Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2011

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 1


 * 1) Are good looks natural or a product of good care?
 * 2) The stroke of midnight
 * 3) Differential pitch perception?
 * 4) Name this garden flower?
 * 5) Equations of motion for position/momentum uncertainty
 * 6) Experiments related to the digestive system
 * 7) Electricity generation and conservation of energy
 * 8) Measuring noise levels
 * 9) root root
 * 10) Atmospheric pressure vs sea level
 * 11) Physics of the force carriers

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 2


 * 1) Visions of the technological future in 1999
 * 2) Civilization after peak oil
 * 3) gravity field of crab nebula
 * 4) High acidic nature of Pepsi and Coca-Cola
 * 5) Software for arranging scientific diagrams?
 * 6) genetic engineering question
 * 7) Imersion in hot water
 * 8) Smells of chemical weapons
 * 9) Foreign Health Patients In America

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 3


 * 1) When did the stratosphere form?
 * 2) Quantum of space
 * 3) chemistry
 * 4) chemistry
 * 5) Something in a dog's ear
 * 6) Water testing in New York City
 * 7) earth rotation question
 * 8) shrimp genetics
 * 9) pressure vs temperature of water in a closed system
 * 10) Noiseless helicopters
 * 11) Is 3-bromopyruvate toxic in humans? What is the status of human clinical trials?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 4


 * 1) Suggestions: seemingly complex process which is simple.
 * 2) how did the swiss alps form
 * 3) 2001-type centrifugal spacecraft - are they non-starters?
 * 4) Are we perpetuating an error on degrees proof?
 * 5) Scent glands in cattle
 * 6) Specific heat capacity (Cp) for a Ni/α-Al2O catalyst
 * 7) Can anyone identify what kind of gemstone this is?
 * 8) High sodium diet protects against heart disease?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 5


 * 1) Children Raised Alongside Dogs
 * 2) Groundhogs Immune to Poison Ivy?
 * 3) High-temperature superconductors
 * 4) Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Leprosy
 * 5) Is this complete rubbish: "Wind turbines fan the flames of moorland fires"?
 * 6) Imagine a hole drilled completely through Earth...
 * 7) Imagine a hole drilled completely through Earth, question 2
 * 8) what are the chances there could be "French Fries Zero"?
 * 9) Suspension bridge small cables
 * 10) Is that possible?
 * 11) Were each of the twelve men who walked on the moon first-born sons?
 * 12) three-point adhesion
 * 13) Mechanical processes and manufacturing technology

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 6


 * 1) Trash on the moon
 * 2) some disease without symptoms
 * 3) DNA-Identification
 * 4) Unkown Bird
 * 5) astronomy question
 * 6) Current state of photovoltaics in Europe and the world
 * 7) Metal Gear
 * 8) worker ants
 * 9) Relativity vs quantum mechanics

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 7


 * 1) Ismail Ibn Sharif
 * 2) Inch of water
 * 3) I need to clean a disgusting sink: question about bleach and ammonia...
 * 4) Black body radiation question
 * 5) What species is this frog?
 * 6) Laser as a weapon
 * 7) If bin Laden had a medical need for dialysis
 * 8) Inactive ingredients in medicines
 * 9) about tunnelng  effect
 * 10) Genetic bottleneck due to Great Famine of 1315-1317?
 * 11) Are there any known substances that are harder than diamond?
 * 12) Frame Dragging/Conservation of energy/General Relativity

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 8


 * 1) Do spherical mirrors produce a sphere inversion?
 * 2) Where to obtain a HyperSim card?
 * 3) Cost of panels per square mile, and how many needed to power Earth?
 * 4) where to get zsm 5 catalyst in india  for my chemistry projectWickyjazz (talk) 07:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) Blood test for CJD and donating blood/plasma
 * 6) What other bodily components of mine would I be allowed to give for $?
 * 7) What kind of insect is this?
 * 8) Bicycles (and other things) remaining upright
 * 9) Building the Duomo di Milano today.
 * 10) Finding bin Laden
 * 11) pain and pressure

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 9


 * 1) R constant
 * 2) Immunology: Neutralization technique
 * 3) Colour of plants.
 * 4) black holes sizes
 * 5) how electric shock causes death?
 * 6) Pulling animals by the tail
 * 7) Do plants die of old age?
 * 8) Fertilizer
 * 9) Charles' Law gives different results for different temperature systems?

