Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2006

= September 1 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 1
 * 1) nature cure
 * 2) Unknown green insect
 * 3) Hoodia Gordonii
 * 4) neutron star
 * 5) medical
 * 6) Difference between PRECISION & ACURRACY?
 * 7) Cattle in a feedlot
 * 8) Acetone as an additive for gas and diesel?
 * 9) genetics
 * 10) Article in Dec 2000 Cleo
 * 11) potentiometer
 * 12) mosquito
 * 13) Petrol additives
 * 14) World spin
 * 15) Zoosex
 * 16) Citric Acid
 * 17) Moon moons ?
 * 18) Private Hospitals in Altanta, Georgia in existence 1967
 * 19) Free software to make contour maps from spot heights?

= September 2 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 2
 * 1) Self CPR
 * 2) Viral Marketing
 * 3) When was redial invented?
 * 4) Karl von Goebel
 * 5) refrigerator vs. environment
 * 6) Seminar report
 * 7) Memory Metal for Cars?
 * 8) Special relativity
 * 9) 'Moving' source, 'stationary' observer
 * 10) 'Stationary' source, 'moving' observer
 * 11) An easier answer (or so I hope)
 * 12) Infinitly improbable events in infinite time
 * 13) Iron
 * 14) Quite simple
 * 15) Northern Cardinal question
 * 16) sun slowing down

= September 3 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 3
 * 1) Genetic Engineering's impact on Plant Biodiversity
 * 2) Interstellar travel
 * 3) Product Success
 * 4) rubella virus
 * 5) Time dimensions
 * 6) Weird sky
 * 7) Fat or Muscle?
 * 8) Insect
 * 9) Circumstances for watching polarized light
 * 10) STI's
 * 11) HSV 2\HSV-2
 * 12) Why does this edible oil mixture taste bitter?
 * 13) Bicycle seatpost has rusted into frame
 * 14) complex carbohydrates
 * 15) Slow decrease in weight at sub orbital velocities
 * 16) Nikon D70 question
 * 17) Spiral path of a Hawk
 * 18) drawing molecules
 * 19) 600/1000V
 * 20) Question about getting fluids Intravenously
 * 21) TFTs v CRTs
 * 22) Fructose - how much is too much?

= September 4 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 4
 * 1) Just been reading about SMART-1
 * 2) Beer-- why is it fattening?
 * 3) War between humans and another species on another planet in the solar system?
 * 4) Abingdon Island tortoise
 * 5) Tracking down original references
 * 6) Scientist - Enrico Fermi
 * 7) 3d effects
 * 8) MAGLEV
 * 9) Black-holes
 * 10) bio project question
 * 11) i want to be adoctor
 * 12) Death of Jupiter
 * 13) rubella virus
 * 14) Editing problem?
 * 15) How do the unintelligent think?
 * 16) Apples and Saliva
 * 17) How natural cherry flavor is made
 * 18) How does human body maintain ph?

= September 5 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 5
 * 1) Discovering an alien probe
 * 2) separation of chemical compounds
 * 3) California Moss Genus/Species
 * 4) satellite imagery maps
 * 5) Do you smell burning toast?
 * 6) burnt toast
 * 7) Blindness and circadian rhythm
 * 8) Mantle
 * 9) Small writing - should it be allowed?
 * 10) Is it Bad to run PC without proper Earth supply?
 * 11) Memory and aging
 * 12) Phloretin, phloridzin
 * 13) How processors work ?
 * 14) Smelling things that aren't there
 * 15) Plane speed
 * 16) Keep your bowels fit?
 * 17) How does retinol kill?
 * 18) request for location of manuals and papers
 * 19) backlog?
 * 20) Gourami identification needed
 * 21) Simple Law of Motion Question
 * 22) Strange insect identification
 * 23) Construction of Light Emiting Diodes (LEDs)
 * 24) what kind of mirror has best reflection of visible light ?
 * 25) What would happen
 * 26) genetically modified foods
 * 27) What is the process of liqiudizing Oxygen?
 * 28) Reference voltage for decibel measurement
 * 29) canine dental

= September 6 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 6
 * 1) Ejaculation
 * 2) Mouthwash, alcohol, toxicity, &c.
 * 3) Genetic Gender
 * 4) Sleep
 * 5) Sn1&Sn2 Reactions
 * 6) A car for $1
 * 7) yDNA Mutation Rates
 * 8) Recognize this optimization problem?
 * 9) Dogs and people
 * 10) William Gray (Meteorologist)
 * 11) Trying to get glasses

