
 * 6) chemistry
 * 7) Something odd
 * 8) Old seed germination issues

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 6


 * 1) Closest possible planetary alignment?
 * 2) Destruction of planets by another
 * 3) Stovetop power
 * 4) Sodium vs. salt
 * 5) how can bleach survive?
 * 6) Do gravitational microlensing studies rule out compact objects as dark matter?
 * 7) Can aluminium under go combustion by itself in the presence of oxygen?
 * 8) Light dimmers

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 7


 * 1) Where will earth get swallowed up in sun's R Giant Branch?
 * 2) Free tools for visualization of time-varying vector fields
 * 3) One Fundamental Interaction
 * 4) Mickey Mouse Logic
 * 5) Pain referral in appendicitis
 * 6) Different sorts of  intoxication

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 8


 * 1) Humifider as Candle
 * 2) What are these triangle metal plates hanging from power lines?
 * 3) Mars

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 9


 * 1) Deaf Thoughts
 * 2) in the absence of modern genetic techniques (recombination, forward screens, etc.) how did biochemists elucidate biosyntheses
 * 3) Acid-citrate-dextrose anticoagulant buffer
 * 4) Will blood plasma clot without red blood cells?

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 10


 * 1) Why laughter is the best medicine, scientifically speaking?
 * 2) How about neither the Wright Flyer nor the 14-bis?
 * 3) 3D printing for integrated circuits
 * 4) scientifically, which deoderant is best?
 * 5) Defrosting shrimp
 * 6) Does hot food have more calories than cold food?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 11


 * 1) throat swab
 * 2) Gallstone question
 * 3) Is any evidence against fluctuations in the early universe expansion rate allowing baryonic dark matter?
 * 4) Quantum tunneling
 * 5) Transformation
 * 6) Sleep-wake cycle
 * 7) Chickens (O chicken, why art thou?)
 * 8) Mixing ammonia and bleach

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 12


 * 1) Track position of something
 * 2) Journey time with constant acceleration drive
 * 3) Verrucas
 * 4) Fan
 * 5) Aircraft and Faraday cages
 * 6) Gut flora in poop
 * 7) laws on cell towers
 * 8) Dominant solar system plane inside a galaxy?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 13


 * 1) penicillin
 * 2) Aerodynamics
 * 3) Deflecting a bullet with a laser
 * 4) Which country has the most rivers?  The most river span?

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 14


 * 1) NIST aluminium ion clock
 * 2) Hospital de Sant Pau Barcelona Spain.
 * 3) Mean Electrical Vector of the Heart
 * 4) Electricity prices
 * 5) Polyethylene
 * 6) Dissuading bunnies from eating us out of house and home...

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 15


 * 1) feeding plants carbon
 * 2) Bullet through the brain
 * 3) Car radio
 * 4) Hydrogen scattering length density?
 * 5) To what extent is a fermion's position part of its quantum state for the purposes of Pauli exclusion?

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 16


 * 1) Meteorology question
 * 2) Can a black hole also be, or contain, a neutron star?
 * 3) Could cold dark matter have accumulated in orange dwarf stars?
 * 4) Is ac supply used for driver circuits?
 * 5) Milk
 * 6) google satellite
 * 7) quick chemistry question
 * 8) need a non-phosphate buffer system that yields a pH of near-neutral (7 +/- 0.4)

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 17


 * 1) Meaning of ground state chemistry notation
 * 2) Are the concepts of closed space and sliders real concepts?
 * 3) how do bridge makers model stresses
 * 4) Software to draw schematic diagrams?
 * 5) crypto rands automatically good for monte carlo?
 * 6) Why is the urinalysis called also: "Routine and Microscopy"?
 * 7) Why is the Urine culture called also Diaslide?
 * 8) The relativity of time.

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 18


 * 1) Element
 * 2) Physics. Adding vectors.
 * 3) Always being able to feel your heart beating is not normal?
 * 4) Moving your hand in front of your closed eyes in a pitch-dark room
 * 5) Tiger cognition
 * 6) which branch of statistics
 * 7) why does the chain make a 'triangle' shape between front (pedal) gear, back (wheel) gear, and this arm, on high-quality bikes?
 * 8) Gynandromorphs and intersex
 * 9) looking for a book in microscopy

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 19


 * 1) Why do energy saving lights (Compact fluorescent lamp) stop working?
 * 2) Arecibo message detection distance
 * 3) Polyethylene II
 * 4) LED lamp
 * 5) Geomagnetic calculator
 * 6) Theoretically, under controlled circumstances, can plants live indefinitely?
 * 7) non-metal, non-nitrogenous acidic cations
 * 8) Ramjet
 * 9) additions and corrections update
 * 10) Liposuction to produce biofuel

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 20


 * 1) Valerian attracts or repels rats?
 * 2) TNO: major problem with "orbital characteristics"-data
 * 3) Audio oscillators
 * 4) Why does biodiesel have less energy density than regular diesel?
 * 5) Has the Sun met blinding stars in its travels?

