Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2010

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 1


 * 1) Persistent odor
 * 2) Sleeping in a chair
 * 3) Lens-less imaging
 * 4) Titration curve: part 2
 * 5) Dry nose when sleeping upright
 * 6) name of shooting device
 * 7) Physics
 * 8) Excitation of an atom
 * 9) Measuring general radio/tv/phone wave strength
 * 10) Boiling
 * 11) Question - Helium Canister
 * 12) Sky
 * 13) Modern crystal radio
 * 14) Why do we forget our dreams?
 * 15) Football
 * 16) Coiling microphone cable during use.

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 2


 * 1) Moth Help
 * 2) Re-engineering the universe for increasing computational capacity
 * 3) Aztec knives
 * 4) Another spider question
 * 5) Burning fat without burning muscle
 * 6) Take your finger out of my butt, please...
 * 7) soy
 * 8) Deepest part of ocean
 * 9) Activating the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer
 * 10) Bacon curling
 * 11) Electron excitation - discrete?
 * 12) hot water
 * 13) Infrared rainbow

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 3


 * 1) Plutonium
 * 2) Voice
 * 3) River Geometry
 * 4) space-time continuum
 * 5) Isopropanol, Peroxides can Result in Explosion & Injury?
 * 6) Before big bang
 * 7) Human centipede - possible in real life?
 * 8) "Man-made global warming can cause volcanoes"
 * 9) Internal and external cell conditions - source?
 * 10) Supporting ladder on stairs - sideways
 * 11) Moment of Inertia
 * 12) Alcohol for stage fright
 * 13) construction, coal
 * 14) how much is $280,000 per year (inflation-adjusted) for 40 years worth today?
 * 15) Nothing

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 4


 * 1) learning skills
 * 2) Molar mass of Aluminium
 * 3) dumbest idea in the world
 * 4) refrigerating foods
 * 5) Air navigation
 * 6) shadows, mirror images?
 * 7) FORTRAN Programming (Lahey Compiler)
 * 8) is it HF that kills? or F-?
 * 9) Are Kepler's laws rigth?
 * 10) Coefficient of drag at hypersonic speeds
 * 11) Newton's cradle question
 * 12) Curvy tunnel
 * 13) Gloria Allred
 * 14) substitute for peanut butter
 * 15) Meteorological deposition of carbon dioxide snow or frost
 * 16) Chemical element lists
 * 17) PhD programs and mental health
 * 18) HTPB
 * 19) Gravity
 * 20) "Can't Burn Your Skin"
 * 21) Digestive Cycles
 * 22) Humans eating pet food
 * 23) Record Maximum

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 5


 * 1) Fucking Magnets!
 * 2) Gulf war oil spill
 * 3) Medical question
 * 4) Silver mineral
 * 5) What is the current state of Computer text to speech compare to human readers?
 * 6) File:Sirius A and B Hubble photo.jpg
 * 7) Using TNT or dynamite instead of smokeless powder in guns
 * 8) Proximity of brain structures?
 * 9) Sleep before Exams
 * 10) Plastics & half-life periods
 * 11) Right-hand writing & Left-leg tumbling
 * 12) Can light be heard?
 * 13) Chromate Reactions
 * 14) Collagen-proline-triple helix
 * 15) Space random movements vs planets
 * 16) Grass cuttings
 * 17) Copper oxidation
 * 18) Chromate reduction
 * 19) endodermal cell solution
 * 20) heat capacity units and calculation
 * 21) Electric spacecraft drives

