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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 1

1. Swine flu
2. Uncertainty principle
3. Power line racket - What is it?
4. image processing help.. required.
5. huge moth, species unknown
6. orange juice safety
7. Crosswind landing
8. Tin chloride for noble metal detection
9. Species of peafowl
10. What is a petoscope?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 2

1. Genetic divergences between humans and clowns
2. photo electric effect
3. Calculating size of projected image
4. Seeking a ray-diagram of a toroidal lens
5. why so??/
6. Lost in space during an EVA
7. reduce CO2 by 89%: gross or net?
8. Optical brighteners for photography
9. dinosaurs, evolution and aliens...
10. Wing contact on landing
11. ID an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturer?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 3

1. acid strength versus pH versus acid ability (for strong acids)
2. Digestion
3. Crash location on the Moon of Ranger 4 (April 26, 1962)
4. Vegetable
5. Scars
6. Diamorphine pills
7. Afterimage
8. Rorschach Ink Blot Test
9. History of science: from pseudoscience to empirical science
10. car brakes question

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 4

1. Bond Energy
2. Peter Pan Syndrome - refusing to heed written laws or just societal norms?
3. Old refrigerators making more ice
4. does the acidity of aromatic rings, alkenes (or even alkanes) contribute to petroleum formation?
5. Interstellar travel
6. Birch tree with golden bark??
7. why do some nuts sqeak as you eat them?
8. In space
9. independent variable in x axis
10. Moldy Bones
11. electrical grounding
12. COCONUT OIL

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 5

1. Knowing Allsorts
2. Steel yourself for this question
3. Catching flu twice
4. Help identify this aquatic creature
5. Forces
6. Thermal Conductivity
7. Transverse Processes
8. PiCCO cardiac monitoring
9. sunspot cycle
10. Knives
11. Gravity and Mass

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 6

1. can ethers act like alcohols in acid-catalyzed addition?
2. Why is the Mandelbrot Set so complicated?
3. amper-current and relativity
4. METHANE ON MARS
5. Ipod
6. Fast poison
7. Frying an egg with a nuclear weapon.
8. Julia Set
9. Jubilee Clips?
10. Poisoning the sea
11. Gravitational waves
12. Jumping Americans cause earthquake in China

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 7

1. UV filters
2. Bike gearing
3. conservation of momentum and heat
4. Bullets fired in the air returning to ground
5. Space-filling models software
6. Nipping out buds of tomatoes
7. power leakage
8. Surgery recovery time
9. How can I tell if a martial arts school is crap?
10. Lead lined coffins
11. Is the mind software or hardware?

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 8

1. Ringworm
2. Negative Matter Superluminal Travel???
3. slow cooking of pork -- where does all the fat go?
4. Light as a feather, stiff as a board
5. Pushing things out of earth orbit
6. Tyres and Dry-Rot
7. Detecting nuclear weapons
8. Antenna length

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 9

1. Is this guy a crank?
2. Zero Velocity but accelerating!!!!!
3. Untitled Query
4. Suppose you're standing on the surface of a balloon
5. I don't understand the 3-body problem
6. What is the name of this insect?
7. What the heck is going on in this video?
8. Changes in DNA
9. Attachment for cooling cars pre-ac?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 10

1. Alice
2. Total Perspective Vortex IRL
3. Evolution and Paganism
4. Relativistic Doppler effect-not theta_s?
5. Ring Singularities
6. First major sport to get the Deep Blue treatment?
7. 'Bacteriocidality' of penicillin
8. Tornandos and Hurricanes in US
9. Neodymium Chloride
10. spirit fire
11. Orthodontic braces
12. Questions/suggestions for Fetch (game)
13. Pangaea 2
14. South Africa and Cape Horn

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 11

1. Does the mass of the earth change with population growth?
2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute
3. Northern Canada, Anchorage and southern Greenland
4. Conversions
5. name of soviet car
6. Cheap DNA restriction enzymes
7. Battle excavations
8. European Maple Syrup
9. Relativistic Doppler effect-another problem
10. Why is AIDS so Common in Africa?
11. Electric field strength
12. helicopter ejection seats
13. The Moon
14. Large population increases rate of evolution?
15. core not molten
16. esterification of edible alcohols, besides ethanol
17. How do I get Ajax out of a can?
18. plant intelligence
19. Plants sleeping
20. Does this sound right to you?
21. elemental isotopes
22. Broken stereo?
23. Herbicide
24. Thermal cleaning of high carbon steel

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 12

1. Southern New Zealand
2. hot ice on Uranus and Neptune
3. Speed of sound in a fluid
4. IQ and Dunning-Kruger effect
5. Viewing the Perseids meteor shower from Netherlands
6. Time Dilation with Radioactive Elements.
7. Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
8. stringing power strips
9. Transmission of swine flu
10. Bluetooth Marketting
11. Grantt Chart
12. How to cause hypomania
13. pluto
14. Pain sensitive areas on human body
15. Fat joe
16. polar day animals
17. X-rays
18. Goumi (Elaeagnus multiflora)
19. Global warming

