Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2008

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 1


 * 1) Using LC-MS to test purity of water
 * 2) Bird Identification
 * 3) software bug
 * 4) Why are autopilots not better at landing?
 * 5) Head Injury Symptoms
 * 6) osteopathic vs. allopathic medicine
 * 7) 5-HTP
 * 8) Guanine analogue antiviral drugs and caffeine
 * 9) Cyanide and almonds
 * 10) chlorine damage to bathing suits
 * 11) Isopropanol dehydration
 * 12) ALbedo.
 * 13) Characteristics of living things
 * 14) autogyro backpack vs. backpack helicopter
 * 15) About the electromagnetic spectrum

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 2


 * 1) Hydrogen Compounds: Ionic or Covalent?
 * 2) nitrogen AgAin!!!
 * 3) milk removing stains
 * 4) Biome  Biotope  Ecosystem
 * 5) Blood
 * 6) Activated Carbon
 * 7) Electricity
 * 8) Robotics
 * 9) Cooler temperatures help in fighting wildfires
 * 10) Some of the king's pigs and some of the king's men put Humpty together again?
 * 11) DNA paternity tests
 * 12) pKa (dissociation constant)
 * 13) Mobile phone communication
 * 14) Transposons
 * 15) Food ingredients

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 3


 * 1) Chemical unbalance in clinical depression
 * 2) Bean Alcohol
 * 3) Longetivity
 * 4) Rolling
 * 5) Naga Jolokia
 * 6) Can you see colour in the dark?
 * 7) Explain Jargon: 'decay'
 * 8) What is meant by "a void has a time dimension"?
 * 9) Circular Motion
 * 10) Finding DNA of Jesus
 * 11) mechanical nasal congestion relief
 * 12) Self operation
 * 13) gravity within a heavy body (Earth)
 * 14) Science in crisis ?
 * 15) Visual question
 * 16) Dry season

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 4


 * 1) Blue and green eye color in Africans
 * 2) A four-hour day
 * 3) What would a YY chromosome person look like?
 * 4) Time Travel is Impossible
 * 5) Does any one know what this is
 * 6) Constructing a lunar orbital station by firing materials from the moon
 * 7) The Solid
 * 8) gf has atopy
 * 9) The science of baseball
 * 10) Water table in natural pond.
 * 11) Spider

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 5


 * 1) Aresol Can
 * 2) Other "dry ices"?
 * 3) Power to weight ratio
 * 4) Does an Electron Occupy Space? Why?
 * 5) Question regarding electricity
 * 6) GMT and UTC
 * 7) White teeth
 * 8) Henry IV of France and gonorrhoea
 * 9) tuberculosis (moved from WP:HD)
 * 10) Gondwanan distribution and Laurelia
 * 11) engineering question
 * 12) Atomic vibration

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 6


 * 1) Dino-mite question
 * 2) About NARCOTICS:
 * 3) Genetic code
 * 4) Washingtonion Palm trees
 * 5) Alaskan Mosquitos
 * 6) plastic containers
 * 7) IMAX type 3D Camera doing time lapse photography!!??
 * 8) The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
 * 9) Re: Pronator quadratus muscle
 * 10) The Law of Gravity
 * 11) Infinity
 * 12) What does "qsp" in reference to gelatin or perhaps other polymers mean?
 * 13) Swinging
 * 14) Bicycles
 * 15) Anatomy and physiology

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 7


 * 1) degree of benefit
 * 2) Infinity of space
 * 3) chemical, mineral, vitamin make-up of menstrual blood?
 * 4) A new Vector Energy Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - what to do?
 * 5) Amount of zinc gluconate in Zicam
 * 6) Could time be expanding?
 * 7) The Doolittle Raid
 * 8) Proving Technology for Aerospace Applications
 * 9) Biology
 * 10) Swings and insurance liability
 * 11) Are old-growth forests being cleared faster than they regenerate?
 * 12) Question: What is the compound/name of the chelate of calcium produced by plants?
 * 13) Conservation of angular momentum
 * 14) Momentum of a photon
 * 15) centripetal motion of car

