Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2008

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 1


 * 1) Luciferin
 * 2) Amount of Potassium iodide in Iodized salt
 * 3) Digital data over radio transmitter
 * 4) The magical blue smoke
 * 5) applications of lagrangian dynamics
 * 6) thin layer chromatography
 * 7) MRI machine
 * 8) How can we calculate the chemical energy of a body?
 * 9) Mortality of acute pancreatitis
 * 10) regarding physics olympiad
 * 11) evolution
 * 12) Carotid artery
 * 13) This question is in regard to galvanizing.

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 2


 * 1) Solubility of Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen?
 * 2) Word for a substance that makes you piss more?
 * 3) natural antibiotics?
 * 4) metabolic functions of proteins from human/mouse
 * 5) Political parties and teenage pregnancies
 * 6) stripy babies
 * 7) Do the hurricanes have anything to do with global warming?
 * 8) Hurricane question
 * 9) Blindness
 * 10) Air-water experiment
 * 11) cellulose
 * 12) Genes for Skin
 * 13) What kind of moth?!?!
 * 14) Poppy Seeds

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 3


 * 1) brown sugar
 * 2) Clarity of Glycerin soap
 * 3) Separating a test tube mixture
 * 4) Blindness disease
 * 5) Solvents of common pharmaceuticals
 * 6) Long-term monogamy in mammals
 * 7) Physics
 * 8) Wikipedia:Unidentified flowers
 * 9) Monogamy and Evolution
 * 10) Insect Identification
 * 11) Wifi - any dangers?
 * 12) Looking for references about cats
 * 13) Cystic fibrosis
 * 14) Invisibility Cloak

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 4


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 4
 * 2) Going through walls
 * 3) Penis errect in the morning.
 * 4) Drinking water from a bottle of Clorox
 * 5) epilepsy / impact on brain
 * 6) twin universe hypothesis
 * 7) White hole transformation
 * 8) Name of interesting microorganism
 * 9) Human breasts-a store for fat?
 * 10) Sociopaths
 * 11) growing biodiesel in your back garden
 * 12) How do a student weight the moon
 * 13) Portion of agriculturally usable land on the surface of the globe

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 5


 * 1) "base SI quantity"
 * 2) Gravity question
 * 3) Mars
 * 4) Metric System
 * 5) Why do celestial bodies spin and/or move in a circular motion?
 * 6) Pump Stalling Phenomenon
 * 7) sound waves
 * 8) fatigue
 * 9) matchwood
 * 10) Origin of life
 * 11) Inducing hyperthyroidism to lose weight?
 * 12) americium in smoke detectors
 * 13) Monkey wedding
 * 14) Yoghurt phobia
 * 15) Cyst or what?
 * 16) Need a 3D anatomy applet

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 6


 * 1) Potassium Carbonate as a Fire Supression Agent
 * 2) Consider two Cockatiels, A and B...
 * 3) Winter Solstice
 * 4) Drugs that daze or slow down?
 * 5) Maximum Water Vapor In Air
 * 6) Mystery critter
 * 7) UK Coal Reserves
 * 8) Body Temperature
 * 9) Crystal Filter and Clocks

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 7


 * 1) Why do rockets need to be explosive to reach escape velosity?
 * 2) Contents of Drinking Water
 * 3) college student seeking advice
 * 4) Molar polarisation
 * 5) Meiosis combinations
 * 6) why can I listen to the radio on my computer?
 * 7) Actions of people with mental illnes or people using drugs
 * 8) Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 7
 * 9) xenophobe in ethimological sense
 * 10) Beta decay, the weak force and W- boson mass
 * 11) The Bernoulli family and the "Bernouilli" one
 * 12) Stroke article in The Lancet

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 8


 * 1) Significant figures - fun stuff
 * 2) Dark skin and dominant/recessive traits
 * 3) Robustness or lack thereof in "B-rex" (dinosaur question)
 * 4) Is this radiant energy exploitation possible?
 * 5) will the world ever end?
 * 6) sufuric acid
 * 7) TV detector vans
 * 8) Anti Gravity in Salalah Muscat ?
 * 9) Encyclopedic?
 * 10) Wellbrutrin and Libido
 * 11) Cat external parasite
 * 12) The newly-discovered Vernulles effect
 * 13) Hubble Space Telescope, and Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg
 * 14) Phase of the moon
 * 15) Speed of engulfment by LHC black hole
 * 16) Carbolic acid  -  uses
 * 17) Control systems companies

