Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2006

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 1


 * 1) For Better Bio Gas Yield...??
 * 2) Phospholipase A2
 * 3) [Erotic asphyxiation]] question for evolutionary biologists, endocrinologists, and maybe embryologists
 * 4) Where can a man go to just 'vanish'?
 * 5) Big Bang and Big Collapse
 * 6) Why do teeth have nerves?
 * 7) Antisocial personality disorder
 * 8) Speaking of teeth...
 * 9) Tomato Hornworm
 * 10) Promiscuity
 * 11) protein hydrolysis and H2S
 * 12) shelf life and storage of dynamite and pyrotol
 * 13) Oncology Research
 * 14) Image:Lugano.jpeg
 * 15) What is it good for?
 * 16) Plane crash
 * 17) "Psychoelectronic" devices and weapons?
 * 18) Tickling
 * 19) Dizziness during inflation
 * 20) Phobia of centipedes and millipedes -  and why?
 * 21) Antisocial Personality Disorder Origon
 * 22) Proton
 * 23) Periodic table
 * 24) Squeezing legs

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 2


 * 1) Having wet dreams about drinking breastmilk
 * 2) Electrons
 * 3) onservation of momentum
 * 4) boiling water and conserving energy
 * 5) Orbital maintainance as a function of orbital velocity
 * 6) Locusts as food for humans
 * 7) What causes Electromagnetic radiation ?
 * 8) Organization of the periodic table
 * 9) An experiment made to separate oil from Coconut milk.
 * 10) ar clapping?
 * 11) Fully N-type MOSFETs
 * 12) AIDS after death
 * 13) ides
 * 14) Boiling_water_and_conserving_energy Part 2
 * 15) Year without a Summer
 * 16) What is a "Lewis conjugate" substance?
 * 17) SCR's
 * 18) KENTUCKY'S SOIL
 * 19) Chemical bonding in the nitric oxide
 * 20) Density and space
 * 21) protocol
 * 22) Flea eggs
 * 23) What is the collective term for a group of Jellyfish?
 * 24) What is the collective term for a group of Reference Desk contributors
 * 25) amniocentesis
 * 26) Thermal Energy loss of a person
 * 27) gas turbine
 * 28) How many fish are in the sea?
 * 29) protein molecular weight

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 3


 * 1) hemistry
 * 2) Identificiation of a spider
 * 3) Cable TV wiring methods
 * 4) q = cp*delta t * m
 * 5) The Harris-Benedict equations
 * 6) Gallium/gallinstan
 * 7) Krell
 * 8) Dark colored cliffs in Great Britain?
 * 9) hat is this?
 * 10) Earthworm and grasshopper digestion times
 * 11) Radiation
 * 12) abortion
 * 13) siddhis and the paranormal
 * So, I quit smoking a few weeks ago...
 * 1) Bernoulli's principle
 * 2) Electric Fences
 * 3) How to thicken bleach ?
 * 4) Dayhoff matrix
 * 5) waterspouts
 * 6) What's so special about the ground?
 * 7) The Human Tongue...
 * 8) Favourite quantum mechanics interpretation
 * 9) Genetic Engineering
 * 10) Question on Special Relativity

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 4


 * 1) Swallowing and breathing
 * 2) GE
 * 3)  Hydrocarbon compounds
 * 4) Black Hole characteristics
 * 5) Bacteria.
 * 6) Water
 * 7) Ears ringing
 * 8) six pack
 * 9) Intensity dependent dye effect
 * 10) How much land required to keep free-roaming peacocks?
 * 11) What does roast seagull taste like?
 * 12) Spinning (rotating) Black Hole
 * 13) thermometer thingy
 * 14) abortion again
 * 15) Reaction Rate Constant
 * 16) Measuring outside temp in cars
 * 17) worms
 * 18) ellyfish
 * 19) Polymers and solubility
 * 20) Magnetic field on light ray
 * 21) Rhubarb
 * 22) Preventing menstrual cycle
 * 23) Volcanoes
 * 24) What happens when man takes a contraceptive pill?