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 13

1. Insane Plants
2. Why are some dishes so greasy?
3. Hideous mermaid image
4. Ice Age
5. neural optimization.. how to,..
6. Moon at 100 km
7. CPU gold content
8. Are cats really this clever?
9. non-therapy ancillary services
10. Quantum mechanics and determinism
11. insecticide
12. Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature
13. Paper coffee cups and cold liquids
14. What about Jerome Drexler and cosmology?
15. Micro black hole scenario
16. Study on tea and stress
17. Human skin color
18. Fun with negative refraction?

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 14

1. Gull-proof sack?
2. Sitting too close to a TV
3. Mineralogy of the Black Stone
4. Direction of rotation of helicoptor blades
5. Electric power stations
6. Magnetism
7. Positioning sound
8. toxicity of crown ethers
9. blood in the water
10. acid question
11. chameleons: will they eat off your hand?
12. Calculating my daily calorie intake needed to lose weight
13. Gene Identification

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 15

1. Power of gull bites - any data?
2. executive chair that has a trigger
3. How does evolution work where sexual selection is minimal?
4. Multiple universe theory proves God exists?
5. Species of monkey
6. One of those things that you really should know about the human body...
7. Human presence detection technique
8. Candle pendulum
9. Faraday Cage
10. Musical tastes and mental health diagnosis
11. Feeling tired when hiking, resting, then continuing

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 16

1. orbital
2. Chirping transformer
3. Capacitance and materials
4. Cast iron stove paint
5. Does exercise make people less drunk?
6. Does a compressed spring weigh more than an uncompressed one?
7. Toothpastes with two anti-bacterial ingredients
8. De Havilland Dragon Rapide
9. Fluorescent light comes on only after long, variable delay. Probable cause?
10. BLAST search always fruitless?
11. Artificial membrane
12. "Good" or "Bad" Firewood
13. DVD lasers

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 17

1. Bell peppers
2. Phases of matter -- all relative
3. Squinting
4. Sleep deprivation and hallucinations
5. Press releases on research papers
6. No fish native to a river is poisonous?
7. THERMODYNAMICS AND FLUID MACHINERY
8. What lizard is this?
9. Prion Terrorism
10. Turbopumps on rockets
11. color
12. Ants sting instead of bite?
13. Recycled ants?
14. Digital Electronics
15. DNA ligation in vitro
16. suppository
17. Cant (road/rail)
18. Suppositories - q for the medical people here
19. Looking for a nutrition web site

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 18

1. Harvestman
2. Fruit on an empty stomach
3. Transcendental Meditation and stress accumulation
4. Fast acting diseases?
5. Monitoring wireless
6. Photo diode question
7. Connecticut residence of Samuel Finley Breese Morse
8. KINEMATICS
9. brain blood barrier
10. Spherical coincidence
11. Blood pressure and emotions
12. Airport Security & Philosophy
13. Line
14. Extracting ricin from castor beans
15. haircuts
16. Locked in syndrome
17. What is "Real" Speed of Electricity?
18. Genome Studies
19. Species population
20. Tundra Climates
21. Longitude per mile
22. plate tectonics

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 19

1. Paternal and maternal genes
2. Carbon sequestration by farming bamboo
3. parabola
4. hi
5. Recording live concerts with microphones
6. Instrument landing
7. Teen years
8. Actinidain
9. Wicca and mental health
10. Nitrated Compounds
11. My Compost "Peters Out"
12. Names of the first 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic virus.
13. Blackheads

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 20

1. Motion, then no motion, in optical illusion
2. how to get into research?
3. Time Machine and Law of conservation of energy.
4. Why soy wax?
5. LED
6. Wireless electricity
7. Taking a picture of the past
8. Are Monkeys Taxa
9. Temperature of fire
10. Trans-fat binder ?
11. Physical exercise --> prolonged life. But will i actually have more time? Cardiologist may know?
12. Why have many (most?) vertebrates not evolved to ejaculate quickly during intercourse?

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 21

1. Dog mess vaporization using liquid oxygen?
2. Digital physics and the bugs
3. what are the different types of leaves?
4. Gallbladder-Thickening of the gallbladder wall
5. How fast are we really, really moving?
6. Electrical fuses on the European continent
7. Sexuality: nurture or nature?
8. Using a transistor as a relay/switch
9. rectifier
10. Home three phase supply
11. Eating after a Work out
12. Thick eyebrows?
13. Why is a thunderstorm blue?
14. Voltage between outlet and ground
15. Supersymmetry and Noether's theorem
16. Nuclear power advances and the environment
17. Is there any evolutionary reason for natural disaster movies being so cool to watch?
18. Energy drink studies vs. just sugar and caffeine?
19. Drunk-happy or drunk-angry?