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 9


 * 1) HIV taxonomy
 * 2) Check this out?
 * 3) I have a question about Reno, Nevada
 * 4) Birds with Blue Eyes
 * 5) Diet of the Canada Goose
 * 6) slip of tongue
 * 7) Check my chemistry questions
 * 8) alien
 * 9) Soylent green
 * 10) Symbols
 * 11) crossbreed dogs
 * 12) Medicval term for 'facial flushing'
 * 13) Oh no, no sunspots!
 * 14) Neutron stars
 * 15) Core skills of a chemist
 * 16) Help identify this plant
 * 17) Blue-yellow colourblindness
 * 18) NOAA weather radio voice
 * 19) Weather or not
 * 20) Global Warming
 * 21) Antimatter

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 10


 * 1) reason for .b1 and .g1 primer names
 * 2) Carbon dioxide sequestration
 * 3) detectors
 * 4) Bayhawk?
 * 5) CERN's experiment
 * 6) hair dryer voltage dilemma
 * 7) boiling water in the states
 * 8) UK Spiders
 * 9) MEDICINE:GYNAECOLOGIST
 * 10) physics
 * 11) light
 * 12) CERN AL-Zanders' dropping some mighty LHC yo!
 * 13) Dentistry question: not advice and not homework
 * 14) related to LHC
 * 15) What is a Hadron
 * 16) Does heat contribute to global warming?
 * 17) Water injection
 * 18) Earwax
 * 19) Women and How They Think
 * 20) Telephone
 * 21) Magnifier
 * 22) Melting Some Silver
 * 23) Feline parasite follow-up
 * 24) salt grain physics.

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 11


 * 1) But why the square head?
 * 2) Parrots - mistrustful of humans when nesting...
 * 3) Cat Induced Allergies
 * 4) What is a Computer Scientist?
 * 5) Petrol pumps
 * 6) polymers
 * 7) Is the LHC the coldest place in the universe?
 * 8) Population of the Philippines
 * 9) Welding under water
 * 10) Entropy and the Direction of Time
 * 11) Are all alleles genes?
 * 12) Disadvantages of needleguns
 * 13) Was there German Genetic Engineering using X-rays in 1945?
 * 14) Over my head
 * 15) Facts that oppose evidence for evolution
 * 16) Plastic bullet for handgun
 * 17) LHC as time after big bang
 * 18) Fantastic Structure?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 12


 * 1) If the LHC created a black hole...
 * 2) Water bears on Mars
 * 3) Gamma ray bursts and black holes
 * 4) Radioactive decay in materials. Schrodinger's cat
 * 5) Unsailable Dead Sea
 * 6) Electroforming solution
 * 7) Patella/knee jerk reflex
 * 8) chemistry - glassware
 * 9) PHEV Battery Economics
 * 10) angular momentum
 * 11) Missiles on Main Battle Tanks
 * 12) England MD/MBBS info

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 13


 * 1) Unidentified Plant
 * 2) F-16 Fuel consumption
 * 3) Kinetic energy revisited
 * 4) Turtle Bites and Salmonella
 * 5) Bird identification request
 * 6) electrical circuit solving
 * 7) transistor
 * 8) Houston muscle
 * 9) ice caps of the earth
 * 10) Storage
 * 11) Nuclear waste into space
 * 12) Nuclear explosion and X-Ray lasers
 * 13) Not making nutrients as an evolutionary "tactic"
 * 14) Why is 16:9 superior to 4:3?
 * 15) Masturbation
 * 16) end of the world : december 2012?
 * 17) From a scientific standpoint, which plant is the most important?
 * 18) The effects of Ocean Nuclear Bomb Testing

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 14


 * 1) Thallium Stress Test (Side Effects)
 * 2) Chemical Name
 * 3) Swimming Pool (Hydrochloric) Acid
 * 4) Dark matter
 * 5) Name for animals that can change colour
 * 6) Things that weigh on Milligram.
 * 7) VEGA LAUNCHER
 * 8) Thyrotropin Releasing hormone in Gastrointestinal tract
 * 9) Dog ESP
 * 10) What's it called when...
 * 11) Help identifying flowers
 * 12) Ornithopters
 * 13) Inverse Compton effect and nuclear weapons
 * 14) Why is gold leaf opaque when it is only one atom thick and each atom is mostly empty space?
 * 15) Prostate Treatment
 * 16) Parallel universes
 * 17) So, an aging rockstar has taken so much speed and cocaine over the decades...
 * 18) Why? as a scientific question

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 15


 * 1) Somewhere theres music
 * 2) Triple point
 * 3) How do we know there will be no problems with the LHC?
 * 4) views of Thuria and Cluros
 * 5) Hydrogen gas - analytical test???
 * 6) Why Is Electromagnetic Wave Sine Wave?
 * 7) Hurricanes over warm water, meeting with freezing air over land, making snow?
 * 8) LEDs or LASERs penetrating the body
 * 9) Semiconductor diode
 * 10) Trains and Trucks running on gasoline instead of diesel
 * 11) Statistics in research
 * 12) the flight of projectiles
 * 13) New "unusual object" discovered
 * 14) Are these comparisons acurate?
 * 15) Czech Fingerprint Scientist
 * 16) Demon's Egg
 * 17) importance of one engineering to the other
 * 18) Electrical grounding chemicals