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 6


 * 1) epson salts
 * 2) Curvature of the earth
 * 3) can Blue cheese produce penicillin?
 * 4) inverse square law and electromagnetic force
 * 5) Who's on first? ("Extraterrestrial life(forms)") (done)
 * 6) Mathematics of Kepler's laws
 * 7) living species which appear to have stopped evolving
 * 8) Chemical explosive rail-gun-better than electric?
 * 9) Electrolysis of CuSO4
 * 10) Planets in Universe
 * 11) Do airlines use ground length measurements for their mile programs, or air length?
 * 12) Snow accumulating in above-freezing temperatures?
 * 13) metal differentiation
 * 14) Cold, flu, etc season/s
 * 15) Night Vision
 * 16) Longevity of a species
 * 17) classification characteristics
 * 18) How  many humans a asteroid would be able to have?
 * 19) dinosaur o2 requirements versus mammals and others

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 7


 * 1) humanure
 * 2) Don't hold your breath
 * 3) What's a tumor like?
 * 4) Reverse dial gauge/indicator alignment
 * 5) archae biotech
 * 6) How many slots on GEO are available for communication satellites?
 * 7) Stars
 * 8) Nitrogen in tyres
 * 9) space objects on earth
 * 10) Space materials-luminosity
 * 11) Light & escape velocity
 * 12) minimum oxygen requirements and carbon dioxide toxicity
 * 13) wear earplugs 24 hours?
 * 14) Hurricane gustav
 * 15) Lung capacity vs. holding my breath
 * 16) I want to destroy a culture...
 * 17) Invasive surgery on small animals
 * 18) Shell Oil Company
 * 19) Reaction of metal hydrides from nickel-metal hydride cell

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 8


 * 1) Reaction of chromates with acid
 * 2) Is it possible to shoot a bear in the head?
 * 3) Conventional Explosive v/s Plastic explosives
 * 4) irradiating an egg
 * 5) Insoluble chromate
 * 6) Chromium and acid
 * 7) is it possible to have a defective sense of rhythm?
 * 8) gas vent
 * 9) Yellowjackets
 * 10) did people really have to stay quiet on submarines?
 * 11) Bird/crocodile grouping

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 9


 * 1) Neanderthal genes in modern humans
 * 2) Paintballing science
 * 3) Angular momentum transform
 * 4) Boiling and vapor
 * 5) Plastic&Electric kettles
 * 6) Moon distance
 * 7) river discharge
 * 8) National Security Guards or Special Air Service
 * 9) Is there much Greek blood in southern Italians?
 * 10) travel speed in space
 * 11) What does crab use to dig a hole ?
 * 12) Invention of high blood pressure medication
 * 13) Using oil from an oil spill
 * 14) Why don't our severed limbs/appendages just grow back?
 * 15) Are vacuums in Europe more powerful than in North America?
 * 16) Soot
 * 17) How do wheels on a cannon affect the force on the cannon ball?
 * 18) Pitot tube pressure/height

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 10


 * 1) rate for humans
 * 2) Mystery Plant
 * 3) russia
 * 4) Where can I find paid gigs to be a guinea pig for a medical experiment within 150 miles of Manhattan, KS? (With room & board included?)
 * 5) Flexing axe heads
 * 6) Calculating the velocity of a cannon ball and cannon
 * 7) Solubility of nickel chromate
 * 8) I'm searching for the name of a possible "fallacy"
 * 9) Physical fitness, health, and running
 * 10) methane hydrate ignition
 * 11) Evian bottle ring
 * 12) Can Crusher
 * 13) Do wormholes violate the 2nd 1st law of thermodynamics?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 11


 * 1) Minimum energy for brute force attack
 * 2) Help required with this code
 * 3) Lasso Physics
 * 4) Can a continent be subducted?
 * 5) I, Ant
 * 6) Fox's diet
 * 7) Pitta bread and heat
 * 8) Giant King Grass
 * 9) PoCl2 oxidation
 * 10) Name of plant, please
 * 11) Fissile elements used nuclear reactors
 * 12) Chalcogenide reduction potential
 * 13) Identify drill bits
 * 14) Psychological term for the "deification" recently deceased people get?
 * 15) Common magnets

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 12


 * 1) Nernst equation for reaction 2A+  + B > B2+  + A2
 * 2) Controlled criticality accident?
 * 3) Bomb bays
 * 4) External weapons
 * 5) Vulcans, Romulans and Remans
 * 6) Jumping
 * 7) Experiments in making LCDs
 * 8) colorblind cuttlefish and camouflage
 * 9) survival instinct
 * 10) Evolution
 * 11) Nose hair
 * 12) Volume of air in lungs
 * 13) Dark energy & dark matter
 * 14) Is dark matter out there or in here?