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 10


 * 1) Blackhole Theory
 * 2) Ninth Planet
 * 3) LHC
 * 4) planetesimals
 * 5) Children sweat less than adults?
 * 6) The scale of temperature in water
 * 7) Strength of steel for making a table
 * 8) Ethnic-specific biological weapons
 * 9) bending of space and time using lasers

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 11


 * 1) Metronomes
 * 2) Gas in the age of zombies
 * 3) Young Earth?
 * 4) Newborns are defenseless
 * 5) Recharging a laptop from a square wave inverter
 * 6) Vasopressin not used as a uterine stimulant?
 * 7) Wine and Vinegar
 * 8) Keeping milk from freezing: How much vodka needed?
 * 9) Mass of a heated object
 * 10) what does an atom look like?
 * 11) forms
 * 12) transformer
 * 13) dipole movement
 * 14) A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)
 * 15) Why does a dropped object land directly below where it is dropped?

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 12


 * 1) Eye of a hurricane question
 * 2) Hospital planning
 * 3) Tips on building an LCD
 * 4) Spy plane
 * 5) mass of an atom in kinetic collisions
 * 6) Identifying distant sources of light
 * 7) 2011 Mississippi River floods

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 13


 * 1) What is the role of the autonomic nervous system in uterine contraction?
 * 2) Spider path
 * 3) Nephrotic syndrome in children
 * 4) Waste of Mir Deorbiting
 * 5) Bonding problem
 * 6) Sodium silicate
 * 7) Cognitive bias relating to extrapolating from initial conditions
 * 8) BIrds & Monarch butterflies.
 * 9) Multiverses beginnings
 * 10) Help identifying plant

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 14


 * 1) Increase voltage from batteries
 * 2) Leatherman
 * 3) Infinity of infinite dimensional space
 * 4) Electrons
 * 5) Colour blindness
 * 6) A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)
 * 7) Additional time
 * 8) Chemistry
 * 9) XLR specs
 * 10) Colourful butterflys
 * 11) What's the largest object that can undergo diffraction?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 15


 * 1) the brain's Physical quantity of dwarfs and the fact they are smart just as any other human
 * 2) are there any scientifically proven FOODS there a long-term eating of them could improveenhance the human visioneye-sight system?...
 * 3) Ice age Australasian straits
 * 4) UL or other agency approval or certification
 * 5) Public structures have to be approved by a Professional Engineer??
 * 6) Minimum thread engagements
 * 7) interference reason
 * 8) Sailing stones
 * 9) graph in excel
 * 10) DARAPRIM COMPOUND TAB. quinine dihydrochloride
 * 11) Tomatoes
 * 12) Skullology or Skull-Osteology or what? - how should i say "skullology" in scientific terminology?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 16


 * 1) Waterford Nuclear Generating Station
 * 2) being awake like a zombie
 * 3) Plant survival
 * 4) When do chlorine in a solution evaporate?
 * 5) Space shuttle booster rockets
 * 6) How long does it take to test DNA?
 * 7) Eye color changing with mood.
 * 8) titration endpoint
 * 9) disease detection by dogs
 * 10) Aberration
 * 11) Cervical spondylosis/hypertrophy, neural foraminal stenosis - parts of the body affected
 * 12) Nonlethal weapons for use on large animals

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 17


 * 1) How old do you have to be a nurse in Japan?
 * 2) Can anyone recommend any books about Gynoid which are female robots with a human appearance.
 * 3) fractional volume of an extraction solvent
 * 4) weaver bird nests
 * 5) allosteric enzyme kinetics
 * 6) Evolution of spider's web glands
 * 7) Non-organic material decomposition

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 18


 * 1) Mouth Anatomy
 * 2) Orion Molecular Cloud Complex
 * 3) HAHO jumps and radar
 * 4) Does evaporative cooling cause air to become lighter or heavier?
 * 5) Vision & Fear
 * 6) Is the plane that separates the bonding and anti-bonding region in two H atoms a hyperboloid of two sheets
 * 7) What is a diathermic substance?
 * 8) Do sound waves tell us anything about how the microscopic interactions between the surfaces are?
 * 9) East-Prinovozemelsky field and the ice pack
 * 10) Most developed automatic driving car in the market
 * 11) What can a man do against a Straight-Sunken scar on the chin?...
 * 12) How do Helix pomatia look when they are young?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 19


 * 1) DOMINANT and RECESSIVE
 * 2) Most efficient way to convert heat to electricity
 * 3) Quantitative Analysis and Sex offender registration
 * 4) Speed of cough
 * 5) Warm-blooded versus cold-blooded
 * 6) Sexual reproduction in plants
 * 7) Finding article that cite a particular paper