= September 7 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 7
 * 1) Value of chemical elements
 * 2) Weight versus elevation.
 * 3) Carbon dioxide
 * 4) pray mantis
 * 5) Water Ananlysis
 * 6) Cyclone/Tornado
 * 7) Molecule Diagrams
 * 8) donations to medical science
 * 9) Why [is] glass transparent?
 * 10) Sailors' Dead Winds
 * 11) Handwashing
 * 12) Portal to define pictures of plants or animals
 * 13) Kuiper belt
 * 14) One lung breathing
 * 15) Can guinea pigs eat lettuce?
 * 16) How can I, as a white man get natty dreadlocks without having to pay for them?
 * 17) Sodium vs sodium chloride in foods
 * 18) Follow up
 * 19) Mutism

= September 8 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 8
 * 1) How large are the Mars rovers?
 * 2) Useful fictions inside of science
 * 3) Help to identify spider
 * 4) diabetes in cats
 * 5) ribose sugar
 * 6) Paraffin lanterns & alcohol
 * 7) Burn!!
 * 8) Aldol Compound
 * 9) American passenger rail profitability
 * 10) grasshopper
 * 11) Length of Time To Circumnavigate Globe

= September 9 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 9
 * 1) Sandalwood characteristics
 * 2) Mechanism of thermoception
 * 3) Dangerous Combination?
 * 4) Physics problem - not homework
 * 5) cholesterol reducing spreads.
 * 6) Flash cubes
 * 7) clicking rat
 * 8) SI unit
 * 9) Is it possible to see the change history of a definition
 * 10) Copper tubing
 * 11) West Nile Virus
 * 12) heating my house
 * 13) Rats wanting to be held
 * 14) LED usage
 * 15) Eye burns
 * 16) EMP's

= September 10 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 10
 * 1) Insect Costa Rica
 * 2) What do snake eggs look like?
 * 3) Salty Fish
 * 4) How do I tell the difference between male and female gulls?
 * 5) SPSS graph
 * 6) Songs that break music theory rules
 * 7) Interior Plains of the United States
 * 8) irrigation engineering
 * 9) dynamic hermaphroditism
 * 10) Cell phone batteries
 * 11) An amp's power consumption
 * 12) gravitational waves and propulsion
 * 13) We're out of transcluded pages
 * 14) Sexual Advice
 * 15) Curvature of space and time
 * 16) Direct gene transfer using PEG and Calcium chloride
 * 17) Helium Balloon questions
 * 18) Question about Sinusitis
 * 19) What is insect hair largely composed of?
 * 20) How to tell if watermelons are ready to harvest?
 * 21) Are full moons always in the east?
 * 22) Chocolate allergy?
 * 23) Satallites in orbit
 * 24) Is this how to convert moles to grams?
 * 25) Real Talking Animals
 * 26) what plant is this
 * 27) copyright, publication, volumes, and authors

= September 11 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 11
 * 1) Identifying mission patches
 * 2) The ship in the movie Virus?
 * 3) Microscope Eyes
 * 4) the famous salt problem
 * 5) Time to freeze water?
 * 6) olympic and islam
 * 7) Why did nobody die of a heart attack before 1923?
 * 8) satellites
 * 9) Deceleration
 * 10) Tfl Oyster system
 * 11) .flv
 * 12) Solution of vessels
 * 13) Need full citation for Gibbard and Kolfschoten chapter (glaciation timeline ref)
 * 14) Portal Paradoxes
 * 15) 700ml liquor + sertraline
 * 16) amyloid beta
 * 17) Highly enriched Uranium
 * 18) Critical mass of U235
 * 19) Instantaneous Speed
 * 20) further gravitational wave questions
 * 21) Robert Boyle

= September 12 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 12
 * 1) Organ Transplant...
 * 2) Sinusitis
 * 3) What did I see on September 10?
 * 4) I want to know that .....
 * 5) Conversion of units
 * 6) Construction
 * 7) Water
 * 8) toilet flushing on the equator
 * 9) Bird's Sight
 * 10) Elasticity
 * 11) Acrylamide in sultanas and other dried fruits
 * 12) Myocardium (heart muscles)
 * 13) Inertia
 * 14) Newton's laws
 * 15) velocity
 * 16) Inorganic Chemistry
 * 17) Question about energy states / emission spectrum of hydrogen
 * 18) "Cause of Death"
 * 19) Io MOTH
 * 20) PSS World Medical
 * 21) Stroking a parrot?
 * 22) Getting my head shaved - pros and cons?
 * 23) Small bass cab

