Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2010

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 1


 * 1) PETA video
 * 2) is HCl in 95% saturated salt solution still a strong acid?
 * 3) Birefringence, redux
 * 4) KNO3 + KI
 * 5) Solar cells: Difference between dark current and diode current
 * 6) knife
 * 7) recycling code

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 2


 * 1) Technocracy
 * 2) Clothes drying under clothes pegs
 * 3) laminated wood
 * 4) train deaths
 * 5) Faster than Light
 * 6) Cheaper to turn off Compact fluorescent lamps briefly?
 * 7) If man evolved from monkey, why are there still monkeys?
 * 8) Plant respiration
 * 9) Where are all the universes ?
 * 10) Origin of a  "love bite"
 * 11) what chemical gets released when you miss someone?
 * 12) crabs
 * 13) Microarray cost
 * 14) Cartoon physics law break
 * 15) Quail genome?
 * 16) Why does high temperature cause distant sights to "blur", and can this be replicated at room temperature?
 * 17) Relationship between octane rating & emission levels
 * 18) Which animals are truely monogamous?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 3


 * 1) Time dilation? Time speeding?
 * 2) Heart muscles
 * 3) The proportion of swine flu to all flues
 * 4) limestone make-up and other soft stone
 * 5) if the moon and moon landings are real

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 4


 * 1) emissivity
 * 2) Chemistry
 * 3) Autoclave naming
 * 4) Escape Trajectory
 * 5) Tropical Laserbeam
 * 6) algae and plankton
 * 7) Superinfections?
 * 8) Acceleration at event horizon
 * 9) Capillary DNA sequencers on eBay?
 * 10) Are we very tiny in the universe?
 * 11) Why car radiators are called so.?
 * 12) Entirely different forms of power
 * 13) Flavours and colours of quarks
 * 14) supernova
 * 15) nuclear war
 * 16) Radio waves
 * 17) Electricity
 * 18) Entropy
 * 19) How to control this old oscilloscope

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 5


 * 1) Lethal overdose of Caffeine - biological process involved?
 * 2) mosquito
 * 3) Whatever became of the "super focused sound" guy and his invention?
 * 4) "The decision to axe the Ark will leave the Navy without the capability of launching fixed wing aircraft."
 * 5) Childhood
 * 6) Chemistry
 * 7) genetically modified foods
 * 8) time constant for capacitor in both parallel and series
 * 9) question
 * 10) Springs question
 * 11) Oscars eating chicken
 * 12) Hairy dandelion
 * 13) Cherry thieves
 * 14) AESA vs Active-cancellation
 * 15) Horripilation
 * 16) More than two parents
 * 17) Is it true that all matter gives off at least some radiation?
 * 18) Unknown mushrooms

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 6


 * 1) Lizard Salivation
 * 2) percent algae death
 * 3) jeans
 * 4) Geology abbreviation
 * 5) Coccyx decay rumor
 * 6) Schiller's experiment
 * 7) health care
 * 8) How is combustion sustained in a jet engine?
 * 9) Air traffic control system
 * 10) Possible future need for faster than light communication
 * 11) Solstice dates change from one year to another
 * 12) Work done by Ice-Skater
 * 13) What Happens if the gravitational force decreases?
 * 14) Velocity management
 * 15) Heating house - turn off when I leave the house?
 * 16) Moles
 * 17) Touching neutron star matter
 * 18) Suicide

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 7


 * 1) Beyond us
 * 2) magazine
 * 3) pollution question
 * 4) Electronics/Physics question about laptop power supplies
 * 5) Cholera treatment
 * 6) Is the age of the universe relative?
 * 7) People meddling in the environment
 * 8) Living donor liver transplant multiple times?
 * 9) Capacitor plague
 * 10) Aeroplane crash
 * 11) Risks of psych experiments involving rewards
 * 12) ground water
 * 13) Unplugging mobile phone chargers
 * 14) mitosis and meiosis

