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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 1

1. Full Moon on New Years
2. Is this a solution for gravity?
3. El Nino Southern Oscillation
4. The never dying fruitcake
5. Lunar exploration and Moon rock
6. yield for reduction of amides with LiAlH4
7. Diesel automobiles without diesel particulate filters
8. Gluten free bacon
9. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
10. Measuring vitamin C
11. Slim elderly people
12. Triple point
13. Carcinoma in Situ

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 2

1. formation of amides by reacting amides with esters
2. Calculate time and direction of Moonrise
3. Insomnia
4. How do birds shelter themselves in winter?
5. Reverse orgasm/sinking feeling?
6. Transmissible cancer
7. Aurora/solar wind as an Earth power source?
8. Replacing a diode
9. Music/sound
10. Schizophrenia and the human ear
11. Shampoo "build up"
12. Non-Ejaculatory Semen Removal from Testicles
13. Tortoise species

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 3

1. Cirrus clouds and snow
2. Common cold in animals
3. Thrust Curve
4. Distance time graph
5. Plant species mentioned in "Guns, Germs and Steel"
6. percentage illumination of moon's surface by sun light
7. percentage illumination of moon's surface by sun light
8. Why is the Large Hadron Collider underground?
9. Amateur 3D video, also sound editing question.
10. So humans have feet, dogs have paws, horses have hooves...
11. Mercury-vapor lamp usage
12. Results of oppositely charged or poled bodies in outer space
13. Battery life
14. Avoiding the British winter

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 4

1. Auxetics utilization in model?
2. jap heating
3. Verification Needed - unlikely cite check.
4. cramped legs
5. Animal intelligence
6. Expansion in a matter of time
7. Cause of death
8. "protecting plastics" for cargo
9. what do you call this alkene? is it a good dienophile?
10. Frozen organisms
11. pull of gravity or magnetism or any force
12. Frozen citrus fruit?
13. LCD TVs and their Manufacturers
14. Plantain herb
15. What people believed about science in earlier times
16. Does the body need to "breath" oxygen?
17. Unknown animals
18. Nutrient Deficiencies
19. planet surviving being engulf by sun
20. redshift/blueshift hypothetical

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 5

1. sky colors over a blue stars
2. french spiderman
3. The Pacific Gull's huge beak...
4. Power Curtain
5. Impreza
6. From nothing to electricity
7. For example, O +ve, and A1 -ve are rare types.
8. Why are some metals more conductive than others?

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 6

1. How the hell do people get AIDS?
2. Climate Change and work done by Professor Cox at Princeton University USA
3. Anti nuclear anti bodies
4. Rice type
5. Physics and Chemistry
6. LMC/SMC Not orbiting Milky Way?
7. catalytic dehydrogenation
8. Cursus honorum
9. Spots on Betelgeuse, or just an imaging artifact?
10. Decay
11. Muonic matter armour?
12. Flesh covered android?
13. Special dreams
14. Exploding olive oil
15. butter churning
16. Palm Trees in Eastern Coast, USA
17. Sound of sloshing water in home heating system
18. Life sensors
19. Reacting vicinal diols with formaldehyde hydrate (methanediol)

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 7

1. what does antimatter look like?
2. duphaston tablet
3. Virtual Reality?
4. Fronts
5. How do I change my ocular dominance?
6. Large Hadron Collider question
7. Plastic bowl used in microwave
8. Aqua Amino: "An energised vortex implosion" | Clean up your amino acid loading bays | Restore water to its original crystal structure
9. Why do cold fingers get pruney?
10. in vitro use of enzymes

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 8

1. californium
2. Chewing medicine capsules
3. Bacteria and Human feces
4. Water/Hydroxylic acid
5. Question related to Carbon-Capture and Sequestration
6. powering a stepper motor
7. Well water smell
8. Spectrophotometer operating manual?
9. Books about the creation of new breeds
10. Trabant automobiles and Umweltzonen
11. What is a "tail bridge"?
12. Tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron + reducing silanes
13. Ohm's Law
14. name of a littoral creature - nasty looking phallic thing
15. Color preference vs. gender

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 9

1. Instruments to track plate motions
2. putting Pluto back to planet status
3. Unknown animals
4. exploding halo planets
5. hybrid wind water turbine
6. Radon in milwaukee
7. Dark skies
8. The electronic structure of anhydrous oxide crystals
9. dissolving sodium in water ... a pentuple enthalpy whammy?
10. Vitamin E
11. Shut eye
12. How is this possible?
13. Hot spots in cold water
14. Data mining, data is doubling every three years
15. About Sinkiang, phillippine sea and Noha’s flood
16. Disrupted food chains
17. Gulf stream collapse & European winter storms of 2009–2010
18. Structure of guanosine
19. Human-great ape hybrid
20. heater efficiency

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 10

1. Relationship between sleep and seme* production/quality/maintenance
2. Conversion efficiency.
3. The name of this flower?
4. Alcohol hangover cause of insomnia?
5. biosynthesis of LSD-like compounds: how do tryptophan and asparagine end up fusing to share the same nitrogen atom?
6. environmentally friendly oxidation of aldehydes
7. LHC - cooling
8. 1,1-diacetoethylene

