Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2007

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 1


 * 1) Solubility of Tri n_Butyl Amine in Di Chloro Methane (MDC)
 * 2) Flight in young birds - instinct or acquired skill?
 * 3) Difference between a transactivator and an transcription factor?
 * 4) Rockhounding
 * 5) horsepower
 * 6) Discussing Evolution with a Friend...
 * 7) Why do 'flammable' and 'inflammable' mean the same thing?

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 2


 * 1) Epicycles and Fractals
 * 2) General Principles of Relativity Cant be Applied to light, Why ?
 * 3) How quickly does a fixed point in space move?
 * 4) Insane crossword question driving me crazy
 * 5) Drink mixing
 * 6) Timber shipping Markings
 * 7) Food Science Term
 * 8) Interest in fuels from tree sap or resin
 * 9) Staying up late
 * 10) pressure calculation

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 3


 * 1) Localized buckling
 * 2) Numbness in foot
 * 3) Amalgam Illness
 * 4) Entomology Question: Identifying Insects
 * 5) Pepper remains in the system for about 7 years...
 * 6) Eucalyptus as a source of gun powder
 * 7) Contaminating Water Supplies
 * 8) Picture
 * 9) Speed of Butterfly
 * 10) How could  cat kill a rabbit?
 * 11) Boxes under a Spitfire's wing
 * 12) atoms
 * 13) Appearance of computer screens on television
 * 14) Moon Visible Daytime
 * 15) The axle and wheel

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 4


 * 1) Atkins diet and neuroglycopenia
 * 2) Ice and Hydrogen Bonding
 * 3) Roche limit
 * 4) Biking in the Rain
 * 5) needing to know what kind of spider i have found.????
 * 6) Kinematics formula
 * 7) softwood shipping markings
 * 8) Sutherland's constant
 * 9) Charon ?
 * 10) Psychologist >>> Physician
 * 11) Frequency
 * 12) meaning of convected in vortex dynamics
 * 13) Weather Systems?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 5


 * 1) measuring mass
 * 2) Science Project
 * 3) What is this creepy crawler?
 * 4) Heat exchangers
 * 5) what is the capital of singapore?
 * 6) Genetics
 * 7) Exlpoding Paste
 * 8) How hot is it?
 * 9) Headphones - left and right?
 * 10) How flaps reduse noise
 * 11) physiology fluid balance
 * 12) Deviation from relativistic mass for high energy particles
 * 13) Gene database question
 * 14) WIKIPEDIA SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
 * 15) Schrodinger Equation
 * 16) SOLAR POWER IMPLEMENTATION IN SINGLE DWELLINGS
 * 17) What's up with the ElectroMagnetic Frequency, Kenneth?
 * 18) Names of Sun and Moon
 * 19) vitamins
 * 20) Can you keep a Kea as a pet?
 * 21) Bacteria that form structures?
 * 22) Scientific Method
 * 23) Naked Ear

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 6


 * 1) Shaving when stressed?
 * 2) Manufacture of Synthetic Diamonds, Plasma TV Displays and Plasma Air Conditioners
 * 3) Water flow resistence
 * 4) Bones
 * 5) Wireless Communication
 * 6) Brown specks in irises
 * 7) Orphahed clone
 * 8) Wave Structure of Matter
 * 9) Molecular recognition
 * 10) Mendelian tetrahybrid cross ratio
 * 11) Deserts around the Mediterranean due to global warming?
 * 12) Do eyeballs really not grow?
 * 13) Pancreatic cancer

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 7


 * 1) Creating a three dimensional display with diffraction patterns and coherent light
 * 2) Chickens
 * 3) iPod playlist randomization
 * 4) Moon Phases
 * 5) Elastic Behaviour in Polymers
 * 6) Entomologist needed; weird bug in my room!
 * 7) Pathogens in flower vase water??
 * 8) Identify this waterborne organism
 * 9) Can bamboo be grafted while growing?
 * 10) Why do spiders hang upside down in their webs?
 * 11) A theory for the origin and purpose of dark matter and energy. Could it be true?
 * 12) BF Skinner
 * 13) How much plutonium
 * 14) Global Warming Real Estate Speculations

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 8


 * 1) adrenal insufficiency
 * 2) Identifying slug like creature
 * 3) mobiles- radio access
 * 4) Brain IQ
 * 5) Heaty food?
 * 6) Sunrise vs. Sunset
 * 7) General Relativity
 * 8) Light as a wave
 * 9) Bicuspid valve
 * 10) hydrocodone vs.oxycodone

