Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2009

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 1


 * 1) Pauli Exclusion Principle, Electron Spin, and Magnetism
 * 2) Quantum paradox
 * 3) temp. & pressure depdendence of heat of fusion/vaporisation
 * 4) Homework check
 * 5) calculating the entropy of a substance
 * 6) How do electromagnetic waves propagate through a vacuum?
 * 7) cooling question
 * 8) Name of integrated foreign DNA?
 * 9) Moving with a cat
 * 10) Why are clouds so "lumpy"?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 2


 * 1) cancerous lump?
 * 2) The rain after earthquake
 * 3) Would it be possible to shatter a toilet by alighting on it?
 * 4) Ethical guidelines for biologists?
 * 5) Particles from space time traveling thanks to special relativity...
 * 6) acidity... how it changes
 * 7) Human intelligence
 * 8) Architecture, High Ceilings (United States)
 * 9) Spanking a baby when it's born
 * 10) Glycerol Surface Tension
 * 11) The speed of light vs. special relativity
 * 12) Can't remember a term... (Biology)

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 3


 * 1) Is there really meaning to the speed of light?
 * 2) Magnetic saturation
 * 3) solid mechanics
 * 4) Speed of light between Casimir plates?
 * 5) Surviving a Pyroclastic Flow
 * 6) Visualizing magnetic fields in 3d
 * 7) Mobile phone charging disabling vibration function
 * 8) That "deer caught in headlights" reaction - what is it?
 * 9) Atomic cannon
 * 10) light
 * 11) about photosynthesis,
 * 12) Quantifying Color Blindness
 * 13) Why can't you treat carbon monoxide poisoning with a blood transfusion?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 4


 * 1) Help with clarifying what something I've added an article is....
 * 2) pH
 * 3) Fertilisation
 * 4) A question for (early) gun enthusiasts
 * 5) grow
 * 6) Built in GPS Mobile Phones
 * 7) Calculating electrical resistance
 * 8) Temparature in Space
 * 9) Energy transformation and space-time
 * 10) International Space Station Experiments
 * 11) Sclerophyllous plant communities

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 5


 * 1) Symptoms of novel swine (H1N1) influenza
 * 2) how does........
 * 3) Carbon Monoxide Levels Given Off By Older Vehicles
 * 4) Severe Weather
 * 5) TLC: detecting 0.5% yield?
 * 6) do protonated alkaloids still taste bitter?
 * 7) Seeking list of mercury content of fish species
 * 8) If I was born on Mars...
 * 9) Radiation levels near nuclear reactors

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 6


 * 1) DNA
 * 2) cellular membranes
 * 3) Name that substance...
 * 4) physics circular motion
 * 5) Cooling towers
 * 6) eclipses (q moved from ents desk)
 * 7) h1n1 (q moved from ents desk)
 * 8) inventor of American sealed hard plastic cases used in late 90's & early 00's?
 * 9) Homunculi
 * 10) The amount of gearing in 3-speed bicycle Hub gear versus Derailleur gears?
 * 11) A few questions

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 7


 * 1) Hubble space telescope
 * 2) Simple Chem Question
 * 3) Honey bee identification
 * 4) How are Retin-A and Renova different?
 * 5) why isn't cholesterol soluble in acetone?
 * 6) Red blood cell
 * 7) Data for floor area ratio (FAR)?
 * 8) Are there any species with multiple hearts?
 * 9) Eating raw flour
 * 10) the fluorescent light tube
 * 11) moving in space
 * 12) electrolytes
 * 13) "Living wall" vertical planting using felt?
 * 14) Cooling pop

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 8


 * 1) Continental shift
 * 2) Relaxation and schizophrenia
 * 3) Wheel alignment
 * 4) Raw potato  (inspired by question about cookie dough above)
 * 5) carpal tunnel
 * 6) Time Zones
 * 7) freezing point
 * 8) Carbon neutral / entirely dependent on renewable energery
 * 9) B-12 Deficiency

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 9


 * 1) Convert atmospheric greenhouse gases to flood insurance rates
 * 2) Why preheat the oven?
 * 3) Design with dimensions
 * 4) Shouldn't the list of artificial objects on the moon be edited?
 * 5) LCROSS moon impact
 * 6) are quantum effects the sole reason why heat capacity goes to zero at 0K?
 * 7) biosynthesis of creatine

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 10


 * 1) Inbreeding
 * 2) Yawning phenomenon
 * 3) thermodynamic resonance stabilisation
 * 4) ring formation
 * 5) h1n1
 * 6) Mushroom from Virginia
 * 7) sugar D M
 * 8) Nutritional value of nut
 * 9) Clouds over Moscow
 * 10) Pepsi One's one calorie
 * 11) Water
 * 12) Fastest human BPM
 * 13) Music levels...

