Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2014

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 1


 * 1) If I can smell something is it losing mass?
 * 2) Mr Frosty (is such fun; he makes treats for everyone)
 * 3) Using napalm in a car instead of gasoline
 * 4) vitreous humor
 * 5) Andromeda...
 * 6) Comets and Aristotle
 * 7) Impedance matching between transmission lines
 * 8) Male and female bell peppers?

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 2


 * 1) Did the Inflationary epoch create time?
 * 2) Backup CF card
 * 3) Water in solar system planets
 * 4) Plant Intelligent/ brain theory
 * 5) Maintain Hot Water
 * 6) Rhizobium spp. for  pea/beans vs. clovers/alfalfa ?
 * 7) Yeast vs bacterial culture
 * 8) Image focus distance of relaxed eye lens
 * 9) Silicagel (orange to clear indicating) high temperature

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 3


 * 1) Did been a quantums in a low temperature?
 * 2) The myth of endodontic pain
 * 3) Why are physics texts often lax with integral notation?
 * 4) Matlab
 * 5) caffeine in shampoo
 * 6) Что хуже?
 * 7) Is it been real a protoplasm electric transformer
 * 8) Bird song identification, Baltimore MD

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 4


 * 1) Immoplex glandular
 * 2) What's the difference between Supernova 1a and a Nova?
 * 3) What is it been a electromagnetic induction?
 * 4) Scientific publishing/communication and language
 * 5) RNAses in tissue culture
 * 6) Help identifying a bee/wasp
 * 7) Science memes
 * 8) Tamest, most docile pet?
 * 9) Do people kill more often in their families or outside?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 5


 * 1) Aviation rumble
 * 2) Concentrated Sun-blackbody equilibrium temperature
 * 3) Vacuum tube filament conditions
 * 4) Vegetable wash and pesticide residue in produce
 * 5) Scientific names
 * 6) Medium-Chain Triglycerides preservation

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 6


 * 1) is anything harder than diamonds?  if not, why not?
 * 2) Superconductor question
 * 3) Freeze-thaw damage of molecules
 * 4) Home-made versus store-bought water for tissue culture
 * 5) Aerogel - Compressive strength

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 7


 * 1) legal, medical...electrical?    Why are my lights flickering???
 * 2) Three Pairs of Legs
 * 3) 1,2-Dichloroethene and chloro(fluoro)amine
 * 4) Meaning of micro
 * 5) Adult-onset h(a)emophilia
 * 6) Organic chemistry

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 8


 * 1) is Occam's Razor the only thing propping the Big Bang theory up?
 * 2) natural selection
 * 3) Light sensitive element
 * 4) CDC
 * 5) SCID gene therapy, retrovirus, leukaemia

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 9


 * 1) Force-Vector Diagrams (i.e. force calculations)
 * 2) How precisely can you measure a position on Earth without GPS?
 * 3) What happens when our bodies get colder?
 * 4) Have scientists determined the optimal number of hours since you've woken up to do important things?

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 10


 * 1) A parachute for a plane
 * 2) Schizophrenia
 * 3) Balloon in Virginia
 * 4) Lactulose and cavities
 * 5) Are their any substances which do the inverse of Transitions lenses?
 * 6) What's the slickest solid to bubbles?
 * 7) Can someone identify this plant please?
 * 8) Suitable insulating material for end of hair curling iron
 * 9) Thermal resistance of tungsten-molybdenum alloy
 * 10) Astronomy help request
 * 11) A question to sink your teeth into
 * 12) Commercialisation of Engineering
 * 13) How a switch button works?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 11


 * 1) Rings and moons
 * 2) Dove Offspring?

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 12


 * 1) I keep cracking my joints
 * 2) Lifting legs and blood pressure
 * 3) Work done
 * 4) Resting eyes by closing
 * 5) What is the current scientific position on the issue of race supported by American anthropologist and biologists?
 * 6) Google Maps, the Red River and the Texas/Oklahoma border
 * 7) A/C efficiency
 * 8) Question about Penis Transplantation
 * 9) First moment of area calculations

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 13


 * 1) light dependent and light independent reactions in photosynthesis
 * 2) phoebe fledging
 * 3) Building an ice-dam.
 * 4) Why doesn't Huntington's disease burn itself out?
 * 5) Reliable biography of Nikola Tesla
 * 6) Typhoid Mary

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 14


 * 1) HCV
 * 2) Biochem question
 * 3) Cannabis and lung cancer
 * 4) How do portable (not window) A/C units work ?
 * 5) Static discharge - where is the charge held and how does it get conducted?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 15


 * 1) old steel bike frame compromised due to cold temperatures?
 * 2) Bipedalism
 * 3) an illustration for the standard model of particle physics
 * 4) Engineering disciplines

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 16


 * 1) Patterns That Change When Tilted
 * 2) radical surgery on antarctic ice using lasers
 * 3) Staged fire alarms
 * 4) Why aren't magnets used to make pushing colenoids?
 * 5) wage slavery around the world

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 17


 * 1) University/college life
 * 2) fusion as a resource?
 * 3) Did a kreagenny sleep been real
 * 4) Is "swimming is far more efficient than walking" like StuRat says above?
 * 5) Is sweating (in mammals) secretion or excretion?

