Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/March 2013

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 1


 * 1) Error correction for analog signals
 * 2) When dimensional analysis fails
 * 3) The right citation for the Rayleigh scattering' equation？
 * 4) Orbital mechanics
 * 5) carbol
 * 6) Most peaceful hominid
 * 7) Calculating the day of conception
 * 8) Room-sealed gas fire in chimney?
 * 9) Longest lived known species of single-celled organism
 * 10) Stupid idea about using Kickstarter to fund building a nuclear power station
 * 11) Geranium care

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 2


 * 1) Analytical mechanics for Russian meteorite
 * 2) EMP
 * 3) Force carrier particles in a black hole
 * 4) LCD panel colours from the side
 * 5) how practical are diy 3d laser scanners for specific industrial applicaitons?
 * 6) Pump & water question

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 3


 * 1) Bell's inequality
 * 2) How accurately can we predict the properties of an element and its compound by trends from other elements of a series? How to prove it?
 * 3) magnets strength
 * 4) "This machine destroys EVERYTHING"
 * 5) How long will a brass key retain functionality if used as a doorknob?
 * 6) followup aerodynamics question
 * 7) can you talk about this inflatable glider:
 * 8) How to tell type 1 diabetes from type 2 ?

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 4


 * 1) where does dried water (molecules) go to?
 * 2) Self-defense question
 * 3) HIV/AIDS deaths
 * 4) Color reproduction
 * 5) Ground penetrating radar and sink holes
 * 6) Does Helium-2 jump off the ledge, or is it pushed?

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 5


 * 1) Does drinking water right after a meal makes us fatter?
 * 2) Are there any research about compounds of francium?
 * 3) Unknown elements in the universe?
 * 4) Top and Tail trains - how can both locomotives be helping?
 * 5) Technical side of feeding electricity into the grid

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 6


 * 1) Silent Supernovae
 * 2) Big Bang and light
 * 3) Some questions about the Universe
 * 4) Statistics of hysterectomies
 * 5) Prove relation
 * 6) Reverse osmosis semipermeable membranes
 * 7) Meteor fragments and aircraft
 * 8) Film problems
 * 9) Genetic disorders that come out due to inbreeding.
 * 10) Jumping from a airplane with wingtip sails

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 7


 * 1) could you compare a hot air balloon with a plane and helicopter?
 * 2) Mean from a wavefunction
 * 3) Hydrogen solubility in copper
 * 4) Growth between 18 and 24
 * 5) Plane lens?
 * 6) Russian MBT Designs
 * 7) Filter paper to concentrate interesting things for microscope viewing?
 * 8) Regulatory genes that account for monocot physiology
 * 9) Flirting
 * 10) Psycho-acoustics

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 8


 * 1) Radiative transport?
 * 2) Mixing chemicals
 * 3) A biological question about myself
 * 4) the human singing voice - effects of age
 * 5) Does the concept of a "quantum speed" make any sense?
 * 6) Something about coelomates
 * 7) The solubility of francium hydroxide: is it OR?
 * 8) Cinnamon Wattle
 * 9) specilization of the  cell wall of epethilia
 * 10) Why azane, not nitrane?
 * 11) Weird chemistry dream: The scent of a proton
 * 12) caffeine
 * 13) Adding water causes liquid soap to gel

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 9


 * 1) Why do ceiling and walls get darker except for the corners
 * 2) science writing
 * 3) Glomerular Pore Radius
 * 4) Eggs and potatoes
 * 5) Does vitamin D insufficiency known as a potential Obesity cause?
 * 6) what is Nec?
 * 7) How can we predict properties of an element and its compounds when that element is not available or too unstable to experiment?
 * 8) Planck derived units
 * 9) The Answer to "Relaxing Voices"
 * 10) Venus flytrap and meteors

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 10


 * 1) Social interaction and levels of cognitive activity
 * 2) Can plants grow on lunar soil given enough water and air?
 * 3) What is happening here?
 * 4) inactive ingredients (excipients) in prescription and otc drugs
 * 5) Terms in QSAR / medicinal chemistry
 * 6) science so far outside experience / experiments that no one bothers

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 11


 * 1) Why does water spray out of a tap quicker if you almost completely cover it with your thumb?
 * 2) Catalan Talgo
 * 3) Cosmic ray
 * 4) Chemical egg
 * 5) What are these lights?
 * 6) Freezing point
 * 7) Missing quantity
 * 8) productivity of 120 hour weeks
 * 9) Reference material for physics/chemistry of vegetables
 * 10) hydraulic
 * 11) BFKP
 * 12) Is the panda the only herbivorous carnivoran?

