Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2008

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 1


 * 1) Sneezing when you look at the sun?
 * 2) Anti-Depressants and delayed orgasm
 * 3) need a reaction
 * 4) control systems
 * 5) Permission to Use A Picture
 * 6) List of Cathepsins
 * 7) geophysical and geochemical surveys
 * 8) Detergents, chlorine bleach
 * 9) Hyperkalemia
 * 10) current density
 * 11) Atmospheric Pressure
 * 12) So, what is this thing I had when I was a baby called?
 * 13) Scarlet fever - After Effects?
 * 14) Young's Modulus
 * 15) Emedicine.com
 * 16) A humanoid changing facing in space
 * 17) GI Tract
 * 18) What will happen to planets when sun finally elapse to a white dwarf

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 2


 * 1) List of official lab names
 * 2) Headache
 * 3) Name this bug
 * 4) Is this Rose quartz?
 * 5) Driving a T-72 tank
 * 6) Chinese contributions to engineering
 * 7) Coloured lights used on CSI
 * 8) sex  change m  to f

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 3


 * 1) Prolonging orgasm
 * 2) Who invented the floor buffer?
 * 3) Anatomy / behaviour of bullocks etc
 * 4) Misshapen head treatment
 * 5) Urinary Tract Infection Cause?
 * 6) Baby Powder scent?
 * 7) magnetism
 * 8) Mules
 * 9) How exactly would you construct an "unfair" coin?
 * 10) "Simplicity" of scientific/mathematical problems
 * 11) "Hologram" mirrors illusion??
 * 12) Water on Mars

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 4


 * 1) Seeing bullets (with no tracers) streak through the air using IR goggles
 * 2) Is this understandable?

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 5


 * 1) How to Get Gray Hair
 * 2) Nomex
 * 3) Hyperthyroidism and the risks of general asesthesia/surgery
 * 4) Reasons people mumble - hearing loss, etc.
 * 5) Blindness and visual artefacts
 * 6) extrusion of rock

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 6


 * 1) Sleep Noises
 * 2) Volume of human voice
 * 3) Hypnic jerk
 * 4) multinucleate cells
 * 5) Maroon Clowns
 * 6) Languages in dreams
 * 7) marine engineering
 * 8) SOUND
 * 9) Light from the remote visible in the video image?
 * 10) Biology word
 * 11) Debunking Ghosts
 * 12) LCD Spectral Lines
 * 13) Fatigue relief
 * 14) Gauge>Alum foil?
 * 15) finger print sensors
 * 16) Zombie Newton is haunting me
 * 17) False or true?
 * 18) Electricity and magnetism
 * 19) Is THIS version understandable?
 * 20) Momentum and photons
 * 21) Mars and Jupiter and Saturn's moon over sun's RGiant Stage

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 7


 * 1) Quantum: Difference between an operator and a measurement
 * 2) Noisy laptop fan
 * 3) Question (Goliath Beetle)
 * 4) How does fruit get "bruised"?
 * 5) Grass Seed Lifespan
 * 6) calorie consumption per hour/ mile (cycling)
 * 7) Human feet vs. Chimp feet
 * 8) Fizzy drinks.
 * 9) The grayed tip of a banana
 * 10) Nobel Prize winners
 * 11) honey locust spines: poisonous?
 * 12) Holt Biology
 * 13) Hearing
 * 14) Holt Biology
 * 15) steam rockets
 * 16) Putting car in park

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 8


 * 1) Headset to hear dictations
 * 2) Sensory Integration Disorder and its Impact on Potty Training
 * 3) Strange gender inequality in the dental industry
 * 4) immume system
 * 5) chemistry
 * 6) Aflatoxin in raw peeled peanuts
 * 7) Sleep injuries
 * 8) Semen and Enzymes
 * 9) E=mc^2...Whatever that means.
 * 10) safe dough?
 * 11) Erronious definition
 * 12) Do gas giant even have a flowing water?
 * 13) Time-independent Schrödinger equation: "If $psi$ is a solution then $psi$* is also a solution."

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 9


 * 1) Sending Sound Wave or Voice Messages to the Past?
 * 2) Sterling Silver Allergy
 * 3) Perpetuating genes
 * 4) Is our planet's core mostly iron because of boyancy?
 * 5) Balancing equations
 * 6) Ovulation
 * 7) True or False? Attack of the mutant 6 foot man eating catfist?
 * 8) Quantum: why for entangled state but not separable states
 * 9) what is the best way to structure a case study presentation on a medical patient ?
 * 10) solar power roof installations and having to do roof maintenance
 * 11) Watch question
 * 12) Unit of Measures
 * 13) trying to remember the name of a certain stone
 * 14) Venus axial tilt
 * 15) Quantum Mechanics

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 10


 * 1) Particle Physics
 * 2) Turning off all electronic equipment during take-off and landing
 * 3) problem sum
 * 4) threshold logic synthesis
 * 5) "Virgin birth" in a shark
 * 6) i really should know this but
 * 7) What is the movement of a submarine called?
 * 8) Sudden moon
 * 9) hydrogen reaction
 * 10) Mars climate

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 11


 * 1) gas constant?
 * 2) Use of Oil
 * 3) Plants with edible stems
 * 4) Noisy faucet
 * 5) Quote identification
 * 6) would you freeze in space with nothing on
 * 7) Robotics - what is static stability?
 * 8) Jobs in the private spaceflight industry
 * 9) Organisms living inside crude oil
 * 10) Strange thermodynamics question
 * 11) Intelligent Life in the Universe/Voyager Golden Record
 * 12) What does Radioactive Waste look like?

