Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2006

= October 1 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 1
 * 1) Food becoming stale
 * 2) Back pain across bra line
 * 3) baby nose color
 * 4) Missing posts
 * 5) Contributors for Pharmacogenomics Wiki wanted
 * 6) Hairy back
 * 7) In tides, why is the eighth wave always the largest?
 * 8) PAL I vs. PAL BG
 * 9) Sperm in Facial Treatments?
 * 10) primary colours
 * 11) Cannabis
 * 12) Giant Redwoods and their cells
 * 13) Indoor Plants
 * 14) Are some plants immortal?

= October 2 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 2
 * 1) Taxonomy for Extraterrestrial Life
 * 2) Codon inversion
 * 3) air pressure cuts
 * 4) Glucosamine and Diabetes
 * 5) Bird Eggs
 * 6) Strobe
 * 7) I'm searching for information on the workability and physical characteristics of pure Tungsten metal
 * 8) Nokia phones
 * 9) What chemical is this?
 * 10) Valuable substances
 * 11) LED throwie
 * 12) fish

= October 3 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 3
 * 1) Dying in sleep
 * 2) Big Bang / Black Hole ...?
 * 3) Terrifying, recurring nightmare I used to have...
 * 4) Dreaming of dying
 * 5) Measuring Mass/Volume
 * 6) That stuff between your toes
 * 7) how is newton's 2nd law modified when things reaches the speed of light?
 * 8) germanium
 * 9) Dead Leg
 * 10) vortex ring gun question
 * 11) BP cuff one-way-valve
 * 12) moving shock tables
 * 13) Pink Discolouration Of Clothes
 * 14) properties of sulphur
 * 15) Cryonics
 * 16) Interpreting a sentence about biology
 * 17) geography
 * 18) Tim Clutton-Brock
 * 19) unit cells
 * 20) Blood Alcohol

= October 4 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 4
 * 1) Hello I Need Hlp With Thses Two Questions Please
 * 2) Why did all the Soviet missions to Mars fail in one way or another?
 * 3) Evaluation of objective type answer sheets
 * 4) Dr. Roger Kornberg
 * 5) ground parrot
 * 6) Blood
 * 7) molarity of water
 * 8) Great Black-backed Gull carrying off (and presumably eating) baby?
 * 9) Garlic Spoilage
 * 10) renal cell carcinoma
 * 11) Blue sea near Bahamas
 * 12) The gyroscope movement

= October 5 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 5
 * 1) Breaking your own neck
 * 2) Scar Healing?
 * 3) Color of blood
 * 4) Gyro effect on bicycles
 * 5) sulbutiamine
 * 6) PAL
 * 7) 74161 IC
 * 8) TV scanning method
 * M
 * 1) mass
 * 2) Drippy Iron
 * 3) Chlorofluorosulfonic acid
 * 4) How are the oil well fires extinguished?
 * 5) human proteins in plant cells
 * 6) identify a gene
 * 7) On ocean ecology
 * 8) is vaccinatiom possible?
 * 9) Overdose
 * 10) Father of the Solar Cell
 * 11) Mystery bird
 * 12) science
 * 13) Other pde5 inhibitors, besides sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil
 * 14) Rm3
 * 15) Cure for oedipus complex?
 * 16) Chemical prices

= October 6 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 6
 * 1) can it alter?
 * 2) pH scale
 * 3) variegated plants
 * 4) Calculate Radiation Dosage from X-Ray Machine
 * 5) Isaac Newton
 * 6) Help from a doc interpreting lab results (not advice)
 * 7) preservation
 * 8) molarity
 * 9) immune cell
 * 10) Leo Szilard's Cancer Protocol
 * 11) Triple Point of Water
 * 12) ID this beach object
 * 13) Word
 * ph
 * 1) PH SCALE
 * 2) OIL
 * 3) Teleportation
 * 4) I have an anatomical question about the Spinal discs.
 * 5) Whistling effect?
 * 6) Stepping-up voltage.