= September 13 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 13
 * 1) Blood-brain barrier
 * 2) How do you define Pica?
 * 3) Psychology and Human Viruses
 * 4) Sinusitis vs. Migraines
 * 5) Preserve human tissues
 * 6) 'Sulfisomezole Sodium'
 * 7) Why isn't a Kerr ring singularity a string?
 * 8) science
 * 9) How thumb drive work?
 * 10) Circular motion
 * 11) Questionable stuff in Endoplasmic reticulum
 * 12) Gold-xenon compound
 * 13) Bacteria question
 * 14) dna
 * 15) Woman/man physiological difference in body structure and movement
 * 16) photo review
 * 17) Help with Science Fair Project Topic
 * 18) KW Vs HP

= September 14 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 14
 * 1) The Rooster of Bankiva?
 * 2) Northern Hemishere
 * 3) Speed Of Light
 * 4) Eye exercises
 * 5) Gravitational pull between moving objects
 * 6) Sulphur
 * 7) earth science
 * 8) Housefly
 * 9) Fordson tractor
 * 10) Is this a Dracaena?
 * 11) looking for medical word ...
 * 12) Colours
 * 13) Expanding universe
 * 14) brain disorder

= September 15 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 15
 * 1) To the ends of spacetime itself!
 * 2) Why is glass clear?
 * 3) Drinking Electrolyzed Baking-soda Solution
 * 4) Battery Capacity
 * 5) Computer Software
 * 6) ppDDT and opDDT
 * 7) diet coke.
 * 8) Digital camera image size ratio
 * 9) Aspect ratio of pictures etc
 * 10) Impregnating the female population of Europe
 * 11) msin i
 * 12) Cystic Fibrosis
 * 13) mesotechnology
 * 14) vitamins and supplements
 * 15) Seagulls and slightly past-the-date sausages?
 * 16) Recharging NiMH batteries
 * 17) Brille, plural
 * 18) Global Warming: ice core question
 * 19) Coins
 * 20) momentum transfer and air molecules

= September 16 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 16
 * 1) Gull
 * 2) Onions going green
 * 3) How to Build a Catapult
 * 4) Effects of using spent perlite as soil conditioner to improve yield of corn
 * 5) Black Rain
 * 6) we have heard of 2, 4 , 8 , 16 , 32 and 64 bit processors .why not there any processor that is of odd bit number?
 * 7) help me to know more about the colour of the urine
 * 8) lexapro
 * 9) Luminosity
 * 10) Weird strings during nuclear explosions
 * 11) name of species - or common name
 * 12) On Glass Cleaners, Ammonia.
 * 13) Cancer stats
 * 14) Psychopathy prevalence
 * 15) Project management
 * 16) Micro-climate in Nigerian houses
 * 17) ABS with a manual transmission?
 * 18) histologia

= September 17 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 17
 * 1) Geochemistry of ultrabasics.
 * 2) Lactic Acid in Yogurt
 * 3) How does radar work?
 * 4) Chemical, Molecular, and DNA Computers
 * 5) Kids, help
 * 6) energy
 * 7) Time
 * 8) twin paradox - curved space?
 * 9) Do animals prefer raw or cooked food, and can evolution cope with cooking?
 * 10) Speed of Radio
 * 11) Faster than light???
 * 12) Tree identification
 * 13) Burmese Python
 * 14) Fact check me?
 * 15) DAB Broadcast Range

= September 18 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 18
 * 1) Future of plant genetic engineering
 * 2) Turpentine
 * 3) Metals, non-metals, and semi-metals
 * 4) distinguish between network bridge,repeaters,routers,ethernet hub,bluetooth and gateways?
 * 5) Questions about allergies
 * 6) Fishy coincidence
 * 7) Flies
 * 8) indium oxide
 * 9) spot goo
 * 10) SOLAR PANEL PROJECT
 * 11) egg drop
 * 12) Speech to text conversion
 * 13) ID Card size
 * 14) Hot and Cold as Sensations...
 * 15) Solvents
 * 16) watts into kwh
 * 17) butterflies
 * 18) Why Do Men Have Nipples?
 * 19) Info on an american polar-expedition...
 * 20) fluid behind our cats ears

