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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 1

1. Cyan stays behind
2. Is this genetically possible?
3. What is this thing? Strange life form?
4. about gills the shark has
5. Gravitation and Electromagnetism
6. Gravity chat
7. Question regarding dBm
8. humane meat harvesting
9. Pregnancy in Space
10. Ungrounded alternator
11. Position basis of a wave function
12. What the heck is this?
13. Plain water
14. 'Karl Malden nose'

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 2

1. Acceptability of wave function
2. Solution to biting insects?
3. Who has a "blood-brain barrier"?
4. Ether Physics
5. Second Generation Growth
6. Hydrogen atom
7. quantum mechanics
8. conductivity of electrolites
9. thermodynamics
10. conductance
11. fingers and toes
12. Light speed clarification
13. Solar Panels
14. Green stars?
15. Insect identification

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 3

1. Nose-picking in nonhumans
2. cortisone
3. What sort of math is being used?
4. light propogaton versus particle stability
5. pocket desert
6. What are the strongest and weakest points of gravity on earth?
7. At what speed do galaxies travel through the universe/space?
8. Neoprene wetsuit in chlorinated water
9. Minimum Sample Size for a Correlation Study
10. Blood pressure in cats

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 4

1. what sort of atomic radius is this?
2. The real reason the most shell fish should be kept live until cooking
3. Dumping
4. X-ray background
5. Fungi-related food questions
6. Viewing solar eclipse
7. Physics questions
8. Black or white parasol?
9. Work of objects in inertial motion
10. Need help identifying this... thing
11. What term would describe this
12. Rogue pulsar
13. Is there a term for this psychological phenomenon?:
14. A question of comfort

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 5

1. Vacuum energy
2. Aqua Regia
3. Sauroposeidon
4. TRYING TO FIND AN ARTICLE ON HOW COME DOES IT SNOW
5. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change trends
6. Cheese oxidises or loses water when exposed to air at 4 degrees celcius?
7. biology red blood cells
8. Pain in buttocks and legs
9. Ecological Term
10. lard
11. Bony lumps

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 6

1. Main page "Featured picture" for July 6, 2009
2. Doll's rule in evolutionary biology
3. How does a bicycle puncture repair kit work?
4. Looking for a theory of a memory
5. Cow identification
6. DuPont Co. left out of General Motors history.
7. Rule of thumb
8. Waste disposal
9. Simulate semiconductor
10. Dogs and tyres
11. walking across the USA
12. Plant identification
13. Penis
14. Penis again, sort of
15. Bird Rescue

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 7

1. Swine flu
2. Solar cell from calculator harnessing
3. assessing potential fish stock / resources in a region
4. fish catch effort
5. Coriolis effect
6. Remote iris scans
7. Car solenoid(?) question
8. Why do we have nerves in our teeth?
9. Intraocular Lens
10. Late teens/early twenties
11. Is this a weevil?
12. Car engine clapping
13. adding to an entry for my employer, a state agency
14. Aluminum Garbage cans
15. output per man
16. Florida vs tidal wave
17. Depression and violence
18. Human Body Responses
19. Do cations and anions of a same molecule have different Lewis structures?
20. CO2 and carbon taxation
21. ovarian follicles

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 8

1. Paddy Mouse
2. Do birds have an equivalent to the navel, as seen in mammals?
3. Dislocated knuckles
4. Animal intelligence and attempts to escape captivity
5. Massless patricles in quantum mechanics
6. Black or white aircraft paint?
7. Torque multiplication in a torque converter
8. Does humidity affect hair growth?
9. Glycerine + Ca(OH)2 ?
10. Particles that are their own antiparticles and vice versa
11. plasma
12. Price of agricultural products
13. anchors and tides
14. B vitamins
15. Ctenophores as human food source
16. Relatedness of species / Last common ancestor

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 9

1. Rubbish/Garbage Island
2. What type of tick is this? Is it even a tick?
3. Railroad train wheels
4. Can you legally have hypodermic needles in rochester new york without a perscription?
5. Latex vs polyisoprene condoms
6. Purification of fish oil
7. oscillators and frequency.
8. Calculating time to full battery recharge
9. Can lightning strike an airplane?
10. Preparing for war
11. Dark skin vs. fair skin
12. NH4CL
13. Plasma weapons
14. Barton's pendulums
15. Freeview (UK) - software updates?
16. Milky Way colliding with another galaxy

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 10

1. SAT identification
2. Amytriptyline
3. Coriolis force
4. dino to bird query
5. cauterize instead of suture
6. the clap
7. Ear infection
8. Brain Freeze
9. Zigzag pattern on railway tracks
10. distance between plants
11. Why is the temporal bone classified as irregular?
12. Smoking tea or coffee
13. Evolution of the anus
14. Dirty Question
15. Drafting
16. Dirty Question II
17. Horse

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 11

1. Washboard effect on gravel roads
2. Fire
3. Fire particles
4. Airplane glory shadow
5. can i say so
6. Orbital Capture of Moons
7. H and O in H2O
8. Combined dynamo and starter motor
9. Swine flu versus ordinary flue