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 5


 * 1) Name of anti-depressant that makes people walk around a lot as a side-effect?
 * 2) Why do they euthanize horses after they break a leg?
 * 3) Keeping up with scientific discoveries
 * 4) canine cognitive dysfunction
 * 5) Autoclave
 * 6) Sound smearing and size hop of a vocoder
 * 7) sinusoidal oscillators(electronic)
 * 8) Science (various)
 * 9) how to plant hybrid apple seeds
 * 10) environment
 * 11) Patenting of agricultural products
 * 12) scientific degree
 * 13) Isotopes
 * 14) Mobile phones in airliners
 * 15) nergy Dissipation in Vibrating Solids
 * 16) Congenital disorders causing abandonment of young by animal mothers
 * 17) Rubies natural processes

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 6


 * 1) How to detect the presence of UV-C (253.7 nm) light?
 * 2) Finding the taxonomic classification
 * 3) Grease + paper = semi-clear?
 * 4) black body radiation
 * 5) Organelles
 * 6) Home for Unwanted Scholarships
 * 7) old history physics
 * 8) Kinsey Reports
 * 9) Ice age?
 * 10) algea inhibitions test.
 * 11) Chemistry : Solution question
 * 12) Chemistry: lollipops
 * 13) Remote unlocking
 * 14) Importance of Polar Ice Caps
 * 15) Simple harmonic motion
 * 16) Scientific papers on the recently-discovered connection between psoriasis and heart disease
 * 17) If humans had evolved from a solely carnivorous species?
 * 18) Freshly boiled water and tea
 * 19) scientific discoveries

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 7


 * 1) Nonalianonactanonacontanonane
 * 2) Cats
 * 3) Gulf Stream
 * 4) [Copeia]]
 * 5) winterberry
 * 6) Partial pressure Q
 * 7) A Void
 * 8) Blowing up the moon
 * 9) Evolution
 * 10) Skin care ingredients needed
 * 11) bookphobia
 * 12) Hyperextension of legs
 * 13) what keeps cells together?
 * 14) project of pallet calcium chloride
 * 15) Power steering improvement - is it possible?
 * 16) Milk allergies
 * 17) I need more info on the Electro-Chemical Receiving Telephone.
 * 18) Physics - Pointlike mass launched from the top of a sphere
 * 19) Cat Allergies
 * 20) General Relativity
 * 21) What percentage of DNA do humans share with lesser black-backed gulls?
 * 22) ew H2/O2 alloy
 * 23) industrial water pump
 * 24) Absolute Minimum Density
 * 25) Antacid
 * 26) Butylated hydroxyanisole
 * 27) Captive bred pet gulls in the UK

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 8


 * 1) blue food coloring
 * 2) Standard state symbol in thermodynamics
 * 3) Early Film History
 * 4) Wiki images in Theses
 * 5) California earthquakes
 * 6) Electricity
 * 7) Science Project
 * 8) brain ?
 * 9) Eggs as cells
 * 10) Repent! The End Is Nigh!
 * 11) Buyoancy of wood
 * 12) Transit of Mercury
 * 13) Animal twins
 * 14) Viagra
 * 15) Zinc Production in Port Pirie, South Australia

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 9


 * 1) Skid Marks
 * 2) Joules and Farads and Volts, oh my!
 * 3) Absolute minimum density, part II
 * 4) IC Accelerometer
 * 5) Step down Transformers
 * 6) Polarizers
 * 7) LIVER AS METABOLIC BUFFER
 * 8) BLOOD
 * 9) Chemisty Question about lollipops
 * 10) optical
 * 11) Body Sensor
 * 12) Crossing legs and weight
 * 13) Mammal kidneys
 * 14) science
 * 15) Boiling-point elevation
 * 16) Diseases which warrant a Quarantine
 * 17) Capacitors
 * 18) Number of Species in Asia
 * 19) Another Curious Question for Anyone and Everyone to Answer

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 10


 * 1) make nanorobot
 * 2) Language
 * 3) Just because I'm paranoid...
 * 4) Supercharger
 * 5) please tell me about te project (TREFFIC PUMP)
 * 6) how much electricity is produced
 * 7) Separating Mixtures
 * 8)  Rusting iron in water
 * 9) Cancer
 * 10) Why so big?
 * 11) How are refusals to participate handled on surveys ?
 * 12)  US Congressional Election results vs Voter Surveys
 * 13) Mileage equivalent of raising a car.
 * 14) Is a solution defined as a mixture in chemistry
 * 15) Blindness & Nothingness
 * 16) Plasma
 * 17) Things to be discover
 * 18) impossible Physics"