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 8


 * 1) Taste vs. Smell
 * 2) Decibels
 * 3) Expanding Universe
 * 4) Centrifuge
 * 5) Pls, helping to answer this question !?
 * 6) Organic Matter
 * 7) Pic
 * 8) Gingiva Recession
 * 9) subliminal masseging
 * 10) Validity of Sigmund Freud's work
 * 11) Stereographic projection
 * 12) Nuclear Bomb Powered Rocket Project

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 9


 * 1) How many nucleotides are found in all of the exons of the CFTR gene?
 * 2) Voyager Spacecraft
 * 3) Springtime for France
 * 4) what is the term that refers to the earth's surface features?
 * 5) Cancer
 * 6) Book-name
 * 7) Meaning of a species name
 * 8) Acute chest pain
 * 9) Exothermic reaction
 * 10) CO2 of fans
 * 11) Sensitivity of Taq polymerase to heat

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 10


 * 1) Could magnetism be said to warp space-time in a similar way to gravity?
 * 2) Dogs and cats
 * 3) Conditioning
 * 4) sauna temperature control
 * 5) Rube Goldberg pendulum
 * 6) What is a "geographic feature"?
 * 7) Screech of Chalk on a Blackboard
 * 8) determining the sugar content of grapes
 * 9) Aircraft as flying disc
 * 10) Accelerated Thought.
 * 11) Photon energies in cosmological redshift.
 * 12) Proving alcohol
 * 13) aurora borealis from space
 * 14) Why are magpie's tails so long?
 * 15) machine that destroyeds itself
 * 16) airport security system x-rays (part I)
 * 17) airport security system x-rays (part II)
 * 18) rechargeable batteries
 * 19) Soil moisture measurement (copied from Misc. desk)
 * 20) What's the name of the fish species...
 * 21) Ridiculous genomic databases and their stupid lies
 * 22) Seagulls

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 11


 * 1) absolute zero
 * 2) Why does this microwave have electric-plug-shaped ventilation holes?
 * 3) Concentrate Juice vs Non-Concentrate
 * 4) Platinum
 * 5) crystals
 * 6) Nutrient needs of brain
 * 7) ionizing radiation
 * 8) Dark matter
 * 9) math and physical difference in mental ability
 * 10) Concentrated Blackcurrant Juice
 * 11) Why was I born to my parents in my town at a specific time?
 * 12) Taste of apple seeds
 * 13) Aluminum chloride
 * 14) Hardness of water
 * 15) Pressure and altitude
 * 16) Energy sources
 * 17) Which genes flank TJP1
 * 18) How does something vibrate in 10 dimensions?
 * 19) Dogs in heat
 * 20) Chemists: solvents for spot cleaning carpet?
 * 21) Emission line

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 12


 * 1) Guinea Pig head bump
 * 2) Maps and Time lines of plants, insects, sm. animals, and terrain.
 * 3) ARUN SINGH BAGH
 * 4) telecommunication-microwave survey as used in network establishment
 * 5) Insanity
 * 6) Entropy and Creationism
 * 7) Michelson Interferometer
 * 8) Aloe Vera
 * 9) Plants
 * 10) Global warming
 * 11) Protoplast fusion
 * 12) Finding CpG islands with genomic databases
 * 13) Widely-distributed, semi-technical history of moon shot?
 * 14) Oceans, Lakes, and Seas
 * 15) Earthquakes
 * 16) Paleontology
 * 17) Male to female ratio
 * 18) Does the universe spin?
 * 19) Cloned fingerprints
 * 20) shortwave radio
 * 21) Sociocultural evolution
 * 22) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 12
 * 23) Ergonomics of press-up exercise

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 13


 * 1) Can my macaw breed with his macaw?
 * 2) Animal stripes
 * 3) Push/press ups with equipment
 * 4) help in cleaning up a dog's skull
 * 5) hydrocarbons
 * 6) Current in capacitor and nature of magnetic fields
 * 7) Darwin
 * 8) kitty's diet
 * 9) Thailand food production