= May 13 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 13


 * 1) Superconductors
 * 2) Genetic predisposition to food types
 * 3) Using heat pumps instead of cooling towers
 * 4) Geographic center of USA
 * 5) Computer PSU
 * 6) dandelions
 * 7) AGE
 * 8) Advanced Human
 * 9) decision and truth tables
 * 10) Electromagnentic Flow Meter
 * 11) medical marijuana
 * 12) Nobel prize

= May 14 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 14


 * 1) Graupel... but not?
 * 2) translate
 * 3) geographic centers of population
 * 4) Fuel question
 * 5) Spontaneous Generation
 * 6) new elements
 * 7) ant
 * 8) re:donkeys
 * 9) Medical Breakthroughs
 * 10) acetic acid

= May 15 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 15


 * 1) Magnetic powder
 * 2) which would be worse
 * 3) Swima bombiviridis - article in Science
 * 4) Nazi decompression experiments
 * 5) Coat colour of wild mice
 * 6) Trigger point article needs help.
 * 7) Thermal Wallpaper
 * 8) solid friction factor in pneumatic conveying
 * 9) bulk density vs product density
 * 10) Doing exercises - general question
 * 11) mind control
 * 12) do people in different inertial frames agree what time it is?
 * 13) Swan mom throws away eggs
 * 14) snakes and lizard
 * 15) lyphoma
 * 16) is it possible for people in different inertial frames to see events in a different order?
 * 17) Besian Idrizaj - how can a physically fit young footballer just die of a heart attack at age 22?
 * 18) Hiccups

= May 16 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 16


 * 1) London Blitz
 * 2) Neutralization of Ingested Acids
 * 3)  Loons in Colorado? What bird is this?
 * 4) Hurricanes crossing the equator
 * 5) medical malpractice
 * 6) 'Banana' Snake
 * 7) Banana Snake extra answer!!!
 * 8) Onion Bully
 * 9) Exposure to Pornography
 * 10) NG photo question

= May 17 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 17


 * 1) Tomato and Corn
 * 2) Caesar's last breath
 * 3) Efficiency of digestion
 * 4) Saltation velocity - appropriate factor of safety
 * 5) Overclocking
 * 6) amtrak "service disruption"
 * 7) Is the selfish gene shortsighted?
 * 8) Storage of vitamin D
 * 9) Doctors who do nearly everything when caring for patients
 * 10) Sex on high peaks
 * 11) Stella Wobble
 * 12) Purity of USP and food-grade glycerin

= May 18 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 18


 * 1) CO2
 * 2) percent of atmosphere
 * 3) Best extrasolar planet candidates for habitable moons based only on irradiance?
 * 4) annealing aluminium from H-18 to H-O
 * 5) Type of intermodal container
 * 6) length of menstruation
 * 7) physics
 * 8) Alkali acids
 * 9) Square wheels
 * 10) Planetary rings
 * 11) Dark Chocolate icing
 * 12) Aether vs. Quintessence
 * 13) Native American Cradle Board and Infant Behavior Differences
 * 14) Right angles
 * 15) Fear of the dark
 * 16) Reduction of alkali metals
 * 17) algae or other plants

= May 19 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 19


 * 1) Nitroglycerin final ph
 * 2) Aircraft repairs
 * 3) soap labels
 * 4) Lung cancer tumor eroding bone in rib
 * 5) safety of tinned food
 * 6) Can coyotes co-exist with elk for any duration of time, without attacks?
 * 7) Turning off car
 * 8) Nuclear fuel
 * 9) Reverse of hydraulic diameter?
 * 10) engineering
 * 11) moist towelettes
 * 12) Beans growing on Crete
 * 13) Still used, rusty aquaduct pipe lying in creek
 * 14) Botfly
 * 15) Evolution of movable eyeball
 * 16) Trichlor illegal?
 * 17) Atomic mass unit

