Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2017

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 1


 * 1) CO2 fire extinguisher vs. burning office cubicle
 * 2) Mars in 2024

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 2


 * 1) Earaches
 * 2) Applying coloured print to silicone?
 * 3) Article on pubmed
 * 4) Get h without h20

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 3


 * 1) More firefighting Q's...
 * 2) Efficiency of jet engine
 * 3) How does the Portuguese man o' war eat
 * 4) Complex roots by numerical methods
 * 5) Refilling Glycogen Stores
 * 6) Anti-biotics questions.
 * 7) Big science equipment - rolled on wooden trunks?
 * 8) Atmosphere and gravity

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 4


 * 1) Website showing heavens appearance at a given date
 * 2) Muscle and liver glycogen, which refills first?

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 5


 * 1) What is this thing?
 * 2) Slide-fire adapter

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 6


 * 1) Can electron quantum tunnel out of a black hole?
 * 2) Limit of temperature generated by electricity
 * 3) Global warming
 * 4) Is there a wikipedia article debunking the "Never Adjust for Curvature of Earth" claim of Flat Earth?
 * 5) Name of 'Bill Gates just walked in the room effect'
 * 6) Skin moisturizer as universal solvent ?
 * 7) Conductive fingernail decoration strip?
 * 8) Salmon
 * 9) Those human-looking robots

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 7


 * 1) Are pumice stones a rational response to a callus?
 * 2) Electric powering a vehicle through induction
 * 3) "Chemtrails"
 * 4) Why not re-attach the kidney?

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 8


 * 1) FLAT EARTHER speaks the truth
 * 2) The equations of dynamical systems in our physical theories
 * 3) Nose blindness
 * 4) Toothache becoming pulmonary problems

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 9


 * 1) How much effect do humans have on tides, wind, Earth's rotation and the Moon's position?
 * 2) Conservation of energy
 * 3) How exactly are populations calculated by the minutiae?
 * 4) Immunity against viruses by changing the way DNA sequences code to proteins and changing the DNA code so that the same proteins are produced?

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 10


 * 1) Largest Snake
 * 2) Battery

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 11


 * 1) Cosmic-ray-based random-number generation?
 * 2) Reconstructing TV

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 12


 * 1) Detecting a primitive alien civilization
 * 2) Understanding physics formula intuitively
 * 3) Vertebral column in the center
 * 4) Evolution
 * 5) Protein

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 13


 * 1) instead of alpha decay or beta decay, why doesn't there also exist decays by a proton and a neutrino, or by a neutron and a neutrino happen?
 * 2) What's the highest sulfur fossil fuel ever made?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 14


 * 1) Schroedinger's mathematician
 * 2) colds and endogenous opiates

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 15


 * 1) Confirmation of Special relativity

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 16


 * 1) Holographic interactions

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 17


 * 1) Kilonova and superheavy elements
 * 2) Moving from warfarin to heparin + surgery
 * 3) Clean air in the UK
 * 4) Voltage drop
 * 5) Flu vaccine and disease prevention (US vs. Europe)
 * 6) How many grams of food caused each gram of blattella germanica in a someone's home?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 18


 * 1) How (un)likely are these science fiction inventions to ever exist in this universe?
 * 2) Elliptical Orbit of planets
 * 3) Pitch-drop experiment and scientific method
 * 4) Is cosmic deflation possible, etc
 * 5) Infrastructure civil engineering

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 19


 * 1) Science and translating ideas into English
 * 2) Does the human body store salt?
 * 3) Fatty-acid metabolism disorder
 * 4) Unidentified bird
 * 5) Immune System

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 20


 * 1) What is a "nucleated brain"?
 * 2) Death toll due to anti-vaccin movement

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 21


 * 1) Ternary ideal mixture obtained from non-ideal binaries

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 22


 * 1) How does a battery powered pendulum work?
 * 2) Suitable conduit for conveyance of steam from kettle

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 23


 * 1) Do old farts dream of flying insects?
 * 2) "Fun science" for kids using a laser pointer
 * 3) Reason for large difference in pyrethrin solubility due to a methyl group
 * 4) Gull intelligence

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 24


 * 1) Source of elements
 * 2) Closed Room and extinguishing fire with halon

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 25


 * 1) Is it possible to see Philadelphia from New York City?
 * 2) Question about gravity assists and space probes
 * 3) Hellenistic astrology
 * 4) Vertebrate intelligence

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 26


 * 1) Lead leaching out of metal
 * 2) Mass to the Moon
 * 3) Hydraulic motors

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 27


 * 1) Zero living diet

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 28


 * 1) How many N-receptors are there (2 or 3?)
 * 2) Physical exertion causing rheumatism
 * 3) Time for Wow signal to reach Earth

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 29


 * 1) E-Z notation: why not just use "cis" and "trans" as infixes?
 * 2) J. E. Hogarth

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 30


 * 1) Locomotive efficiency
 * 2) Zero Living Diet Pt2
 * 3) Moist sodium chloride density data
 * 4) What's the average or median tidal range of the coast of the World Ocean?
 * 5) Finding Voyager 1 goes dark

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 31


 * 1) Math used in doctoral-level natural sciences
 * 2) Molecular Summary Table
 * 3) IEC standards list