Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2012

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 1


 * 1) Entangled Qubits as Polarized Light
 * 2) Size of the cat's eye nebula
 * 3) Air in submerged car
 * 4) What does this mean? Gravitational waves should penetrate regions of space that electromagnetic waves cannot.
 * 5) Amputating limbs of quadriplegics
 * 6) wasp

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 2


 * 1) Meditation and Sleep
 * 2) White Blood Cells & infection
 * 3) pre-antibiotic era
 * 4) free space in atoms
 * 5) Do children of people with speech impediments learn the speech impediment?
 * 6) attractive force from virtual particles
 * 7) bromocresol gren
 * 8) Lifting buoyant things with just a few drops of water

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 3


 * 1) Who would and wouldn't want to live forever
 * 2) Programmed death
 * 3) Very laid back Bluebottles, how to distinguish true C. vomitoria?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 4


 * 1) All-axial or all-equatorial?
 * 2) How fast it takes for Venus to lose its atmopshere
 * 3) Toxicity of lead anti-radiation materials
 * 4) Boiling water
 * 5) Hollywood etymology
 * 6) 2 questions about a chemical solution
 * 7) Lions not on the Gulf of Guinea?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 5


 * 1) Dimensions of inflation
 * 2) Article about rain
 * 3) DVD player
 * 4) Is Planetary Resources making a space VLBI telescope array?
 * 5) Over-active Immune System
 * 6) Pronunciation of vitamin?
 * 7) Temporary change in sexual orientation
 * 8) Neutrons
 * 9) pearsons r and F TEST

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 6


 * 1) Chemical smells
 * 2) Where does the vitamin D in polar regions come from?
 * 3) Oil near the Great Lakes
 * 4) entanglement Logic
 * 5) What percentage of human zygotes end up dying in the womb?
 * 6) Virtual work
 * 7) Is it safe to keep batteries in a tin can?
 * 8) Perchlorate ion electronic structure
 * 9) dripping under sink
 * 10) Fractional degrees of freedom
 * 11) Metro lines and building

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 7


 * 1) Most specific term for the misleading sensation I am feeling
 * 2) how nuclear radiations caused pancytopenia?
 * 3) Quantum Mechanics/Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
 * 4) adding angular momenta in quantum mechanics (QM)
 * 5) Generic lifts

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 8


 * 1) Speed of Light and Black Holes
 * 2) How harmful are the expected failure modes of London subway congestion?
 * 3) Putrescine
 * 4) Real-life applications of Pokéballs
 * 5) Newly discovered pathogen in Roundup Ready crops
 * 6) Light bulbs
 * 7) How long do adult flies live ?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 9


 * 1) "Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing"
 * 2) Crude oil, 'condensate'
 * 3) Historical rate of beta decay?
 * 4) free space in atoms 2
 * 5) Maltose vs Lactose
 * 6) In so-called "99% ethanol", is this 99% by concentration or mass? --150.203.114.37 (talk) 23:47, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 10


 * 1) Why are salad shrimps so cheap?
 * 2) Measuring human tasked energy consumption with calorimetry
 * 3) Nutrients for human brain tissue culture
 * 4) Two diagonal rings, one touching the other at just one point and spinning
 * 5) Master of Public Health
 * 6) Lava tornado

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 11


 * 1) before penicillin
 * 2) Minimizing the effects of aging on skin
 * 3) Is Element Zero In Mass Effect Possible
 * 4) is the file autorun.inf executable by itself?
 * 5) What's the term for one way only traffic lane design?
 * 6) WTC
 * 7) Transitional relativity ?
 * 8) Digging to Vesta's iron core
 * 9) Cobra Mist
 * 10) Eating pearls

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 12


 * 1) Rate data for dissociation & recombination reactions
 * 2) Lift controls
 * 3) What do these presumably space related acronyms mean?
 * 4) Herschel and life on the Moon, etc