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 14


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 14
 * 2) Natural vibration of solids
 * 3) PHYSICS- "FORCE"
 * 4) technological pudding
 * 5) Auntie, what's the matter?
 * 6) CO2 + energy = fuel. But how?
 * 7) Where to get the CO2 from
 * 8) WMD
 * 9) Masturbation
 * 10) STEAM
 * 11) Inductor on a bike wheel
 * 12) Diabetes and the treatment of warts
 * 13) healthcare Infomatics
 * 14) Avoidance of other people embarrassing themselves
 * 15) Does stars have that divine light, the reason for creation? Which guides humanity and other creatures? if so,  where are they channelized?
 * 16) Tapeworms as a weight-loss aid?
 * 17) Trees in paper

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 15


 * 1) Identify the spider
 * 2) Inventions & Inventors
 * 3) Sinking of London
 * 4) Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps used as Backlights in LCD computer monitors and televisions
 * 5) Heel on wooden floor
 * 6) Discharging a capacitor on a metal sheet
 * 7) Mice and candle wax
 * 8) spectral lines of helium
 * 9) Joules, Newton Meters, and Foot Pounds
 * 10) Area of cathode in an MFC
 * 11) Particle deceleration
 * 12) Dandelion invasion
 * 13) Does light attract itself gravitationally?
 * 14) Suspensions
 * 15) greenhouse gases
 * 16) density of paraffin wax
 * 17) Trees vs Lamp posts
 * 18) A few questions about neurotransmitters
 * 19) Squirrel feces
 * 20) I have a science project that I am allowed to get help for some information
 * 21) Benzene resonance

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 16


 * 1) Transformer configurations.
 * 2) I was reading FANCD2 article.
 * 3) Higher frequency mean more bandwidth
 * 4) Endangered Species- Polar Bear
 * 5) PAUA OPALS
 * 6) flame test
 * 7) Airport X-rays
 * 8) Bush Stone Curlew
 * 9) Exercise pill
 * 10) Rolling
 * 11) Eating freshly harvested grains
 * 12) What if the Ice Age never happened?
 * 13) Indefinite Viral Carriers
 * 14) CO2
 * 15) Effect of salt on blood ADH concentration
 * 16) Speed of Thought
 * 17) biology
 * 18) Twaron subject to UV degradation?

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 17


 * 1) fossil fuel
 * 2) DNA in multiregional model of human origins
 * 3) How Geology & Material Science are related?
 * 4) Television screens
 * 5) Forest
 * 6) Distribution restriction
 * 7) how to determine the rate of reaction of haloalkanes?
 * 8) Hydration in chemistry
 * 9) A well defined demographic barycenter

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 18


 * 1) Toyota Truck Ad off Cliff
 * 2) Do I just suck?
 * 3) Possible Fuel Alternatives
 * 4) Weight of the Universe
 * 5) Magnetism
 * 6) Graviton powered cars
 * 7) DNA base letter representations
 * 8) Gearing a wind turbine?
 * 9) Optimal dishwashing efficiency
 * 10) First Primate
 * 11) Why do large wind turbines have only a few blades and turn slowly?
 * 12) Boson Bomb
 * 13) Home generator idea
 * 14) Neutrinosphere
 * 15) When was Ephemeris Time adopted, exactly?
 * 16) Measurements
 * 17) Spontaneous activation
 * 18) My computer will be shut down automatically every time I try to logon...Please help

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 19


 * 1) Which genes flank TJP1
 * 2) the brain
 * 3) Fluffy birds
 * 4) Solar Power - SILICON FEEDSTOCK
 * 5) plate  tectonics
 * 6) Mastubate
 * 7) DNA sequencing - why the plasmid?
 * 8) non-flammable wax
 * 9) Cost of DNA sequencing
 * 10) why does Microsoft lags behind Apple

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 20


 * 1) Refractive Index
 * 2) Please explain why coefficient of kinetic friction is less than its static counterpart by referring to electromagnetic bonds
 * 3) Question about the Alcubierre Drive theory
 * 4) Please can anyone tell me why australia's earth is red?
 * 5) Stellar evolution and Sun
 * 6) Description of Human Being if last Ice Age didn't happen...
 * 7) Fluorescent lights degrade products on shelf?
 * 8) Can natural oil ignite at normal temperatures?
 * 9) Weak Interaction Bosons
 * 10) Francium reacting with water

