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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 1

1. milk
2. Our nearest neighbouring solar system
3. Jacob Barnett: amount of carbon created in the early universe
4. 3D for one-eyed Jacks
5. Prevost theory of heat exchange
6. parasite chain
7. Pressure at the seabed
8. Butterfly effect
9. 'Carbonating' a drink with N2O
10. List of nuclear reactors using MOX fuel
11. Info needed on Broyer Canyon, Brown County, Nebraska
12. Stanless Steel Grades

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 2

1. 911
2. Energy
3. What plant is that?
4. Eggs and earthquakes
5. Double-heading
6. Engine braking
7. why electrical arcs don't flow straight
8. Name this garden flower?
9. Aluminum foil
10. What has more hydrogen?
11. Hissssss touch bringsssssss... decay!
12. snowflakes
13. Relativity paradox

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 3

1. Newton's Second Law
2. To be cleaner, we'll have to scrub ourselves from the inside-out too. How will we?
3. about black holes
4. Moving a Space Shuttle
5. Steam train in a tunnel
6. types of motion
7. pH of water containing dissolved substances and release rate of carbon dioxide

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 4

1. defrosting meat with sugar v. defrosting it with kosher salt
2. Tool to calculate what temperature I need to change the air to, to achieve a desired Relative Humidity (RH)?
3. Optical "Jacks" on the Back of my TV and Blu-Ray Player
4. Selenium oxidation
5. Removing Hydrophobic Silicon Product from car windscreen
6. Can I repair a laptop charger with graphite?
7. Are monkeys able to throw darts?
8. Bold for first instance of abbreviations in journals?
9. Himilayan glacial meltwater
10. Human height and calcium
11. Infra red absorption
12. Keeping PIR-controlled light on

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 5

1. Recommended Daily Intake
2. Do Tsunamis hit with force?
3. Taxonomy
4. based on chemistry
5. Warkany syndrome 1 and 2
6. Lunar dust and telescopy
7. Swimming beneath the waves.
8. Guitar tuning
9. Monkeys and bananas
10. Fertility of volcanic ash
11. Laptop adapter malfunctioning

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 6

1. How long can wine be kept?
2. Radioactive Water Decay
3. some questions
4. compair this two diagrams
5. Have any miracles really happened?
6. Confused about Lyme Disease
7. communication
8. LASER vs. CD-ROM/DVD moving
9. Question about how long you can keep cosmetics
10. What is it called when we perceive time as passing slower?
11. "The faces of the dead bore expressions of horror."
12. "S" internet protocol?
13. Real or digitally altered?
14. Unikont vs Bikont
15. Fifth force announced at Fermilab --- maybe.
16. absurd discrepancy of large numbers

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 7

1. Inspiration of Alain Carpentier
2. Better table salt (potassium, citrate, bicarbonate, magnesium, calcium, etc.)
3. Average weight of cattle
4. Estimating moisture content of meat by its weight loss
5. Why petals of flowers dont have rectangular or square shape?
6. Chemical series
7. Blood-brain Barrier
8. Marketing prescription-only meds to the consumer
9. Cells
10. Super glue removal from skin
11. Strange lightning-like flashes inside a room every night
12. Poppy seeds
13. Turning Jupiter into a sun

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 8

1. Delay in Nobel awards
2. Iodine-131
3. Jaw mobility
4. How many people have ever lived?
5. Singing stars
6. Name this flower?
7. Stalactites and coal dust
8. Cells Removal
9. Panderian organ in Trilobites
10. quantum numbers for a multi-electron system
11. Does this seem right to you?

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 9

1. What is this called?
2. characteristics of neutron star nebula
3. Identify this fruit
4. Ventrolateral side
5. Butterfly effect
6. Where were those isotopes referenced?
7. cocoon
8. Could you please check my math?
9. Mythical terminal disease ?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 10

1. Is there and hand-powered or foot-powered laptop charger?
2. Mars Science Laboratory landing criteria
3. Sound in space
4. Question about the lightcone?
5. Carburator.......mystry......
6. how are methane and CO2 greenhouse gases?
7. what kind of spider is this black one with a red butt?
8. What is the best store-bought equipment to clean soot out of the fireplace walls?
9. Calories per pound?
10. are there calories in water?
11. Energy source graph
12. Canine teeth and monkeys
13. Electron resonance and tapping
14. Fog
15. Chemical bonding
16. Electron configuration orbitals
17. Four-winged vs. two winged flight