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 13


 * 1) While I know that it's a myth that you can stop a moving car...
 * 2) Rusting after burning
 * 3) Autism
 * 4) 1 year.
 * 5) Why is CO not the anhydride of formic acid?
 * 6) Are there any traits (genetic traits) that are only inherited from one parent?(mom or dad)
 * 7) Greenland as three islands
 * 8) The Nature of Jupiter's Metallic Hydrogen Interior
 * 9) Stronger superacids than fluoroantimonic acid
 * 10) Steel laptop and electroshock
 * 11) Promiscuity and inbreeding
 * 12) Lead poisoning and weight gain
 * 13) thd
 * 14) How does myopia work?
 * 15) what is cally disease

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 14


 * 1) Why is KCN basic but not KNO3?
 * 2) Are the injuries sustained by Tony Stark at all possible?
 * 3) Weight loss question
 * 4) Thermodynamics of nuclear reactions
 * 5) Help identifying swallowtail
 * 6) Help Identifying another swallow tail
 * 7) Is it possible (however unlikely) for quantum fluctuations to violate conservation of energy?
 * 8) women
 * 9) Will Mira B explode?
 * 10) glass in soil

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 15


 * 1) Surfactants
 * 2) Proper Dimensions for Mortality Rates
 * 3) how much farther does a giraffe see
 * 4) Magnetic moment of a neutron
 * 5) Lemonade (Citrus limon × reticulata)
 * 6) Help identifying moths
 * 7) relationship between telomere length and cancer risk
 * 8) Grasshopper in Zion National Park

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 16


 * 1) Non-ethanol effects of alcoholic beverages
 * 2) Ripping someone a new one
 * 3) List of Self Limiting diseases?
 * 4) red giant's maximum diameter
 * 5) An inquiry into the nature of solenoids
 * 6) Orbital Chainsaw
 * 7) Compatibility (mechanics)
 * 8) Whether I saw the moon.
 * 9) Controversy on Gravitational Singularities
 * 10) Beryllium barrier
 * 11) Irish Great whites
 * 12) Urgent Antihistamine Question
 * 13) Antihistamine and general drug dosage question

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 17


 * 1) What is the formal definition of a chromosome, or is there one?
 * 2) Metal loses its magnetic properties when in a liquid state?
 * 3) Space radiation
 * 4) Mario Rabinowitz
 * 5) Cooperative lightning?  Intelligent grass?
 * 6) Where can drugs get in your body? What barriers are there?

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 18


 * 1) sun become a red giant  5 or 7.5 billion years?
 * 2) Eclipse question
 * 3) Phd stipend life sciences
 * 4) What's the most likely problem with my tire inflator/spotlight?
 * 5) about sodium silicate
 * 6) Gibbs free energy
 * 7) Zeta potential
 * 8) Flat universe have zero total energy?
 * 9) Mootractor

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 19


 * 1) Eye movement limit
 * 2) Clomethiazole
 * 3) Proton-Proton Chain Reaction
 * 4) Equilibrium in analytical mechanics
 * 5) Plastic cities
 * 6) Species identification
 * 7) Unidentified houseplant
 * 8) Geiger tube
 * 9) Do microwave ovens use less energy than stoves?
 * 10) Specific entropy
 * 11) Why isn't dinitrogen toxic?
 * 12) Dasyuromorphia and carnivores
 * 13) Problems with xenon tetroxide xenate formulas

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 20


 * 1) Locomotives
 * 2) Geiger tube continuation
 * 3) Domestic Heat Pump connections
 * 4) Hexahydrogen sulfide
 * 5) Ingredients of paint primer?
 * 6) Electricity of x cm³ of water at y m
 * 7) State of radon related to radioactivity?
 * 8) Ultra High power mechanical HVDC-breakers?
 * 9) Planetary Resources, Inc.
 * 10) electric car batteries
 * 11) Are these "proper" moobs?
 * 12) Wood as an electric conductor
 * 13) Asthma meds for otherwise healthy people

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 21


 * 1) Oxidation state trend
 * 2) Could obesity be caused by a lack of magnesium in the diet?
 * 3) Cartography  - resolution?
 * 4) steam engine plans
 * 5) Purple lightning
 * 6) Comparing climate between places in Australia & North America
 * 7) Diversity of sexuality
 * 8) Odd notation in genetics (greater than symbol?)