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 9


 * 1) Angioplasty vs. Thrombolytics
 * 2) Ozone cleaner
 * 3) Detection of Maltose
 * 4) Seeing the future
 * 5) wave ball
 * 6) Sensation of Vertigo
 * 7) "Natural genetic engineering"
 * 8) Softwood shipping Grade Markings
 * 9) Creatine and Body Fat Percentage
 * 10) dietary supplement

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 10


 * 1) Problem with Video Divs on the Reference Desk
 * 2) Can you kill yourself with a knife
 * 3) aircraft weapons
 * 4) Shotgun speaker
 * 5) urgent  biology question
 * 6) How many times has flight evolved?
 * 7) which is the largest flower?
 * 8) what is the phenolics of lemon grass
 * 9) Distance travelled by the Space Shuttle
 * 10) Roundness
 * 11) downloading something to a persons brain
 * 12) Communicating with animals ??
 * 13) Cloning Machine ?
 * 14) Acid rain effect on churches
 * 15) Can changes in proportions of oxygen in our atmosphere affect combustion?
 * 16) electronics and communication
 * 17) Gray Hair
 * 18) MEDICAL  EDUCATION  IN  CUBA
 * 19) Douglas-fir in Europe
 * 20) Cells
 * 21) beaver diet
 * 22) Date of Death
 * 23) Psychology

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 11


 * 1) Lift/Drag/Thrust/Weight Diagram
 * 2) Holes in Cheese
 * 3) Illness causing hair loss
 * 4) Incidence of brain tumours
 * 5) Birthrate skewed towards males?
 * 6) Relative size of the sun
 * 7) Determine the voltage/current for random LEDs
 * 8) What's this called?
 * 9) Rear Facing Missiles
 * 10) Water to burn

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 12


 * 1) White bread - is it bad for the gulls?
 * 2) a wild and crazy question
 * 3) Embarrassingly simple work question
 * 4) microorganisms
 * 5) Measure of temperatures
 * 6) GPS TIME SYNCH
 * 7) About Sinter & Pellet (copied from Village Pump (technical))
 * 8) Stupid question about light reflection.
 * 9) Airspray
 * 10) transistor
 * 11) Coprolalia - How does person learn the obscenes words?
 * 12) Seal identification
 * 13) Regeneration of limbs
 * 14) terms related to livestock management (Spanish translation)
 * 15) Genetic Relatedness of the Human Species?

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 13


 * 1) The Body's Capacity & Ability To Die
 * 2) Murder Victim's Multiple Stab Wounds
 * 3) Imported energy
 * 4) pneumonia vaccine
 * 5) Molar Mass of a Specific Substance
 * 6) Strength of chicken egg shells
 * 7) mms thru orkut!
 * 8) Weird bug
 * 9) Breaking locks
 * 10) sex
 * 11) Corpus Cawhatum?
 * 12) Two questions
 * 13) If you're a space artist ...
 * 14) Pain
 * 15) Tomato and Plastic.

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 14


 * 1) living forever
 * 2) climatology
 * 3) Accurate orrery
 * 4) Energy level of photon.
 * 5) Snowy Tree Crickets.
 * 6) science
 * 7) Type II supernovae
 * 8) iguanas
 * 9) US PATENT
 * 10) Why do cells divide?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 15


 * 1) Green
 * 2) answer details please.
 * 3) Featured picture: Milky way
 * 4) meaning of organic cloths
 * 5) Science:  Neptune  Plant
 * 6) A few questions about distilling
 * 7) What city is Near the pipeline bridge over the Yukon River?
 * 8) Measuring SigFigs
 * 9) Scientific method
 * 10) What is the difference between monomer and polymer carbohydrates?
 * 11) Circular oscilloscope time base
 * 12) Heart palpitations

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 16


 * 1) Carbon based fossil fuel
 * 2) Delicious but dangerous
 * 3) Fusing vertebrae
 * 4) Re:The Sun and Moon
 * 5) Relative Age of Races
 * 6) Dacryocystorhinostomy in the UK
 * 7) Science blog
 * 8) Radio brightness of this or other earths
 * 9) The colour of Light
 * 10) And Energy, too
 * 11) Ozone effects
 * 12) Diagram