= October 7 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 7
 * 1) Raising a baby bird in isolation
 * 2) taking control of Opportunity and ROver
 * 3) Human eye resolution
 * 4) Eating Disorders
 * 5) james harry keighly McCollum
 * 6) human proteins
 * 7) Acid to dissolve hard rock/stones
 * 8) Holding it
 * 9) Bruhathkayosaurus vs. Amphicoelias
 * 10) Hard question on evolution
 * 11) Are there obstacles to industrial-scale production of cultured animal tissues for food?
 * 12) proteins
 * 13) Fossils made from bone
 * 14) diatomic elements
 * 15) Additive Volumes and Mols
 * 16) Antacids
 * 17) Shrimp diagram request for comment
 * 18) Homework question
 * 19) Masochism
 * 20) Recent news regarding the treatment of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
 * 21) Disproof of the theory that information cannot move faster than speed of light
 * 22) Can a hard drive go through an X-Ray scanner?

= October 8 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 8
 * 1) The effects of a smoker and non-smoker in the cold
 * 2) Cold and fat
 * 3) Germs
 * 4) Disease
 * 5) sensitivity to sound
 * 6) cochlea
 * 7) Electromagnetic radiation.
 * 8) Euphoria caused by Victory?
 * 9) Time Dialation Confirmation
 * 10) Does snoring affect the snorer's hearing?
 * 11) bizarre
 * 12) difference between AC DC current
 * 13) Heart Rate
 * 14) technology in manufacturing surgical instrument
 * 15) how to make this
 * 16) Popping pimples
 * 17) ABOUT PHARMACY?!!!
 * 18) Quercus × rosacea
 * 19) ACCELERATION of light
 * 20) What is the difference between a nuclear explosion and a nuclear reaction?

= October 9 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 9
 * 1) Car, chain
 * 2) Babirusa
 * 3) Size of Human Epidermis Cell
 * 4) why cant saltwater fish live in freshwater?
 * 5) Mucopolysaccharidosis
 * 6) HOMEWORK QUESTION
 * 7) Gene defect
 * 8) bursting cells
 * 9) cell theory
 * 10) About the Big Bang
 * 11) Human skin colour
 * 12) international awards in physics.
 * 13) prices of toluene
 * 14) Oil absorption into skin
 * 15) chemical engg
 * 16) Skies of the distant past/future
 * 17) effect of growth on oxygen demand
 * 18) i need help
 * 19) Underground nuclear tests
 * 20) Reduced salt area
 * 21) Refraction of light
 * 22) narcotics
 * 23) Wood Integrity
 * 24) Is it possible to artificially increase a metal's physical weight to indefinitive amounts?
 * 25) Water...Sily question?
 * 26) Mother gull is double-clutching this year...

= October 10 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 10
 * 1) Super Cannon of Doom
 * 2) An estimaste of the thermal power output and specific heat capacity of a human being
 * 3) UG Nuclear tests
 * 4) fainting at the sight of blood
 * 5) weapon testing
 * 6) Lead acid storage batteries
 * 7) Critical MAss
 * 8) Transition Metal Chemistry question
 * 9) Question about Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Physical Meaning of Temperature
 * 10) more
 * 11) Symmetry in technical drawing
 * 12) WEIGHT OF HUMAN BEING IN THE MOON
 * 13) having laser eye surgery
 * 14) Cell Biology
 * 15) Why are Magnets RED?
 * 16) magnitude of electrical force
 * 17) Electricity
 * 18) dissolving

= October 11 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 11
 * 1) Tryptophan versus melatonin
 * 2) Methane for CO2 manufacturing?
 * 3) belly
 * 4) rethinking science!
 * 5) Quantum field theory
 * 6) Colours
 * 7) REPRODUCTION
 * 8) vortex ring simplification

= October 12 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 12
 * 1) sodium hydroxide
 * 2) Mould
 * 3) How many "frames" per second can our eye process?
 * 4) Radiocarbon dating
 * 5) Critical molar volume of a van der Waals gas
 * 6) PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
 * 7) Equations for black body radiation
 * 8) magnets
 * 9) LAser Eye Surgery
 * 10) I'm searching for an inexpensive portable medical X-ray device, or are there any build-your-own kits?
 * 11) Negative refractive index
 * 12) Loop DNA
 * 13) Types of rock or stone?
 * 14) Earth's moon: why it always shows the same face
 * 15) Cooling Towers
 * 16) Ballistics
 * 17) Ants
 * 18) Goldfish
 * 19) brain

