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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 1

1. Earth gear
2. linear permanent magnet bearing?
3. Thermal Gravimetric Analysis
4. Contracting diseases via intercourse with cells?
5. Scientific Film Association
6. ELECTRIC WIRE
7. Do wires carrying DC get corroded more or less easily than those carrying AC?
8. Advice on modelling a flood
9. Speed of heat transfer
10. Europa (moon)
11. is melvin manhoef okay?
12. Can I eat my father's popcorn?
13. to get to orbit, is the weight of the rocket fuel you need linear with the weight of the payload you get up?
14. mRNA and secondary structure...
15. Black Arrow awakened
16. horse distance
17. Drug expiration dates

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 2

1. Ob. XKCD question.
2. Death
3. GLUT transporters
4. ohms law and current
5. My raw nuts are green - have they gone to seed?
6. counterfeit stamps
7. Recipe for production of hydrogen by electrolysis
8. Percent loss
9. Dental Cavities
10. vision acuity between 20/80 and 20/100 or 20/200
11. hydrogen ion concentration
12. cuts on penis
13. Most recent common ancestor for humans and dogs, or How closely related am I to my two dogs?

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 3

1. Stopping nuclear reactions with a jamming field
2. superacids that aren't corrosove?
3. Wal-Mart Orange Early Rise Drink Mix
4. Different species named "E. coli"
5. At what percentage alcohol does beer dehydrate rather than rehydrate?
6. Putting a very small satellite into orbit in space
7. Disease and disorder
8. anyone here good at both ecology and materials science?
9. Website that gives comprehensive info on chemicals
10. Snow Depth
11. Really small space probes
12. Global history of Europa
13. Progressive disease

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 4

1. Symmetry
2. concentrated alpha particles?
3. Experimenting with an 18V wall wort
4. film versus HDTV
5. Four-dimensional universe
6. cyanide poisoning or other deadly poisonous gases & residue
7. Name That Beetle
8. Right hand exposed to gel extraction's UV ray for 2 minutes non-stop.
9. life possible on other gas giant moons
10. Where does the momentum go when I put on the breaks?

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 5

1. How will Augmented Reality glasses work?
2. Fingernails?
3. Mustard pain
4. steam
5. three low pressure systems near each other? how do they interact?
6. Question
7. Find the average velocity
8. Potassium supplements
9. Hawking radiation
10. If I step on a Mormon cricket....
11. QUESTION-can magnetron be used as an amplifier
12. Bio-gas
13. light
14. Study which shows that some People will not change their minds
15. Why does Pluto's status as a Dwarf Planet bother so many people?
16. Menstruation
17. article on time deprivation

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 6

1. How prevalent is magical thinking among university graduates of the western world?
2. life question
3. particulate fluidisation
4. Reptiles, snakes or evnous snakes
5. Where on the r/K selection theory scale do social insects like ants and bees fall?
6. sleep
7. Less Deep Injuries cause Less Pain?
8. Good Book on analog filter design
9. Manufacturing process for Methylene Blue Injection 1%
10. light (bis)
11. Measuring snowfall when there are many drifts
12. Camping trailers HVAC energy efficiency
13. Private non-profit camp grounds shower & toilet facilities EPA
14. What do astronauts do when there's nothing to fly?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 7

1. Scurvy - 133 year delay
2. Weird TV interference
3. Animal/plant hybrid
4. Concrete/abstract knowledge
5. How common is the lack of understanding of the probability concept?
6. keeping roses in tip top shape
7. radioactivity
8. Another Avatar question - helicopters

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 8

1. Kangaroos
2. light (2)
3. light (3)
4. Scar removal?
5. "beanie" or "paint" taste of soy flour
6. Sport: Baseball Pitcher vs Cricket Bowler
7. Two ton wheel
8. faster than light?
9. Melamine microwave
10. Protein structure and function
11. time machine

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 9

1. Attraction of metal to magnet.
2. ADM formulation
3. Meiosis
4. Dinosaur eggs
5. Trepanation
6. capacitor
7. Flame Proof tests in USA and Europe
8. light(4)
9. anti-graviton (angriton)
10. Ancinet landmass plotting becomes less clear
11. death
12. chemical names
13. Water

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 10

1. black hole event horizon
2. Blue gold
3. EPR_paradox and uncertainty
4. Burning down stone buildings?
5. heat pump
6. soft iron
7. The Future
8. how many moons dwarf planets have total if we found all of them
9. earth-moon double planet
10. teleportation
11. Diethyl ether
12. Chemistry question in regards to chemical bonds

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 11

1. What kind of tree is this?
2. Does this group of compounds exist?
3. Paxil
4. Shape of Human foot
5. how do ants get into a house
6. stages of urine decomposition
7. h1n1 swine flu
8. How do the satellites move on their orbits?
9. Time Travel
10. Gravitomagnetic guage conditions
11. Question on Photography
12. Mains transformer with open circuit
13. Bread made with yeast
14. Non-sodium baking powder
15. Plotting lines of force (computer graphics)
16. Square Wave
17. Possible to make a small quantity of harmless "smoke" for assessment of PC airflow?