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 17


 * 1) Recycling plants
 * 2) Rotating liquids
 * 3) looking for the name of something
 * 4) Could science genetically engineer an organism which can survive for extended periods of time in outer space?
 * 5) double acting gasoline engines
 * 6) "violotion" of law of conservation of energy ?
 * 7) Field Maple
 * 8) Heron
 * 9) aerodynamics
 * 10) Symmetry
 * 11) Naming of electronic components
 * 12) railway semaphores
 * 13) Mama seagull - will she recognise her own offspring?
 * 14) steam engine advantages at high altitude
 * 15) Freaking out. (Bio/Med Q.)
 * 16) Cosmological Redshift and the conservation of energy
 * 17) Understanding Motion
 * 18) Comparator input capacitance

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 18


 * 1) soil conservation
 * 2) Fuzzy Logic
 * 3) Adjusting to high altitude
 * 4) Suspension of Disbelief
 * 5) Methanol poisoning
 * 6) Breast size
 * 7) Daisies and temperature
 * 8) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 18
 * 9) Treating methanol poisoning with IV vodka/whiskey?
 * 10) Batteries
 * 11) Iris Color Change
 * 12) Want to buy a new parrot/parakeet - suggestions?
 * 13) Color of beta-Carotene

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 19


 * 1) Is this what it appears to be?
 * 2) Chemical Nomenclature
 * 3) Quantum physicist's name?
 * 4) Archaea or Bacteria, which came first?
 * 5) What is the long term result of electrolysis of water?
 * 6) Methanol and Ethanol
 * 7) Purpose of review articles from writer's perspective
 * 8) Developmental term I have forgotten
 * 9) Basic Axioms of Physics

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 20


 * 1) Plant has its own division?
 * 2) How can I jam a radio controlled car? (In the USA)
 * 3) Holographic Lightsabre
 * 4) Socks
 * 5) Engineering Projects
 * 6) Aeroplane Speed -advantage when flying east?
 * 7) differentiator
 * 8) Chest clicking. Not medical advice?
 * 9) aquatic plants
 * 10) Props go to any fan fan who answers this Q
 * 11) What gives airplanes lift
 * 12) Dominant and recessive
 * 13) FTL and the size of the universe
 * 14) Finding Average Acceleration from a Position-Time Graph
 * 15) Heat Absorbtion

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 21


 * 1) GEarth blue streaks
 * 2) Hypotheticals in chemistry
 * 3) building downtown nyc
 * 4) What will happen to this molecule?
 * 5) mitosis,meiosis in humans
 * 6) Colourblindness
 * 7) photons and gravity
 * 8) Physics
 * 9) Sky and Planet Earth
 * 10) INCORPORATION OF INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY
 * 11) fish in water
 * 12) Sleepless early-hours mulling over past bad events
 * 13) how old is stone bone
 * 14) Any Aussies here?...
 * 15) Number of neurons in the human brain
 * 16) Is there any way to stop melanin production in humans?

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 22


 * 1) Are there chemicals that will permanently depigment human hair?
 * 2) Colors
 * 3) Special Relativity and Mass Defect
 * 4) I'm drunk - how to sober up quick
 * 5) matter and anti-matter.
 * 6) are there any chemicals that can permanently inhibit the melanogenic enzymes, such as tyrosinase
 * 7) Retail trend in America
 * 8) Thrust sea level/vaccum
 * 9) Parts of the USA that have a similar climate to Scotland
 * 10) Hello... I'm Frank Necrosis
 * 11) human eye
 * 12) Black/Dark Outfit and White/Bright Outfit Regarding To The Sun's Heat Absorption
 * 13) mica-porphyrite at Biddlestone NE65 7DT
 * 14) How much of everything is nothing?
 * 15) Phase shifting
 * 16) finger-licking
 * 17) Calculations with uncertainty values

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 23


 * 1) Follow-ups to the Kinsey Reports...
 * 2) Bluetooth FHSS sync
 * 3) Color wheel
 * 4) How were Telegraph Relays (c1890s) used?
 * 5) Gq protein
 * 6) Reproducing experiments: practical considerations
 * 7) rabies and E coli
 * 8) Difference between "planets" and "stars"
 * 9) Burning a Volleyball
 * 10) Trachea
 * 11) please answer my questions (iron and sulphur)
 * 12) Antisocial personality disorder
 * 13) reverse culture shock ?
 * 14) Numerology
 * 15) Which is the most common chemical in households?