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 22

1. Tropical Cyclone Crossing the Equator
2. Microsleep and discontinuity
3. Naga Fireballs
4. Experiment variables
5. Oxidant Scavenging Systems
6. Neanderthals
7. Tiny flies in the kitchen
8. Spanish flying insects

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 23

1. A moth I saw when I was a kid...
2. Chinese Egrets! -- Where to report rare bird sightings for East Asia?
3. Healing machines
4. Motor learning and tools
5. Exercise making someone more drunk?
6. Known precision of the nuclear force binding energy constant
7. software programming
8. Streamlines and streaklines
9. How to cross a river safely while hiking - portable boat?
10. 'Level' as a point or a span
11. Southwest Pacific islands
12. History of mind uploading
13. Three questions about potato
14. Decaying stew
15. Turkey thing

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 24

1. Digging yourself out of a hole
2. extraction of MGO/CACO3 from DOLOMITE/CALCITE
3. Calculating cumulative U-values
4. Bouncing X-rays
5. spontaneous endothermic solvation
6. fm transmitter using crystal oscilator119.152.15.223 (talk) 18:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
7. siphon question
8. Dr Jeffrey Arnett's theory of Emerging adulthood

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 25

1. Immunity to disease/infection/etc
2. Inaccuracy of Significant figures
3. Why old colour televisions with Cathode Ray tube show reddish colour when swithched on?
4. Jump the Moon
5. 220v /230v/240v
6. Potential gain of irreversible, unidirectional, negative value time travel
7. human hermaphrodites
8. Recoil in a vortex launcher
9. Who was "Lawrence" that named lots of southern African species in the early 20th century?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 26

1. Leaf Color
2. I thought this little black snake was harmless, can someone help ID it?
3. Would it be possible to run a power plant with dissimilar metals?
4. Doesn't having an irradiance comparison between Earth and New Extrasolar Planets make sense?
5. Makeshift optical telescope
6. Did Indians discovery Laws of Motion centuries before Kepler?
7. Cracking joints
8. movement of knee
9. Doubling your gas mileage
10. Addition Reaction of Alkynes to Alkenes
11. Exotic Matter
12. Fusion
13. drifting
14. Human Genetic Trait Pairings
15. Dulce Base/Nightmare Hall/Underground Tunnels
16. Sodium Sulphate solubility
17. Cerium Sulphate solubility
18. Maxwwell's Demon
19. If Wikipedia has multiple server sites, where is the real encyclopedia image (the one that gets edited) currently?

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 27

1. Canine kidney failure
2. A380 and An-124
3. Re-OP: Is it true that using known data with known formulas is not synthesis?
4. Reference Desk Organization
5. Repeated static shocks.
6. When do Baby's start going to the toilet?
7. Choking
8. How long till unmanned plants stop?
9. Using antennas
10. Local anaesthetics
11. White noise generator
12. Visual acuity
13. electrical technology
14. Sterilization of Psylocibe spores
15. Gravity waves

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 28

1. invisibility
2. Gravitational wave triangulation
3. Relatively local area network
4. how to interpret
5. Firefighting with seaplanes
6. one way salb
7. Comparing male/female weight loss on The Biggest Loser
8. Recharging Electronics in Different Countries
9. what is the counterion for DNA?
10. Brain Development
11. Kirchhoff current law validity
12. General fomula for electric fusing
13. why is ammonia more acidic than water?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 29

1. Alpha particle scattering experiment
2. Parallax method
3. Uncertainty principle-another question
4. 'Hottest' chilli pepper
5. Hottest pepper
6. Ohm's law and Johnson–Nyquist_noise
7. Le Chatelier's principle
8. Bathroom scales inaccurate
9. Wikipedia as Education
10. Fruit beginning with U
11. Smell after rain
12. Severed vine
13. Hurricanes in Southern California
14. Engineering - 'agricultural drain"

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 30

1. QUANTUM NUMBERS
2. Blood pH
3. Cell phone jamming
4. Single celled organisms and evolution
5. Genus Canis
6. Parameters of Planet Habitability for people? (not Extremophiles)
7. "NOx" written in expanded form as...?
8. Coal & Fossils
9. Puzzling Puzzle
10. Transparent objects
11. Hair follicle imitator
12. Fish safety
13. Trying to figure out the name of a car part

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2009 August 31

1. Why do dogs sometimes chase their own tails?
2. World Drug List
3. Carl Linnaeus translated to English?
4. Ground
5. Moon
6. Genetic modification of pubic hair for transplant?
7. Spider identification
8. Swine flu - dead birds
9. Bug control with garlic water?
10. Do snakes has vision
11. The smallest hole water can penetrate
12. Cockroaches
13. Would New York City's subway be designed any differently now?