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 16


 * 1) Where do I buy kudzu?
 * 2) I have a metal
 * 3) reading upside-down..
 * 4) Shop Vac power
 * 5) Potting soil mixture
 * 6) Help me identify my vacation photos
 * 7) How can something be smaller than Planck length?
 * 8) Chaotic system is Chaotic
 * 9) Strangelets
 * 10) Building a Terminator
 * 11) Mass vs. size

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 17


 * 1) Simulation from first principles
 * 2) Streamlined intergalactic ship
 * 3) Zucchini and squash
 * 4) minimum size for a planet
 * 5) Sebaceous gland
 * 6) Gasoline/alcohol mixture
 * 7) Light
 * 8) Crickets Chirping
 * 9) How does business units monetize their AR with bank and what are the criteria to be met?
 * 10) H2O mixed with CO2
 * 11) Shards of pottery
 * 12) What weighs one centigram?
 * 13) Why does depression affect concentration?
 * 14) pls help me with these question
 * 15) over the counter medicatons
 * 16) Copper Sulphate
 * 17) Needles in your thigh
 * 18) Quote?
 * 19) Blood as an indicator of pain
 * 20) Cell-biology experiments outside the cell

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 18


 * 1) dous anyone know how a solar panal works without the who made it stuff?
 * 2) COCONUT SEEDS
 * 3) Transparent and reflective at the same time !
 * 4) Lithium Batteries (Elephant Tripling)
 * 5) Edible fir cones / pine cones
 * 6) Conversion
 * 7) Labelling and imaging with non-radioactive isotopes?
 * 8) Newton phoney quote?
 * 9) Why is lightning blue?
 * 10) Chromosome/Chromatid
 * 11) erection problems
 * 12) examples of imperfect human evolution
 * 13) Why did Gregor Mendel ("The Gregster") choose the pea to study genetic inheretence?
 * 14) genetics
 * 15) What caused these global cooling events?

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 19


 * 1) Sedative Paintballs
 * 2) Blood drawing sensation
 * 3) CO2 production by humans
 * 4) Fat woman
 * 5) DNA of monozygotic twins
 * 6) How much of the population uses medicine?
 * 7) Rats vs Mice for public health
 * 8) Smallest eye
 * 9) Animals rejected by their mothers
 * 10) Ear and Collarbone
 * 11) Bridging the pond
 * 12) Doppler effect
 * 13) Live food

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 20


 * 1) Mental capacity/diagnosis of fictional dumb characters
 * 2) Blood and meat from strangled animal
 * 3) cool labs in Boston
 * 4) Digital Transducers
 * 5) Please, identify a spider
 * 6) burden calculation in electrical circuit
 * 7) pill
 * 8) Protomap
 * 9) Water as hallucinogen?
 * 10) Is there really evidence for "classical conditioning"

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 21


 * 1) Birds noisy at night
 * 2) How much does a 3.2 kilogram slug of tungsten cost?
 * 3) iraQ PLEASE ASSIST
 * 4) stable bleaching powder
 * 5) Scientific meaning of 'Energy'
 * 6) Lab test overkill
 * 7) Einstein refrigerator
 * 8) Children listening to older sisters, learning right from wrong, and all that
 * 9) The Vena Cava
 * 10) Anatomy lectures transcription
 * 11) Measuring angles
 * 12) psychology type I and type II error
 * 13) Oscillating systems, periodic time and maximum acceleration
 * 14) snake venom how does it travel through the body
 * 15) Indefinitely orbiting a singularity inside of the event horizon of a black hole
 * 16) Why don't quartrbacks get the types of injuries pitchers do?
 * 17) "Microscopic Black Holes"
 * 18) Solstice/equinox dates
 * 19) Gamma spectroscopy
 * 20) Exploding barrels

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 22


 * 1) Wheat straw
 * 2) Advantages of fertilisers
 * 3) Propan-1,2-diol from acetaldehyde
 * 4) Unknown plant, possibly rowan?
 * 5) All thiol groups in a particular protein
 * 6) Space exploration
 * 7) C4
 * 8) clarification as to how time taken for light to cross the universe indicates "when" you are looking at?
 * 9) range of the pH scale
 * 10) Twin Paradox
 * 11) Solaire system
 * 12) submandibular lymph node

