Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2012

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 1


 * 1) Alkane isomers
 * 2) Delta formation
 * 3) Water - oil mixture
 * 4) Tumor Lysis Syndrome seen in antibody dependent cell mediated cytotoxicity?
 * 5) Insulation value of aluminium foil
 * 6) Weight  of atom
 * 7) Balanced wheel
 * 8) can I see the observer effect in action?

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 2


 * 1) Non-fatal viruses
 * 2) what is a linear dielecric material
 * 3) How to know that a drug is safe?
 * 4) Sunrise progression
 * 5) "Pocket" flashlight that recharged from sun-light or room-light amount of photons?
 * 6) What sort of skin diseases are there that look like melanomas?

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 3


 * 1) For how long has Schroedinger's Cat been rotting?
 * 2) Is D necessarily zero?
 * 3) Minimal food requirements
 * 4) Bauxite
 * 5) anatomy
 * 6) Extinction
 * 7) Darold Treffert speculative claims regading genetic memory
 * 8) Principle of relativity

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 4


 * 1) Reference frame for Dark Energy
 * 2) Dental question: Toothbrush vs. Toothpaste
 * 3) Are disabled and mentally-handicapped people self-aware?
 * 4) Rigid pavement
 * 5) Machining
 * 6) Breaking down hardened building cement or concrete
 * 7) self combustion
 * 8) What´s happen if we put a reference system in a photon ?
 * 9) Calorie-equivalent exercise compared to wading in a pool.
 * 10) Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow?
 * 11) Mind downloading
 * 12) Yet another bug ID question
 * 13) Can runners prevent knee pain by injecting motor oil in their knees?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 5


 * 1) Beams
 * 2) Black hole accretion disk spectra from ISM
 * 3) hearing loss - age
 * 4) Semimetallic bonding
 * 5) Malaria in other species besides humans
 * 6) Star collision
 * 7) High voltage and CFLs

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 6


 * 1) Glyphosate based Herbicide
 * 2) Precipitation from NaBr and CaCl2
 * 3) Psychosocial development
 * 4) Y-shaped moth
 * 5) research paper authors and collaboration
 * 6) Taboos in other animals
 * 7) "increament in Amino Acids"
 * 8) Overhead sun at noon in tropics
 * 9) Changing course of the river Thames over the last 1000 years
 * 10) Science in Psychology
 * 11) continuous/gradient refractive index
 * 12) Dawn mission

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 7


 * 1) Hormonal contraception and pregnancy
 * 2) One Severe Pain + Self-Applying Pain elsewhere = Less Pain Overall?
 * 3) Feces and STDs
 * 4) Discoveries in space (not just developed for the space exploration)
 * 5) coffee buzz
 * 6) 1 Photon in all 360 degrees

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 8


 * 1) Gold tunnels
 * 2) why does some ceramic heat up in the microwave?
 * 3) Intelligence and drug use
 * 4) elecrostatice
 * 5) Diseases crossing the Brain-Blood Barrier

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 9


 * 1) Unidentified larva
 * 2) Mental Capacities of Prenates and Infants Versus Those of Certain Animals
 * 3) Neurons and viruses
 * 4) Efficiency of Vaccinations against Hepatitis B
 * 5) Comparative strength of fundamental forces
 * 6) speed of light and spin
 * 7) Medical Examination Beds
 * 8) Snow in Muslim nations
 * 9) Is it true that point particles like quarks and electrons have no volume?
 * 10) Physical inderpredation

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 10


 * 1) Average age of first childbirth
 * 2) black sunglasses or brown sunglasses for maximum UV protection
 * 3) Allergies
 * 4) Relativity theory: a body moving while emitting an energetic radiation
 * 5) Does anyone know what this plant is?
 * 6) Maldives in the Ice Age
 * 7) Cat
 * 8) Plate tectonics censored?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 11


 * 1) Auric reactivity
 * 2) Socialization and digestion
 * 3) Does the 'lensmaker's equation apply to non-Gaussian / fast / large-aperture lenses?
 * 4) why isn't MSG produced in neutral form?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 12


 * 1) Libya
 * 2) Toothbrush disinfection
 * 3) Global Ischemia and Death
 * 4) Late summer sky color
 * 5) Janet Armstrong
 * 6) Use of question mark and exclamation mark above equals signs
 * 7) Gravitational pull vs. push
 * 8) sound to electrical energy conversion
 * 9) Laser Light as Propulsion?
 * 10) Seeing Our Own Creation

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 13


 * 1) Storm chasing from the sky
 * 2) How accurate are bathroom scales?
 * 3) Merck Manual/s

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 14


 * 1) Removing color from/clarifying orange juice
 * 2) Pointless referencing in science articles
 * 3) Dihydrogen vs. dihydrido
 * 4) Entropy of a fan
 * 5) Octopus reproductive process
 * 6) How do they determine how many figures are "correct" or "good" for a given computation of a mathematical constant, like pi?
 * 7) Human viruses
 * 8) does all the velocity increase come from the energy stored in air pressure when air is forced out of the lungs?
 * 9) five woody clades
 * 10) Purple carrots
 * 11) "Nutty" taste in cheese
 * 12) Eggs, water, and temperature
 * 13) Zopiclone
 * 14) Fungus growing without an apparent food source
 * 15) Privacy among other animals
 * 16) Cannabinol in NJ?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 15


 * 1) continuity equation -- why partial, but not total derivative with respect to time ?
 * 2) Question about QM
 * 3) The return of the aether
 * 4) deer
 * 5) Conduction of heat and electricity.
 * 6) Height of the nail
 * 7) Speed on one point