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 18


 * 1) Incandescent light bulb color
 * 2) How long would the TGV take to stop?
 * 3) Propagation of extremely high frequency sound in air
 * 4) Breast shrinkage
 * 5) Sunset time and darkness

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 19


 * 1) Games that computers can't play
 * 2) How German homes are built
 * 3) How does knowing the gene for a disease help you treat the disease?
 * 4) Is it true that RNA helix viruses mutate faster than DNA helix viruses?
 * 5) Inconspicuous transport by sea
 * 6) Is it true that blood glucose can change your eye prescription if you wear glasses?
 * 7) Creatures with 3 pairs of limbs
 * 8) Drug tests, "cleansing"

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 20


 * 1) Efficacy of vaccines
 * 2) Identifying a bird
 * 3) Projectile dynamics
 * 4) Musical instruments
 * 5) Metric prefix
 * 6) Gay parenting vs heterosexual parenting

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 21


 * 1) What type of tree is this?
 * 2) Pick proof lock
 * 3) LASIK surgery
 * 4) Synovial fluid agonist?
 * 5) Identification of an Electronic Componenet
 * 6) Eye scream [stolen eyes and retinal scans]
 * 7) Hammering a nail

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 22


 * 1) Quitting Smoking and Weight Gain
 * 2) Genetic engineering to alter genes
 * 3) I have -4 power in my left eye but almost neutral in my right eye. If i stop to use the spectacle then what problem may arise ?
 * 4) Persistance of Electromagnetic radiation
 * 5) 3D printers
 * 6) Self-detonating buildings

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 23


 * 1) Effect of hydrogen on electrical resistivity of metals
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 23#.5Bhttps:.2F.2Fen.wikipedia.org.2Fwiki.2FSpecial:Search.3Fsearch.3Ddihydrogen.2Bmonoxide.26prefix.3DWikipedia.253AReference.2Bdesk.252FArchives.26fulltext.3DSearch.2Breference.2Bdesk.2Barchives.26fulltext.3DSearch_Dihydrogen_monoxide.5D|Dihydrogen monoxide]]
 * 3) Deep red color becomes faint orange in digital camera picture :(

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 24


 * 1) What's the best non-supernatural explanation for Lourdes and Fatima?
 * 2) The scientific community's past and present views on the observation that most animals, as a general rule, supposedly have the same number of heartbeats
 * 3) Depression and memory loss
 * 4) Using liquid nitrogen as a source of nitrogen gas
 * 5) Alternative energy
 * 6) Cyclophosphamide

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 25


 * 1) Which is good AC or Fan for our health?
 * 2) Trillions of plastic fragments in Arctic ice
 * 3) What polymer is formed from phthalic acid and ethylene glycol?
 * 4) Fan housing
 * 5) Reverse tomography for 3D "printing"
 * 6) Professional athletes

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 26


 * 1) Example of a distributed parameter system
 * 2) What can be taken to heal mouth ulcer?
 * 3) Banana worms

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 27


 * 1) Synthesising milk in bioreactors?
 * 2) Cosmic Microwave Background radiation
 * 3) Gull knows how to turn on tap/faucet to get water?
 * 4) light bulb air conditioning savings?
 * 5) Zone heating/area heating
 * 6) Why are fruits classified as living things?
 * 7) Masturbation/ejaculation and hormone levels.

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 28


 * 1) X:A ratio
 * 2) Radiation exposure
 * 3) Down's Syndrome and obesity
 * 4) Why were the stellar nursery clouds spinning in the first place?
 * 5) Native aluminum
 * 6) What the typical man's and woman's voices sound like. Disagree?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 29


 * 1) Cats drinking
 * 2) How do doves and pigeons make their vocalizations?
 * 3) Binary problems with Kepler 64
 * 4) Beyond cementite
 * 5) USRDA values for sodium in canned veggies
 * 6) Time it takes for cigarettes to catch fire longer or shorter than time it takes to catch fire from matches?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 30


 * 1) Hair follicles
 * 2) Insect identification
 * 3) Flouride
 * 4) Optimum speed for an automotive alternator
 * 5) How was it possible to destroy treasure in a bonfire?
 * 6) Why do animal babies scream?
 * 7) bottled water
 * 8) dream recall

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 May 31


 * 1) Are battery capacities going up or stagnant?
 * 2) fractals
 * 3) moons affect on sea level
 * 4) Transmitting information faster than the speed of light
 * 5) Calculating the top speed of a car given its power, drag coefficient, and cross-sectional area
 * 6) horseshoes