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 24


 * 1) solubility of sugar in water
 * 2) Body Mass Index Calculation
 * 3) Pair of electrons.
 * 4) particle spin.
 * 5) Color and octaves
 * 6) Two (make that Three) Quantum Physics Questions
 * 7) Jelly Shots
 * 8) Black women's buttocks
 * 9) ancient cultures and dinosaur bones
 * 10) CATEGORY OF DISTRIBUTION / LINE AMPLIFIERS
 * 11) Sunset/sunrise on the equator
 * 12) Yellow LEDs -- trivia
 * 13) LEDs again
 * 14) bonobos and humans
 * 15) What is the name of this plant?
 * 16) Peripheral nervous system: autonomic and somatic nervous system
 * 17) Dorsal root
 * 18) Seduction techniques
 * 19) Vogels minimum medium
 * 20) RTG shields
 * 21) Isaac Newton and Galileo
 * 22) Tail vein versus orbital plexus
 * 23) What's going to happen where
 * 24) Are there any foods that make you happier?
 * 25) Evolution of singing
 * 26) Activated Carbon
 * 27) Causes of global warming
 * 28) If a missile silo was bombed...
 * 29) violet
 * 30) Quantum Suicide
 * 31) Quantum Collapse

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 25


 * 1) database software for idea storage
 * 2) Housing economics
 * 3) Intron degradation
 * 4) What's the problem with Boltzmann brains?
 * 5) Pull-top cans
 * 6) doctor's question
 * 7) Atomic theory
 * 8) Medical and Scientific effects of high voltage low amperage high frequency electric current on the skin
 * 9) Pictures of brains by Wernicke and Broca
 * 10) electronics project
 * 11) Prion transmission in food products made from animal tissues: the safety of gelatine and related products
 * 12) cigarette butts
 * 13) What exactly is the relationship between muscle contractions (excercise & metabolism), and dilation/constriction of blood vessels (vasoconstriction & thermoregulation) ?

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 26


 * 1) What is this phychological behavior called?
 * 2) Runaway Global Warming
 * 3) More time or more space?
 * 4) chiral universe
 * 5) doubt regarding source and sink
 * 6) Honesty in research grant applications
 * 7) Typhoon in Hong Kong
 * 8) Number of protons in Chromium isotope
 * 9) Collared Doves - how much do they eat per day anyway?
 * 10) My Sun conure again
 * 11) Chromium
 * 12) DNA testing
 * 13) Niels Bohr
 * 14) Alexander Bell
 * 15) Facebook
 * 16) Fecal material
 * 17) Bariatric surgery

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 27


 * 1) eicosanoids
 * 2) Surgery
 * 3) Virial Theorem esp. GPE
 * 4) second law of thermodynamics
 * 5) The continuation of the world as we know it?
 * 6) photon and magnet.
 * 7) Sodium potassium pump
 * 8) Central Valley result of impact event...?
 * 9) quanta
 * 10) Enkephalin and enkephaline
 * 11) decline of the human body
 * 12) chemistry/food-grade
 * 13) Positronium energy levels and instability
 * 14) Proper temperature for deep freeze?
 * 15) neurophysiology
 * 16) Examples of Buffer Solutions
 * 17) Physiological Effects of Niacin
 * 18) insect brain

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 28


 * 1) Subway menu
 * 2) Transverse Doppler effect
 * 3) Fibreglass for oven insulation
 * 4) Insect identification
 * 5) preproprotein
 * 6) Hunger and grumpiness
 * 7) Geos

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 29


 * 1) Venusian atmospheric pressure
 * 2) using electrical appliances in Israel
 * 3) Penny battery - another wild and sovereign funded idea
 * 4) Has somebody access to this article on Earthdoc?
 * 5) Buffers
 * 6) Human eye frames per second
 * 7) Renaming proteins after discovery of function(s)
 * 8) Nitrogenous polysaccharide
 * 9) Pupil size
 * 10) STOP YOUR BODY'S MELANIN PRODUCTION
 * 11) Swappin' spit reagents
 * 12) How to choose best undergraduate school for best mcat scores
 * 13) Resistor capacitance
 * 14) Contact Lenses and Frothy Solution

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 September 30


 * 1) Hydrocloride vs Dihydrochloride
 * 2) solar wind hydro and geothermal energies
 * 3) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
 * 4) Life!...
 * 5) how to test caffeine content??
 * 6) FIRE FIGHTING ROBOT
 * 7) Possible amnesia question.
 * 8) Amiodarone
 * 9) Mitochondria
 * 10) (Carbon) Emissions Data
 * 11) DNA
 * 12) Calculus needed?
 * 13) Graphics of a X-box 360 to graphics of a ps3
 * 14) ionosing gas
 * 15) Physics Phenomena i don't understand
 * 16) Perfect sharpness?
 * 17) What is the whitest substance ?
 * 18) Calories in alcohol
 * 19) big bang theory
 * 20) What is meg
 * 21) tick + blade of grass
 * 22) DEET
 * 23) Deserts