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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 1

1. ...and drink plenty of fluids
2. sulphur in eggs
3. control &c.
4. magnets
5. Catastrophal global warming through release of gaseous compounds from ocean floors
6. Polymaths needed!
7. coke

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 2

1. basis for our current time standards (sec, min and hr) dividing one day/night cycle also 360 degrees in a circle.
2. basis for our current time standards (sec, min and hr) dividing one day/night cycle also 360 degrees in a circle.
3. Energy density of gunpowder?
4. Slave ships
5. Blood question
6. etallic taste
7. Men/women telephone bills
8. Metal surfaces
9. Phytonutrient content
10. valves 3/2 or 3/2 valves?
11. Calorie consumption at low temperature
12. Calorific content of Ethanol
13. Ice

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 3

1. Freezing water: If there is no room for expansion, will it still freeze?
2. Hexane production in Nigeria
3. Sister symptom to motion sickness
4. Wahhhh. Physics is so confusing
5. Homosexual High Pitched Voice
6. Aerogel filter
7. Bicycle tire diameter...?
8. Colonisation of the solar system
9. avg. frictional force
10. Why is water removed from a washed hand when you shake your hands?...
11. circular motion
12. tug of war
13. acceleration due to gravity...
14. Do inanimate objects 'know' they are being watched?
15. step climber
16. Grover's Disease...Transient Acanthalytic Dermatosa
17. Lemon Juice Causing Tooth Damage
18. Prime Gun or Primegun?
19. Where does this saying come from?
20. continuous centrifuge or separator for getting water (and possibly foreign particules) out of oil
21. Chlorate vs Chloride
22. Polymeric material used in white goods

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 4

1. rodent shrew
2. Lens Assembly - Collimating Beam
3. what is the relationship between a football's pressure and throwing accuracy
4. Fast light?
5. Bigger world?
6. as stove burners
7. Mass spectrometry vs radio carbon dating
8. Bioelectricity
9. Equivalents to recreational mathematics
10. ornithopters
11. potatoe clock?
12. ummy tucks and EKGs
13. Faster than light?
14. Travel of light
15. Delta brainwave?
16. Hard body bits
17. Resistor value

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 5

1. Buzz
2. Talk:Lemming "so do they jump off cliffs?"
3. Twice the focal length? You must be crazy...!
4. Ion Implantation
5. Crop circles
6. soil microbiology
7. resistance of wires
8. Ortho-effect & ortho-para positioning(Organic Chemistry)
9. Hippocratic constraints
10. Biasing a BJT Common Emitter amplifier
11. Bio Reserve
12. 48 to 46
13. Nuclear Fusion
14. metal reaction

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 6

1. Life or death determination
2. Struggling Butterflies
3. Butterfly technical question
4. Love and P A I N
5. Scientifically speaking Alcohol
6. Type of Science
7. Anaerobic respiration
8. What is sleep apnea ?
9. Herpes?
10. sugar
11. Immunizations
12. Do cats and dogs understand tv?
13. Every breath very probably has an air atom also breathed by Julius Caesar

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 7

1. haploid/diploid
2. inding energy
3. Waterjets for teeth dangerous?
4. Tilt-shift Photography
5. What is type of this huge spider? Please let me know if you can figure out.
6. confidentiallity
7. The end of time ?
8. Lactose and yeast fermentation
9. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
10. liquid nitrogen in the tube
11. Scientific Question: Regarding Great Intelligence
12. Price of Copper and Brass
13. Sculpting a sphere
14. channel form efficiency and hydraulic radius
15. Light pollution
16. Biological night vision
17. Percentages regarding gas and water components in inspired and expired air
18. VSEPR Bonding
19. hat is oxidation?
20. effects of solvents on styrofoam
21. Architectural / structural terminology

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 8

1. electron hotel
2. Diffuse/Lambertian reflection
3. Provisions for recharging electric vehicles from the grid by cities
4. Is meme a scientific concept?
5. Atmospheric pressure
6. Hall effect sensor/switch identification
7. radio broadcasting
8. Gravity
9. Gravity of the moon? ...the sun?
10. Work-Energy theorem
11. work done by a force
12. What is the antonym of feral?
13. Gas Leak
14. Bananas
15. Clinical Physiologist.
16. Darwinism; the human race compared to other animals
17. Just droppin' objects
18. .H. Horowitz
19. I-V characteristics of Josephson junctions
20. Looking for scientific journals
21. relation of the sun and wind
22. Propranolol side effects
23. Escherichia coli
24. Horst Tube Submarine
25. Electromagnetic Radiation from the end of coaxial cable
26. Caps and Baldness
27. A fungus among us
28. Weird science...
29. Noodle soup
30. Momentum

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 9

1. How to find a reference...?
2. Standard taper ground glass joints (glassware): ISO vs. US
3. Importance of academic degrees
4. Cosmic inflation
5. trivias about sounds...
6. Why does catnip have that kind of effect on cats?
7. Evolution of organs
8. better cooling
9. Chemistry Trouble
10. unfitness test
11. Galinstan?
12. Two Hybrid Screening In Yeast
13. Elemental form
14. How's it done?
15. Reversible Gas Turbines
16. Measuring rainfall
17. sideways in time