= September 19 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 19
 * 1) Work, lifting vs walking - 7th Grade Physics
 * 2) Tylenol Overdose
 * 3) MPTP article image
 * 4) Freezing to death
 * 5) Space travel
 * 6) Global Warming/ Ozone layer
 * 7) Perspective viewpoint
 * 8) Magma
 * 9) Fidel Castro's eyes
 * 10) the magnetic field can effect to FO ( mazut oil) using in burner
 * 11) Contact glue
 * 12) Rows of teeth...
 * 13) Ear Throat connection - Eustachian Tube
 * 14) Gold reacting with Mercury
 * 15) Satellite
 * 16) laws of motion
 * 17) "Protein molecules of the ninth configuration?"
 * 18) Science Projects on the Titanic
 * 19) redox reaction help
 * 20) car

= September 20 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 20
 * 1) Health Care Supply in Canada 12 years ago and today
 * 2) Breast removal
 * 3) about non watson and crick base pairing
 * 4) Can you prove existance of colors if you can only see B/W?
 * 5) Surface area of a pin
 * 6) Piano tuners
 * 7) What kind of bug is this?
 * 8) Energy when cycling
 * 9) Glycemic response
 * 10) a question about seed
 * 11) ANSWERED -> Capacitance Time Delay Circuit
 * 12) A Question Of Bread
 * 13) Water window ph4 - ph 9
 * 14) Micrometeorites and radiation
 * 15) Em momentum transfer
 * 16) Basic Law of Electrostatics
 * 17) Human evolution
 * 18) Sound waves and momentum transfer
 * 19) Has anyone ever held a seagull?
 * 20) Calling The Future

= September 21 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 21
 * 1) Hurricanes and Tropical Storms in Europe
 * 2) Rubbing Alcohol and Blindness?
 * 3) Shape and Finish of granite rocks in Texas Canyon in Arizona
 * 4) Antimatter
 * 5) Do herons swim?
 * 6) matter
 * 7) Copper sulfate
 * 8) Hepatitis?
 * 9) shark's name
 * 10) empirical formula
 * 11) Advantages of skimmed milk?
 * 12) Point light displays
 * 13) unidentified insect, need help
 * 14) Milk --> cheese?

= September 22 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 22
 * 1) Animal Respotory System
 * 2) Worms
 * 3) Does it?
 * 4) Do Bugs "Hybernate"?
 * 5) M>S in Engineering from your University
 * 6) genetics
 * 7) What is the word that means 'linking a memory to a smell'?
 * 8) Thermometers
 * 9) Is fire plasma?
 * 10) conception/ovulation
 * 11) ID Card size2
 * 12) Submarine Periscopes
 * 13) Involuntary/Voluntary memory
 * 14) Blood Physiology
 * 15) Do gulls swim?
 * 16) AIDS after WWII in Europe
 * 17) Battery life
 * 18) light acting as waves
 * 19) Limestone vs Siltstone for aggregate
 * 20) Is it possible for a man to have multiple penises?

= September 23 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 23
 * 1) Fate of the Universe
 * 2) Covering answers on a worksheet
 * 3) Science Question
 * 4) Sliding...erm, thing (physics)
 * 5) Potential energy and mass
 * 6) Center pivot irrigation
 * 7) Nostrils--how long and why?
 * 8) Why does some hair stop growing at a certain length?
 * 9) Nuclear fusion in stars - iron
 * 10) Order of magnitude values
 * 11) User:Molecular Hamiltonian/monobook.js
 * 12) maps

= September 24 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 24
 * 1) Landmines in films
 * 2) Gulls vs. Magpies - update
 * 3) Energy Needed
 * 4) Bath oils
 * 5) Urinate
 * 6) air conditioners
 * 7) Emphysema
 * 8) Diffusion & Concentraton
 * 9) Selectively-permeable membrane
 * 10) Chemical composition of wine
 * 11) Thin Layer Chromatography
 * 12) dc or ac?
 * 13) pyrex comosition
 * 14) cell biology: cytolysis vs. plasmolysis
 * 15) Managed Care
 * 16) Thermodynamics
 * 17) copper
 * 18) Why do I have so much trouble picking up women in bars?
 * 19) static and dynamic lung volumes
 * 20) plasma (4th type of matter)
 * 21) A source for bimetal strip coils
 * 22) Castrated ejaculation?
 * 23) Treatment of MCAD