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 12


 * 1) Why light does not hurt us
 * 2) Why is milk homogenised?
 * 3) Re: Relativistic Baseball
 * 4) why do optics use IR and not UV?
 * 5) Species Identifcation..
 * 6) How much nucleus/nuclei are present in the eggs of birds such as hen? What is the structure of those big cells?
 * 7) Use of laxatives in Anorexia/Bulimia
 * 8) Scissors VS Paper
 * 9) Energy
 * 10) Black hole
 * 11) Comparison of lander speeds
 * 12) Scientific method and primitive inventions

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 13


 * 1) Vaccinations and antibiotics
 * 2) Is the dust produced from ultrasonic humidifiers bad for the lungs?
 * 3) S-phone
 * 4) Identification of mushrooms in potting soil
 * 5) Some topics
 * 6) Pictures
 * 7) "Neanderthals' large eyes 'caused their demise'"
 * 8) What if we didn't react to the Common Cold?
 * 9) quadrupole of CO2, N2 etc
 * 10) Guaiphenesin
 * 11) Toxicity of Bakelite in my old camera collection
 * 12) When did humans know Sun was a star like other stars in sky?
 * 13) Colossal multirotor

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 14


 * 1) Piston bow
 * 2) Galactan and raffinose
 * 3) The most boring question about boiling ever. Again.
 * 4) What biological mechanisms regulate a bird's weight ?
 * 5) anatomy
 * 6) electro chemical cell
 * 7) Ozone Silver Tarnish
 * 8) Sodium percarbonate (uncoated)
 * 9) Gas giant, brown dwarf, red dwarf size versus mass plot
 * 10) Iodine and hydrogen peroxide as antiseptics
 * 11) Health food science.

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 15


 * 1) How did people thousands of years ago know that fruits and vegetables are healthy?
 * 2) Dense ceramics
 * 3) CPAPs and habituation
 * 4) Invention?
 * 5) Extremely curious about boats, buoyancy, metacentres, etc..
 * 6) Allergic donated organs

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 16


 * 1) Jet streams
 * 2) The Nose Knows?
 * 3) Double-fuselage aircraft
 * 4) Radioactive sound
 * 5) different sexual responses in women
 * 6) Headphone socket problem
 * 7) Runny nose / stuffy nose
 * 8) Thick rotor blades
 * 9) Line of sight to the sun

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 17


 * 1) Holograms
 * 2) Would methane hydrate extraction spill significant amounts of methane into the atmosphere?
 * 3) Russian M4 Parka
 * 4) The god particle
 * 5) Charge Selectivity of Glomerular Barrier in Nephritis

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 18


 * 1) Positive charge on flying insects?
 * 2) interstellar Bomb
 * 3) suicide by hanging
 * 4) Heat flow
 * 5) Drug Interaction
 * 6) A few questions regarding atomic energy levels (1&2) and orbitals (1)
 * 7) Dr Anna L
 * 8) Amount of dissolved salts in a solution
 * 9) Dollar bills and a reflecting telescope.
 * 10) Neutron instability - magnetic field effect
 * 11) Data on the number of books published annually in the world, 1950 and 2012
 * 12) Can the energy needed for interstellar travel be obtained from Earth?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 19


 * 1) Why will tidal interaction destroy planet's orbits
 * 2) If Mercury had a substantial atmosphere
 * 3) V-22 Osprey
 * 4) Fever
 * 5) Bomb shelters
 * 6) Force field implementation
 * 7) Hydrogen Peroxide
 * 8) if hair would grou at the expansion rate of cancer cell
 * 9) What is the Palacozoic?
 * 10) New glasses every two years?
 * 11) Effect of Acetone on ABS
 * 12) 3D Printing your own UAV - how far are 3D printers from this capability?

