Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2007

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 1


 * 1) Top Ten parasites
 * 2) . Coli
 * 3) Edde triggered logic
 * 4) CRT Tube
 * 5) Non-exploding Sun
 * 6) Formaldehyde
 * 7) When did plant roots first evolve?
 * 8) Hurricane
 * 9) Building inverters
 * 10) what is the relationship between hardness and tensile strength of cast iron
 * 11) Death by Battery
 * 12) color force behavious
 * 13) Curvature of the neck (cervical spine)
 * 14) Determining the critical angle of the substance glycerol/glycerine (I think it's the same thing)
 * 15) Calcium in a bone
 * 16) What Is the Greenish Layer of Some Hard Boiled Eggs
 * 17) Using magnetism to recover coins and jewelry
 * 18) molarity question. help!
 * 19) Eyebrow
 * 20) Dropstones and metals. Or just rubbish.
 * 21) Nuclear hurricane
 * 22) Temperature of the sun
 * 23) Lightbulbs

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 2


 * 1) Reaching the speed of light
 * 2) Breast enlargement (herbal supplements)
 * 3) Rock identification
 * 4) Beating Light?
 * 5) Fuse
 * 6) Hypersonic
 * 7) Prevalence of Freezing Temperatures on Earth
 * 8) Buddhist relics ?
 * 9) cells
 * 10) lewis structure
 * 11) Half Life of a Drug
 * 12) skin products
 * 13) eat and Dairy and Calcium
 * 14) Football grass colors
 * 15) occer instead of
 * 16) Nitric Acid
 * 17) Rusting Process
 * 18) good books about instincts/desires and evolutionary psychology?
 * 19) Use of color indicators in titrations.
 * 20) Nicotine gum and hiccups?
 * 21) Water drops on outside of bottle
 * 22) Space
 * 23) Hallucinogenic alkaloids and alteration of visual perception.
 * 24) Identify this bizarre fruit?
 * 25) Blood Type Possibility
 * 1) skin products
 * 2) eat and Dairy and Calcium
 * 3) Football grass colors
 * 4) occer instead of
 * 5) Nitric Acid
 * 6) Rusting Process
 * 7) good books about instincts/desires and evolutionary psychology?
 * 8) Use of color indicators in titrations.
 * 9) Nicotine gum and hiccups?
 * 10) Water drops on outside of bottle
 * 11) Space
 * 12) Hallucinogenic alkaloids and alteration of visual perception.
 * 13) Identify this bizarre fruit?
 * 14) Blood Type Possibility

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 3


 * 1) blood types
 * 2) Half Life of a Drug molecule
 * 3) Coupling Constants
 * 4) Flexibility
 * 5) Source of Light in Color Spectrum
 * 6) The orgin of Earth's spin
 * 7) Grass Of South Africa
 * 8) What type of heron?
 * 9) Electric Control Device
 * 10) Nuclear fuel effeciency
 * 11) The Little Albert Experiment
 * 12) electrolyte mud
 * 13) Photosynthesis
 * 14) Shouting Over High Pitched Sounds
 * 15) Fall speed of parachutes
 * 16) Black hole
 * 17) Color Perception
 * 18) Star Ownership
 * 19) Mobile Phone Batteries
 * 20) Angle of the string of a kite
 * 21) Female/Male Species
 * 22) Déjà vu
 * 23) Déjà vu
 * 24) Speed of light
 * 25) Box of light
 * 26) Acids/Bases
 * 27) Parrots have a different idea as to what is considered 'food' to us - why?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 4


 * 1) The Unidentified Crawling Objects
 * 2) Length of Legs
 * 3) aglev Speed
 * 4) Plant life
 * 5) The knowledge needed to start from scratch
 * 6) Feedback from the asker
 * 7) little question
 * 8) Electrical conversion
 * 9) black hole
 * 10) Indicator for presense of Humalog® insulin
 * 11) Microwave Ovens

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 5


 * 1) Interstellar probes end points.
 * 2) Spider identification
 * 3) Visible Laser Light
 * 4) [Stinging nettle]]
 * 5) Mid Atlantic Ridge and transatlantic cables
 * 6) Individual People with full knowledge of a technology and its foundation technologies
 * 7) Regarding technology
 * 8) erroxyl indicator
 * 9) Matter waves of photons?
 * 10) The how many-eth cousin is a chimpanzee
 * 11) non mendelian inheritance in arabidopsis thaliana
 * 12) Skin Infection Rates
 * 13) Taking of Wallpaper
 * 14) Burning Calories