= October 13 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 13
 * 1) Chromosomes
 * 2) Threat to human race
 * 3) Looking for medical term...
 * 4) Oxygen
 * 5) Alpha level and power for a hypothesis
 * 6) Stored energy in tempered glass pellets
 * 7) Microbiology math?
 * 8) Education
 * 9) a short brief essay
 * 10) Double-slit experiment aiming
 * 11) How does the transferrin and ferritin be cleared in human body, respectively?
 * 12) Flu shot
 * 13) definition of the word "plaxing"
 * 14) Black Hole
 * 15) Food pyramid
 * 16) Calculating wavelength of radio waves at a given frequency
 * 17) Nuclear fission (in nuclear weapons)
 * 18) Decompression

= October 14 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 14
 * 1) Space Shuttle: burn-up.....
 * 2) Planetary rings
 * 3) stadium construction
 * 4) A cold
 * 5) Boiler Efficiency
 * 6) do-it-yourself X-ray Crystallography?
 * 7) homemade NMR?
 * 8) mass spectrometer?
 * 9) RadioShack?
 * 10) synchrotron?
 * 11) New Dynamo Not Working Right
 * 12) Speed of digestion
 * 13) rainbow
 * 14) Clotrimazole 1% Cream
 * 15) Contaminated drinking water
 * 16) Why does my stomach growl?
 * 17) Asian giant hornet
 * 18) Building Audit
 * 19) What kind of insect is this?
 * 20) Two questions about chemical reactions

= October 15 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 15
 * 1) How big must it BE?........
 * 2) Come nuclear armageddon...
 * 3) What could be a physiological explanation for the Chinese folk medical concept of 熱氣 ("heat")?
 * 4) six pack
 * 5) Seeing Colors
 * 6) How Many calories does a Gram of Human Fat Have?
 * 7) Am I secretly gay?
 * 8) What kind of frog is this?
 * 9) "Absolute hot"?
 * 10) physics
 * 11) Triple point revisited
 * 12) Decrease in Sexual Interest?
 * 13) what genes are in a genes pair
 * 14) Identical alleles are found in what type of gene
 * 15) Science Fair

= October 16 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 16
 * 1) bananas
 * 2) Critters in the stomach
 * 3) Arm wrestling
 * 4) Can you identify this strange bug?
 * 5) Why is some skin immune from sunburn?
 * 6) Diesel fuel life
 * 7) Most effective firearm
 * 8) Humans driving a ship
 * 9) Unknown Goat
 * 10) pistons in combustion engines
 * 11) Epidermis
 * 12) Fuel consumption
 * 13) Bacterial Infection
 * 14) Compact Bone
 * 15) Hormones
 * 16) Science Fair Proposal
 * 17) Dodgy Bike Chain/Sprockets
 * 18) frequency / function generator? Buying one?
 * 19) Pickled food and tooth decay
 * 20) Water
 * 21) question about microwaves [EM really] and momentum transfer
 * 22) Angle of reflection for light.

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 17


 * 1) Variables
 * 2) Combustion of BIO Gas.....
 * 3) A few questions about the human brain
 * 4) Snake Bite
 * 5) Reversing a Black Hole...
 * 6) Amount of Water in the World
 * 7) Human evolution and immunity to venoms
 * 8) End correction
 * 9) What frequency of microwaves can create an overpressure shockwave?
 * 10) adding a word to search list
 * 11) Jogging and calorie consumption
 * 12) solubility of capsaicin in edible oil
 * 13) Feta
 * 14) Suicide pill
 * 15) Purpose of Viruses
 * 16) What does cannabis smoke smell like?
 * 17) EM wind
 * 18) protozoa - animal report
 * 19) Equine Medicine
 * 20) Thinking

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 18


 * 1) How many seagulls...
 * 2) What kind of bird is this?
 * 3) Time machine
 * 4) dirigibles
 * 5) Regarding Earth rotation and revolution
 * 6)  sinisoidal RC phase shift oscillators
 * 7) How can I study theoretical physics in one of the US universities?
 * 8) Science, I think
 * 9) orbital plane
 * 10) Flu vaccine
 * 11) membrane capacitive current?
 * 12) DFT bins
 * 13) Spacetime
 * 14) Male marsupial nipples ?
 * 15) electromagnetic interaction and contact for force fields?
 * 16) Domestic Poultry
 * 17) Electromagnetic Pulse

