Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2011

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 1


 * 1) What would it look like inside of a gas giant like Jupiter?
 * 2) DNA polymers
 * 3) genealogical research: Hepatic dropsy
 * 4) Multi-cylinder engine
 * 5) Autumn is when? (Northern Hemisphere)
 * 6) Calculate airline security
 * 7) Systolic vs. diastolic pressure as a severity indicator
 * 8) medical student
 * 9) Co-occurring disorder(s)
 * 10) solar cells

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 2


 * 1) Polythene molecules
 * 2) Using tidal power to generate electricity
 * 3) Blood-vein, Mr. Schmidt and taxon authorities
 * 4) Are there any experts who can answer my question? (hand sanitizing)
 * 5) Mold VS Mildew
 * 6) scientific method
 * 7) Caffeol
 * 8) Electromagnetic pump for ionic liquids
 * 9) Earthquakes
 * 10) climate change
 * 11) At what point in the big bang did particles come into existence?
 * 12) Eyes going in different directions
 * 13) Question about the accessible length scales in SAXS? (reworded header)
 * 14) Sound in space
 * 15) speed of sound

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 3


 * 1) Oxygen and cancer
 * 2) Ruptured star
 * 3) Rotor and propeller vs. cylinder
 * 4) Jupiter sized object crashing into Sun
 * 5) Vicodin vs Vicoprofen
 * 6) "Surface" of the Sun
 * 7) Supercritical ocean
 * 8) Is Quantum Theory REALLY so spooky and weird?
 * 9) Behavioural toxicity
 * 10) Lunar eclipse?
 * 11) Malai-ula Banana
 * 12) manned robot-like machines?
 * 13) Escape velocity
 * 14) Dark matter and dark energy
 * 15) Hormone therapy and sexual desire
 * 16) Update to the Nutrition Facts box in USA
 * 17) How much sodium is too much in one day?

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 4


 * 1) Hurricane and tornado
 * 2) African Americans and eGFR
 * 3) definition of space
 * 4) HOW DO DOGS FIGHT
 * 5) Coordinates, part 2
 * 6) Hurricanes versus wirlpools
 * 7) cardio endurance
 * 8) Meningismal pain
 * 9) Protein Article - Proofread this figure?
 * 10) Eye of a hurricane
 * 11) Fissioning a hydrogen atom
 * 12) Confusing enzyme kinetics picture

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 5


 * 1) a fly inside a moving car
 * 2) Physiotherapy
 * 3) Implications of a Perpetual Motion Device
 * 4) What property of electromagnetism is responsible for making individual things not everything?
 * 5) Anatomy of a UFO
 * 6) products of grains
 * 7) Circular orbits
 * 8) Nutrient content of human waste
 * 9) Miscibility
 * 10) Why most of the time the temperature indicator remains on in Fridge?
 * 11) excess sugar & diabetes

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 6


 * 1) Physiatry vs physiotherapy
 * 2) MLB pitchers and atlatls
 * 3) Actual speed of heavenly bodies versus their speed as perceived here on Earth.
 * 4) Tora Bora
 * 5) would it be possible (to convert rotation to linear motion)
 * 6) Placebo effect
 * 7) Pump type efficiencies?
 * 8) If the honey badger's skin really is so tough
 * 9) Edema
 * 10) Deaf-mute
 * 11) ferro resonance
 * 12) Why don't they destroy the last remaining stocks of smallpox?
 * 13) Removing an ankle tendon a minor surgery?
 * 14) Nuts and bolts
 * 15) Like a hot knife through...
 * 16) Making UPS
 * 17) why the structure of the galaxies is plane?
 * 18) Nutrition of cartilage
 * 19) Fusion power
 * 20) I have a crape myrtle in my yard
 * 21) Three-body problem