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 6


 * 1) Uses of propynol
 * 2) Brainstorming specific examples for biology themes
 * Re: Today's Feature Picture
 * 1) Watts
 * 2) I got some complexes in dealing with complex ions
 * 3) Paper hydrolysis??
 * 4) False color satellite imaging
 * 5) Earth's Spin
 * 6) Apnea
 * 7) 42.2
 * 8) lower Identification
 * 9) Dimensions
 * 10) hudrochloric acid

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 7


 * 1) Balloons
 * 2) anatomy and physiology
 * 3) iPod's capacity for headphone impedance
 * 4) Mental Illness-
 * 5) universe
 * 6) Fuel Cell
 * 7) Late 1960s rechargeable batteries
 * 8) Relation with days
 * 9) Chipboard density
 * 10) Sun spots and tree ring growth
 * 11) sauna use / length of time inquiry
 * 12) starch question
 * 13) ozone
 * 14) Magmatic convection currents
 * 15) Mental IIIness
 * 16) Points of contact
 * 17) Consensus on human evolution?

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 8


 * 1) Latest vaccines
 * 2) Need help with a citation regarding fitness
 * 3) Iron (III) iodide
 * 4) Equations For A  Gas Undergoing  Adiabatic Process As it Obeys Van Der Waals Equation
 * 5) What The Bleep Do We Know?
 * 6) Can Stars in Foreign Galaxies Be Seen?
 * 7)  Are we mostly seeing stars in other galaxies?
 * 8) Glass heating
 * 9) variable
 * 10) really need science help
 * 11) Cards
 * 12) hello

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 9


 * 1) stress transfer theory
 * 2) Pulse
 * 3) motion in universe
 * 4) Questions about birthmarks
 * 5) What's the L in L-ascorbic acid?
 * 6) Life on(to) Mars
 * 7) Mobile phones
 * 8) Hot air balloon speed
 * 9) Converting alcohol to alkene
 * 10) Own sweat smells nice.?
 * 11) yeast
 * 12) Zip line speed
 * 13) Olive plants
 * 14) Anti missile defense in Europe and Booster phase ICBM interception
 * 15) Last night's episode of House - medical question
 * 16) Suger on paper
 * 17) Encyclopedia of Life
 * 18) Liver Cleansing/Detox Foods???
 * 19) Question on Humanities Desk
 * 20) Darwin's Domestic Pigeons

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 10


 * 1) Constellations of stars
 * 2) Measuring Potential Difference
 * 3) Principle,law,hypothesis,theory.theorm
 * 4) Embalming and eyes question?
 * 5) Freezing Points
 * 6) hy elliptical orbits?
 * 7) life question
 * 8) old books
 * 9) ollination
 * 10) paper cut
 * 11) What's the difference between a pathogen and an antigen?
 * 12) Leaf (species) identification for Commons images
 * 13) Onion milk?
 * 14) Titration Question !
 * 15) Climate /United States/lowest rainfall
 * 16) Titration

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 11


 * 1) Vascular bundles
 * 2) rug names
 * 3) Bioethics and astrobiology
 * 4) Alzeimer's Disease
 * 5) EyeBrow Growth
 * 6) Vaporisation of Sweat
 * 7) Intelligent Dinosaurs
 * 8) Kidney donor?
 * 9) artificial symbiosis
 * 10) Body acts as a wireless radio antenna
 * 11) Compact fluorescent lamps
 * 12) Gaslighting
 * 13) Eggplant IQ
 * 14) Soap Bubbles
 * 15) Astronomy : Black dwarf stars
 * 16) Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
 * 17) solutions and not solutions

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 12


 * 1) extinction
 * 2) sunlight
 * 3) What's the verb that means 'to move by peristalsis'?
 * 4) Hair
 * 5) Observing influences results?
 * 6) Body Electricity
 * 7) Lupins in New Zealand
 * 8) Earth, Moon and Venus
 * 9) Coral reefs dissapeering from global warming
 * 10) Lighning safety in houses
 * 11) Isotopes: the commercial uses of deuterium
 * 12) snowpack
 * 13) Mother's Day questions
 * 14) Cats
 * 15) Dogs