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 12


 * 1) Image licensing
 * 2) What colour would you say best describes the upper mandible of a male Eclectus?
 * 3) Copper(II) Sulfate Crystal
 * 4) 1876 Supplement to Harper's Bazar, No.13 and No. 25
 * 5) photographic chemicals
 * 6) electron configuration of Barium
 * 7) Using nuclear weapons as a propulsion system for spacecrafts
 * 8) What good an anal probe?
 * 9) how much gas?

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 13


 * 1) Is our solar system flat ?
 * 2) squid blood
 * 3) to know mechanism
 * 4) Orthogonal translation
 * 5) quantum mechanics
 * 6) Clockwise or Anti-Clockwise
 * 7) FISH
 * 8) Questions about massive sqid
 * 9) composite aircraft
 * 10) O-ring and G-ring
 * 11) How does NASA calculate trajectories?
 * 12) What is the theoretical wavelength upper limit for electro-magnetic waves?
 * 13) What triggers a missile to explode?
 * 14) Why can pulse be normally abnormal?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 14


 * 1) Plutos' core
 * 2) Light Concentration
 * 3) Some mathematical physics expression
 * 4) Is Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle really universal?
 * 5) Why did bacteria evolved?
 * 6) Medical condition relating to films
 * 7) Cola as a spermicide?
 * 8) Name of Phobia
 * 9) Computer program to visualise biomolecular pathways/interactions
 * 10) McCain's arm
 * 11) what is this plant?
 * 12) Getting contact lenses in
 * 13) Frequency guard bands in OFDM
 * 14) Identify this tree
 * 15) Ethidium Bromide
 * 16) Tropospheric gas giants

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 15


 * 1) physics
 * 2) Hückel's rule
 * 3) Gem quality Epidote mineral
 * 4) 'Landing on Jupiter'
 * 5) orchestra
 * 6) Molecular Formula of Gasoline
 * 7) Orthogonality in OFDM
 * 8) Mining collapse question?
 * 9) Acorn

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 16


 * 1) Manhole question
 * 2) Thank you to the contributors
 * 3) Heat effects
 * 4) Stability of carbon
 * 5) HIV and hemodialysis
 * 6) Effects of masturbation
 * 7) Why does pressure increase with depth
 * 8) bladder TCC insitu with bone mets

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 17


 * 1) Uvula
 * 2) Need Genetic Analysis of Japanese people
 * 3) Movie sound
 * 4) Distance from nucleus: d or s orbitals
 * 5) Alpha Centauri system seen from Saturn
 * 6) Frequency of different forms of cancer
 * 7) Length of electric power transmission lines
 * 8) helicopter lift control
 * 9) Eskimos
 * 10) Apollo Landing Hoax
 * 11) Highly Evolved Dinosaurs
 * 12) do cleaners age your skin?
 * 13) Ceramic Insulation : Cenospheres

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 18


 * 1) How large can a Trojan planet be?
 * 2) orchic
 * 3) sex without condom
 * 4) size of a lysosome?
 * 5) where does the air in hypercaviation come from?
 * 6) Defrosting beef
 * 7) Toaster in the ocean.
 * 8) MRI history
 * 9) Quick eye shift breaking white into RGB
 * 10) Weight of bones

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 19


 * 1) nigilism
 * 2) Skin condition photos
 * 3) Dream On! Dream On! Dream until your dreams come ... on a small video monitor?
 * 4) Genetic mutation- Double tail gourami
 * 5) Ultimate fate of the universe
 * 6) Gibbs free energy
 * 7) The shape of the orbit of the Moon over the Earth
 * 8) Helicopter under a bridge?
 * 9) Carbon-neutrality of paper waste

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 20


 * 1) Stuffy noses -- one side is blocked, then the other, then both.
 * 2) Gravity waves
 * 3) Vaccine versus Control group testing
 * 4) Bouncing off the atmosphere
 * 5) 4D
 * 6) Possible non-conventional ways to counter global warming?
 * 7) Physics (Electric fields)
 * 8) Scientific Formula

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 21


 * 1) Molecules that pass through membranes
 * 2) Dioxin in Plastic Container and Foam Container?
 * 3) Stay or go?
 * 4) Columbia vs. Challenger disaster
 * 5) Silicon Chips
 * 6) Can the process of transesterification be duplicated?
 * 7) About a graph
 * 8) Trees on a slope
 * 9) Mylar
 * 10) Double Suspension Gallop