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 7


 * 1) Helium-3 fusion
 * 2) High Speed Train Design
 * 3) amount of grain to amount of product ratio
 * 4) What is a "PETE stamp"?
 * 5) spectral absorption lines
 * 6) Monthly-disposable contact lenses - why dispose?
 * 7) Eastern equine encephalitis in maine
 * 8) Star formation and ideal gas law

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 8


 * 1) Nuclear process in the human body?
 * 2) Molten steel at the wreckage of the WTC?
 * 3) Chemical nomenclature
 * 4) Krill peeling
 * 5) Academic studies of cubicle impact on worker productivity / quality of life
 * 6) melting gold over a campfire
 * 7) Replacing washed-out grease in hair
 * 8) How can i distribute elecrtrons of F-Block elements using Auf-Bau??
 * 9) Viscosity of an ideal gas only depends on the temperature
 * 10) Did Earth have two moons?
 * 11) non-sphere stars?

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 9


 * 1) Atoms
 * 2) Inception
 * 3) about bandwidth
 * 4) Nutritional price index shelf label
 * 5) vision of the human being
 * 6) What is the biggest locomotive organism capable of photosynthesis?

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 10


 * 1) vision a dimensional world
 * 2) Orange Juice Solidifies in Fridge
 * 3) "Dangerous rip currents"
 * 4) stationary spots
 * 5) ethanol producing algae
 * 6) Mystery bird (finch?)
 * 7) What device is this?
 * 8) electric water heater 16A plug to 10A plug -- is this a problem?
 * 9) aliens
 * 10) Speed in circular orbit
 * 11) What are those cylinders on top of the C4?
 * 12) does cost of a food product turn people on or off
 * 13) gravity vs Centrifugal
 * 14) radioactive isotope heated to a plasma
 * 15) Most useless element
 * 16) Artificial gravity

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 11


 * 1) Bones made of strontium instead of calcium?
 * 2) How to "open" a penny
 * 3) Laser hazard?
 * 4) psychology of money
 * 5) Nicotine and dogs behaviour
 * 6) We use only 10% of our brain?
 * 7) Cola or vinegar as cleaner for hard water scale
 * 8) Clock on moon
 * 9) Most useful element
 * 10) Engines
 * 11) Titanium alloy
 * 12) Uranocene

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 12


 * 1) Can someone HELP me with derivation of Mass of Earth?
 * 2) chemical kinetics
 * 3) Land Area of Antarctica Without Ice?
 * 4) Too cheap to meter
 * 5) Bladder
 * 6) Acceleration
 * 7) Bugatti Veyron
 * 8) Horsepower notation
 * 9) Bladder (Again)
 * 10) Better than a katana
 * 11) Kangerlassuaq, Greenland and permafrost

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 13


 * 1) Reason why muscles require excercise to stimulate growth
 * 2) Strange Rodent Found in Yorktown Heights, NY USA.   Please help identify.
 * 3) Screw torque and strength of grip
 * 4) Lack of bright colors in mammals
 * 5) Acceleration
 * 6) Horsepower
 * 7) Is it true that Charles Darwin was not a scientist?
 * 8) approximate width of an actual circle
 * 9) Cosmetic Surgery
 * 10) Surface tension
 * 11) stability of solar systems?and star cluster and great walls....
 * 12) "blue light" and time of day
 * 13) Lightsaber

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 14


 * 1) Chainsaw as weapon
 * 2) Solid light
 * 3) Using an ultracentrifuge for almost-suspended animation
 * 4) Lightsaber vs. chainsaw
 * 5) Automobile engines and altitude
 * 6) (non)Existence of God
 * 7) Best kind of lightbulb?
 * 8) Re; The transfer of coldsores or herpes labialis by touch- 13th September 2011-04.52am
 * 9) Fast cars
 * 10) Red snow and snow plant
 * 11) are Saturn's rings perfectly flat?
 * 12) meaning of a steeper curve in a oxygen–haemoglobin dissociation curve
 * 13) Generating MIST from still water
 * 14) How to show TB test results?
 * 15) Pyruvate/Pyruvic Acid article in Wikipedia
 * 16) Is there an upper limit for the amount of energy a single photon can carry?
 * 17) Low-tech atmospheric reentry.
 * 18) If music is a universal component of human existence...
 * 19) Identification of a caterpillar

