Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2007

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 1


 * 1) Lightning as source of electricity
 * 2) Hall of mirrors
 * 3) Penis question
 * 4) Iridescence
 * 5) What are the isomers for C7H16 (isomeric heptanes)?
 * 6) "God initiated the Big Bang and then burned and died in the flames of his own creation..."
 * 7) Mix dogs
 * 8) Is this a new question?
 * 9) Locust flying speed

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 2


 * 1) Weighty of charge
 * 2) Another tick question I just thought of...
 * 3) Does water expand when heated?
 * 4) Atoms
 * 5) Foucault Pendulum Animation
 * 6) Dimensions in a World
 * 7) To Sweep Mercury
 * 8) calcium phosphate
 * 9) Propidium iodide stains only necrotic cells?
 * 10) patents::??
 * 11) Carbonated Water
 * 12) Michoud Fault article
 * 13) Fungus fungus
 * 14) Do "voices in one's head" ever engage one in normal "small talk"

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 3


 * 1) First missile guidance system
 * 2) joints in the human body
 * 3) Household electroplating
 * 4) Hominin evolution
 * 5) Building 140 decibel or higher system at 25KHZ (ultrasonic)
 * 6) Reaction to frankincense?
 * 7) Couple of Questions on Acids
 * 8) Balancing equations
 * 9) Electron arrangement
 * 10) HCl vapor from Na2CO3 + H2SO4?!
 * 11) Marfan Syndrome
 * 12) Possible to create an aircraft supported by magnetic levitation alone?
 * 13) Human Spine
 * 14) Quantum physics (I think). Confused. Deuterium is a wave?
 * 15) Confirm vs define
 * 16) speed
 * 17) Toe Nail
 * 18) Tattoos, Moles and Fat
 * 19) Doppler Effect
 * 20) normal variation sample #

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 4


 * 1) How come cigarrettes don't have nutrition facts?
 * 2) Lungs vs stomach
 * 3) When do pipes freeze?
 * 4) Is it liquid mercury?
 * 5) Ice cubes and the family jewels
 * 6) Unplugging electronic devices
 * 7) Identifying an insect
 * 8) Peri-synaptic
 * 9) about optical microscope
 * 10) Jack plug
 * 11) Definition of a Human
 * 12) Moon Rise and Set
 * 13) Thirst for knowledge and the human condition

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 5


 * 1) Level of fossilization in T.Rex Tissue?
 * 2) Macaroni and cheese mystery
 * 3) digestive tract
 * 4) Klebsiella Infection
 * 5) What kind of lock / key combination is this?
 * 6) aids
 * 7) unlitateral carotid ligation
 * 8) Petroleum jelly
 * 9) Modulation techniques book
 * 10) Preferential Solubility?
 * 11) Scarlet Macaw
 * 12) Glucose in benedict's solution

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 6


 * 1) Self sufficient communities
 * 2) Spider ID
 * 3) Killing with sound
 * 4) microbiological test
 * 5) Spinal cord, ventral and dorsal tracts
 * 6) Physics???
 * 7) RE: helium
 * 8) Harvard Chart Method
 * 9) beams that reflect from bones
 * 10) Lethal acceleration/jerk
 * 11) Schizophrenia vs. multiple personality disorder
 * 12) Finding acid disassociation constants
 * 13) positron
 * 14) psychology

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 7


 * 1) exceed the speed of light
 * 2) Brain damage in new borns
 * 3) Science - Movement Receptors
 * 4) Mosquito bites
 * 5) Through the woodchipper
 * 6) Cerebellum and neural pathways
 * 7) chemicals
 * 8) Common wildflower ID
 * 9) Speeds of Jaguars
 * 10) important people in biological sciences
 * 11) Personality Disorders
 * 12) Excess of Speed of Light

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 8


 * 1) muscular development
 * 2) silicon life forms
 * 3) Friction in Trains
 * 4) materials&metallurgy
 * 5) Human Horns
 * 6) Oxidant, oxidising agent, oxidation...
 * 7) How was precession of the Earth's axis explained in Geocentric models of the solar system?
 * 8) Geology of the Balearics (Mallorca)
 * 9) Atomic Composition of Animals
 * 10) Mushrooms
 * 11) Locations of virtual image charges versus optical images
 * 12) Dialysis bag permeable to sucrose?
 * 13) Wormhole creation
 * 14) Tetrachromatic, ultraviolet, etc

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 9


 * 1) Banned airlines
 * 2) The winter plumage of large gulls...
 * 3) Degradation of Ubiquitin
 * 4) mass of phosphorus
 * 5) Peroxide blocking
 * 6) Comet ETA
 * 7) Influenza vs Common Cold
 * 8) Difference between seagulls with white and dark heads
 * 9) Hydrogen fuel