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 23


 * 1) Mercury's core
 * 2) pet birds
 * 3) quantifying vitamin C's preservative properties
 * 4) Why are some stars bright?
 * 5) Planets interior
 * 6) chromatography
 * 7) How literate in English would a person have to be in order to practice neosurgery in the USA?
 * 8) Hydrogen ballooning
 * 9) the Martian sky
 * 10) Looking for specific puzzles
 * 11) accelerating charged particles and radiations
 * 12) Help from more experienced molecular biologists: statistical software packages?
 * 13) project
 * 14) object at infinity
 * 15) evidence of increase in iron content in well water
 * 16) Actually making money from a patent
 * 17) Cause of death
 * 18) Mysterious Hamster Illness
 * 19) Ubiquitination: specific E1 needed for particular E2?
 * 20) What will happen exactly if all the arctic ice melts?
 * 21) Saturn's disc color
 * 22) Tooth extraction
 * 23) find the resonance frequency of a tube

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 24


 * 1) Underwater urination
 * 2) Death under stress
 * 3) Human body
 * 4) the first fortified peanut butter that is not plumpy nut
 * 5) Density
 * 6) Progressivity of electrical loads
 * 7) Lag time and planetary alignment issues regarding laser transimission between Mars and the Moon/Earth
 * 8) Cell phone radiation and hard drives
 * 9) four acceleration
 * 10) Do candles melt when put in a microwave oven?
 * 11) Floodwater in the bathroom
 * 12) 'foods that promote cancer and how they promote it'
 * 13) Location of seminal vesicles
 * 14) Whats happens when Global Warming comes to apex?
 * 15) the charge carried by 100 electrons
 * 16) a wire carries 2.496E17 electrons
 * 17) 25A fuse
 * 18) Archie Frederick Collins
 * 19) Wardenclyffe Tower
 * 20) How to store things on an earth floor yet keep them dry
 * 21) Pluto's sky
 * 22) Macropenis

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 25


 * 1) Planets, homework for MY 5th grader, can't find in packet, please help!
 * 2) Neptune's sky
 * 3) Global Warming Counterargument
 * 4) Chemistry
 * 5) Histogram of distribution of skin color
 * 6) 2D PAGE not sensitive to low-abundance proteins
 * 7) physical draw backs of jogging
 * 8) How is water taken up by the body?
 * 9) Hair Growth in Mammals
 * 10) Are cows immune to CS gas?
 * 11) Why do people prefer creamy skin lotions compared to solid or liquid formulas?
 * 12) QFT Example?

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 26


 * 1) "hurricane" in France
 * 2) ACCA
 * 3) Kinetic Energy of Helium
 * 4) bird nomenclature / indie rock lyric question
 * 5) Severity of Decelleration Required to Cause Traumatic Brain Injury
 * 6) Plant identification questions (yew and juniper)
 * 7) Evolution of axon membranes
 * 8) Making gold
 * 9) Extremely deadly tranquillisers?
 * 10) Venus' sky

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 27


 * 1) Where does my power come from?
 * 2) would a free falling object hit with the same force from 40' vs. 20'
 * 3) Penrose Diagram
 * 4) Changes in mental processes due to multitasking
 * 5) an idle speculation about songbirds
 * 6) Uranium nitrate in medicine?
 * 7) hydrogen storage
 * 8) Recipe for Life
 * 9) Plant species

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 28


 * 1) slow step of a reaction
 * 2) Faster than Light Travel
 * 3) Protons and Electrons
 * 4) Einsteins starting point
 * 5) Nightmares
 * 6) Tropical Cyclones sorces
 * 7) A question related to disintegration.
 * 8) Uranium in homeopathic medicine
 * 9) Hydrogen Bonding
 * 10) dynamics

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 29


 * 1) Oceanic Mammalian Question
 * 2) MATLAB question
 * 3) Flatbed scanner covers
 * 4) When blue planet?
 * 5) Digestive System
 * 6) DACs in CD players
 * 7) Is a 10% reduction of emissions reasonable?
 * 8) heating element
 * 9) the details of callus formation
 * 10) reg.heavy  duty   trailers
 * 11) High and low biotechnology
 * 12) Lipids
 * 13) Mate selection in gulls
 * 14) dogs kicking back after defecation

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 September 30


 * 1) Photosynthetic Animal
 * 2) Power consumption vs. hour of day
 * 3) Tyvek house wrap
 * 4) Charging device: sometimes it works
 * 5) Methane Clathrates are melting...NOW!
 * 6) Road-safety for trucks
 * 7) Is Thrust a usual vector? (i.e. same properties of all vectors I have learned so far?)
 * 8) Isobaric peptides
 * 9) Sunrays and satellites
 * 10) black hole
 * 11) Infra-Red
 * 12) Sound speed / loudness