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 13


 * 1) Lightning in the snow
 * 2) CD-1 Mouse
 * 3) Limbs falling asleep
 * 4) passive solar to generate electricity
 * 5) Fuel Cell
 * 6) Why don't corn cobs burn ?
 * 7) ring species
 * 8) LUNAR ECLIPSE
 * 9) Do we have any pics of an eclipse as seen from space ?
 * 10) Falling
 * 11) Motion through Spacetime (Special relativity)
 * 12) Infinity and Speed of Light (Theoretical question)
 * 13) USA on Fire
 * 14) Scree plot
 * 15) Newts: friend or foe?
 * 16) Thermal expansion
 * 17) Coyote behavior dangerous?

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 14


 * 1) When is it first clear that a child is left or right-handed?
 * 2) insect identification
 * 3) Sigma Replication
 * 4) Speeding up the aging process in paper
 * 5) Atlantis
 * 6) Glass
 * 7) Apparent Mass vs. Invariant Mass
 * 8) Orchids
 * 9) The Celestine Prophesy
 * 10) Sleeping Face-up
 * 11) Extreme p[H]s
 * 12) Need help with definition: Atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis?
 * 13) rugs that affect long-term memories

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 15


 * 1) Can anyone identify this bird?
 * 2) Can anyone explain me The mechanism by which sound wave propagates through air ?
 * 3) what is the aspect ratio of a normal human eye ??
 * 4) voltage
 * 5) Energy from gravity
 * 6) Antidepressants
 * 7) electron and proton attract each other then why there are distance between them in an atom ?
 * 8) final starch question
 * 9) Hospitals
 * 10) Absolute Uncertainty of a mean
 * 11) hydroponics
 * 12) Chemistry (In general)
 * 13) Dark matter
 * 14) Lead-acid batteries
 * 15) Exercising and Sweaters
 * 16) How many HP do humans have?
 * 17) resistance of copper to strong alkali
 * 18) Dark patch on hand
 * 19) biology
 * 20) mouse

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 16


 * 1) One Ounce
 * 2) Macadamia nuts - inedible to everything except for man and parrot...
 * 3) Intelligent Design, my wagon!
 * 4) Proof of Potential Difference and Resistance Formula
 * 5) Spiders of Oregon
 * 6) Evaporation of Raid
 * 7) Bitten cat
 * 8) Cobras
 * 9) Use of flowers
 * 10) calotropis gigantia
 * 11) Physics
 * 12) acyldipeptide
 * 13) Basal Metabolic Rate Question
 * 14) Lightning Strike
 * 15) Stability
 * 16) Fuse
 * 17) platelets
 * 18) math
 * 19) Psychokinesis/Psychic Abilities
 * 20) Floating Shoes
 * 21) Weird question

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 17


 * 1) Ducks
 * 2) Fructose being "better" in fruit than candy
 * 3) Easiest way to have a self-sufficient life?
 * 4) Hovering Shoes
 * 5) Black holes again!
 * 6) Biochemistry Universities
 * 7) andom v. linear evasion
 * 8) the presence of melanin(pigment) in human skin is determined by human gene . presence of melanin makes skin look darker.
 * 9) Conservation of Mass - kids
 * 10) Acidity of "Special Parts"
 * 11) Lightning
 * 12) Marx generator?
 * 13) Use of Jasmine and Rose flowers
 * 14) Ashwagandha
 * 15) blood system
 * 16) Torch testing In Software Jargon
 * 17) OK this really is the final starch question
 * 18) Does a thermodynamic capacitor exist?
 * 19) So a thermodynamic capacitor does not exist....
 * 20) Can a lake have two outlets?
 * 21) Flower identification
 * 22) Relative Speed
 * 23) 100% reflextion
 * 24) mouse

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 18


 * 1) heat to elrctricity
 * 2) Price of chemical type stuff and stuff
 * 3) Can Elephants Really Paint?
 * 4) is there any secure website where anyone can submit their new scientific idea for worldwide response having all the rights of the invention ?
 * 5) Electrical Current
 * 6) Egg yolks
 * 7) Left shoe squeaking more than right
 * 8) using various nimh batteries togather
 * 9) Mineral Hardness
 * 10) aircraft engine
 * 11) Identifying Identical Twins' DNA...How Can One Tell Which Identical Twin May Have Committed A Crime?
 * 12) Drilling for Oil
 * 13) question about multinertia
 * 14) Do snakes have eye lids?
 * 15) Non-linear voltage amplifier
 * 16) Amplifying 6 different signals in a breadboard using the least space possible.
 * 17) manta rays
 * 18) roblem (punching Marines in the head)
 * 19) Pressure on ears while scuba diving?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 19