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 11


 * 1) Does ether and methanol form an azeotrope?
 * 2) Electroplating Copper on Iron
 * 3) dc motor
 * 4) Crack on the Moon
 * 5) Voice
 * 6) how does double-stranded RNA work?
 * 7) decline in platelets
 * 8) paralysed from the waist down

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 12


 * 1) Rattlesnake Anti Venom avalibility
 * 2) Why is sneezing convulsive?
 * 3) Windmill?  Wind turbine?  Wind Widget?
 * 4) Mytoses question
 * 5) Silver in a plastic cutting board - antimicrobial/antibacterial or just BS?
 * 6) Abrasive toothpastes
 * 7) when is dQ different from dH?
 * 8) map distances and multiple crossovers
 * 9) blood platelets
 * 10) Time-matter conversion
 * 11) Weather
 * 12) Age hardening of Mild steel under water
 * 13) North Texas weather
 * 14) Urinary Tract Infections
 * 15) Time speed shift
 * 16) KC135 boom
 * 17) Lump on penis
 * 18) Time over distance...

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 13


 * 1) The irregular dark spots on sidewalks
 * 2) volume change in an isothermal process versus an adiabatic process
 * 3) symbols of restraint in women's fashion
 * 4) Physics
 * 5) The sexual desire of post-op transexuals
 * 6) What is TRAIL PCR?
 * 7) Medicare catheters
 * 8) Very large object
 * 9) Lake at the bottem of the Ocean
 * 10) exothermic reaction with iron powder

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 14


 * 1) H1N1 vulnerability after infection?
 * 2) Big Bang
 * 3) Antimatter fuel
 * 4) ko kaaf
 * 5) Global warming vs. record lows/snowfall
 * 6) Plate movement rvsals
 * 7) average size of a penis
 * 8) Which parts of the USA have a climate similar to London?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 15


 * 1) Higgs Boson sabotages Large Hadron Collider.
 * 2) Ethanol / isoproyl alcohol
 * 3) quartz thermometer
 * 4) Cosmological Constant
 * 5) Proper acceleration
 * 6) Relativistic Energy!
 * 7) Crystal Field effect
 * 8) Energy crisis and environment
 * 9) Hydrogen fusion
 * 10) Kid in the balloon thing
 * 11) Tree trunks painted white

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 16


 * 1) Wy does refraction occur?
 * 2) Special relativity.
 * 3) nuclear reactor model
 * 4) black hole
 * 5) Does "dark gravity" exist?
 * 6) Chewing gum or no chewing gum on the pavement
 * 7) Water supply in developing countries
 * 8) Oxygen production in the dark?

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 17


 * 1) Spin quantum number
 * 2) Masturbation and a teen
 * 3) Set of 4 questions: Nanotech, astrophysics, and structural engineering related.
 * 4) Could Alain Robert have escaped the Twin Towers?
 * 5) Cold Fire
 * 6) How do deleaved trees breathe?
 * 7) How to make my doorbell ring for longer
 * 8) Modifying a mobile phone / cell phone to use only as a computing device.
 * 9) stomach pressure in vomiting

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 18


 * 1) Voltage drop in an extension cord
 * 2) Hychlorite?
 * 3) External Speaker Noise Problem
 * 4) Regulation of cholesterol in blood
 * 5) Seedless pepper
 * 6) LNB Power
 * 7) Erie Canal
 * 8) thioketone thioester?
 * 9) why is phenol toxic?
 * 10) Which population clock is better?
 * 11) A cat breastfeeding another adult cat?