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 20


 * 1) the red end
 * 2) device name
 * 3) Please help me to figure it out
 * 4) Drug-producing plants
 * 5) Sunscreen

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 21


 * 1) Rat factoid I heard on TV the other day...
 * 2) Morganza spillway absorption and flow
 * 3) Gaseous Ions
 * 4) Phosphorus pentafluoride
 * 5) Black semiconductor
 * 6) Wheatstone Bridge - infinite current between legs of circuit?
 * 7) Taste of seafood

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 22


 * 1) Where does it go?
 * 2) Prandtl Number
 * 3) Nerve plexuses in G.I.T. (from mouth till anus)
 * 4) THANK ..................................... K YOU
 * 5) Sodastream fuel
 * 6) Australian wildlife
 * 7) Morse taper
 * 8) Great Exhibition Mast
 * 9) Titanium Dioxide in fat-free half & half?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 23


 * 1) sp3d and sp3d2
 * 2) Where does the 1/2 come from?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 24


 * 1) Ambidexterity
 * 2) Case study!
 * 3) Pro-neuro-genesis > proven-to-be-as-such FOODS?
 * 4) Land bridge between Asia and North America since...?
 * 5) Today is a great day for science
 * 6) Speed of sound problem.
 * 7) Why does black cherry sparkling water spew all over the place but not other flavors?
 * 8) Ancient Greeks
 * 9) Carotene acetate
 * 10) Umbilical cord
 * 11) Radioactive Elements

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 25


 * 1) Earth's gravity and humans
 * 2) Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia
 * 3) Dual-brain theory & ambidexterity
 * 4) I have 3 questions about the :Narwhal?
 * 5) Carbonmonixide`s reaction with water
 * 6) Size of carbonate and nitrate ion
 * 7) Non-cassein cheese
 * 8) Red blood cells and erythropoietin in early stage renal artery stenosis
 * 9) The electron is not perfectly round?
 * 10) Could I be allergic to something in the milk, and not the milk itself?
 * 11) Solar rotation. Why exactly does the sun's equatorial region rotate faster?

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 26


 * 1) dangling inchworms
 * 2) Why can't (don't?) we mass produce space probes?
 * 3) Black hole-like phenomena from other forces?
 * 4) Star colors in M13
 * 5) Senior Analyst - qu'est-ce que c'est?
 * 6) Riding out storms in bathtubs

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 27


 * 1) Dialyses machines!
 * 2) PH Rate?
 * 3) Decay energy
 * 4) Climate change
 * 5) dsp3 and d2sp3 hybridisations
 * 6) Dipole moment of BF3
 * 7) HgCl2
 * 8) Speed of radio waves through the earth compared to light in fiber optic cable on the surface
 * 9) Distinguishing between whole milk and two-percent milk
 * 10) Muscles in gastrointestinal tract
 * 11) Where is the best place to go Whale watching for Narwhals?
 * 12) Why is Biology a qualitative science?

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 28


 * 1) Tornadoes and bodies
 * 2) Would perfect cell replication lead to immortality?
 * 3) VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage
 * 4) "Wet" disposal of acetone peroxide. Also, intercepting suicide bombers
 * 5) dsp3 and d2sp3 hybridisations
 * 6) impact induced colour change in clay
 * 7) pf plants
 * 8) Is this 100% whole wheat bread?
 * 9) Nintendo 3DS

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 29


 * 1) What velocity in terms of c (light speed) needed to cause fusion in deuterium - tritium fusion?
 * 2) low resolution image of Lincoln
 * 3) MP3 Player, Computer Circuit integration
 * 4) TONSILS
 * 5) 3.5 metre Under keel clearance for the Malacca straits passage for ships
 * 6) I have some questions about whales and sharks
 * 7) Physics of Liquids and Friction

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 30


 * 1) Underwater vehicles
 * 2) combination of solar wind
 * 3) Brains of superorganisms
 * 4) Any garden flower with leaves that look like a thistle?
 * 5) Why is quantum mechanics so packed with relativistic corrections?
 * 6) how to say "brain" (brain of the skull) in greek  latin? and should we say BRAINOLOGY?
 * 7) Skeletal  System     ..

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 31


 * 1) Ants, fruit, and sand
 * 2) Need Best online software training
 * 3) Isolating the "celibacy factor" in clergy child sex abuse
 * 4) Pedophilia
 * 5) Herpes zoster
 * 6) Diastereomerism
 * 7) Unknown ladybug/ladybird
 * 8) Centipedes in our house
 * 9) Fractals in Radio Antenna and other comunitaction devices.
 * 10) Microwaves