 * 1) Where can I buy a spaceship
 * 2) Evolution vs Cars
 * 3) A/C efficency
 * 4) Thermogenerator efficiencie
 * 5) what's are the processes that an electron emit and gain energy in form of photon ?
 * 6) temperature question !
 * 7) Submarine pens and air pressure.
 * 8) ucalpytus balls
 * 9) automobiles
 * 10) i.c.engines
 * 11) effexor xr
 * 12) planes in air
 * 13) Purely Hypothetical
 * 14) How does Diabetes cause damage to blood vessels
 * 15) Area Moment of Inertia with Multiple Materials
 * 16) Isotretinoin / Roaccutane
 * 17) purely hypothetical
 * 18) green eyes
 * 19) ASTROPHYSICS
 * 20) Barometer animals?
 * 21) Plants water purification
 * 22) Venom
 * 23) t as Hydrogen Catalyst
 * 24) The hole truth
 * 25) Evolutionary purpose of eye colour
 * 26) Globular Clusters
 * 27) Volcanoes- Mount Krakatoa in Indonesia
 * 28) Mount Everest
 * 29) Northern bluefin tuna
 * 30) need help with birds

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 20


 * 1) Evolutionary purpose of anal sex
 * 2) Identification
 * 3) Red something syndrome
 * 4) energy loss = mass loss
 * 5) Siphon
 * 6) identifying a bird
 * 7) Absolute Error
 * 8) Last question (not about starch)
 * 9) Electrical source
 * 10) Varenicline and dreaming
 * 11) Arctic Waters - Why so prolific?
 * 12) Lightning safety
 * 13) merging of storms
 * 14) Why do magpies like metallic objects?
 * 15) derivation for the moment of inertia of a sphere
 * 16) Alex Chiu - "Better living through the power of magnets"...
 * 17) My head's spinning...
 * 18) When someone is cold = liquid snot. When someone is warm = solid boogers
 * 19) Rage Virus
 * 20) Ice cream in hospitals

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 21


 * 1) Resilience of light polarization
 * 2) Energy and mass - Binding energy
 * 3) Seeing imaginary colors
 * 4) Filter standard
 * 5) AUTOMOBILES...................HELP
 * 6) Bucklling
 * 7) Moments
 * 8) Carbonic acid & stomach acid
 * 9) Tension
 * 10) planetary conjunction
 * 11) Plane on treadmill
 * 12) stick towers
 * 13) Weird unusual bays and lakes and islands etc
 * 14) Sirius and Procyon
 * 15) deadlock
 * 16) Eggs
 * 17) "Hydrogenated" vs. "partially hydrogenated" fats
 * 18) Microwave Auditory Effect - Quack Science?
 * 19) paracetamol synthesis
 * 20) Ideal gas laws and molar weights

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 22


 * 1) Number of chromosomes in a Great White Shark?
 * 2) cost of aerogel
 * 3) Laser pointer low on power
 * 4) Transistor breakage
 * 5) Pronunciation of scientific Latin
 * 6) % of light hitting a solar panel
 * 7) efibrillate
 * 8) electromagnetic waves
 * 9) empirical formula
 * 10) Light Antenna
 * 11) Snail question
 * 12) QED photons
 * 13) Ekman Layer
 * 14) Airport x rays
 * 15) Shot in the heart

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 23


 * 1) Do other animals snore besides humans? Possibly gorillas and other species that share very similar traits to humans?
 * 2) What is the word that means a meeting place of both salt and fresh water in a river?
 * 3) Help! my dog ate Lisinopril
 * 4) Solar System
 * 5) Insect Identification
 * re:electromagnetic waves>>wireless energy propagation
 * 1) Architecture is music made solid
 * 2) fusion
 * 3) TTL digital output to +10V/-10V analog output
 * 4) Help identifying tree
 * 5) Landing on Jupiter or Saturn
 * 6) Hooke's law (physics - elasticity)
 * 7) Static cannon
 * 8) Bought two "9 db" gain wifi aerials - disappointed with performance.
 * 9) Can blood type change over your lifetime?
 * 10) Psychology - methods of coping with solitude?
 * 11) iodegradable
 * 12) Free Particles in Quantum Field Theory