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 19


 * 1) How to Read the Periodic Table of the Elements
 * 2) Producing Manganese (III)
 * 3) Time Dilation Confusion
 * 4) Shape of the Universe...
 * 5) PHYSICS,Mechanical Advantage&related topics pertaining to Pulleys
 * 6) Lightning Protection
 * 7) Bug Rivet Paradox
 * 8) air pollution
 * 9) Proof of an Open Universe?...
 * 10) 300 channels and nothing on Static?
 * 11) dimensions of time
 * 12) Current/Voltage
 * 13) Fusion

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 20


 * 1) The fourth dimension?
 * 2) ossification and calcification
 * 3) Combustion of BIO Gas...(Didn't get an answer yet!!)
 * 4) rechargeable batteries
 * 5) The Sun Core
 * 6) Puzzling physics question
 * 7) Metabolism etc.
 * 8) Beta particles
 * 9) Human Body
 * 10) The Past
 * 11) Tough pool leak...
 * 12) Nasal mucus
 * 13) Questions about cholesterol and saturated fat
 * 14) link between: diabetes, CHF, renal insufficiency, amputation
 * 15) Patched conics & Lunar Orbit Insertion
 * 16) What is the total number of known chemical elements?
 * 17) Known compounds
 * 18) is this a shockwave affect or just accelerated air?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 21


 * 1) James McCollum
 * 2) Page updating problems.....
 * 3) Phase-determination pressure
 * 4) Cheese longevity
 * 5) Whistling sine waves
 * 6) COSTAS loop
 * 7) Transmission line theory
 * 8) Reality
 * 9) Ic 8038 and Ic 555
 * 10) SATA computer
 * 11) Youngs experiment
 * 12) Hub Gears Wont Change
 * 13) Atheroma
 * 14) Sauropod size
 * 15) What does KIBRA stand for?
 * 16) Surfaces and bonding
 * 17) Zero-point energy and substance compatabilty.
 * 18) General Relativity
 * 19) Quantum mechanics? wave theory?
 * 20) G Protein Coupled Receptors

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 22


 * 1) Craneflies - how have these really crappy insects continued to survive?
 * 2) Meaning of TY1CL1
 * 3) Chest rash?
 * 4) BONDING IN SOLIDS
 * 5) Software Radio
 * 6) would enough negative charge from other sources such as pions, down quarks etc react with normal matter?
 * 7) Another EM wind question
 * 8) Affordable Device for Measuring soil water content
 * 9) IR remote
 * 10) What's this aprox. called again?
 * 11) Aqueous Compounds
 * 12) Solar position equations
 * 13) Equilibrium Constant, Kp
 * 14) 3 Questions
 * 15) Nails
 * 16) Rainbow
 * 17) Factual basis in psychology for claims about the power of the imagination
 * 18) Is the human brain a chemical machine?
 * 19) lens
 * 20) Lab report!

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 23


 * 1) The "Wholly Grail".....
 * 2) How gyrocompasses work
 * 3) Mercury and Fillings
 * 4) Archiving
 * 5) Different roles for insects in a hive/nest
 * 6) how may calories are in... me?
 * 7) Feral Horses of the World?
 * 8) Chlorinated water and eye damage.
 * 9) Fissile material
 * 10) Genetic tendancy towards AIDS amongst Black people?
 * 11) Gamma rays
 * 12) Application of Nature Cure for treatment psoriasis
 * 13) alluvial sedimentary rock
 * 14) heat
 * 15) Chemistry/ Heat curves
 * 16) Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
 * 17) Bad horror-movie bacteria!
 * 18) Reishi and Birth Control Pills
 * 19) watershed management
 * 20) Alpha Helix
 * 21) Black Engineers
 * 22) Crucell
 * 23) Algorithms
 * 24) Rate of lunar transit
 * 25) Abnormal waves and tides