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 22


 * 1) Rotating in space
 * 2) Gravitational time dilation at the centre of a large mass
 * 3) Physics: Aerodynamics of Pigeon Wing.
 * 4) "Whoa!" moments
 * 5) Fun examples of body parts that go on living
 * 6) F-22 Raptor's deadly toxic stealth goo
 * 7) Quick weather question
 * 8) do most mainstream water-resistant sunscreens have dangerous ingredients?
 * 9) Gravitational Blueshift Equation

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 23


 * 1) Diversity of sexuality #2
 * 2) Could plants extract metabolic energy from wind?
 * 3) Science Project
 * 4) Where's the rule about how high model rockets can go in the US
 * 5) Trebuchet design.
 * 6) Odd smell after a hailstorm
 * 7) SELF CHARGING ELECTRICAL CAR
 * 8) Oestrogen injections for sociopaths
 * 9) Is the psi function real?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 24


 * 1) Calories in coffee
 * 2) Super Heros and capes
 * 3) Geology of DRC
 * 4) Taxonomical names
 * 5) What class is a fox?
 * 6) Household uses for reactions
 * 7) Why does LASIK work?
 * 8) Solar flares and radioactive decay
 * 9) Where cometh the meme about heorin being less adictive than tobacco?

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 25


 * 1) Two questions
 * 2) What accounts for temperature increase at night in a modern home?
 * 3) Orange Plasma on ICP-AES
 * 4) Hand clap
 * 5) Jupiter Rise?
 * 6) Sunny weather and arthritis
 * 7) Border control discovering smuggling inside the body

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 26


 * 1) Catenanes
 * 2) What's so paradoxical about Paleoparadoxia?

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 27


 * 1) Driving speeds and fuel efficiency
 * 2) Why are there no albino horses?
 * 3) How often should sausages be turned on the BBQ?
 * 4) Never before seen color
 * 5) SleePology
 * 6) Light deflection by gravity
 * 7) Intestinal aganglionosis
 * 8) String theory
 * 9) Poynting vector about a charge moving at constant velocity.
 * 10) Why would being low on freon cause ice to build up around the AC unit's pipes inside?
 * 11) Sulfur nitrides and nitrogen oxides
 * 12) Catenane structural formula
 * 13) "Sharp diagnosis"

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 28


 * 1) Separating catenane links
 * 2) Comparing Heat Conductivities
 * 3) Blind Spot in space travel
 * 4) Algae on the Moon?
 * 5) "New form of LSD"

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 29


 * 1) Central Sleep Apnea theory contested
 * 2) Low frequency sound waves
 * 3) Refraction and entantiomers
 * 4) What evidence is there that DNA has a double helical structure in vivo?
 * 5) non-determinism and causality
 * 6) What is the nature of life
 * 7) How does the pressure-temperature diagram for refrigeration look like?
 * 8) Physics/Math Theory ... Flat Flexible Object ... Volume Mass Force
 * 9) Making Ammonium sulfate
 * 10) What kind of latch ?
 * 11) Color does not actually exists?
 * 12) Good or bad edit?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 30


 * 1) Calories consumed during periods of intense activity
 * 2) Goethian Optics
 * 3) 2867 Šteins — common-noun nomenclature
 * 4) Polar oceanic climate?
 * 5) Birds that humans can ride?
 * 6) Woken up during non-REM sleep, i feel tired, why?, prevention?
 * 7) How to get hydrogen from electrolysis into a balloon?
 * 8) Moon tilting

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 31


 * 1) Animal bones
 * 2) For a skyscraper window washer, falling ....
 * 3) In E = Mc2, Why c?
 * 4) Reaction rate data for iodine recombination
 * 5) Do we need to detox?
 * 6) Which is More Buoyant?
 * 7) Transit of Mercury
 * 8) Is Scientific Investigation Ever Irrelevant?
 * 9) Neutron Spin
 * 10) How many fingers does a hand need?