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 19


 * 1) abu hureyra
 * 2) Ficin and adjuvants
 * 3) electrophilic halogenation
 * 4) superacids and aromatic compounds
 * 5) tractionsystems
 * 6) radioactive labelling and fatty acid synthesis
 * 7) Engine braking - NA vs forced induction
 * 8) PRECISE mechanism of HMG-CoA synthase (how in the world do you replace a methyl group with an oxygen atom?)
 * 9) SMART Transmitters
 * 10) Fainting
 * 11) Fusion Reactor Image..
 * 12) Bilingualism and Inner Monolouge
 * 13) Quantum mechanics free particle - follow-up question
 * 14) precise chemical composition of butterish products
 * 15) Are we getting taller
 * 16) Sharpless epoxidation, dihydroxylation
 * 17) Testicle sweat
 * 18) Odds of skin color and features in children of multiracial couples
 * 19) coffee and weight gain
 * 20) Hidden variable theories and T-symmetry
 * 21) Palladium
 * 22) mercury as an element
 * 23) DNA contains entire human genome?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 20


 * 1) Vacuum Ablation
 * 2) largest possible Black Hole
 * 3) an inherently flawed workup to a Grignard synthesis?
 * 4) Does elevated oxygen allow adjusted respiratory rates?
 * 5) IFT TRANSFORMER
 * 6) Neutronium
 * 7) Featured Article - Diamond
 * 8) Artificial "gills" - getting oxygen from water on the fly...
 * 9) Michelson-Morley Experiment Simulation
 * 10) Gargling salt water to prevent swine flu
 * 11) Minimum population to restart the human race?
 * 12) storing freshly charged batteries
 * 13) Human's scent
 * 14) The last of its kind...
 * 15) Dishwashers

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 21


 * 1) How does the speed of light speed limit jive with physics shortly after the big bang?
 * 2) Blood pressures & winter jackets
 * 3) WWII era German HEAVY tank
 * 4) Coiled rope
 * 5) Acid attack neutralization spray?
 * 6) Lotions and aluminum starch
 * 7) Experiments
 * 8) Particles in Brand New Water Bottle
 * 9) Oil-based scum in me coffee
 * 10) How does resistance change on increasing the tempreture of the conductor?
 * 11) why isn't sodium chloride that hygroscopic
 * 12) CNS & PNS cell types.
 * 13) Shoulder problems
 * 14) Sunrise and sunset on a perfect sphere
 * 15) Stop bleeding
 * 16) Rabbit insertion through human cervix: Reality check

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 22


 * 1) free energy of a substance and temperature
 * 2) How can I obtain pure sulfur, mercury, lead, and antimony?
 * 3) streoscopy
 * 4) human electricty
 * 5) Alternate Universe?
 * 6) Fine-tuned Universe?
 * 7) Metabolism
 * 8) Alignment of the planets
 * 9) methycobolamin
 * 10) Cable TV distribution
 * 11) temperature

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 23


 * 1) On the source of the sound of a fart.
 * 2) ketoconazole/ pets
 * 3) Dry ice advice.
 * 4) Brain Fluid Behavior?
 * 5) cdna
 * 6) Change in Velocity without Acceleration
 * 7) electroaromatic substitution in polyaromatic rings
 * 8) help candles??
 * 9) Cosmological Constant in Newtonian Gravitation
 * 10) what's the WORST thing in egg whites?
 * 11) Apollo photo number?
 * 12) Maximum electron orbital speed
 * 13) Process Control
 * 14) Ford Explorer Injectore Over Fueling
 * 15) Rain measurements
 * 16) wireless LAN justification
 * 17) List of objects in the solar system ordered by volume

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 24


 * 1) Why don't cells make carbon fibers?
 * 2) Mercury "burn"
 * 3) Fixing of insect fat body tissues
 * 4) Cows
 * 5) high dc voltage and current measurement
 * 6) phosphate (and diphosphates) as leaving groups
 * 7) Swine flu vaccine
 * 8) Why would a portable radio's signal go out for one station?
 * 9) sky
 * 10) Humans after extended time in outer space
 * 11) Natural gas from the outer planets?
 * 12) Pterodactyls
 * 13) Artificial Chocolate Flavour
 * 14) Any chance colonoscopy can be replaced?
 * 15) Can you identify this bug?
 * 16) Air composition
 * 17) What is this called?
 * 18) Anabolism in Heterotrophs
 * 19) Eggs (the kind in a woman's body)
 * 20) hedron
 * 21) help
 * 22) stocking ground
 * 23) Confused about transformers.
 * 24) HIV and RNA