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 12

1. Apollo 13 and teflon
2. Time Travel question
3. Moon Question
4. Capacitors
5. mic
6. Sunscreen and acne
7. Dr Kevorkian
8. Scar removal/ Erase Scars
9. About burden of proof and scientific method
10. Popping ears
11. Civil Engineers Only .....reinforced concrete column behavior under load
12. Does a flame cast a shadow?
13. thoracentesis
14. ant poison methanol
15. Human field of view
16. Chemistry diagrams
17. Cryogenics

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 13

1. Travelling to the future
2. Carbon dioxide and plants at night
3. magnetic vector potential actual meaning?
4. Paranormal
5. Why did the Challenger shuttle explode in a white cloud?
6. drag vs Reynolds #

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 14

1. boiling
2. Signal White Now - Why?
3. heat loss
4. Malicious pigeon
5. good alternative to chess?
6. why is formic acid so much more toxic than acetic acid?
7. Miller-Urey

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 15

1. Cooking rice under pressure
2. Is this girl lying to me?
3. Fujiwhara effect
4. Relative temperature of fabrics
5. about the wounds
6. torro ant poison
7. Is clear a color?
8. Java loving roaches
9. Scientific experiments on brainwave activity when chanting nam myoho renge kyo
10. Snowfall in Hawaii
11. Chess
12. Malt Beverages and brewers yeast
13. INFORMATION ABOUT ENGINEERING VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS
14. Can soda cans rust?
15. Radar silence
16. Physics for launching rockets.
17. Iron sulphide
18. Broken glass
19. Do non-spatial countable infinities occur in nature?
20. Antibiotic vs. antimicrobial
21. Alpha Centauri
22. Humans to become extinct
23. Stupid question about molecular symmetry
24. Emergency, normal care, etc
25. Why does Energy Information Administration predict a fall-off in wind power growth?
26. Brain damage and pacing in animals

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 16

1. Very large cube
2. Effect of temperature change on skiing?
3. The Planets
4. If Titan do not heat to earthlike temperatures
5. Hydrogen
6. Ground State Energy
7. KOH + CO2 → KHCO3
8. sterno in racing
9. Wings and the human anatomy
10. Signal White Now II
11. Ferris/Chelsea wheel?
12. Parts of brain responsible for street smartness and academic intelligence
13. Ganymede
14. Fuel Consumption Problem - (How Much Extra Fuel Would I Use by Carrying More Fuel to Begin With?)
15. Mars Colony

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 17

1. Cabbage, salt and water... blue?
2. Orientation of the International Space Station
3. Linear density
4. Medical devices, WWII-era occupied Poland
5. I'm on a barge travelling across Neptune, towed by a cable connected to the moon Psamathe...
6. Time Capsule
7. Average world temperature
8. Ion list
9. Eating coffee beans
10. Cosmological argument and the fine-tuned Universe
11. Capacitor
12. Geological history of CT or North Eastern US coastline
13. Semen and skin
14. Variables in procession
15. Outgassing on Earth and Mars
16. Atmosphere to boil away on Earth
17. Question about male genitalis
18. glacial lake in siberia

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 18

1. A greenhouse on Mars
2. a little help with equilibrium constants and partition coefficients as they relate to solubility
3. Angular momentum in collisions
4. Math in physics
5. Hydrogen bond position transition
6. Black hole
7. Strange bug
8. What would happen to photon
9. How much sodium in 1g of Baking powder?
10. :File:refraction.jpg
11. Monarch Butterflies
12. Addiction
13. Twin Cities
14. Freezing Point Depression and Boiling Point Elevation

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 19

1. Altered taste buds after toothbrushing
2. Integrating Partition Functions
3. transformers
4. washingg labware
5. Apollo Missions
6. Cause of Menopause
7. Are kale stems edible?
8. H₂O a covalent compound
9. Rings around Earth
10. Always radioactive?

