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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 1

1. Midnight sun in Norway

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 2

1. Is there a name for 0.001 miles?
2. Can I determine distance from size of a photographed object
3. Magenta vs. purple

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 6

1. Pornography addiction in animals

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 8

1. Street lights, rain drops and windows

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 9

1. Black Body emissive power in medium

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 10

1. What is a pipehead dam?
2. The higher the pitch of the instrument the longer the bow: why?

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 13

1. Light patterns

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 14

1. Tau propagation

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 15

1. Why are Koalas vulnerable to extinction
2. Admiral Nakhimov
3. Why don't plants photosynthesize efficiently?
4. Thermometer thermal mass

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 17

1. A lead zeppelin is your stairway to heaven?
2. Land surveying
3. How sampling rate in ADC adjusted or set ?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 18

1. Open-air dust explosions
2. Delayed onset muscle soreness

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 20

1. John Balbus and Steven Balbus

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 21

1. Griffiths in math and physics

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 22

1. Heat of chillies

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 23

1. Before Puberty, sex organs are not functional?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 25

1. Is there a cryonic company that will freeze me while I'm still alive and healthy, and reanimate me 15 years later? If I arrest the aging process for 15 years this way, could I then pass for a Gen Z?
2. Can any insurance company make a cryonics bankruptcy insurance policy for companies that preserve bodies in cryogenic preservation vats so that even when the company goes bankrupt, their insurance policies will keep these vats running and bodies preserved?
3. Where to verify a chemical compund name synonyms?

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 27

1. Right whales and Left whales
2. Lawson Criterion: calculating energy density W
3. stage 4 breast cancer

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 28

1. Are there any volatile gold compounds?
2. Closure, does it exist in physics?
3. Active galaxys

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 29

1. Where can I find counterintuitive phenomenons list in Science?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 November 30

1. Displacement receiver v. transducer v. sensor
2. Smelly plasterboard
3. 1990s Cathode-ray TV questions.