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 10


 * 1) 9th cartilage of the larynx
 * 2) Are we Monkeys?
 * 3) Source of fruit flies
 * 4) need info on milk
 * 5) Identify this spider
 * 6) Are electrons gaining weight?
 * 7) solanine poison
 * 8) bovine serum albumin blocking
 * 9) Neutrons and protons in the nucleus
 * 10) British fetus embryo standards
 * 11) What would a nuke do to a Tornado?
 * 12) What does blood color mean
 * 13) what is water phase?
 * 14) White Tailed Eagle
 * 15) Image of Sun going around the earth
 * 16) 2N in 2N HCl

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 11


 * 1) Do you think that this is real?
 * 2) Schoolgulls
 * 3) Connecting two tanks automatic siphon?
 * 4) charged particle and electromagnetic radiation.
 * 5) Source of water to create homeopathic remedies
 * 6) How do “selfish gene” principles account for biased demographic effects?
 * 7) Silver nitrate staining
 * 8) Controlling earthquakes by setting them off
 * 9) Tapping the world's rotational energy
 * 10) Effects of concrete under high temperature
 * 11) black contact lenses
 * 12) Crystallization and entropy
 * 13) Can one have echolalia with thoughts? Or is that called something else?
 * 14) Caudate nucleus left/right asymmetry
 * 15) Photoconductive cells
 * 16) Expansion of Universe and expansion of expansion measurement device
 * 17) ISEL vs TUNEL
 * 18) taser
 * 19) Are basic anhydrides basic according to Arrhenius's definition?
 * 20) geogaphy

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 12


 * 1) Alcohol effects
 * 2) Cutting vinyl discs
 * 3) time dilations at high g
 * 4) How would the [lub dub] of the human heart be represented musically?
 * 5) dot and cross product
 * 6) beams that reflect from bones
 * 7) ?
 * 8) Gay twin
 * 9) Fear suppressing drugs?
 * 10) Graduate degree titles
 * 11) beta sheets
 * 12) LED flickering question.
 * 13) H2O2
 * 14) What is the name of this plant?
 * 15) Is it abstract or not?

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 13


 * 1) Robotic Arms
 * 2) Runaway Global Warming
 * 3) Human birth defects???
 * 4) fixed point calculation by utilisation of non stressed axial expansion joints
 * 5) gdfghdrg
 * 6) Raising metabolism
 * 7) What is the chemical composition of a typical computer?
 * 8) infrared
 * 9) ee assay
 * 10) becoming an alcoholic without alcohol.
 * 11) Resonant frequencies
 * 12) reduction of multiple state logical equations

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 14


 * 1) Maximum limit of kinetic energy?
 * 2) Redox reactions
 * 3) Cyanide Vs. CO
 * 4) microscopy
 * 5) Effects of long term usage of asthma medication
 * 6) Transport Phenomena
 * 7) Spectroscopy of elements
 * 8) CLASSIFICATION
 * 9) Absolute zero
 * 10) question on Sexually transmitted disease--why aren't there more of them?
 * 11) Mitochondrial genome size
 * 12) species

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 15


 * 1) race
 * 2) Breast hormones
 * 3) Kinetic energy, part 2
 * 4) Possibly to make a hybrid/tribrid car that captures wind energy?
 * 5) what is the LD50 of...
 * 6) pulse and bleeding
 * 7) Possible to make a Freeze Gun?
 * 8) Hydrogen Alpha Images of the Sun
 * 9) Galactic Angling
 * 10) Radio Transmissions
 * 11) Growing a mushroom on the skin
 * 12) The moon and stars
 * 13) Pulling wire and the 4th dimension

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 16


 * 1) Why lengthwise instead of widthwise
 * 2) Body mass index
 * 3) Is homosexuality a STD
 * 4) photon momentum and mirror.
 * 5) How non-charged particles are accelerated in particle accelerator.
 * 6) An analogy for the fuel cell?
 * 7) Beta decay.
 * 8) TV animals
 * 9) Declining caffein
 * 10) Hydrogen sulfide oxidizing enzyme
 * 11) kinetic energy of ideal monatomic gas
 * 12) Effect of human population growth on global warming
 * 13) What are super metals?
 * 14) gas ideal - entropy
 * 15) require information on CoMFA (Comparative Molecular Field Analysis)
 * 16) two bodies - different temperatures
 * 17) 24 hr urine - checking that we got a full sample
 * 18) Tongue
 * 19) Lack of oxygen and sleepiness
 * 20) LASIK
 * 21) medicine online
 * 22) How to minimise my exposure to halogens in my food and water?
 * 23) Radio Transmissions and Camera Transmissions
 * 24) Hornworms