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 11

1. Pace of CO₂ Capture
2. Human hair: stripes and dots?
3. Mirrors and their color
4. Bathroom Bacteria Aerosol
5. 1,3,5 trihydroxyhexane
6. Mass Difference of Chemical Bonds
7. Better Question
8. F. B. H. Brown
9. explain the name of acetoacetaldehyde
10. Proton NMR
11. Derailed on the uses of trona
12. Protein Shakes

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 12

1. Thioglycolic acid depilatories in "sensitive" areas
2. cyclisation of tryptophan (C-4 self-acylation)
3. speaker wires
4. are carboxylates still electron-withdrawing groups?
5. Design for a wood shelf bracket
6. Tea
7. Old weather data?
8. Synthetic Feather
9. are Zinc pills caustic?
10. Bacteria abundance
11. first zero-net energy development of single family homes on the planet?
12. physics
13. radio waves and their structure
14. Alien Technology
15. Genius Offspring
16. What's the sampling limit of human hearing?
17. Magnetic Permeability of Free Space
18. CYMK space models
19. Gall stone disease urine dipstick results
20. Vacuum energy level in heterojunctions
21. Animal optical illusion
22. Elements

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 13

1. Pain caused by discussion of pain or 'medical' issues
2. mirrors
3. Fanuc Ac servomotor
4. time machine.
5. Fanuc material
6. Flying Flat Bug
7. Average adult vitamin D status of the Maasai people of Kenya?
8. The "cc" rating of a car battery charger
9. Mechanics of cancer death?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 14

1. Could you explain why all parrots seem to be able to communicate with each other?
2. Would a spaceship travelling through a nebula leave vortices behind?
3. Which combination of neutron flux and gamma rays decontaminates nuclear waste best?
4. Assessed earthquake risks
5. true surface area
6. Least likely place for an earthquake?
7. Entomophobia
8. Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series : The Mule
9. what if my mom dies
10. Bad Electrical Outlet?
11. How long to pedal to the moon from Orbit?
12. Quickest way of dissolving steel

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 15

1. Requirements for cloning
2. Cats and plastic garbage bags
3. Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen
4. Cheap hurricane and earthquake protection?
5. Gas furnace ignitor
6. Building construction standards in earthquake-prone areas
7. water liquid temps
8. Stress on a shelf bracket
9. minibeasts

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 16

1. Strength of a wood-screw joint
2. are these EWGs?
3. Electrical circuit loading
4. protection of aromatic substitution sites
5. Toilet bowl - the cleanest place in school?
6. Lorentz transformation
7. computer symulation for the theory of general relativity of Einstein
8. Crop yield
9. Does milk spoil or taste old faster the less of it is left in the container?
10. How does Parathyroid hormone work on the kidneys?
11. the asymmetry of acetic anhydride

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 17

1. Any limit to bandwidth?
2. Red dwarfs proportion to all stars
3. Old school cathode ray television superior?
4. Polarization of radio waves for extra signal capacity?
5. How warm should the water used with yeast in bread machines be?
6. Effects on mood: a) stuffy atmosphere, b) gloom or time of day
7. liquid diamond
8. Coconut water
9. why don't diamonds oxidise?

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 18

1. Cryogenic metal compared to traditional thermal energy storage
2. Animals with colorful names (literally!)
3. gun
4. Gaines Adams - latest enlarged heart... victim?
5. Osteological signs of birth
6. Name for a symptom
7. Why is diamond metastable?
8. texting
9. Short Life of Light Bulbs
10. Antarctica again
11. Palezoic climates
12. periodic table question
13. Efficiency of Einstein refrigerator
14. Running the Einstein refrigerator in reverse as a heat pump

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 19

1. Circuit Problem
2. Empirical studies of emotion
3. illusion of wheel's direction
4. circuits
5. plate changing speeds
6. Tree of Life in circular form
7. Electrical Heating Distribution
8. difference between sea and ocean
9. facebook
10. cyclisation of tryptophan
11. Woman sentenced to 4 years for torching boyfriend's penis
12. Autocrine signalling
13. Technical vs managerial career track
14. Gaussian and SI Units of Charge
15. Relation between angular velocity and torque
16. The path of the moon through the sky
17. unlikeliest thing to happen that did in fact happen? (that we know of)
18. escaping black holes
19. Resistance/Stress
20. Relationship between moon phase and the azimuths of moonrise or moonset
21. gene concepts
22. EADS Astrium orbital power
23. Where do Squirrels go in the Winter?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 20

1. freckles
2. Ohm's Law
3. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
4. What mean east and west speaking of the Antartic ?
5. What kind of fish is this?
6. Do Solids burn
7. Latitudes and longitudes with the most land or the most water
8. Virginity

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 21

1. Plants
2. Numbers
3. Could you harness the energy from an avalanche?
4. Cryogenic eutectic exergy
5. pressure gauges
6. driving force for sigmatropic rearrangements
7. very small question
8. dianionic copper
9. Orgasm
10. Dienogest
11. Salt and water balance
12. Pluto habitat for life in 7 billion year sun
13. Darwin