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 24


 * 1) Ivan Pavlov's Insomnia cure
 * 2) Beer, wine, or something else?
 * 3) Bugs Bunny and shotguns
 * 4) Relativity Paradox
 * 5) Smoking Question
 * 6) Defibrillator voltage, intensity and energy?
 * 7) enzymes
 * 8) Why Does My Wife Kill Battery-Powered Wristwatches and Computer Hard Drives?
 * 9) application
 * 10) Touch lamps
 * 11) science
 * 12) Sitting up while asleep
 * 13) audio timescaling
 * 14) Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
 * 15) Chemistry
 * 16) Low testosterone and high hemoglobin/iron test
 * 17) first sex
 * 18) Where Art Though Contact Lens
 * 19) vacuolated glandular endometrial cells
 * 20) Defibrillators and stupid people...
 * 21) Where to buy sulphur

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 25


 * 1) Function of small intestine
 * 2) Latent heat
 * 3) Global population of gorillas?
 * 4) Volume of semen during ejaculations
 * 5) Fermenting blood to create an alcoholic beverage?
 * 6) Endangered large cats
 * 7) Cotton
 * 8) Electrolytes
 * 9) Sense of Color In Animals
 * 10) 400Hz Frequency Apllied to Copper Conductors.
 * 11) "scientific" name for grass. ..
 * 12) Insulation R-values
 * 13) Temperature - Kinetic Energy Relationship
 * 14) Self-dissolving Miracle-Gro
 * 15) Taste and aging
 * 16) green  leaves all over the ground
 * 17) reverse casimer effect??

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 26


 * 1) When They Test You For Genital Herpes, Do They Take A Blood Test?
 * 2) Microscope Lenses
 * 3) Help with relativity
 * 4) chemical reactions
 * 5) eography
 * 6) erivation and Use of Clausius-Clapeyron relation
 * 7) Expert In Opacity Needed
 * 8) Eiinstein's theories
 * 9) research project
 * 10) ocus and focal point
 * 11) lind Dreams
 * 12) itrectomy aftermath
 * 13) s and d orbitals
 * 14) Warm-bloodedness in birds and mammals.
 * 15) Colour of semen
 * 16) Plane Crash
 * 17) The Science magazine?
 * 18) Basic Physics: Force Question

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 27


 * 1) Where to Purchase Digestive Enzymes
 * 2) Pectodictyon
 * 3) Airships
 * 4) composite materials
 * 5) Sexual Dysfunction
 * 6) Communication Engineering
 * 7) high frequency gravitational waves truth or myth
 * 8) Colour of dreams
 * 9) Earthing/Grounding
 * 10) measurement by vernier
 * 11) Tooth Transplant
 * 12) Walls
 * 13) Why aren't large interlocking bricks practical for construction ?
 * 14) Colon Cancer
 * 15) the word for when stuff feels nice
 * 16) dynamic motion
 * 17) Title of doctor.

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 28


 * 1) Helium
 * 2) observing stars other than the sun
 * 3) Gel-based ice packs - removing dried contents?
 * 4) Questions about salt water
 * 5) looking for the name of a thing used to view still photos moved by a crank
 * 6) Papain, Bromelain, Ficin and Actindin
 * 7) Neutrinos and Antineutrinos
 * 8) Variables
 * 9) control system
 * 10) how to create an artificial force field
 * 11) Weight
 * 12) Complete proteins
 * 13) Valence Electrons
 * 14) Shimmering tarmac on a hot day

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 29


 * 1) Cell Cycle of a Human Brain Cell, Human Liver Cell, and a Yeast Cell
 * 2) science-fiction weapon
 * 3) Iron and Steel ingredients
 * 4) Maps of the universe
 * 5) Energy Density
 * 6) Sodium phosphate
 * 7) Sex-determination history
 * 8) computational neurosciences
 * 9) Variables, part 2
 * 10) acid base equilibrium

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 30


 * 1) Industrial Processes
 * 2) Natural instinct of a right handed person
 * 3) Evolution and Organo Metallic Complexes?
 * 4) f mice and lab rats
 * 5) latinized names?
 * 6) Caffine/Keeping awake
 * 7) How do we 'hear ourselves think'?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 31


 * 1) Sense of humour
 * 2) Burnt Stock Pot
 * 3) Evolution
 * 4) dry cell
 * 5) mysteries of mirrors
 * 6) Expense of PCR
 * 7) substituents
 * 8) why human beings can not fly like birds?
 * 9) V8 Engines
 * 10) Car top
 * 11) Mating/pairing off behaviour in seagulls
 * 12) hollow head
 * 13) Digital MULTIMETERs