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 17


 * 1) silver + potassium nitrate
 * 2) Light for plants
 * 3) coloring your eyes
 * 4) Gulls and Botulinum toxin...
 * 5) carbon resistor
 * 6) The strongest material?
 * 7) Five-Point-Palm Exploding Heart Technique
 * 8) Use of human excrement as manure in farming
 * 9) Activation energy
 * 10) Mobile phone on the moon
 * 11) Sacrificing mice
 * 12) Heat-deactivated FCS and deliberate hypotonic lysis
 * 13) Why Two LEDs in a remote control.
 * 14) double hearing
 * 15) Insect identification
 * 16) An Interesting Event with a Credit Card
 * 17) Steam Freezing?
 * 18) Virtual Photon
 * 19) Carbon-oxygen backbone polymer

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 18


 * 1) sharks
 * 2) Kinetic Energy in the Universe
 * 3) Most Popular Health Topics
 * 4) Medicine = poison?
 * 5) Harnessing biomath
 * 6) Cotton buds/Q-tips
 * 7) Bray-Curtis
 * 8) Hairsplitting
 * 9) Possible to use CGI instead of night vision?
 * 10) Having trouble understanding how Solar Cells work
 * 11) PKC
 * 12) When to use the terms proper motion and Improper motion
 * 13) Ideal gas law example
 * 14) rubber bands
 * 15) Leaky coax antenna?
 * 16) Head polish?
 * 17) Electromechnical elevator/lift control equipment

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 19


 * 1) Sand
 * 2) Reflectivity
 * 3) Bass speakers
 * 4) Is there a unit of energy called "Dq"?
 * 5) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 19
 * 6) Washing hair
 * 7) Biology
 * 8) heart attack!
 * 9) Lights at night appearing 'blurred'
 * 10) Godels constitution loophole
 * 11) rubber band paper airplane
 * 12) How can I tell the difference between male and female seagulls just by looking?
 * 13) earth science
 * 14) Understanding singularities
 * 15) Energy, inertia, or force required to cause injury
 * 16) wind speeds
 * 17) I have a Steam Engine Powered Automobile circa 1880's
 * 18) Is matter infinitely divisible?
 * 19) Earth From Space at Night (earth lights?)
 * 20) Ice cream
 * 21) Toilet light switch
 * 22) Sailing stones
 * 23) Why does silver tarnishes upon exposure to ozone, hydrogen and sulphide or air containing sulphur?
 * 24) math
 * 25) veterinary
 * 26) math
 * 27) Fingers on chalkboard...
 * 28) Nobel laureate biologist James Watson
 * 29) scince
 * 30) math
 * 31) Probability
 * 32) nazrul

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 20


 * 1) Nerves
 * 2) How did they figure it out?
 * 3) Suger Free products
 * 4) Surface tension of oil drop on water surface
 * 5) Distance to the moon and sun calculation
 * 6) DVD-R Strange optical effect
 * 7) Physics-solid state
 * 8) Placed in the cold
 * 9) use of fins(extended surfaces)
 * 10) Can transfusion cure diseases?
 * 11) Old school antibody production (for research applications)
 * 12) Imperfections in gel electrophoresis
 * 13) opu
 * 14) shokna
 * 15) Crystals Being Grown in Space

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 21


 * 1) bamboo
 * 2) Female cats
 * 3) diffraction image
 * 4) Plant question
 * 5) Why the electricity transmission voltage is generally multiples of 11?
 * 6) Leaky coax antenna and Cable
 * 7) Green bins and gulls
 * 8) artifiial eye Interface
 * 9) geomagnetism
 * 10) Cold beverages?
 * 11) Mountain Laurels

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 22


 * 1) Immune system chemical synthesis
 * 2) Compound light microscope
 * 3) Time Machine
 * 4) Compound light microscope
 * 5) Nano GOld Reactivity
 * 6) YECism and alleles
 * 7) Electronics
 * 8) morbidity/mortality tables - not
 * 9) Touch-sensitive fern
 * 10) Using the stomach to clean the blood
 * 11) Moon observations
 * 12) Edible mold and fungus (mushrooms)
 * 13) Thelper1 vs Thelper2
 * 14) Induced C`urrent

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 23


 * 1) Phase of quantum probability amplitude for reflection from a potential change
 * 2) Lobe-Finned Fish
 * 3) Speed of light
 * 4) Tap water
 * 5) Is it possible to use nanomachines instead of electricity?
 * 6) density and volume of electron, proton (atomic structure)
 * 7) Anomalous hair
 * 8) safe fungi
 * 9) Bathroom smelling of salt
 * 10) Muscle cells
 * 11) Sanitation
 * 12) polymer
 * 13) Toadstools and snakes
 * 14) internal violation

