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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 1

1. Are large rings of pure oxygen possible?

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 2

1. Animals with head first delivery preferred?

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 4

1. Is there any evidence that biology is reducible to physics
2. Can blood vessels damaged by hypertension repair themselves?
3. Australian Snakes - Origin ?

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 5

1. Species identification
2. Can organic chemistry reactions be calculated on a computer?
3. Astronomer vs. astrophysicist

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 6

1. All-weather fighters
2. Why are carbonate esters so obscure?
3. Source of medical opioids like Percocet, Percodan, and OxyContin.

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 7

1. Chief Engineer at Hughes Aircaraft at end of WWII
2. Straight lines on the ocean floor

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 8

1. Need access to a scientific journal
2. Strength of ice at colder temperatures?

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 9

1. pH measurement
2. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 10

1. FRB 180814.J0422+73

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 11

1. Making smoking healthy/healthier

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 12

1. What's the explanation for late allergy discovering
2. Can ferns be successfully grafted?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 13

1. Human skin colour evolution

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 14

1. Etymology of oxime
2. Mantises praying on birds and reptiles

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 15

1. Science Nobel prizes.
2. Train bells
3. Claims of being the best
4. Latex balloon additives

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 16

1. Do people who get an orchiectomy tend to experience weight gain afterwards?
2. Sources on the inventor of the railroad switch
3. Controversy about Jeanne Calment's date of death and age
4. Engineering catalogs

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 17

1. Microscopy in the 17th century

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 18

1. Inertia vs mass
2. Do magnets attract flying sparks?

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 19

1. Surgical masks
2. Preventing another Balvano
3. Armor Penetration
4. Enthalpy vs. internal energy: potential mistake in article
5. at witch pressure morphes air to a state that looks like steam ?
6. DNA

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 20

1. Phenomenal eggs
2. Emotions with a cognitive component
3. Looking for something about Isolation Experiments on people
4. Brown wax

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 22

1. What's the biggest ship that's physically possible to circumnavigate with 1 or 2 people?

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 23

1. Entangled particles and the double-slit experiment
2. Question about cold weather and water/ice

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 24

1. Firing up a train
2. Are large gulls closely related?
3. magnetic moment
4. Economically viable garbage recycling without subsidies

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 26

1. What was the last continent with a 360° rain shadow shield?

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 27

1. gender transition's effect on human refractory period

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 29

1. Wikipedia's "List of prolific inventors"

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 30

1. Autism and Vaccination - Wakefield’s Lancet Paper Vindicated – [Yet Again]

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 31

1. –150°F
2. What's the reason for two different colors of figs in the same tree?
3. ancient site
4. Photo of early man stone tool rejected
5. Alternating current waveform creation application for MacOS