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 12

1. What are these structures?
2. Life span of the Voyager Golden Record
3. Pain
4. About time dilation
5. Dumb sheep
6. Trading agro products
7. Why do men and women exist? (evolutionary biology)
8. Plz help me quickly(some science related questions)
9. General all-over soreness and tenderness when ill
10. What mechanisms trigger vasodilation?
11. Abdominal muscles
12. Video... thing to I.D
13. Cartanium?
14. Primate Relatedness
15. Gametogenesis in Hermaphrodites (earthworms)

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 13

1. Tornado Hypothesis
2. INMARSAT segment
3. What do mango pleco's eat?
4. Alcohol and Exertion
5. Einstein equations for scalar field plus gravitation
6. Amount of life on Earth
7. white paint to fight golabal warming plan?
8. Optical Contact Bonding
9. amateur astronomy questions.
10. A spring in space
11. Sky colors on remoter stars

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 14

1. Electonic ab belts/abdominators/whatever they're called...
2. Does anything help unjoin PVC?
3. Possibility of a strabismus drug?
4. distance light travels per cycle
5. Gaviotas sleeve pump
6. What is this plant?
7. Wellness and the Wellness Wheel
8. When is it too cold for Mosquitos?
9. HUAUZONTLE - red or green or both ???
10. Mercury
11. Lack of hunger
12. Jenkem
13. faster then the speed of light?
14. Periodicity of ionization energies?
15. Artists' impressions of planet surfaces
16. Big Bang, how did it happen?
17. Alumina ceramic
18. Backup Heart
19. What are the odds?
20. Solubility of Ionic Compounds
21. The Limit of heat?

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 15

1. Beetle factoid
2. Ultimate Revenge/Punishment - Paralysis with no possibility of communication
3. Staying upright on a bike
4. light beams repel each other?
5. Psychology / Lying Videos
6. torque
7. Jade
8. Water Wheel Power
9. What are pavement cells?
10. Cleaning oil stain from thermal plastic elastomer
11. Computer chassis of sisal?
12. decarboxylation
13. coommon cold
14. question about ticks
15. Calculating the odds
16. What is the danger of using 3-ohm speakers with 4-ohm receiver?

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 16

1. The Cancer Genome Atlas
2. Plants listed by oxygen production/toxin removal
3. Parasympatholytica
4. Atmosphere and Gravity
5. Pluto's diameter and why gas giant's moon number keep growing
6. Glycerin free personal lubricants
7. African plate
8. healthy diet and muscle spasms
9. Man on Moon

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 17

1. Some people smell bad. Why?
2. Putting fiber in my fiber
3. Perception of square-wave sounds
4. lcd and tft
5. voltage and charging batteries.
6. Theory vs. law
7. Falling objects
8. kindly help....for spectrophotometer
9. Documenting 2009 solar eclipse
10. gold plated connectors
11. REPORTING
12. A thermometer broke in a hot tub
13. Dry mouth
14. looking for information on a type of water-powered hammer
15. Mercury again
16. ethyl acetate formation by cooking?
17. Acidic bitterness
18. colour of the moon
19. green chlorophyll
20. Cigarettes against tear gas?
21. airspeed indicators
22. Stomach aches and depression

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 18

1. Car incident types
2. Miscarriage question
3. Can all animals store fat?
4. Irreducibility of multivariate polynomials
5. Gravity
6. infertility
7. How far can people shout?
8. Apollo Lunar Rovers
9. How well known was the gravitation of the moon?
10. Cute bug
11. WQ Test

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 19

1. Who was the first man to masturbate in space?
2. Bioavailability of calcium
3. Reflecting light vs color
4. firefly
5. Needles on the skin
6. What's the resolution of our eyes?
7. Long-term storage of water
8. Coal liquefaction economical at how many dollars per barrel?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 20

1. Green things growing in water
2. How much energy remains in the spent nuclear fuel produced yearly from US nuclear reactors?
3. Calorie/Kilocalorie
4. Little greedy bastard
5. Beetles nesting in old disks
6. Fusion of vertebrae with age - painful?
7. Capillarity
8. Temperature X-Treme
9. Influenza A epidemic
10. Breast implant's rejection
11. Explain about Prion Diseases
12. Rabies vaccine
13. Earth's Net Charge
14. North and Suth America

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 21

1. Why don't birds ever get rabies?
2. Is Attachment Resistance Disorder the same as Reactive Attachment Disorder?
3. Flash memory and chargeable devices
4. Two identical piece of tachyon stuff hitting each other
5. Common House Plants
6. Medical/Scientific Term for Non-Aging
7. Gravity dependence
8. What kind of intelligence do mathematics require?
9. Infinite amount of mass in the universe?
10. ART (Active Release Techniques)
11. Does this budgie have a disease?
12. Neomogroside
13. Blind
14. African plate motion

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 22

1. Wikipedia articles on planets have little/no mention of the origins of the names of the planets in other languages
2. Balloon chain for solar power?
3. Flat satellite dish
4. Pervasiveness of popcorn
5. Binary poisons
6. Distribution of total solar eclipes
7. molar mass
8. what is a megafauna?
9. Darwin, evolution, etc...
10. Chemical formula of waterproofing oil used by birds?