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 10

1. Joinery
2. Corrosive gallium
3. Healing after a spinal injury/surgery
4. Why do Acetone and other solvents dissolve polystyrene?
5. ELISA Reading
6. Corrupted page
7. Huntington's disease
8. force constant
9. Circuit with two switches
10. Rider question 8-)
11. Will there be a mass die-off of my local gulls?
12. geophysics
13. Frozen Corona
14. work done by frictional force
15. Images with eyes closed
16. Ink
17. Blonde haired blue-eyed cavemen
18. Interaction and placement of magnetic fields in a DC permanent magnet motor...?
19. medical term for eye crust
20. Parts of an automobile
21. Furniture materials and health effects
22. Water Displacement in Ferries

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 11

1. Sweet potatoes don't grow on trees
2. Red Blood Cells
3. Chemistry - What is a plasma
4. What is this psychological phenomenon called ("illusion" seems too general)
5. Volume of Atmosphere
6. Names of the toes
7. free engineering handbook downloads
8. Minimal diet
9. physical exercise and aching after
10. Aloneaphobia?
11. Ernst Ruska
12. Peanuts!!!
13. Questions regarding a Rainbow
14. The optic nerve
15. Is it possible to convert random solid objects into liquid?
16. hemistry Naming question
17. Plans for building a spaghetti bridge

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 12

1. ar crash
2. Farting between sexes
3. How does light slow down in glass?
4. Light speed and time
5. Tell me about the physical substance of memory and personality
6. Quantum Physics
7. Tungsten
8. Thermal Conductivity?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 13

1. Conservation of energy?
2. Gallium Reactions
3. Chemical supplier?
4. Question 1 about my eyes
5. Question 2 about my eyes
6. Frog in boiling water
7. DVD Vs Real Life clarity
8. Ampules
9. Astronomical Distance
10. Resistance
11. Planet82
12. Composition of Solar Radiation: are gamma rays present?
13. Why is the Moon brighter than the Sun, in gamma radiation ?
14. Audio file compression
15. yield stress
16. sonic screwdrivers
17. Memory foam outgassing and an air purifier
18. Entropy vs. Energy
19. Visualization
20. Far from home?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 14

1. Embryonic Stem Cells and the beginning of human life
2. Metal Working
3. ight pollution help
4. Shaking a bottle of ice and water
5. Hearing problems
6. Fire Bottle
7. Why do cats love fish?
8. Simple microcontroller stepper control
9. Why Mercury?
10. manufacture of petorl
11. Perpetual Motion
12. Forget frogs. How about crabs?
13. physics-infrared photographic optics question
14. Can woodpeckers manipulate objects with their feet?
15. q
16. NORTH POLE TO SINGAPORE
17. effect of total silence on human hearing
18. Working Mechanism-SRE
19. Zebra subspecies identification
20. casimir effect and gravity mix up
21. ow can digital radios auotmatically jump over noisy channels?
22. Pluto
23. Different Interpretations of color
24. What is this bird?
25. The illusion of time
26. ORGANS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
27. Stars: Supergiants, giants, dwarves and so on

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 15

1. Why do some people sneeze when in pain?
2. avel type: innies, outies and ???
3. Subway Tunnels and Fallout?
4. Copying documents before xerography
5. Acids & Metals?
6. animal adaptations
7. Tunnel transport system
8. Paper and Water
9. Human Genome Project
10. Paper and water (different question)
11. Lemur taxonomy

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 16

1. Alkaline battery capacity under high load
2. Earth's atmosphere
3. Animals eat plants
4. How many frames per second is...
5. Drinking metal?
6. Where to buy Galinstan?
7. Is a fully nutritious ready-to-eat paste a "bad" thing?
8. Star Catalogue SO
9. Sense Deprivation Chamber
10. Reversing caries
11. Oxygen Sensor
12. How much would it cost to build a hydrogen maser?
13. P wave of light
14. chemistry
15. GENDER PREFERENCE IN ART
16. enzyl cyanide
17. cold heat
18. ID a cat breed for me?
19. BATTERIES
20. Health question
21. appropriate/inappropriate medical image guidelines
22. hemistry Resources
23. Fusion Rocket
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26. Gallium corrosion
27. Battery load testing..?