= May 20 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 20


 * 1) Reservoirs for pumped storage hydroelectricity?
 * 2) Deepest manmade pool
 * 3) What does "Da" mean?
 * 4) Spinning Tesla egg and stability
 * 5) Pressure drop in branched pipe flow
 * 6) Ants
 * 7) NaI (Tl) temperature effect
 * 8) Karma
 * 9) Defocus calculation
 * 10) particle board desk.
 * 11) What's the deal with ants and icing sugar?
 * 12) Blood work accuracy
 * 13) Breathing in Helium
 * 14) Natural undersea oil spills
 * 15) newtonian fluids
 * 16) Biomedical control systems
 * 17) Publishing scientific literature.

= May 21 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 21


 * 1) Absorbent glass mat (AGM)
 * 2) Photon clocks in GR
 * 3) Wind Turbine and surface drag
 * 4) What is this weird creature?
 * 5) Bovine Tubersulosis versus the Human Form.
 * 6) 0t,1t 2t bend test / galvanized/colour coated coils
 * 7) Oil spill - quick drying cement?
 * 8) Field Strength of LHC Magnets
 * 9) Iron in high oxidation state
 * 10) Pushing or pulling Asteroids
 * 11) Car Mechanics...... power steering

= May 22 = Reference desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 22


 * 1) If Earth was great big ball of magnetism
 * 2) rust forceps
 * 3) Weather recce
 * 4) Can the acoustic guitar hurt your hearing?
 * 5) Too fast to be an Iridium flare... so what was it?
 * 6) How many carbon black add in polypropelene polymers from protection SUN LIGHT
 * 7) Iodine oxidation
 * 8) Wembley Stadium grass - too dark?
 * 9) dimple above penis
 * 10) The origin of life!!!!!!
 * 11) Germ cell tumor
 * 12) planets coming in align
 * 13) Solid phase extraction and Chromatography
 * 14) updates based on scientific fact
 * 15) magnetism versus temperature
 * 16) Niel ?
 * 17) What metals were thrown out by the icelandic volcano?
 * 18) Is there any animal that can 'emit' fire?
 * 19) Black hole paradox

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 23


 * 1) Spider behaviour
 * 2) Aircraft repairs, part 2
 * 3) Stable ranges for Albedo and Emissivity of Earth
 * 4) Pineal gland
 * 5) Intramuscular fat
 * 6) CO2 and infrared radiation
 * 7) Sneezing during examinations
 * 8) Why does sugar make things less sour?
 * 9) Has anyone seen Neptune with the naked eye?
 * 10) No fish
 * 11) Bird call
 * 12) Dragons
 * 13) over eating
 * 14) help pLz  drugs used in managment of infusion
 * 15) Tiny bullet-shaped dog

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 24


 * 1) OIL SPILLS
 * 2) acetone
 * 3) Crystal Violet
 * 4) center of mass
 * 5) aching muscles = laughing reflex?
 * 6) Sodium hypochlorite and Sodium acetate
 * 7) Special Relativity
 * 8) What is the point of a lawn?
 * 9) Old Testament
 * 10) TDS

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 25


 * 1) Consider a satellite moving at 3.87 km/s - how much is the clock aboard the satellite affected by special relativity per day?
 * 2) Global Average Annual Temperature limits
 * 3) Brewing yeast and fructose
 * 4) Cats and newborn/infant humans
 * 5) Future computer (from IP 117.197.246.107)
 * 6) Tyvek and Nylon
 * 7) list
 * 8) The relationship between the passage of time for a stationary object and the passage of time for a moving object
 * 9) Artificial microbes to help terraform Mars
 * 10) Effective Max speed of the international space station during interplanetary travel.
 * 11) Moon
 * 12) Pendulum question
 * 13) perkinson's disease
 * 14) How to tell if plastic is degradable
 * 15) reducing MAC layer handoff latency
 * 16) Cats - gender and coat colour