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 21


 * 1) Evolution of nutritious veggies
 * 2) Peanut allergy
 * 3) Fruits and vegetables
 * 4) Identify the flower
 * 5) hiv
 * 6) black holes
 * 7) Chemistry
 * 8) Physics
 * 9) Full wave rectifier
 * 10) Aspartame
 * 11) Stink bomb cure
 * 12) Prognostic marker - practical implications of (non-)independence
 * 13) POLY MERASE CHAIN REACTION (Regarding Factors Limiting Speed)
 * 14) is this true????
 * 15) Connecting together small generators
 * 16) Snails and their homing instinct
 * 17) Scientific control
 * 18) Can BritaTM Containters Leach BPA?
 * 19) Egg drop
 * 20) BPA In Camelbaks?
 * 21) What is completely collapsible personal transportation (fits flat in briefcase)
 * 22) diketopiperazines
 * 23) Aspartate
 * 24) Computer Mice

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 22


 * 1) Bug identification
 * 2) Local mean time
 * 3) Magnetic Moment
 * 4) i need help finding the name of a fish
 * 5) Truck Slipstream
 * 6) Fleas
 * 7) RTI International
 * 8) explaining science to kids
 * 9) ARUN S BAGH QUES ABOUT THING
 * 10) Nuclear Bomb
 * 11) oil shortage.
 * 12) Watermelon seeds
 * 13) Riding a Bike
 * 14) Animals and earthquake
 * 15) Long-Life Milk
 * 16) Multivalent Ionic Charges
 * 17) Weird growth on agar plate

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 23


 * 1) How heavy should a healthy, adult male captive-bred Budgerigar be?
 * 2) Philosophical science-related job?
 * 3) Who where the first people with acne?
 * 4) Plausible Theory
 * 5) What will happen if a virus leaves its host cell for a long time?
 * 6) Whether weather
 * 7) Record Cumulonimbus
 * 8) Carpet / R-value (insulation)

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 24


 * 1) Concrete dampening and evaporation
 * 2) Studies
 * 3) How to deal with very recent developments? Pulser pump, mechanical mathematician, accumulating solar barbecue, dripper trackers.
 * 4) WHAT IS THE HYPOTHALAMUS
 * 5) Earwax
 * 6) New portal
 * 7) Peer Reviewed?
 * 8) automobile wheel size
 * 9) Studies
 * 10) Water Clouds
 * 11) Dosage of a Drug
 * 12) Scientists
 * 13) Metallurgy
 * 14) Spin

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 25


 * 1) Genetics: Linked genes
 * 2) Transformers
 * 3) Signal fade
 * 4) Chemistry.
 * 5) Leaky o-ring
 * 6) How can I change reality?
 * 7) Stephens aldehyde synthesis
 * 8) Pronunciation of Name
 * 9) Education & Career
 * 10) Wonder bar
 * 11) Evolutionary Anthropology and Psychology
 * 12) "For shaver only"
 * 13) Glass & Acid
 * 14) Same protein with two names?
 * 15) Electroelution

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 26


 * 1) Alka-Seltzer Neutralization
 * 2) Partial UV protection in sunglasses
 * 3) Oilfield Volcano
 * 4) Solar panels on the Moon
 * 5) To what other uses can a water pump/ motor be put to?
 * 6) Vesna Vulović's fall duration (pt. 2)
 * 7) stomach
 * 8) What is SUTWELL Nursing Device?
 * 9) Only Black and White pictures from Mars
 * 10) polymers
 * 11) Article with explanation
 * 12) Colour photos of Mars
 * 13) Carrier concentration in doped semiconductors
 * 14) Gravity powered electricity generator
 * 15) flu

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 27


 * 1) Mars rovers
 * 2) Pathogens in body
 * 3) Drunk animals and Marula trees
 * 4) Tasting a meadow in butter
 * 5) Blowing one's nose
 * 6) You probably get this question all the time...
 * 7) Question
 * 8) Battery sizes
 * 9) Questions about acceleration due to gravity
 * 10) Car economy accuracy
 * 11) Chemistry project Help
 * 12) tire/wheel diameter
 * 13) Unidentified concept car
 * 14) Plasma TV surface hot after use?
 * 15) Follow-up on Geographic feature
 * 16) Strange parrot behaviour - what's really going on?