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 25


 * 1) Kaposi sarcoma
 * 2) Time machine coin strory
 * 3) What is this boat.
 * 4) lipids
 * 5) Mixture of gases
 * 6) Coffee Stain
 * 7) Was gentian violet ever a commonly used antiseptic in the U.S?
 * 8) Hippo teeth
 * 9) Membrane fluidity. What is it good for?
 * 10) mental and cognitive development
 * 11) Gravitys effect on radioactive decay
 * 12) DNA stability vs. RNA
 * 13) Radioactive Mercury
 * 14) NaBH4 versus LiAlH4

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 26


 * 1) Does acid hydration work with enones?
 * 2) short snooze hunched over, always wake up with tremendous amounts of gas in my stomach
 * 3) Girls born first
 * 4) plant viruses.
 * 5) Jones oxidation to COOH
 * 6) In theory
 * 7) Titan or Mars
 * 8) Strong interaction and distance
 * 9) over population control
 * 10)  ascetic acetic acid
 * 11) 2,3 bond rotation in diacetyl
 * 12) Bacterium and damage
 * 13) Magnetic Resonance
 * 14) heat reflection of CD/DVD
 * 15) Eyesight in animals
 * 16) Winter view
 * 17) Years of college
 * 18) Manganese
 * 19) Human subspecies

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 27


 * 1) QED
 * 2) Special Relitivity
 * 3) Underdamped Harmonic Oscillator
 * 4) GMO hemp
 * 5) Tsar Bomba
 * 6) spin forbidden versus classically forbidden
 * 7) Black worms with antenna???
 * 8) disaster preparesdness
 * 9) Make up of the Brain
 * 10) destuctive interference
 * 11) Why do most humans grimace when they're straining themselves?
 * 12) Atherothrombotic Cerebral Infarction
 * 13) Triceratops And Their Frills (And Also Stegosaurus)
 * 14) Mad Chicken Disease?
 * 15) code of silence
 * 16) GVO pigmentation
 * 17) chemistry
 * 18) space expands faster than light
 * 19) What sort of medical data is stochastic?
 * 20) Francium in water

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 28


 * 1) Food safety question
 * 2) Voice differences between blondes and brunettes
 * 3) plz help fft plots
 * 4) Hard drive for archiving video?
 * 5) maximum frequency infinite or not?
 * 6) Maillard Reaction in Pasta Production
 * 7) Why ozone is over antartica?
 * 8) Electron configurations of rhodium and tungsten
 * 9) Spectroscopy
 * 10) Planets shrinking
 * 11) IR spectrum of benzophenone
 * 12) Are we Europeans all Jewish?
 * 13) Maillard reaction creates acrylamide?
 * 14) Icons of Evolution
 * 15) Saturn V versus Ares rocket: Reinventing the wheel.
 * 16) tiredness

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 29


 * 1) Effect of smokeless tobacco on dental health
 * 2) Human Hearing Range in Nature
 * 3) Counter circuit Photo-Electric Beams
 * 4) Raisin aversion
 * 5) Earth spinning
 * 6) How many buildings 2 story and above are there in the U.S.A.
 * 7) Glycogen Storage in Human Muscle Cells
 * 8) Ladybirds hibernating

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 30


 * 1) Collar-size of the woolly mammoth
 * 2) Knee injury test
 * 3) Jumping on concrete versus sand
 * 4) The Verity Incident
 * 5) If I were small enough could I observe an atom?
 * 6) Small populations sizes and genetic mutations
 * 7) Flu vs. other diseases
 * 8) Tramadol expiry dates

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 October 31


 * 1) Foreign accent syndrome and stroke recovery
 * 2) Increasing the size of the human penis?
 * 3) Nifty Propulsion Device
 * 4) Dry friction
 * 5) Area dependency of friction
 * 6) A noise meter to measure outdoor road noise pollution in the UK?
 * 7) Cicely of Oxford Royal Physician
 * 8) Epidermal growth factor
 * 9) Hydrocephalus
 * 10) Sounds of a Teaspoon in a Mug of Milk?