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 20


 * 1) Two CFL bulbs on same line
 * 2) Panstarrs help for tonight?
 * 3) The Second Law Of Thermodynamics
 * 4) what are these 2 chemical bonds?
 * 5) Question about DC current
 * 6) Tasked with getting a digital copy from a cassette tape
 * 7) Botany - A wonderful Gothic flower !
 * 8) Buying a small amount of food-grade HCl
 * 9) twin paradox - calculating how many years difference

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 21


 * 1) Timetravel
 * 2) Age of the universe
 * 3) C/2013_A1 collision effects
 * 4) new space program
 * 5) Calanus
 * 6) Laser light polarization in laser cutting
 * 7) Neaspora in cattle
 * 8) How's this animal called?
 * 9) Why faces matter?
 * 10) Scientifically Determining One's Relatives
 * 11) Can a chimpanzee give birth to a human baby?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 22


 * 1) Cruel Nazi research
 * 2) Electrical circuit that is 10 light minutes in length
 * 3) Recognizing Spider
 * 4) How do the first individual of a new species find mate?
 * 5) Urination!
 * 6) skin

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 23


 * 1) Resistance of wire
 * 2) exploitation of natural resources on the moon
 * 3) how can ghosts and other magical creatures walk through walls but not fall through the floor
 * 4) About animals' tolerance of g-force
 * 5) quadriplegic pregnancies and childbirth
 * 6) Do it yourself soil test
 * 7) Trawling vs gillnetting
 * 8) Coke in space
 * 9) Easier to track horizontal lines than vertical lines?

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 24


 * 1) how oblong could a planet be.  could it be shaped like a tic-tac?
 * 2) Scientific
 * 3) Visual acuity
 * 4) Voyager
 * 5) Suckermouth catfish
 * 6) Why do we get toothache?
 * 7) Tree identification

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 25


 * 1) Electron deficient nomenclature
 * 2) Interstellar probe, part 2
 * 3) Is there a matter without any energy or any energy without its origin from matter?
 * 4) centripetal force in a simple pendulum
 * 5) Copper Acetate
 * 6) "Tanking" and electric car
 * 7) Titration dilemma
 * 8) Dredging

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 26


 * 1) recycled paper
 * 2) Chemical reaction and water vapor related questions
 * 3) Why does light follow straight line?
 * 4) Relative speed thought experiment
 * 5) Product of two scalars
 * 6) men body hair
 * 7) whales

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 27


 * 1) Are there any solvent of cyanoacrylate that does not dissolve polystyrene?
 * 2) Flatulence
 * 3) Heat released or absorbed in a reaction
 * 4) Car battery chargers with different amperages, what's the point?
 * 5) W boson in a hypothetical particle accelerator
 * 6) The relation between atoms' kinetic energy and the energy levels of their electrons upon excitation
 * 7) Spacetime
 * 8) Detonators

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 28


 * 1) Silver Sulfide Decomposes At Boiling Point?
 * 2) Water and pressure related questions
 * 3) Why do we use the word 'infinity' in the definition of potential energy?
 * 4) How close must two particles meet for annihilation to take place?
 * 5) Flowing electrons
 * 6) Google
 * 7) How do certain foods interfere with Levothyroxine?
 * 8) What lifeform can regenerate the fastest?

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 29


 * 1) Does Navier-Stokes work for solids?
 * 2) Ethical obligation of professional scientists toward open accountability
 * 3) Freak event

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 30


 * 1) Medical procedure and patients' gender
 * 2) Proton current
 * 3) Law of accelerating returns
 * 4) Largest science
 * 5) thermodynamics
 * 6) What speed is needed so I'm always at the same time on the earth?
 * 7) Prominent science
 * 8) Co-transport... again

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 March 31


 * 1) Best way to reproduce phone static sounds immediately before hanging up?
 * 2) Rape and appearance
 * 3) give complete description of law of symmetry in solid state
 * 4) What is the lettering on centimetre cubes in meteorite photography?
 * 5) Calcium supplements