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 21


 * 1) who is closer phylo-genetically to the human?
 * 2) USSR/Russia interplanetary probes
 * 3) Solid fluorine
 * 4) Application   for vocational studies in Sweden.
 * 5) Astatine alpha-decay
 * 6) Recommended reading
 * 7) 15 amu and an atomic number of 7(reply FAST)
 * 8) accelerating expansion of the universe
 * 9) Chemical weapons on the deep sea floor
 * 10) Convention when drawing molecular ions.
 * 11) Is it possible for a person to function as a human ZIP/RAR data compressor?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 22


 * 1) Orbital borrowing
 * 2) Ceftriaxone
 * 3) wood homes
 * 4) respirator safety
 * 5) LEDA 074886 discovery date
 * 6) Help: Identify the Bird
 * 7) Help: Identify the Bird (Black)
 * 8) World Trade Center, height with old antenna

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 23


 * 1) Are there any plant species that mimic the appearance of surrounding flora
 * 2) Percentage of Solution
 * 3) Utility of oil sands crude in the making of plastics
 * 4) Help: Identify the Flowers
 * 5) Help: Identify the Flowers (Pink)
 * 6) Help: Identify the Flowers (White Flowers)
 * 7) Help: Identify the Flowers / Plant
 * 8) Good dyes for staining chromosomes
 * 9) Places with the most living creatures per area
 * 10) Extinction of one magnitude
 * 11) an editing opportunity
 * 12) Eating behavior inheritance

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 24


 * 1) Reactivity of the lanthanides
 * 2) Nuclear drones
 * 3) Kelvin–Stokes theorem
 * 4) Substances more reactive than pure fluorine
 * 5) You know how a worm can sometimes re-grow into two whole ones if you cut it in half?

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 25


 * 1) Why don't cars run on pure isooctane?
 * 2) why do quadrocopters have 4 rotors?
 * 3) What does intelligence really mean?
 * 4) Alchohol proof/resistant?
 * 5) floods in ireland
 * 6) Do algae need nutrients

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 26


 * 1) Flower Identification
 * 2) How much less does PARC's method of making fuel from seawater cost than the Navy's?
 * 3) Meteorite identification
 * 4) African Hairless Dog
 * 5) Smiling Moon
 * 6) Jumping centipede ?

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 27


 * 1) Blueshifted meteors?
 * 2) Teenage Mutant Ninja Gull
 * 3) FACTORS AFFECTING EMISSION OF EXHAUST GASES FROM A PETROL ENGINE
 * 4) Lens pap ?

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 28


 * 1) Physics collision/momentum problem
 * 2) Breathing hydrogen
 * 3) Black body radiation
 * 4) Expansion of the universe
 * 5) Washing hands / skin contact with diesel and kerosene
 * 6) infinite universe yet always finite rate of expansion
 * 7) Post-Angioplasty Stent

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 29


 * 1) Distance to ULAS J1120+0641 and the age of the universe
 * 2) Proper unit and force
 * 3) Genome testing
 * 4) german raider "wolf",  at the end of first world war
 * 5) Unidentified flowers
 * 6) Titration curve of pure water
 * 7) chaos
 * 8) Plugging into the sun with carbon nanotubes + what is the world economy's ATP (energy carrier, biology metaphor)
 * 9) VSEPR theory
 * 10) looking to side to yawn
 * 11) Do planes cast full-sized shadows?
 * 12) wnhat would happen if the Earth stopped spinning

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 30


 * 1) Things without Mass
 * 2) eco-friendly utopia
 * 3) Two questions about plastic bag bans
 * 4) Duck with face texture like a chicken's wattle
 * 5) Visual range of animals that differs from humans
 * 6) Help with bird identification
 * 7) Heavy water plant
 * 8) second part of question: distributing energy in the world economy via carriers
 * 9) having more rem dreaming or at least additive From-dream awakemenment

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 March 31


 * 1) Pupil Dilation
 * 2) Back pain is common because we sleep on mattresses?
 * 3) Silicone rubber lids