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 11

1. Past oxygen
2. List of American northward-flowing rivers?
3. Double Recombination II
4. Photon travel time during stellar collision
5. Rabbit death
6. Photons

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 12

1. DNA samples and testing time
2. Efficiency of fixed wings vs. rotors
3. Maximum carrying capacity of aircraft
4. Giant Sequoia
5. Taxonomy/Etymology question...
6. The power of noise
7. What will happen if bicycle tyre will be filled using Helium gas?
8. What eventually happens to a beam of light?
9. Eliminating sex
10. UV emission from electric arcs
11. Farmer's action plan?
12. light-bulb
13. Mining of thick seams
14. wrong named structure

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 13

1. Speed of Earth's orbit around the sun
2. Using decay heat in a nuclear reactor to spin a turbine
3. whey gel
4. Universe = black hole, for some of time... or wait, only in the sideways version of time, which is length (*confused mumbling*)
5. Bear pit
6. Mass-energy conversion of the human body
7. Evaporated Water Consumption
8. How did the hills of Rwanda form, and how old are the soils?
9. Follow-up on cleaning apple juice bottles for recycling
10. Do we feel heat from the sun because of Infra Red, or because of the energy in the entire spectrum?
11. Procession of the Perihelion

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 14

1. Pseudoscience: suspended water
2. FIBONCCI NUMBER
3. Cardiomyopathy
4. Pycnodeuterium
5. physical education
6. Differences between conservative and liberal brain
7. xrays and vitamins
8. Are there any trends in the half-lifes of isotopes?
9. shivers down my spine -- are they endorphins?
10. Breaking neck
11. Why half-life is more important than total decay?
12. Ionization of d-block elements
13. Lugol's iodine
14. Magnetism

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 15

1. Why is DC voltage used in public transportation
2. Diagnosing an electrical problem
3. Relativistic mass
4. Triplet v.s. Singlet Oxygen
5. Period food
6. Pinion?
7. Design pattern: both for software and art
8. Live vs. recorded sound
9. two questions about electromagnetic waves
10. Discovery of rimantadine and references
11. Head rotation
12. Screen-width Problem in computer
13. Seafloor river bed in Toyama Bay, Honshu from Google Earth

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 16

1. Question about gravity and absolute zero temperature?
2. Help! I have some questions about Venus, Uranus and the moon
3. Old Balls
4. Translational acceleration
5. Strange archive search message
6. Sensations and the vocabulary to describe them
7. What do glucocorticoids do?
8. Infinite re-reflection
9. Brain scan lie detection
10. Nationwide ground stop effect
11. Antarctic ice sheet
12. 3 science questions
13. Freedom of navigation in the Earth's outer core

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 17

1. Does FRET work on IGE?
2. How to cheat reading eye chart?
3. molten earth heaviest elements where
4. Modern mammals nocturnal?
5. Late-leafing trees in southern England
6. Failure due to mechanical vibrations
7. Is there a theory about the stuff called "Significant Atomic Mass"?
8. Lewis structure standard
9. Most reflective mirror
10. Antimatter explosion
11. Keystone species
12. Glasses that correct for higher order abberations
13. Getting cheese moldy?
14. Spray to clean dog feces

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 18

1. Why isn't drinking coffee when tired considered negative feedback?
2. How are each Harley-heads better than each other?
3. Deja vu - but without the sense of experiencing that exact event
4. UV and Air Disinfection
5. Micro hydro and a home's power consumption
6. galileo's theory
7. Hand shaking
8. UV TEA laser
9. A question of which I do not now how to title
10. Another query: Storage of Information
11. transmutation
12. Bouncy bicycles
13. Ethanol Efficiency.
14. Binding energy

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 19

1. A few questions about the Japan earthquake...
2. "System of Care" health care
3. Atomic number and qualities of the element
4. Why only 92
5. is there a formula from wavelength in nanometres to RGB?
6. Electrodynamics
7. Chickens in a container
8. Having sex after working out
9. Excessive caffeine and hair loss
10. vitamins
11. materials treatment
12. Absolute
13. Testosterone Levels
14. FPGAs in space applications
15. ChemDraw diagrams in articles
16. Windward Islands and trade winds
17. IBM Watson's size in 10 years.
18. If cars followed Moore's Law from the 1925 Model T
19. Craps probability question