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 17

1. Source of salt in ocean water
2. Escalator handrails
3. Economical Nutrition (+ side question)
4. Unnatural Star Creation
5. Physics question
6. zetasizer in small sizes
7. hydroelectricity and fishees
8. pixel counter
9. sea snake reproduction?
10. Heartbeat sounds
11. 50/60 Hz Microwave oven
12. Late 1800 supernaturalism
13. Non-circular pupil
14. Autoclaves
15. the free website for science
16. Old Age in fish
17. ecosystems
18. Not Injecting coffee
19. Weather
20. eel
21. nidentified Sea Creature
22. Sex demarkation in llamas?
23. Carnivorous bird species as housepets?
24. 'Gravity' increase if earth stopped spinning

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 18

1. Energy and Radiation
2. Escape Velocity
3. Apollo 11
4. synosphere in fly ash
5. Suppose someone were to set off a hydrogen bomb on the surface of the moon...
6. Putting a man on Mars
7. renewable energy
8. New inventions in the last 40 years
9. Tonsilitis and the common cold
10. Acetylcholine
11. Blue moon in February?
12. Why does cuticle skin come off so easily?
13. Group and phase velocities...
14. request information on radiation posion
15. one more question
16. Time and thought

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 19

1. Attacked by aliens
2. Animal Tracks
3. Anamorphic widescreen
4. A compressed virtual disc
5. Amplitude of EM waves
6. Heats of combustion of common alkanols
7. I love you more than....
8. Odd color perception with a tone of violet
9. Great White shark and sea lion
10. Radioactive poisoning and possible cures
11. Arun S. Bagh
12. Hydrogen storage and burning
13. vegetables cooking
14. Tritium oxide
15. Thermal Nuclear Rocket

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 20

1. What does RCSWI mean?
2. Paracetemol
3. Accented beats in music
4. RF Load
   1. Further details from OP
   2. Waveguide or coaxial cable feed?
   3. Silicon oil
5. Head on collision between atoms and thermodynamic temperature
6. Vocal loading
7. Arun arun arun
8. Metal identification and care
9. Sleep and long-term memory
   1. Sleep patterns in the elderly
10. Why do we steadily lose high frequency hearing ?
11. Atoms & subatomic particles
12. Number of farads per square foot or pound...?
13. Heat
14. water body

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 21

1. gallon challenge
2. Supercapacitor research...?
3. Length of an hour...?
4. Osmosis
5. Nuclear
6. The rusting of Iron compunds
7. Boltzmann distribution
8. science project question
9. Meteor (?) near Geneva
10. Speed of light and Relativity
11. Ornithopters again.
12. Photons
13. Biology
14. You can eat it, or throw it away...
15. When the gulls are eating together
16. Antihypertensive Foods?
17. adrenal glands

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 22

1. Hypothetical
2. Amp hours...?
3. Stethography
4. Planetary positions in the future
5. Water Fuel
6. Blood conductivity.
7. Crazy Voice
8. References
9. DEBATE HELP ON GLOBAL WARMING
10. Strange phenomenon with digital camera
11. Antibiotics question
12. Hydrogen Vehicles on a Mass Transit Scale
13. What kind of wood??
14. Incendiary laser pointer: Star Wars junior?
15. What Bird Is This
16. sun's energy
17. time

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 23

1. Seagulls
2. Ducks
3. Experiments for time dilation
4. String theory
5. Steroids
6. Working Out
7. Why do animals cock their heads?
8. Prana-bindu
9. Alkanes and their Boiling Points
10. Stars in the southern sky
11. Silicon Oil
12. Stem Cell Research Global Funding
13. Ambient Infrared/Ultraviolet
14. measurement standard of blade sharpness
15. Burled wood
16. Tame budgies falling asleep when spoken to softly...

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 24

1. non-venomous snakes
2. Zinc and HCl reaction with copper catalyst
3. Electricution by speakers
4. Sound energy
5. Buying Copper?
6. Homosexual transexual
7. rf load
8. How to find technical bibliography of biology professor
9. Cooking with gas.
10. national geographic
11. Dead body reflexes
12. Liquids that are safe to drink?
13. choir boys
14. Safety Critical Decision Making
15. Assistance needed on Dolorimetry
16. Balloon Question
17. linkage analysis and association analysis
18. Black hole
19. Towing and 4WD
20. albino mammals
21. CO2 emissions in production of concrete
22. Deuterostomes and Protostomes
23. In heat...?
24. Weight of electric aircraft power source...?

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 25

1. Acid/base Indicators
2. What is the etymology of 'Pakicetid' ?
3. Nasal Drift Theory
4. What happened to J. J. Sakurai?
5. Deleted Global Warming Graph
6. physics help
7. Medicine and sneezes
8. Energy density of a Supercapacitor...?
9. Ice/physics question
10. Economisers for steam bouilers
11. Interglacials
12. Strange noise from a lightbulb
13. Appeal to restart the improvement process at physics
14. First Time in Outer Space
15. Oceanography and Marine Biology
16. Energy density of compressed air...?
17. Global Warming
18. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
19. Mesotherapy is it safe?
20. Commercial vs Academic Scientific Research
21. Determining the therapeutic index of a drug
22. Future Human Evolution
23. Nickel's anti-corrosive properties
24. What type of plastic do I need?
25. photographic memory
26. Light from the Sun
27. Physical appearance of ovarian cyst
28. Transfat now, sugar later...?
29. Nuclear bombs in a vacuum
30. Different species of humans
31. Applied kinesiology
32. Superconducting magnetic energy storage...?
33. What is the appropriate device for viewing terrestrial objects at high magnification
34. Could Japan really sink in our lifetime?

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January 28 & 29

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January 30 & 31

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