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 16


 * 1) So-called "stealth" aircraft
 * 2) Chirality in spiders
 * 3) Cavitating bubbles party trick
 * 4) Intelligence and reproduction
 * 5) Three Sisters
 * 6) Barium Wiki page
 * 7) Distribution of translational and rotational kinetic energy in a gas
 * 8) sound to electrical energy conversion (part 2)
 * 9) What does Unsexed mean?
 * 10) Blood vs sperm
 * 11) Lagrangian_mechanics#Pendulum_on_a_movable_support
 * 12) Wavy paper
 * 13) Chemistry: How to remove H2O and impurities from an ammonium formate mixture?
 * 14) Biology/Genetics: The minimal male/female ratio for genetic diversity?
 * 15) Running Everywhere

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 17


 * 1) Electron magnetic field
 * 2) Have there ever been any surrogate mothers over 70 in India?
 * 3) Circuits problem
 * 4) Image of the universe
 * 5) Question number 1: Other forms of carbon chemistry
 * 6) Question number 2: Silicon biochemistry
 * 7) Question number 3: Cosmic Abundance
 * 8) Ajax solution successful
 * 9) Arabian desert
 * 10) Has any woman over 70 has used another woman as a surrogate mother or Vice versa?That's what I mean to ask.
 * 11) molluscum contagiosum
 * 12) Clostridium
 * 13) Skinny gene
 * 14) Would it be possible for sentient species to be carnivores, herbivores or flyers?
 * 15) Length of the hair under the skin

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 18


 * 1) how to figure out the habitable zones
 * 2) Newtonian two-body problem
 * 3) Chemistry change
 * 4) glass in thistles/nettles
 * 5) Highest railway gradient in England
 * 6) Are black holes point particles?
 * 7) Observer effect
 * 8) gas-filled fiber for space elevator cable

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 19


 * 1) stochastic curve fitting

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 20


 * 1) Satellite imaged from a satellite - first?
 * 2) No-cloning theorem
 * 3) Plant exposure to vacuum
 * 4) volcanic activity
 * 5) Large submarines rise because of their large sophisticated mechanisms, but how do small or midget submarines do this "rise and dive" activity in a much more simpler manner
 * 6) Human height growth
 * 7) University Textbook Soapboxing
 * 8) where is my question
 * 9) Slug reproduction
 * 10) Live oak growth
 * 11) Women and pimples

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 21


 * 1) Metabolism
 * 2) Why does Precordial Catch Syndrome cause blurriness of vision?
 * 3) snapping turtle hibernation
 * 4) Thanks a lot
 * 5) Mason jar
 * 6) science
 * 7) CFC cleavage
 * 8) photon to world ratio
 * 9) Simple description of a gyroplane
 * 10) How to correctly solve density tolerance

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 22


 * 1) Undersea river system 100-200 miles southwest of Ireland
 * 2) Bread hardening in open air
 * 3) Land reclamation
 * 4) American squirrel behavior
 * 5) Real life applications of chaos theory
 * 6) ISS re-supplying
 * 7) The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
 * 8) Transgender Animals

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 23


 * 1) Guitar strings: tuning and tension
 * 2) Line of lakes in North America
 * 3) has crab nebula rotation round any center?
 * 4) Coprolalia
 * 5) Discovery of the God particle.
 * 6) Legs > 4
 * 7) Pitch Rising?
 * 8) Banana storage
 * 9) Chicken broth
 * 10) Colour scheme of large macaws

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 24


 * 1) Black rat taxonomy
 * 2) ANTI MICROBIAL CLOTHING
 * 3) hurricane, cyclone & typhoon
 * 4) supernova
 * 5) Drawing faster than your own shadow
 * 6) Doppler effect

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 25


 * 1) Can DNA be used for data storage ?
 * 2) endermologie
 * 3) Crystalline ceramic vs. salt
 * 4) Health effects of Tobacco
 * 5) Leaf growth and development
 * 6) Unidentified spiders from Brazil
 * 7) By what factor can a nose get desensitied to a smell?
 * 8) Children and sugar

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 26


 * 1) Space and radiative cooling
 * 2) Tuition returns on net present value of tax revenue
 * 3) delayed capsaicinoid pungency
 * 4) Male pattern baldness
 * 5) What causes these lines on paper birch leaves?
 * 6) At a molecular level
 * 7) Chimpanzee-Human percentage of relatedness

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 27


 * 1) magnetic sensor
 * 2) Ganglion cyst
 * 3) Could someone fix the Ununtrium articles, I don't trust my science skills
 * 4) Benefits/effects of fasting
 * 5) Every seventh ocean wave larger?
 * 6) Color of the ocean
 * 7) Slowing 'death by burning'
 * 8) Magnetic potential from current densitty
 * 9) White spirit/Mineral turpentine
 * 10) coronene (chemical).

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 28


 * 1) Doldrums fact or fiction
 * 2) Ketamine in the UK
 * 3) Van der Waals fugacity as a function of pressure, volume, and a and b. How do I eliminate molar volume?
 * 4) Banking your own blood for emergencies
 * 5) How much biomass is in Canada?
 * 6) Chemistry and Molecular Mass
 * 7) GLP-1 agonists and exercise

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 29


 * 1) One's Sexuality
 * 2) Wavelength
 * 3) Is DNA always coiled up the same way in each of our cells ?
 * 4) Fruit ripening
 * 5) Eyes rolling back
 * 6) Regarding dimension of physical quantities
 * 7) Extreme cold weather clothing
 * 8) Phase
 * 9) When were tracking chips invented?
 * 10) Violets
 * 11) What this paragraph on tetany mean?

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 30


 * 1) pink nebula
 * 2) abbreviation question
 * 3) Pancreatin use
 * 4) cool melting
 * 5) theoretical extent of hydroplaning -- how to calculate?
 * 6) Are these images useful?
 * 7) Does the Vagainal Mucos and Vagainal Lubrication are same?