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 23

1. Three-part Organic Chemistry Question
2. Eliminating Cat allergens
3. SOLAR ECLIPSE !!!!!
4. BICYCLE BALANCING???
5. Dreams.
6. Braininess..
7. I Q
8. coca-cola as a source of edible phosphoric acid for fischer esterification
9. Boobs and Butts
10. parallel people and universes
11. Healthy Weight
12. How do wireless led devices work?
13. Copenhagen interpretation versus many worlds.

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 24

1. Mercury Biological Effects
2. Intelligence
3. Medicinal use of "Cineraria[e] maritima"
4. Venus
5. what is TDSi engineSaurabhasks (talk) 06:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
6. Mosquito and HIV
7. temps of stellar objects
8. Animals that eat 'meals'
9. Cats purring
10. Electric Shock
11. How dehydrated was I?
12. angular momentum to momentum
13. medicine
14. Wavelength versus radius
15. DC vs AC
16. Do electromagnetic waves have any width?
17. Engines in Space
18. Eiffel Tower sticks to the Moon !!!!!!!!!!
19. E=mc²
20. Impacts into Jupiter
21. wave versus particle

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 25

1. Could a gull lift a cat in its beak?
2. HIV cure
3. wavelength distribution
4. purpose of neutral wire in household supply
5. Man With 'Two Brains'
6. Viruses - what's the point?
7. David Merrell's mouse experiments
8. rabbits and Hopping mouse
9. Maximum sustainable population
10. Substance Dependence
11. Mysterious carpark bumps
12. What happened to the US space VLBI program?
13. Why do buildings have foundations?
14. example of easy irrational problem?
15. Which cow breed is this Swiss cow?

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 26

1. Cat bird owl?
2. Light energy
3. Is it common to imagine that puffins are bigger than they are?
4. Name of tree?
5. Black Box
6. Relative velocity
7. Heart transplant: nerve connections
8. Elevator logic control

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 27

1. Chesty Coughs
2. Common mistake
3. Knee surgery procedure
4. Automotive suspension
5. Powering a guitar amplifier outside (in DRY conditions, of course)
6. XTraordinary stuff !!!
7. Resources for cultivated plant identification?
8. which vein is involved in echymosis over mastoid process in battles sign
9. Butterfly effect - Changing the evolution of species with time travel
10. What are these creatures/objects?
11. day and night on gas giants
12. Shotgun backfiring

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 28

1. gaps
2. What pH ranges denature melanin?
3. Super fast raster scan
4. Chlorine
5. Unsolved problems in astronomy
6. code for jpg please..
7. When maths go horribly wrong
8. Vibrating parts of the body
9. killed while having sex
10. How much does a ton of carbon cost at the Chicago Exchange?
11. Gears
12. What is it called when a swallowing attempts to pull down your own throat?
13. Hot air
14. Chains and Pulleys
15. Birds vs. Insects
16. apparent size of celestial body?

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 29

1. Is this true or made-up? Thanks.
2. Hypothetical math! ~~ Volume of water required for "the Great Flood" in Genesis?
3. Oblation
4. Conservation of energy
5. Trees showing the undersides of their leaves before a summer storm
6. Chlorhexidine
7. Charging an 18V battery for a drill
8. Calcium Chloride in Damprid?
9. Bunsen Burners and Gas stoves
10. Volume to pressure ratio?
11. Damps in coal mines
12. Flufenamic acid
13. Dragons of Eden updates
14. Eurasian plate
15. Help idenfying the following yard plants
16. Drugs to make me smart

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 30

1. New word phenomenon?
2. Spider identification
3. Mortality rate relating to refusing blood and/or medical procedure on religious grounds?
4. Did human muscles mutate to become weaker than those of apes and other animals?
5. Eating packing peanuts
6. Are there really 32 AA batteries hidden inside a 6V lantern battery?
7. Waking up on falling
8. Global stress meter
9. Perpetual motion from electrolysis of water under high pressure?
10. Casimir effect-flotation in a vacuum?
11. ammonium stearate??? Ammonium distrate
12. "Phase shifts" in brain and IQ
13. Saddle joints
14. Practical problem - something light and compact to stand on
15. For a women to lose weight after pregnancy
16. homemade radiation treatment of food without cooking

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 July 31

1. Grated Puffin
2. Two heat transfer questions
3. Retain Martian water using deuterium!!??
4. Do artificial sweeteners taste like sugar to non-human species?
5. how are scientists able to see something that is billions of light years away
6. Did the Apollo lunar missions have a contingency plan for damaged space suit during EVA?
7. Name of body groove?
8. Why do attractive parents have more daughters?
9. Water for both nuclear coolant and hot coffee?
10. A course of drugs that can be taken before conception to reduce the risk of fetal abnormalities?
11. Identification of an NZ tree
12. Not hungry in the morning
13. DST Boston Mass 1964
14. neurons
15. Vaccines
16. F-104 engine
17. What proportion of people with flu have swine flu?
18. great-grandfather