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 15


 * 1) Han Solo
 * 2) Old HDTVs and broadcast DTV in the US
 * 3) Name of a phobia?
 * 4) Pigeon spikes on a TV aerial
 * 5) DNA question (extended version)
 * 6) "Suitspace" question
 * 7) How much DNA to I need?
 * 8) In the US, do they know who is a legacy student?
 * 9) heat exchanger
 * 10) Neutrino chemistry
 * 11) about "flow separation" and "boundary layer separation"
 * 12) Cabin Pressure vs. Outside
 * 13) the matter of dark energy
 * 14) I have a jeweler's magnifying loupe with out any power marking.. How do I decipher the power?
 * 15) If language is a universal component of human existence...
 * 16) If politeness is a universal component of human existence...

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 16


 * 1) Neutron foundries
 * 2) methane green house gas
 * 3) Cell division and the onset of puberty?
 * 4) Order D
 * 5) Huge trees
 * 6) Studies of people's competence vs their belief of how hard a task is
 * 7) Lifeform that has killed the most humans (other than humans)
 * 8) table of  compunds
 * 9) Rhythmic audience clapping
 * 10) Is evolution virtually testable, If so, has it been done?
 * 11) Magnetic rules -true brushless DC motors
 * 12) But how...

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 17


 * 1) law of microscopic reversibility and experimental enzyme kinetics
 * 2) medical physiology
 * 3) Apple cider vinegar
 * 4) Race
 * 5) vancomycin
 * 6) SPICE and opamps
 * 7) Binary sun
 * 8) normal-sized camera?
 * 9) Arctic survival
 * 10) Sleep paralysis without Hallucination
 * 11) SAWFISH ROSTROM  ( Bill)

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 18


 * 1) radar system in electric trains
 * 2) Rocking back and forth: symptom of...?
 * 3) Social science statistics - weighting outliers?
 * 4) physics of shrinking and growing physical objects and people
 * 5) Peanuts used as ingredient of Dynamite?
 * 6) Corvid intelligence
 * 7) Jurassic Park
 * 8) Was the format of the Voyager Golden Record's decipherability tested with humans?
 * 9) Genital cutting reduces/increases the risk of contracting HIV?

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 19


 * 1) Surface charge on a conductor
 * 2) Arctic Survival, Part Deux
 * 3) Fuel/Air ratio
 * 4) Airplanes
 * 5) Feces

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 20


 * 1) Dynamics of hypercanes
 * 2) Gallium arsenide
 * 3) sweet potato flavor
 * 4) Eyelids twitch when scratching toes
 * 5) hall effect
 * 6) What is a chest node?
 * 7) dry versus disolved borax powder in air
 * 8) WTC escape solution
 * 9) Plane crash on Mount Everest
 * 10) Highest an aircraft can fly
 * 11) Battery acid?

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 21


 * 1) Highest internal temperature of cold blooded animals
 * 2) Moment magnitude conversion
 * 3) Earthquake question
 * 4) why are the pictures of actual size molecules are countable?
 * 5) redundant rails
 * 6) How sealed plastic soda bottle tops are attached
 * 7) Where do I go wrong in this statics problem?
 * 8) condensation in lungs
 * 9) Can you tell me something about vultures?

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 22


 * 1) What are/ may be floating conditions to float any thing over water surface
 * 2) low boiling dopamine receptor agonists
 * 3) Why does collagen cross-link in scar tissue?