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 22


 * 1) Temperature of Distillate during distillation
 * 2) 20 minute chimes
 * 3) Energy output of hydrogen using oxygen, fusion, and antimatter?
 * 4) UK BODY FARM
 * 5) Clipperton Island lagoon
 * 6) Mutation in mitosis
 * 7) Biting your lip
 * 8) jet flow
 * 9) Osmosis Experiment
 * 10) Discoveries made on space
 * 11) Does the wavelength of light change in a time varying magnetic field?
 * 12) Internal organs
 * 13) speed of ripple vs speed of sound
 * 14) Spurs
 * 15) "Natural" and "artificial" selection in humans

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 23


 * 1) Longevity of satellites
 * 2) Time to replenish an oil well
 * 3) Guinea worm extinction
 * 4) Animal search.
 * 5) "Universe" clusters; matter/energy beyond our own universe
 * 6) diabesity
 * 7) Sugar bowl
 * 8) nature
 * 9) what happens if we give AC excitation to alternator
 * 10) Oil Creation
 * 11) Confusion with organoselenium compound toxicity
 * 12) Question involving special relativity
 * 13) Physics Exhibition
 * 14) Pulsejet afterburner?
 * 15) Unknown firstborn vaccination
 * 16) Burj Dubai
 * 17) Lactose Intolerance
 * 18) Trees in Mongolia

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 24


 * 1) Contrail, crepuscular ray, zodiacal light, or other?
 * 2) Earths atoms
 * 3) "Build a better mousetrap, and someone will build a better mouse"
 * 4) Do any animals shed tears through grief or pain?
 * 5) oil and butter
 * 6) nicotine
 * 7) Common cold and temperature
 * 8) Dehumidifier crystals
 * 9) Freak Of Nature?
 * 10) Writing after laughing hard
 * 11) Satellite dish cable
 * 12) Staining in chilly weather

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 25


 * 1) Looking at Earth
 * 2) ISS flyby and binoculars
 * 3) An Electronic Planet
 * 4) Grounding & Bonding - static electricity safe guards
 * 5) human eye.
 * 6) chemicals
 * 7) Public Health Question:Handwashing & faucets w/sensors-transfeered frWater Conservation
 * 8) tsunami
 * 9) How do violin strings make sound?
 * 10) Spectacles deglazing
 * 11) something we dug up in our back yard!!

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 26


 * 1) Twins from different fathers
 * 2) first nutritional supplements
 * 3) handwoven wool rug cleaning
 * 4) Shock waves
 * 5) Diseases by Mortality Rate
 * 6) Making a movie in PyMol
 * 7) Free energy idea needs debunking
 * 8) transformer
 * 9) How are all sciences interrelated?
 * 10) Photons released while burning?
 * 11) Harmonic distortion in Wein bridge oscillator
 * 12) What does the 5 in Saturn 5 and Ares 5 mean?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 27


 * 1) Indoor marijuana cultivation retardant
 * 2) Dimensions
 * 3) Urgent need to pee
 * 4) Eye
 * 5) Solar-To-Electric Efficiency (STEE)
 * 6) Ketchup
 * 7) How is the phase between electric and magnetic waves in a lightwave determined?
 * 8) Why do Budgerigars have such crappy night vision when compared to humans?
 * 9) Harmonic Vibration
 * 10) Staying underweight by thinking?
 * 11) Analyze a liquid
 * 12) Uranus disc color
 * 13) Mistaking memory for reality - how?

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 28


 * 1) Alcohol consumption strange side-effects
 * 2) If time is Infinite...
 * 3) Simplest oscillating reaction?
 * 4) Fidgetting and calories
 * 5) Are there any planned missions to put a satellite around the moon with the resolution great enough to see the Apollo landers?
 * 6) Ocean surface wave
 * 7) Geology, volcanology!

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 29


 * 1) ANTIBIOTICS
 * 2) Engineering Drawing
 * 3) Textile Testing
 * 4) Bridge question
 * 5) General Relativity and Tides
 * 6) Glassmaking kiln explosions?
 * 7) Maximum visual acuity
 * 8) Proving that the moon exists to doubters

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 30


 * 1) Venus and Jupiter's true color
 * 2) Jupiter's Great Red Spot On Earth
 * 3) LANDFILLS - why are garbage cells covered with a layer of soil?
 * 4) This one has me stump
 * 5) Rocks
 * 6) Mathematics
 * 7) menstruating women
 * 8) CHEMISTRY
 * 9) "three-day malaria": would it call brain damage?
 * 10) I caught a weasel in my house!
 * 11) Drug interactions
 * 12) preventing liver spots?
 * 13) Concentration of pure solids and liquids

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 October 31


 * 1) Why is space so big?
 * 2) Photons and Phonons
 * 3) Bosenova
 * 4) Rockets underwater
 * 5) How to select motor rating for pure electric vehicle
 * 6) Customizable open office walls
 * 7) Electromagnetic pulse
 * 8) Age of Aneurysms?