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 8


 * 1) Fastest airship
 * 2) Vaccinations of the Chilean miners
 * 3) gravity
 * 4) Glucose test
 * 5) Can an airship use siphons rather than fans?
 * 6) Brown sugar
 * 7) Counter toxicity
 * 8) Question
 * 9) Gigantism and evolution
 * 10) Gravitational constant G change
 * 11) Is it really possible?
 * 12) Sour things
 * 13) Lighting circuits
 * 14) Dna Code
 * 15) baseline characteristics and confounder adjustment in a paper
 * 16) Wrong answer?
 * 17) Ultimate fate of photon

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 9


 * 1) what animals can humans coproduce with?
 * 2) Why doesn't cryonics just use a ton of insulation?
 * 3) desk chair
 * 4) street lighting
 * 5) Inclined plane, Non-conservative forces help
 * 6) Oldowan tools experiment
 * 7) hydrogenated ketone
 * 8) Stereogram effect
 * 9) How do you compare grades?
 * 10) Where is Steve Baker???
 * 11) Plasma pressure : FACT / FICTION
 * 12) Condensing top for cooking pot
 * 13) Identify this bush
 * 14) Explanation behind a cosmic ray exhibit

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 10


 * 1) Antimatter paradox
 * 2) A noob rock question
 * 3) History of SR
 * 4) a disconnected capacitor and dielectrics....
 * 5) cotton pants
 * 6) Something from Nothing
 * 7) what'ts this lake called?
 * 8) can you strangle someone with your own intestine?
 * 9) Species identifcation for :File:Orange-shelf-fungus.jpg
 * 10) energy from antimatter
 * 11) Antimony oxidation
 * 12) Meteorites in mammoth tusks?
 * 13) Species identifcation for :File:Flower2294.JPG
 * 14) Molecular geometry
 * 15) Species identifcation for :File:Marouxlynx.jpg

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 11


 * 1) Home Solar Power.......Need Help
 * 2) Diabetes, Insulin, and... mandatory baseline food consumption?
 * 3) Faint glow from compact fluorescent lamp when off
 * 4) Particles and antiparticles - two directions of time
 * 5) How much Vitamin D in tin of salmon?
 * 6) digoxin
 * 7) Memory improvement
 * 8) R in chemical formulas
 * 9) Medicinal use of drugs
 * 10) Setting Sun
 * 11) Ships
 * 12) Moss on Tennis court

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 12


 * 1) Goosestepping: North Korea versus the Wehrmacht
 * 2) Are peanuts bad?
 * 3) why is AC more dangerous than DC?
 * 4) Cat swallow food when upside down
 * 5) Ptosis in traditional cultures
 * 6) aDMISSION into XLRI
 * 7) Limits of Gene Therapy?
 * 8) Armpit lines
 * 9) winds
 * 10) Russula brevipes
 * 11) The effects of heat on an electrical arc

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 13


 * 1) Cells
 * 2) Carrying a tray is not work...
 * 3) Efficiency of firearms
 * 4) Uncertainty principle vs. dark energy
 * 5) Double slit experiment / video clip

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 14


 * 1) converting doi to acs-style citations
 * 2) Tensor of Inertia
 * 3) Looking for a talk that may have been featured on TED
 * 4) Sounds of jupiter
 * 5) Middle-grounders on ID--What, If Any, Spokespeople Exist?
 * 6) Fuzzball vs. Big Rip
 * 7) urine
 * 8) Burping on command
 * 9) Help me find Einstein-quote!
 * 10) Proton Gun
 * 11) Different solvents - which are functionally the same?
 * 12) Wave pulse from heavy string to light string
 * 13) Solving coastline paradox
 * 14) FTL communication?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 15