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 23


 * 1) Neutrinos
 * 2) Photon Mass?
 * 3) Bode phase plot guidelines
 * 4) Electra 10-E
 * 5) Do you disagree?
 * 6) exceding speed of light
 * 7) To whom who knows about genomic databases
 * 8) Remote controlled lighting etc.
 * 9) Wifi and cell-phones on board of a plane
 * 10) Heavy metal concentration
 * 11) Seriously?
 * 12) FTL neutrinos
 * 13) Relative risk of tuna
 * 14) Human Organ Importance Essay
 * 15) Neurobiology
 * 16) Thought experiment regarding an closed and expanding universe.
 * 17) Actual doing of experiments seeing if more oxygen causes larger insects
 * 18) Charge of a magnetic field to repel a positron?
 * 19) eka-radon  at 0 °R

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 24


 * 1) Energy
 * 2) superfluidity react to Neutrino hypothesis
 * 3) Defense against positrons
 * 4) UARS: the falling, burning re-entering satellite
 * 5) Why don't plants have white blood cells?
 * 6) Was Einstein wrong?
 * 7) Can we make high quality image of exoplanet with current technology?
 * 8) Species Identifcation
 * 9) existence of time
 * 10) Horizontal penis
 * 11) acu
 * 12) Factoid WRT pesticides on unwashed shop-bought fruit...
 * 13) God
 * 14) air pumps

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 25


 * 1) How do slot machines "decide" when to pay out jackpots and other large winnings?
 * 2) Frozen milk
 * 3) Why do farms have soil?
 * 4) Moon escape away from Earth
 * 5) Neutrinos speed at OPERA
 * 6) entry and exit door lock logic
 * 7) Living on Mount Everest
 * 8) Sanitary storage of cups and glasses
 * 9) RhD reaction

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 26


 * 1) Coilgun
 * 2) conciousness
 * 3) Maximum number of options from which a human can make a rational decision on optimal choice

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 27


 * 1) My question wasn't answered?
 * 2) Crowbar in a blender...
 * 3) Homopolar generator
 * 4) Incorruptible data storage
 * 5) Question about the Galileo Statement
 * 6) Gender-specific athletic performance
 * 7) hall effect
 * 8) Hypervalency
 * 9) Love hurts
 * 10) Hoax about CFL danger?
 * 11) combustion
 * 12) Reddish brown gas
 * 13) Colour of compounds
 * 14) Mental illness in non-human animals
 * 15) How many fields?
 * 16) humongous voice coil
 * 17) Silver mining
 * 18) Crystallization of the Earth's core

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 28


 * 1) Zero-point energy
 * 2) Rechargeable batteries
 * 3) solar wind movement and direction
 * 4) hydostatic pressure and core of stars
 * 5) Jet Sound
 * 6) Question about GRAVITY?
 * 7) faster than light question
 * 8) Growth
 * 9) What manner of substance is this?
 * 10) A high alkaline phosphate level
 * 11) Power required for levitation
 * 12) Cantenna

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 29


 * 1) Criteria for mountain pass
 * 2) mental excercise
 * 3) A double planet that shares an atmosphere?
 * 4) Can intermediate or stellar mass black holes be detectable gravitational lenses?
 * 5) TLC versus GC
 * 6) How to include more ordinary people in Wikipedia
 * 7) SMILES
 * 8) Beetle or Bug Identification
 * 9) "True bugs"
 * 10) Can it be said that ethanol is an energy carrier rather than an energy source?
 * 11) Faster-than-light travel
 * 12) the abillity to differentiate
 * 13) YABIDR (Yet Another Bug ID Request)
 * 14) Sea salt
 * 15) Wasp behavior and oak trees
 * 16) Growth of the Universe

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 September 30


 * 1) biochemistry
 * 2) second moment of area
 * 3) Radio frequency intervals
 * 4) What is the average size of human tonsils?
 * 5) Why exactly does the enthalpy of vaporization fall to zero at the critical point?
 * 6) Unidentified bird in France
 * 7) How would you calculate the change in freezing point (with increasing pressure) without the Clausius-Clapeyron equation?
 * 8) Earnshaw's Theorem