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 24


 * 1) Frosty Freezer Food
 * 2) Does the Earth's magnetic field rotate daily w.r.t the solar system?
 * 3) Water, Specifically the acquifer under Pahrump Nevada
 * 4) Water content of canned tomatoes
 * 5) Charge conservation in electrochemical cells
 * 6) Virtual Reality for video games, and resolutions
 * 7) Body Strength
 * 8) can you permanentaly stop PKC (Protein Kinase C) activity in vivo ?
 * 9) Time Dilation
 * 10) Strong Force vs. Electromagnetic Force
 * 11) Possible to generate a magnetic field to repel bullets?
 * 12) Geeky TV
 * 13) How do enzymes evolve?
 * 14) Size limit of the human body
 * 15) Honey

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 25


 * 1) String Theory
 * 2) Acceleration to near-light speeds
 * 3) TERRESTRIAL PLANT GROWING COMPLETELY IN WATER
 * 4) Power lines noise
 * 5) color vision
 * 6) Expanding Universe...Are we all getting bigger?
 * 7) pH
 * 8) giardia parasite
 * 9) Why are videogames fun?
 * 10) Menopause
 * 11) Decibel Meter
 * 12) Why do humans rarely eat gull meat?
 * 13) -enic vs -eic suffix on acids
 * 14) Amphisbaena

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 26


 * 1) Benzodrene
 * 2) UK - Safest place to live in the world?
 * 3) A bipedal molecule
 * 4) additive nature of heats of reaction
 * 5) What is the name for this kind of aircraft, and why don't we make them?
 * 6) plc
 * 7) Walkie talkies and radios
 * 8) A few questions on Birds
 * 9) Broken link
 * 10) Science Info
 * 11) gender ratios in a species

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 27


 * 1) Crude oil production
 * 2) Calcium Gluconate Chemical Structure
 * 3) 3 dB per octave?
 * 4) stop watch hardware
 * 5) Shock in AC and DC
 * 6) German Weinstein: Potassium tartrate or Potassium bitartrate?
 * 7) Granular layer - cerebellum
 * 8) Cost of heat
 * 9) Why is hot water better for washing dishes?
 * 10) electron transfer
 * 11) plants
 * 12) The ventral posteromedial nucleus!
 * 13) Plant Absorbtion
 * 14) How to kill Mad Cow prions?
 * 15) Dropping uncertainties

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 28


 * 1) Red Onion Skinn cells
 * 2) Fall question
 * 3) Butterflies and the fate of the universe
 * 4) Tartaric Acid
 * 5) definition of orthologous, paralogous, analogous,homologous
 * 6) Mushrooms
 * 7) fibrous and synovial joints
 * 8) Pinhole cameras
 * 9) Esophageal Temperature Monitoring During Surgery
 * 10) Effective Projected Luminous Lens Area

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 29


 * 1) Batch experiment for denitrification endpoint in wastewater treatment
 * 2) Gas formation at extreme low pressure and temperature
 * 3) Broad spectrum antibiotics
 * 4) Drop dead on the Moon
 * 5) Peak Coal
 * 6) Jehovah's Witnesses & Marriage
 * 7) Alcohol - on the verge of anaebriation!
 * 8) Twin prop aircraft
 * 9) Barriers beyond a Planck Length
 * 10) Remove Blood Stains
 * 11) Kinetic Batteries
 * 12) Vacuum Sealers - for commercial use

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 30


 * 1) Protein domain
 * 2) food poisoning ???
 * 3) production of particles by pair production method.
 * 4) Anomalous hair
 * 5) Membrane Potentials
 * 6) When will oil run out?
 * 7) Quantum foam
 * 8) Why don't they put some kind of grating over jet engine intakes to prevent birds from getting sucked in?
 * 9) Taste bud abnormality
 * 10) how do i make my dog smart
 * 11) When you here about plane crashes on the news
 * 12) Digitap imaging & printing
 * 13) Mom Haircut
 * 14) Why don't they use water jets on very large ships?
 * 15) Sugar in Soda
 * 16) Will it fly?

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 31


 * 1) Running hands under Superacid
 * 2) Transporting rice
 * 3) Children's vs Adult's voices
 * 4) Things stuck in eyesocket
 * 5) Hair loss
 * 6) Freezing eye
 * 7) Why do birds fly away from people?
 * 8) If human bodies had thick fur like other mammals, do you think we would still wear clothes?
 * 9) How much sugar does the average kid/adult consume on Halloween?
 * 10) Cyanide and suicide
 * 11) Exercising, Muscle Burn and Calories
 * 12) Gravitational pull of the moon
 * 13) oxidizers
 * 14) oxidation
 * 15) Tased across the spine
 * 16) secret service mobiles
 * 17) Rising Sea Levels and the Effect this Will Have on the Mediterranean Ocean
 * 18) facial hair
 * 19) Finite from Infinite