 * 1) prehistory of the sahara region
 * 2) Guy who blinked a lot after beheaded
 * 3) Little bags of chips vs big bags
 * 4) Say you left a pound of deli turkey slices in a bag at room temp for 8 hours.
 * 5) Partial reflection when light travels from a fast medium to a slow medium
 * 6) Limits of dark enery
 * 7) Animals suffocated in bed
 * 8) Hydrogen sulfide
 * 9) Cell phones and radiation
 * 10) Cell phones and breast cancer
 * 11) Bipedalism, pelvis size, and childbirth
 * 12) Aspartame vs. Sugar on teeth
 * 13) Why is the Nissan GTR so fast?
 * 14) Roaccutane Treatment
 * 15) Conversion from Seconds to Meters
 * 16) Anthropogenic tropospheric ozone
 * 17) A Paradox?

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 16


 * 1) Miscellaneous questions about work and energy
 * 2) white dwarf
 * 3) Wireless v fibre internet
 * 4) Species identifcation for :File:Rama rama.jpg
 * 5) Red v. grey squirrels
 * 6) Seeing the space station
 * 7) Differences between clone and original
 * 8) Schrödinger's cat
 * 9) Anacoustic

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 17


 * 1) Please, help me decide whether to drink my tea.
 * 2) chemistry
 * 3) Catfish
 * 4) Yet another mistake in the solutions?
 * 5) Lambert's cosine law
 * 6) Please help me clear up this hogwash about adjusting braces at the SAME orthodontist.
 * 7) Why does the sex drive far exceed what is biologically needed for reproduction?
 * 8) What kind of moss covered bug is this?
 * 9) Reaction products of opianic acid with strong acid
 * 10) Cold-weather urination
 * 11) Frog dissection
 * 12) Direction of apparent weight
 * 13) Glycerol

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 18


 * 1) Inconstant red
 * 2) Kicking a ball
 * 3) Chances of getting cancer and age
 * 4) information technology
 * 5) American winter climate compared with Scotland
 * 6) Frozen LCD TV
 * 7) trans former
 * 8) Transpired solar collector for sale
 * 9) Type of ruler used to show size of objects
 * 10) How realistic are the species, descriptions, evolutions, geologics, and so on given at www.metazoica.com?
 * 11) nicotine
 * 12) What happens if you touch anti-matter?
 * 13) Magnets without metal?
 * 14) 1 in 80 million death
 * 15) How evolution explains the division into autonomic nervous system and somatic nervous system
 * 16) animals natural disasters

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 19


 * 1) Time Dilation? Time speeding?
 * 2) Wheatstone bridge
 * 3) why isn't adenosine monophosphate used in alcoholic beverages?
 * 4) Species identifcation for :File:Sagittaria.jpg
 * 5) shemales
 * 6) Definitive deletion of a phobia (classical conditioning)
 * 7) Orgasmic sensation during pull-ups

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 20


 * 1) Entropy gun?
 * 2) Parts of the body where cancer *can't* happen?
 * 3) The name of intermolecular forces acting between alkanes
 * 4) White Dwarf
 * 5) Trapping antihydrogen
 * 6) Space marines/soldiers?
 * 7) Understanding inflammation
 * 8) Formal classification of fallacies
 * 9) Mental disorders
 * 10) Vehicle identification
 * 11) Is bobbing your head to music an instinctual act or a learned one?
 * 12) Composting cooked vegetable matter
 * 13) Excimer lamp
 * 14) Scott toilet tissue ad touts no inner tube.
 * 15) Anti matter
 * 16) Rootstocks
 * 17) Tin iodide coloration

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 21


 * 1) Full name for invertebrate zoologist named Grube or Grübe, mid C19
 * 2) Is autism a human polyphenism similar to those of social insects?
 * 3) vortex launcher : pressure amount area
 * 4) Is it safe to drive after drinking cough syrup?
 * 5) Limits on number of channels in MIMO wireless
 * 6) Origin of particle diversity
 * 7) Electroplating With Lemon Juice?
 * 8) Enema washes aren't enough; will taking many laxatives help lose substantial weight?
 * 9) Mass of energy?
 * 10) Pre-mitochondrial eukaryote
 * 11) Evolution without Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 22