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 20

1. Getting rid of double chin's fat
2. A science question concerning light years
3. Spy camera-type hardware to use as ocular implants for the blind - Why do I never hear of them?
4. Would a rail gun give recoil?
5. If there was not salt in oceans
6. THE best way of transferring water up to top of the hill
7. Rat population dynamics
8. Notoungulata
9. Hollow plant stems
10. Smell of salt
11. Edible plant parts
12. Human kindness
13. pvc

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 21

1. Venus
2. Bosch reaction
3. What would Earth be like if it was 82% more wonderful?
4. Kindle 1 reflective scrolling — how does it work?
5. unknown herb
6. Glow discharge creation
7. Where have the "edit" buttons per section gone?
8. Digital signals in space

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 22

1. What's the species?
2. potentiometer question
3. ELECTRONICS
4. marsh plant that needs pressure from flowing water to hold structure?
5. Indian Thundershowers
6. What does the word "Pinkie" mean?
7. What connections should scientists explore?
8. Reaction Gone Wrong
9. can a relativistic proton change into a neutron? or break up into various particles?
10. What kind of flowering tree?
11. Fission2

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 23

1. Ibuprofen structure
2. Perspiration
3. how to pass entrance
4. UHT milk in Greece
5. ELECTRONICS
6. top-antibottom mesons existance?
7. Gold Vs. Silver
8. Young's double slit experiment
9. The effects of dreams on long term memory
10. Speaker wire
11. What is a Tripletino?
12. Ocean surface lumps above sea mounts
13. Recombining all the oxygen with H then how much more water?
14. THE SUPERNOVA 1987A
15. Active electronic metamaterials.
16. Echos in the Treasury of Atreus

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 24

1. How should antibacterial news be added to Wikipedia?
2. human as a mammal
3. What kind of engineering will be required to make sphere wheels possible?
4. window
5. Chemicals in the body to counteract other chemicals in mood change- e.g., caffeine
6. control valves in aircrafts.
7. can cerebral palsy lead to...
8. If there are call queues, why aren't there fax queues?
9. Is there a service to send a text at a preset time?
10. Origin of Potential Energy
11. Typical discharge current
12. Time travel
13. chemistry
14. Potential pollution in sea salt
15. Kevlar Production
16. Water splitting on a worldwide scale

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 25

1. PBS series about a family using 1980's computer
2. Do avocados contain cholesterol?
3. blood type
4. Does Diet Coke cause cancer?
5. Laser pump design
6. Can a dish washer dissolve rubber compeletely?
7. Pharmacology - Dose Effect Curves
8. Trees and/or plants affected by white-tailed deer and invasive species in Maryland
9. motional electric field
10. NNRTIs and Hep B
11. the kinetics of 3H + 2H ---> 4He + n

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 26

1. Application of brain lateralization to UI design?
2. How to save generic annotated DNA sequences?
3. Fermi Paradox and data encryption
4. Toasted bread
5. perennial
6. Higgs boson

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 27

1. quarks
2. Why does coldness hasten the browning of a banana peel?
3. Blood supply to the dartos muscle
4. Selling spent nuclear fuel
5. ISS lights
6. Do fluorescent lights have a preferred frequency when they flicker?

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 28

1. dna
2. steel I-beam (H beam / double T beam) color?
3. Is dishwashing liquid safe on plastic water bottles?
4. Hydrogen Sulfide
5. large bowel
6. What are the most dangerous jobs with positions available?
7. Brain to Body Mass Ratio
8. Unidentified Flower (or maybe Fungi?)
9. Drug that removes the ability to resist

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 29

1. nervous system
2. SF "sensors" and today's technology
3. SHM
4. Blowing up a tornado
5. Reference desk (science) quasi-semiprotected?
6. Breathing gas
7. biotechnology
8. reverse osmosis
9. Transit time
10. Irish wildfires
11. Ventral Aorta
12. DNA differences

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 April 30

1. Sicily, the Gulf of Sidra and continental drift
2. Superconductors
3. Kepler mission
4. Lead Cycle
5. Maximum possible temperature
6. Preparing DNA sample for crystallography?