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 20

1. star size limits
2. Why are croc's more closely related to birds than lizards/snakes?
3. Decaying Copernicium
4. Erupting vanilla extract
5. Cooper Sulfate use
6. focal length of lens
7. Ideas for activity
8. Bendroflumethiazide mechanism of action

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 21

1. Green cones in the perception of colour
2. Spectroscopy spectrum order
3. how does magnet works in space?????????
4. Coed Olympic Events
5. Litmus paper
6. field lines of magnet
7. Stars ejected from the Milky Way
8. nutrition labels
9. research methods

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 22

1. Minimum Temperature For Human Survival
2. Speed skating
3. Nuclear isomers
4. Birthday
5. Salt in the Great Lakes
6. When the water and other fluids in comets evaporate, do they become hollow asteroids?
7. Insulin secretion in healthy adults per 24 hours
8. Uranus change in Orbit
9. Human Survival to Exposure
10. Pipes
11. Chemical differences between E150a, E150b, E150c, and E150d.
12. L-DOPA is less water-soluble than dopamine?
13. Human Survival to Exposure (on Earth)
14. Thai (?) translation request
15. Egg Whites
16. Supervised and Unsupervised Learning

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 23

1. Material in Servo Motor Winding?
2. Making tea with zingless water
3. Ice on car Windscreens.
4. Orbits
5. freezing point
6. liver
7. Octanediol
8. LOGIC GATES
9. Agni III
10. time dilation?
11. Do most people get enough vitamins and nutrients from their regular diet?
12. Linus Pauling
13. Sodium
14. acid
15. "local hour angle" in astronomy

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 24

1. Traffic fumes versus tobacco smoke
2. what is the most likely avenue for curing cancer?
3. bleach cover up
4. Does gasoline float on water? Will it dissolve sugar?
5. Electrolysis and Photolysis of Water
6. very hot water + some cold water = just warmed water?
7. Surface of Gas Giants
8. Aspirin from a tree?
9. r-tree structure for image retrieval
10. rebok
11. why is the universe so dumb?
12. Salt ionizing in water
13. Galactic Plane and Rotation
14. Weather and Axial Tilt
15. Joseph Jenkins
16. Black holes
17. is this a rigorous procedure?
18. Object at center of Black hole
19. Liquid-mixing scintillation effect
20. Subject catgeorization

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 25

1. salt in water
2. Chemical looks.
3. Nonrenewable Energy
4. moon mission
5. Steam
6. Donating plasma
7. milk ph
8. Articles about plants and animals
9. Mood Rings
10. Killing those fun guys.
11. What is A and what is AH2?
12. Are we all immortal?
13. Tallow
14. Is this Edge Peak?
15. Fog

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 26

1. Turning a switch backwards
2. Lorentz transformations
3. Mistake in Textbook?
4. difference between distance and displacement
5. Countering momentum
6. fuel oil
7. Animal tastebuds
8. NE Snowstorm
9. Using mouthwash and brushing teeth
10. Sand grains on earth
11. How long do preserved animals "keep"?
12. Circular logic? How was Avogadro's number originally determined?
13. Geochemical/Mineralogical Equilibrium
14. Becoming an engineer in the UK with a Msc.
15. Radiometric dating of dinosaur fossils
16. euthanasia
17. Curling
18. FIDEL CASTRO TRAVELS TO THE USA
19. Dark Energy not needed if gravitation converges to r instead of r^2 for large r ?!?

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 27

1. Age of a tree
2. Falling stick
3. Torque and pseudo-forces
4. Why are the roofs of factories shaped the way they are?
5. are there any original sound recordings of the moon missions where Houston forgets to wait at least 1 second before answering? (ie "hoax"?)
6. I heard that relativism and quantum mechanics in contradiction with each other
7. Places to live that never require heating or air conditioning
8. pulsar
9. different locations
10. How many stars?
11. FTL travel
12. LIQUID LATEX
13. Citation Journals Exercise
14. Detecting blood with light
15. can someone help me identify this leaf impression or the material surrounding it?
16. bitter tasting iceberg lettuce

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 February 28

1. The Final Theory
2. Desalination in the 19th. century
3. Water for Hydrogen Fuel in Deserts
4. Enclosure effect
5. Exploding Chicken?!
6. 4 Life Together, Building People
7. Sealing or contracting
8. Physical exercise vs. E=mc^2
9. Water Heater
10. Expanding space
11. Phosphenes
12. Strange, repetitive movements in "pseudo"-epilepsy?
13. Electricity usage
14. Real Medical Heroes.
15. Spontaneous pair creation (quarks)