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 26


 * 1) What's wrong in this picture?
 * 2) types of life
 * 3) What animals can use the widest range of useful light strengths?
 * 4) Uses of Stars
 * 5) Residual stresses in the coatings given on insetrs
 * 6) Is blood group a factor in organ transplantation ?
 * 7) buying lemon juice
 * 8) how stationary is geostationary?
 * 9) Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)
 * 10) four classes of consumables
 * 11) science
 * 12) Astronomical query
 * 13) sticker
 * 14) Organ donor death statistics
 * 15) Soccer matches often played under heavy rain
 * 16) Gamma Globulin/Is it available to the general public by prescription?
 * 17) Gamma Globulin - used to treat Crohn's Disease
 * 18) Touching car batteries
 * 19) Question about closed orbits
 * 20) Gravity express

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 27


 * 1) Cheetah speed
 * 2) Two methods, two solutions
 * 3) Shaker
 * 4) reproduction in plants
 * 5) terminology for the concept of group immortality
 * 6) Synthetic life: human health-care implications?
 * 7) Selenic acid
 * 8) speeding
 * 9) Applied Logic - What is this?
 * 10) Aircraft HVAC
 * 11) Gregory-Madhava Series
 * 12) Fungus
 * 13) smoke
 * 14) Lead dissolution
 * 15) Sodium amalgam
 * 16) Crocodile Poo

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 28


 * 1) Satellites and relativity
 * 2) dam people
 * 3) How do Astronauts performing spacewalks deal with an itch?
 * 4) detergent
 * 5) Orbital stability
 * 6) Spoke and Hub
 * 7) chemistry lesson plan for teachers
 * 8) Help With
 * 9) Quote
 * 10) Evolution
 * 11) Training your body to not be lactose intolerant
 * 12) Syrup
 * 13) Decipher Karl Marx's handwriting?
 * 14) Probiotics
 * 15) Anthropology/ early hominids
 * 16) Unpleasant materials
 * 17) Experimental design
 * 18) "Dichroic liquids" / dyes
 * 19) 2 gallons

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 29


 * 1) Sun Distance
 * 2) Maximum/Minimum Irradiance for "Human habitable" planet temperatures?
 * 3) Mercury battery illegal?
 * 4) Does Dracula exists?
 * 5) oral rehydration solution (ORS)
 * 6) Crystal meth & the addicts body
 * 7) Salty Q

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 30


 * 1) Ammonium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite
 * 2) What complications may arise if Athlete's foot gets left untreated?
 * 3) Birth Defects
 * 4) Luna Moth
 * 5) Drew Brees Sports Science
 * 6) vents
 * 7) container ship
 * 8) Meditation and sleep
 * 9) Ecological implications of eradicating malaria-carrying mosquitoes
 * 10) Setting up a fishtank
 * 11) Controlled burns on oil and hurricanes
 * 12) new LED lightbulbs
 * 13) Lawn Mowers
 * 14) Time reversibility

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 May 31


 * 1) bile production
 * 2) Deepwater Horizon oil slick - why not burn it off?
 * 3) Living in an Attic
 * 4) Age of the universe
 * 5) Gravity of distant objects
 * 6) Ground attack version of Fw 190
 * 7) Chemical reaction within a thin film of a chemical solution
 * 8) Electromagnetic wave trapped energy
 * 9) computer and manual hospital procedures
 * 10) Things to eat in a prehistoric environment.
 * 11) Light speed
 * 12) Pressure and velocity measurement
 * 13) Back hole
 * 14) 4-colour TVs
 * 15) Question about the standard value of "g"?
 * 16) snakes
 * 17) Windmills/Futurama