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 28


 * 1) Can you make black holes move?
 * 2) Magnetic Moment
 * 3) Zero point energy
 * 4) Can BritaTM Containters Leach BPA?
 * 5) height and alcohol
 * 6) Glow Sticks
 * 7) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 28
 * 8) Subtance that increases sex drive?
 * 9) Cleaning a dog skull part two
 * 10) Survivable?
 * 11) Homing distance of snails
 * 12) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Musical_instrument_classification_by_physics-based_organology.png
 * 13) Current, volts, Ohm's law...
 * 14) solar power
 * 15) Homing Instinct of snails.
 * 16) Chemistry: What exactly is produced by immersing steel in salt water?
 * 17) Ethyl Alcohol
 * 18) Terminal Velocity
 * 19) TECHIE COOLIE
 * 20) Water + grease fire: Why so much energy released?
 * 21) Conservation laws and space-time symmetry

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 29


 * 1) electrons and perpetual motion
 * 2) antioxidants to delay ageing and damage of cells
 * 3) Career
 * 4) Thermo Pond Epoxy
 * 5) Brain + Sex
 * 6) Under a burning night sky
 * 7) Power Generators
 * 8) Mortality rates expressed as hazard rates
 * 9) Horrible plastic smell!
 * 10) A doubt
 * 11) Optimal nap/sleep time
 * 12) Shindo earthquake scale
 * 13) Original rotation of solar system.
 * 14) Nuclear reactors and fissile materials
 * 15) Diodes
 * 16) Electronics home project
 * 17) Nuclear Power Plant on "automatic mode"
 * 18) List of Physics equations
 * 19) Logic gates
 * 20) How to calculate minimum wind speed to cause white caps on ocean
 * 21) Definition for trompe on wikipedia please

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 30


 * 1) Adipocere smell
 * 2) COOLING TOWER EVAPORATION
 * 3) CHEMISTRY
 * 4) Burning stomach fat with an ab machine
 * 5) Battery question, part II
 * 6) hens eggs
 * 7) abreva for genital hsv2 treatment
 * 8) chemistry -  material science
 * 9) SPACE
 * 10) Canthaxanthin concentration in Cantharellus cinnabarinus
 * 11) animal colouration
 * 12) Can anyone identify this bird?
 * 13) Uncontacted Tribes in Brazil
 * 14) Hologram monitors?
 * 15) Orgasms
 * 16) Jack
 * 17) Ants
 * 18) EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNITY:
 * 19) Sky color with thicker atmosphere
 * 20) ladybug diseases and breeds
 * 21) worm farms
 * 22) Sciences
 * 23) Amino acid substitutions in engineering; phosphorylation
 * 24) Liquid

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 31


 * 1) Fermentation in eukaryotic cells
 * 2) EEG and epilepsy
 * 3) Acceleration Due to Gravity
 * 4) Ice in a Hot Room?
 * 5) Human Biology
 * 6) Night Luminous Pearl (Ye Ming Zhu in Chinese PinYin)
 * 7) logic programming
 * 8) Got Lost In One Of The Questions (I'll Post This On Entertainment, As I'm Not Sure Which Desk Is Most Appropriate)
 * 9) Humidity and electronic equipment
 * 10) Birds and hot chips
 * 11) Power Quality Managment
 * 12) Can you shoot yourself in the head twice?
 * 13) Trapezius muscle—A doubt!
 * 14) Pauli Equation
 * 15) NUCLEOPHILICITY VS BASICITY
 * 16) Properties of silk dope
 * 17) Asthma + Other disease
 * 18) Help with my daughter
 * 19) Muscle Growth
 * 20) Genome and DNA