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 25


 * 1) Dark Energy
 * 2) Deserts
 * 3) Changing one atom into another
 * 4) Energy, mass and gravity
 * 5) Protein Shake's
 * 6) about horse power
 * 7) Name this bird
 * 8) Units within equations
 * 9) WoW Pet Name
 * 10) Molecules in a grain of salt
 * 11) Dream Recall
 * 12) thermal noise

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 26


 * 1) The gulls have started laying their eggs...
 * 2) Nuclear forces
 * 3) Equivalent Resistance
 * 4) Elephants mammary glands
 * 5) Bird identification
 * 6) Exor gate
 * 7) Catalysis and equilibrium
 * 8) About Contacts
 * 9) More nipples
 * H3

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 27


 * 1) Momentum of the world trade center collapse
 * 2) Is the universe getting lighter, heavier or neither?
 * 3) Lead acid batteries
 * 4) more:em waves
 * 5) Year 12 Chemistry
 * 6) The Pill
 * 7) Handycam
 * 8) Question about a disease
 * 9) What body parts are seen as interesting or valuable to keep?
 * 10) Do we have an article on electrical burns?
 * 11) Contraception
 * 12) Washing hands and static electricity
 * 13) Shock
 * 14) Lactated Ringer's solution
 * 15) xperiments which can be performed with a TV
 * 16) Faeces in urine
 * 17) The Effects of Music on Plants
 * 18) Eggs and matches

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 28


 * 1) What is the largest encyclopedia ever existed?
 * 2) Why is Ostrich meat Red?
 * 3) Lagrange points with other bodies nearby
 * 4) Radioactivity
 * 5) Distillation of ethanol, temperature
 * 6) ARUN ARUN QUES ABOUT PENIS
 * 7) Red Rice - Health benefits
 * 8) Regression analysis for tidal water levels
 * 9) Blind sugar-eating dogs
 * 10) Is it possible to get to proxima centauri in a practicle timescale?
 * 11) Glasses effect
 * 12) What would happen if I were to eat lugduname?
 * 13) Net Ionic equation
 * 14) Simple Static Mechanics Problem

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 29


 * 1) Black Body Radiation
 * 2) My cooler pump???
 * 3) Space Elevator
 * 4) Allergies
 * 5) Heat  and Waves ??any relation
 * 6) A psychological experiment where half of the subjects took on the role of a guard and the other half the role of prisioners
 * 7) Seagulls
 * 8) Opposite of helium?
 * 9) The Earths Atmosphere
 * 10) ARUUN ques. about clitoris
 * 11) Heavy gases ans speker enclosures
 * 12) Puking up turds?
 * 13) Vented cabinet.
 * 14) Phase diagrams for mixtures of ethanol and water.
 * 15) Which do you think is more likely to happen first?
 * 16) What would happen
 * 17) A cell's life?
 * 18) Biology

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 30


 * 1) History of Nursing in the Caribbean
 * 2) Dimensions > 3
 * 3) Dryers vs. handTowels
 * 4) Design considerations for a water bridge?
 * 5) esons
 * 6) MCAT Prep Question
 * 7) Million decibel march

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 31


 * 1) Aneurysm
 * 2) educational
 * 3) liver cirrhosis
 * 4) Mugugudhu Tree? + plant ID
 * 5) Dream world & dog world
 * 6) John Kanzius's "salt-water fuel" claims
 * 7) Interstellar travel - the best man for the job is an asshole?
 * 8) How big a scope?
 * 9) Ethene
 * 10) Future of Medicine
 * 11) Clarification of table salt vs Na+
 * 12) Bromine
 * 13) Finding gravity
 * 14) Wind speed at altitude
 * 15) Zooming in on planets
 * 16) Sleeping
 * 17) How to make a milkshake
 * 18) Consuming out of date yogurt
 * 19) Delta H
 * 20) Speeding up my scope
 * 21) Why has lactose tolerance become universal (in western world) in only 2000 years?
 * 22) Peanuts not good for pregnant women - why?
 * 23) How small are tiniest tv cameras?
 * 24) Dark Matter "Planets"?