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 11


 * 1) Paper Mache
 * 2) Kepler
 * 3) A question on the biology of free will.
 * 4) Refractive index of cellulose
 * 5) Supernova
 * 6) Could science achieve this in the future?
 * 7) The human liver and the break down of alcohol
 * 8) Hospital Information
 * 9) Radial Tunnel Syndrome
 * 10) The little black hole that could
 * 11) Hard skin
 * 12) Laypersons
 * 13) Determining molecular structure
 * 14) Why does nature likes so much to produce things in pairs? (two ears, two eyes, two lungs, two legs, four legs...
 * 15) Oxygen used

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 12


 * 1) tandard voltages
 * 2) Capacitor
 * 3) Graphs
 * 4) Psychology
 * 5) Anaerobic fermentation with yeast.
 * 6) Global warming, man made?
 * 7) Winners from global warming ?
 * 8) Footnotes
 * 9) gastroenterology
 * 10) Gabapentin
 * 11) List of minority-opinion scientific theories

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 13


 * 1) One thing in two places at once.
 * 2) Dinosaurs and Oil
 * 3) How do you pronounce the name of the sirtuin family of genes?
 * 4) Does this make sense?
 * 5) Academic Equivalence of a UK Pilots License
 * 6) Bioenergetics  - Cellular energy expended on nucleic acid production?
 * 7) DT ppm of quail
 * 8) Oil Well
 * 9) Do sapphires dull?
 * 10) High quality gyroscope
 * 11) Do spiders sleep?
 * 12) Biodegradable Corrosion
 * 13) tower construction
 * 14) scarlet fever
 * 15) Lime
 * 16) Magnets
 * 17) Why do the really huge gulls have eyes located on the sides of their heads?
 * 18) Name the fish!
 * 19) Long Range Gravity
 * 20) Identical "non-twins"
 * 21) vacuum container
 * 22) copper vs iron
 * 23) Latitude and longitude of place
 * 24) peanut butter and throat cancer
 * 25) what are skin parts and their functions?
 * 26) How is this name spelled?
 * 27) Evolutionary seeding or illness leading to differences in psychology?
 * 28) More gravity (sorry)
 * 29) hyperbaric oxygen treatment for hepatitis c
 * 30) one atmosphere of pressure??
 * 31) neo-natal cord care

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 14


 * 1) Bismuth-213
 * 2) irradiated food
 * 3) Atoms
 * 4) Molecule
 * 5) re there Infinite Possible Futures?  or just a lot?
 * 6) arliest sound recording (possibly pre-Edison)
 * 7) What does it mean when your Monocytes decrease..
 * 8) Naming a Diels-Alder product
 * 9) microalgal bioreactors
 * 10) alternating magnet
 * 11) organ transplantation
 * 12) Anomalous compounds/substances
 * 13) Which types of painkillers does caffeine enhance?
 * 14) n innovative application of laser?
 * 15) the liver
 * 16) Tai Chi hand postures
 * 17) Kashi
 * 18) Natural logarithm units
 * 19) Saltwater

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 15


 * 1) physiology
 * 2) Bicarbonate vs. Hydrogen Carbonate
 * 3) Exoskeletons
 * 4) Non-Standard Sleeping Pattern Name
 * 5) Acids
 * 6) High specific heat of water relating to exothermic reaction (simpler question on paragraph 3)
 * 7) Hydrocarbon fuel cells with proton-conducting electrolytes
 * 8) redox potential
 * 9) Watts in terms of volts - equation please
 * 10) Magnetism
 * 11) low tech derusting and plating
 * 12) uts and bolts
 * 13) how to test out reactolite (photochromic) spectacle lenses?
 * 14) What if you don't have a gallbladder?
 * 15) Making magnets
 * 16) Cellulose found in paper
 * 17) HOW DO BOATS STAY AFLOAT?

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 16


 * 1) electric bike
 * 2) energy
 * 3) The big rip, explained for a layman?
 * 4) induction heaters
 * 5) PLC
 * 6) RPM
 * 7) Eyeglass prescription
 * 8) Acarids
 * 9) rothrombin time
 * 10) Future geography
 * 11) Diabeties
 * 12) for psychiatrists
 * 13) Meals for humans
 * 14) science fair project

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 17


 * 1) Displacement of the Universe
 * 2) upiter Explosion
 * 3) Greenhouse gases
 * 4) Targeted Drugs
 * 5) Memory foam outgassing
 * 6) Any ideas/available products for simple intercom switch over POTS?
 * 7) physics
 * 8) Original research or not?
 * 9) Levitating pens
 * 10) How do you create mass from energy?
 * 11) Why does spin-stabilisation work?
 * 12)  Prilosec (medical question)
 * 13) casimir like effects
 * 14) Feeling a cold coming on
 * 15) Self induced Insanity - is it possible?
 * 16) Transmission of infrared, light and others
 * 17) ugar mites?
 * 18) teel
 * 19) skin necrosis