= September 25 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 25
 * 1) Aeroplane advertising
 * 2) Very high SPLs at bass frequencies
 * 3) Force Dynamics
 * 4) Relativity theory
 * 5) Engine behaviour (with film)
 * 6) Past experiences effecting future perception - psych reference wanted
 * 7) Creation week (moved from misc)
 * 8) Electrical resistance caused by gravity
 * 9) permethrin as it relates to sulfa
 * 10) Fresh frozen plasma (FFP)
 * 11) Pressure lost from air flowing through a pipe
 * 12) why does me knee go crack
 * 13) Adventurist Theory
 * 14) Most radioactive element

= September 26 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 26
 * 1) Gasoline and Fire
 * 2) Down-grading of serotonin receptors-prevention
 * 3) Palpitations
 * 4) My heart (nearly) stood still (Rodgers & Hart)
 * 5) Progress statement #1
 * 6) Progress statement #2
 * 7) Flu vaccines
 * 8) Heart muscle
 * 9) Speeding up iron oxidation
 * 10) Liver transplant
 * 11) Silver cars are safer
 * 12) Climate Change
 * 13) Examples
 * 14) References and footnotes
 * 15) Appearance of lights when short-sighted
 * 16) Psychology question: name of syndrome
 * 17) Vision at speed of light
 * 18) Movement at the speed of light and beyond it.
 * 19) Cellphones and Cancer?
 * 20) How long is a moment
 * 21) Brain injury
 * 22) Oh god, not another speed of light question... :(
 * 23) Climate Change and the speed of light
 * 24) Hmmm....
 * 25) Speed of light =)

= September 27 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 27
 * 1) Destroying the earth with high speed object...
 * 2) Pseudoscience
 * 3) How many digits of pi for the known universe?
 * 4) What pressure is Hydrogen stored at?
 * 5) Answered
 * 6) natural bleach source
 * 7) earths motions
 * 8) Tarsola
 * 9) Medical
 * 10) Solar wind/Gamma rays
 * 11) do you metabolize trans fats?
 * 12) Relativity-: Theory, hypothesis ,conjecture or philosophy?
 * 13) spirulina
 * 14) velocity
 * 15) Speed of light
 * 16) Negative Kelvin Temperatures?
 * 17) belostomatidae or giant water bug (or beetle)
 * 18) Wetness
 * 19) When the sun goes red giant...
 * 20) Brown noise
 * 21) How many humans have ever lived?
 * 22) Where are the "Fulcher bands"?

= September 28 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 28
 * 1) Corynebacterium and sweat
 * 2) Edible glowing things
 * 3) Gender??
 * 4) Wrist
 * 5) Largest Dinosaurs
 * 6) Null-G Manufacturing?
 * 7) pathology
 * 8) Lactose and blood glucose
 * 9) Cold and Flu viruses
 * 10) glutamine
 * 11) white oak tree
 * 12) Speed of molecules
 * 13) Increasing the volume of my ejaculations?
 * 14) NMR Spectroscopy
 * 15) Ringtones

= September 29 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 29
 * 1) magnetic north
 * 2) leptin???
 * 3) Rib Removal: 11th and 12th: Why?
 * 4) Albratrosses and gulls
 * 5) Daleks vs Magpies vs Gulls
 * 6) Nuclear density
 * 7) Nuclear Fusion
 * 8) Case of the Missing Printhead
 * 9) Bathing after meals
 * 10) How much pot is too much?
 * 11) Largest sensor size in compact digital cameras
 * 12) top of the world?

= September 30 = Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 30
 * 1) Singing parrots?
 * 2) STAFFING A POLITICAL LEADERS OFFICE
 * 3) Farrukh (nursing and heart transplants)
 * 4) Electrical power
 * 5) illness
 * 6) Nutritionist
 * 7) Aircraft Turbulence
 * 8) Chemistry Help
 * 9) Trouble Identifying Cactus
 * 10) Simple AC circuit?
 * 11) Kinetic energy's dissipation in vacuum
 * 12) Moving charge
 * 13) Steering trams
 * 14) How much sleep
 * 15) Valium + caffeine: Why does it make me feel like Jesus' son?