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 22

1. Pelvic cavity capacity
2. Why can't water freeze when salt is added?
3. Prilosec and Prevacid
4. Genetic mutations, human electromagnetic fields and electronics
5. immunity and cancer
6. Red dwarfs: proportion to all stars
7. coil spring life
8. Calculating Pressure
9. Golden syrup versus sugar
10. Heroin addiction
11. Speed
12. Quantum mechanics and probability
13. About human evolution
14. longjack
15. Consumer Medication Guides
16. life on other planets
17. Preventing deterioration of rubber-made articles
18. Surface temperature of planets and moons

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 23

1. Avalanche season in the Canadian Rockies
2. Hudson Bay ice
3. Help explain "bandwidth" in wired connections
4. Best long-term energy storage?
5. oxygen's diradical nature ... what about the halogens?
6. Over-watering my Philodendron
7. Circulation in Whitefish
8. hot water storage
9. why no hair in biodegradable waste?
10. What is energy?

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 24

1. Maps of Australia
2. Hypochondria paradox
3. live jasmin
4. Expression of ratios
5. Use of Enoxaparin sodium in aortic dissection.
6. Quick seagull question

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 25

1. why is THF called THF?
2. name of those fenced-in forests of powerlines and insulators etc?
3. Menstrual period pregnancy
4. Circadian rhythm studies
5. wind turbine generator manufactures
6. volumetric display using microscopic hemispheres? Has this been thought of yet?
7. Voltage divider
8. extrasolar planets
9. Laws of Thermodynamics
10. do E. coli process cellulose?
11. indonesia plate
12. how do I get rid of awful vibration artifact in my speaker setup?

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 26

1. Cloning question
2. moonrise
3. Red bull exhaust pipe and rust
4. is this a valid question here?
5. Refrigeration not supported at low ambient temperature
6. Hall effect EEG?
7. Psychological reason for former students talking about how strict/tough teachers were
8. Improving Loudspeakers
9. Tyre pressure
10. Human Underwater Speed Record
11. Evolution
12. Happy Brains à gogo, TMS Experiment
13. why has no one investigated the acid-base properties of chloramines?
14. planetary nebula
15. Planet to keep a descent atmosphere
16. Number of seeds contained in a grape

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 27

1. What is the meaning, and/or purpose of human life?
2. Brown lines and sections on house plant leaves
3. Tobacco's body count and total excess deaths of drugs
4. Capturing a comet inside an asteroid for an aquarium
5. Superball
6. joule thief
7. Heat death of the universe
8. Role Directory - Municipal Solid Waste Industry
9. Milk
10. The sound of a fractal?
11. Gray Whales
12. Boxer's Diet
13. chemistry solubility
14. Are handbooks the Reader's Digest of academia?
15. Gadolinium
16. Irrational numbers
17. Near Airports : Blocked Radio Waves
18. burning hashbrowns
19. Humane biological warfare - incapacitating the enemy
20. SHM in a RLC circuit
21. the chemisty of seating gels
22. corrosive gun primers
23. vicinal halogenated compounds

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 28

1. Circuit simulation
2. Nuclear power
3. Placebo and Control
4. power electronics
5. Minimum number of cameras needed for HD volumetric reconstruction?
6. What's the difference between hairline skin and crown skin?
7. Blood pressure and fitness
8. The Scientic Method
9. Predator Fish Species in Farm Ponds
10. SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOUr mental health
11. what could we do with unlimited free energy?
12. neutron up quark color
13. spores
14. Bird identification

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 29

1. Bismuth
2. Bacteria hitchhiking on manmade sattelites?
3. Questions on quantum mechanics
4. An optical (digital?) microscope
5. magnetic piston thermodynamics.
6. Most Green Company in the World
7. Stinky drawers
8. A difficult undertaking
9. I'm having me an All-U-Can-Eat Dolphin Meat-a-thon Dinner in Japan
10. Swiss Climate
11. how does carbon dioxide poisoning induce lesioning and fluid discharge, etc.
12. NSA, FBI, CIA Automatic KEYWORD Internet Search for BODY of Electronic-Messages
13. hanging
14. Sun's position throughout the year
15. Pluto's atmosphere
16. visibility on the moon
17. How much heat loss through a door slightly open?

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 30

1. itching
2. Saline Faraday cage
3. touch screen
4. super-simple question about life on other universe
5. why are winter winds so strong?
6. Clouds id
7. moles
8. Furnace efficiency vs. exhaust gas temperature
9. Clothes Washer and Dryer
10. Wronger than wrong
11. The only paper ever published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal on Intelligent design
12. Question re: Magnetic pole switch

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 January 31

1. take a solution of enantiomerically pure lactic acid in water ... pH 4-5
2. Thinking about other things and performance in minesweeper while tired
3. No matter how much I eat, I don't gain weight.
4. Polyethylene foam bed vs Urethane
5. Horrible Insects
6. Depth and temperature
7. What gas is green?
8. Order of reaction Mg + HCl
9. Chemical formula of cellulose
10. Energy from reversing desalination
11. Perpetrual-reality