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 18


 * 1) note
 * 2) The Moon
 * 3) Highest and lowest temperature and pressure
 * 4) Known black holes
 * 5) Number of body cells
 * 6) Fish bones?
 * 7) Capacitance problem
 * 8) Power Voltages
 * 9) Sunlenses
 * 10) Do animals have the period?
 * 11) Data Tables
 * 12) Gemstones
 * 13) Colo(u)r codes in molecular images
 * 14) Safety question
 * 15) Anabolic Steroids

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 19


 * 1) Cell phone minutes
 * 2) Uranium and birth defects
 * 3) sodium hydroxide
 * 4) How many children can my wife and I have?
 * 5) Dogs
 * 6) arachutes
 * 7) Rocket Engines
 * 8) How do parafin heaters work?
 * 9) Why do cockatoos do this?
 * 10) Articles on Roadway Lighting systems
 * 11) Wisdom tooth extraction...
 * 12) Casimir attractive or repulsive?
 * 13) Is cannabis really good for asthma and tuberculosis?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 20


 * 1) School in Antarctica
 * 2) Physics Lab
 * 3) Hot air balloon materials
 * 4) Black Holes
 * 5) Bear problem...
 * 6) question (fear)
 * 7) Intercostal space
 * 8) Genetics
 * 9) electromagnetic wavelength
 * 10) drops
 * 11) properties of glass.
 * 12) Communication throught the earth
 * 13) Making a big magnet smaller
 * 14) Fundamental forces
 * 15) Orbital speed of the moon / speed of shadow during total solar eclipse
 * 16) Capacitor Power
 * 17) Electric Intensity
 * 18) teeth vs sugar substitutes
 * 19) fermion or boson?
 * 20) compounds
 * 21) gases
 * 22) Entropy
 * 23) Is lightning lethal?
 * 24) remote neural monitoring
 * 25) Scientist
 * 26) heeeeeeee!
 * 27) Bicycle on a slope
 * 28) the body and muscles
 * 29) Help needed to identify species of Swallow
 * 30) Shock waves
 * 31) Thallium as a prescribed drug
 * 32) Gases

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 21


 * 1) DNA Models
 * 2) Better Bio Gas Yeild?
 * 3) icture permissions
 * 4) Fridge mice
 * 5) composition of pH buffers?
 * 6) Conductivity
 * 7) Cheap helium
 * 8) The Black Sea
 * 9) Polarization filters
 * 10) sychologist
 * 11) coordination compounds
 * 12) Opposite effect of Helium on voice...

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 22


 * 1) distilled water
 * 2) Solenoid valves in Gasoline engines?
 * 3) how do computer processors work ?
 * 4) Takeoff
 * 5) Body and protiens
 * 6) Fat/institutionalized budgerigar question.
 * 7) RPET
 * 8) Discharging a Capacitor
 * 9) Carbon dioxide

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 23


 * 1) LSD, Heroine and Mescaline
 * 2) can energy be described in million electron volt?
 * 3) Is a snapdragon's pollen poisonous?
 * 4) Hydrogen Powered Cars
 * 5) disinfecting cloths
 * 6) Properties of Bone
 * RE: Electric intensity
 * 1) Lymphocytes
 * 2) Height
 * 3) Ballon Mothership
 * 4) How to remove stain from corroded "copper" coin?
 * 5) If photosynthesis stops, how long have we got?
 * 6) helium

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 24


 * 1) echanism of voice deeping due to testosterone
 * 2) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
 * 3) Decomposition on the moon and in outer space?
 * 4) Weird, weird anatomy question (not medical advice)
 * 5) masturbation
 * 6) Question in Chemistry
 * 7) E=mc2 ... innovation?
 * 8) Iron's role in the human body
 * 9) ure water
 * 10) Integrated circuits
 * 11) ounded screw heads
 * 12) Calculating Conductivity
 * 13) Iron Ingestion
 * 14) Crystal structure affecting properties of Group 2 metals
 * 15) Removing a wart
 * 16) Hydrazone
 * 17) toxicology
 * 18) Silly, perhaps, anatomical question.....