 * 1) Human Dissection
 * 2) engineering survey
 * 3) Tin(IV) sulfate?
 * 4) Electric heater efficiency
 * 5) Can we really digest enzymes "whole," or are they broken down?
 * 6) Niña
 * 7) Soda can exploding
 * 8) Flaxseed oil and autism
 * 9) Chemicals with humorous formulas

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 23


 * 1) Inserting pipes when drilling for oil etc.
 * 2) Altering the refractive index of air molecules. —without different gases or high temperatures
 * 3) equilibrium constants units
 * 4) Human-caused / Life-caused
 * 5) Mass flow rate of Refrigerant
 * 6) The Doppler Effect
 * 7) Does the sun drop faster on the equator?
 * 8) Perpetual stew
 * 9) Energy to Mass
 * 10) Remove strong smell from plastic and aluminium?
 * 11) Hydrated Salts and Coordination Compounds

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 24


 * 1) Are there any self-sufficient polities left?
 * 2) Fastest acceleration in the world
 * 3) Psychology
 * 4) No air

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 25


 * 1) light peak
 * 2) File:Brake shoe metal specimen.JPG
 * 3) Brachistochrone problem
 * 4) Corvus
 * 5) How does radiometric dating work?
 * 6) Sunrise still becoming later after solstice
 * 7) Special relativity
 * 8) Platinum arsenide
 * 9) ECG
 * 10) Human urine
 * 11) cloning plants
 * 12) Research subject
 * 13) Car turbochargers and torque

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 26


 * 1) Swallowing one's tongue
 * 2) RFID
 * 3) mining asteroids
 * 4) How can a solvent be non-polar but be made of polar molecules?
 * 5) Is it possible to vomit in your sleep and die by suffocation without being under the influence of anything?
 * 6) Copper containing biomolecules
 * 7) Iodine heptafluoride
 * 8) Iodine from caliche
 * 9) Why kilogram as a base unit rather than gram?
 * 10) Force as Gradient of potential

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 27


 * 1) Absolute rest point
 * 2) Absolute time
 * 3) Force at a distance without any connection
 * 4) Midnight sun question
 * 5) What does unranked mean in wikipedia's Scientific classification ?
 * 6) CLONE
 * 7) Growth of trees

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 28


 * 1) Sleep and lifespan
 * 2) Looking for name of strange wart-like cutaneous growth on human foot with tentacles
 * 3) Why shopuldn't you fill a hot water bottle from the domestic hot water supply?
 * 4) Bose-Einstein condensate of light
 * 5) Water not freezing below the bridge
 * 6) Growing bacteria, beef bullion
 * 7) Geologic Time Scale
 * 8) Sleep, tiredness, exercise
 * 9) Circular logic

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 29


 * 1) How well does heterodyne frequency downshifting preserve phase?
 * 2) Modified corn starch
 * 3) LED Xmas light string efficiency
 * 4) Computer modelling of Artificial consciousness
 * 5) Role of salt in ethanol precipitation of DNA
 * 6) Red bleach stains
 * 7) Fusion and fusion
 * 8) is this true?
 * 9) Too many birds on a power line
 * 10) Fluorescent light flashing after being switched off
 * 11) Antonov AN225- Personal experience and photographs available

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 November 30


 * 1) Position of maximum depression on classical guitar top.
 * 2) Relativity questions
 * 3) is it possible to blow up a planet like in Star Wars?
 * 4) What would happen if scientists blew up the moon?
 * 5) Can we blow up comets?
 * 6) Which organelles contain DNA?
 * 7) velocity of sound
 * 8) Daytime flash dreams
 * 9) Margarine and oils without saturated fat
 * 10) Bioluminescence
 * 11) Aggression, dementia, disinhibition
 * 12) Why must some truffles be found and not grown?