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 25


 * 1) Taller people
 * 2) Defense mechanism
 * 3) SpaceShip One
 * 4) Question in chemistry
 * 5) Shapes of the molecule
 * 6) What population size is normal for humans?
 * 7) Iron poisoning
 * 8) Tasteless Thallium
 * 9) orange
 * 10) wood beetles
 * 11) What's the difference between a pigment and a dye?
 * 12) Endangered bacteria, algae or similar
 * 13) Engine Idling
 * 14) Lockwashers: which when?
 * 15) Effect of Flat Circular Shapes Falling onto a Flat Surface

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 26


 * 1) Crystal structure affecting properties of Group 2 metals (retrieved from archive)
 * 2) Oxygen
 * 3) D. Gary Young, Young Living Essentials and Raindrop Therapy
 * 4) Lux-Flood acid-base definitions
 * 5) Barmuda triangle
 * 6) Palmistry
 * 7) Necessity of Ejaculation
 * 8) ld people smell!
 * 9) Formulae relating to conductivity required
 * 10) Dependency of climate on the Earth's axis of rotation
 * 11) lu question
 * 12) Who studies the origin of neurosis?
 * 13) Do natural levees develop during floods because slower moving waters can only carry smaller particles?
 * 14) Is this a House Sparrow?
 * 15) atmospheric stagnation
 * 16) insulation?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 27


 * 1) Magnets
 * 2) Ion name
 * 3) milk and growth
 * 4) RE2:Electric Intensity
 * 5) q nought
 * 6) Unknown Island
 * 7) Neanderthals
 * 8) Concentric arrangement of radio antennae
 * 9) Whale anatomy question
 * 10) wart hog and boar
 * 11) Digital binoculars
 * 12) Evolutionary reasons for plant-based medicines?
 * 13) availability of medicated stent
 * 14) Parabolic sound collecting dish
 * 15) how fast is the earth warming?
 * 16) Endangered species, man made?
 * 17) Big human cube
 * 18) Wii
 * 19) Fossils
 * 20) Negative buoyancy
 * 21) Remote-controlled phone--will these parts work?
 * 22) Solar flare

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 28


 * 1) Biological pollutants in Human Waste
 * 2) quickest way to lose weight
 * 3) biology
 * 4) Topic on Consumer Awareness
 * 5) Rotary Cam
 * 6) BEARING
 * 7) URGENT! What do you call the test to determine whether one is a suitable bone marrow donor?
 * 8) Fish deuterostomic or Protostomic
 * 9) ice shoulders
 * 10) Energy to make a wind turbine.
 * 11) "Market" for leptin
 * 12) detailed information regarding the physics of webbed feet in birds, especially as it relates to birds which skim on the water as it lands
 * 13) The abuses of silicates
 * 14) Why does burning natural gas produce 40% less CO2 than burning coal?
 * 15) boron
 * 16) urface area of a lightbulb
 * 17) Equations
 * 18) Fv vs Fab (Antibodies)
 * 19) Stock System
 * 20) annihilation of matter
 * 21) battery
 * 22) Finding a table with the charge of Ions
 * 1) Finding a table with the charge of Ions

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 29


 * 1) Valence Electrons
 * 2) Can one be 'left-eared'?...
 * 3) astor bean
 * 4) rapezius
 * bs
 * 1) ticky notes
 * 2) urine fertilizer
 * 3) B12/Cyanocobalamin
 * 4) ph scale
 * 5) Finance / SEC question: How much is MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe worth?
 * 6) Reverse polarity and antimatter query
 * 7) repulsive quantum vacuum
 * 8) Photon Duality
 * 9) science help
 * 10) avoidant personality disorder
 * 11) Tuning fork
 * 12) How are radioactive materials mined?  Where do they occur naturally?
 * 13) History of Gears
 * 14) banana "strings"
 * 15) nail varnish
 * 16) How do they make Liquid Nitrogen?

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 November 30


 * 1) Left and Right Side of the heart
 * 2) BACTERIA.........
 * 3) maximum RPM
 * 4) Environmental Effects of Tobacco
 * 5) hey may die, but they won't care
 * 6) Energy Divided by Mass or Volume
 * 7) Sustainability of nuclear fission
 * 8) Minaret construction
 * 9) Short dipole antenna
 * 10) otulism
 * 11) Lovebird question
 * 12) reath
 * 13) coal making
 * 14) Water Scientific term
 * 15) Molecules & Chemical Formula of Medicines?
 * 16) Achilles tendon
 * 17) Humidex vs. heat index...