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December 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 1

  1. multimeter died - why
  2. Why was the page associated with Günter Bechly removed from Wiki? (previously "Evolution")
  3. Is spacetime a manifold?
  4. pH logarithm

December 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 2

  1. Who first analyzed the 'particle in a box' model?

December 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 3

  1. Do facial toning exercises work?
  2. Fire nozzles
  3. Construction of Britain’s railways in the 1800s
  4. Difference between natural gas and coal for global warming.

December 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 4

  1. Color and pattern convergence across unrelated species
  2. What's this arachnoid?
  3. Modifying magnetic pendulum circuit for larger pendulum swings
  4. Winding

December 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 5

  1. "Elastic collisions" and time travel
  2. Speed of molecular machines
  3. Anthropology and VO2 max
  4. Venlafaxine
  5. Ice-free northern Greenland

December 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 7

  1. Effect of CO2 emissions on the metabolic energy obtained from glucose
  2. Natural satellites of planets
  3. Modified Atmosphere Article -Clarification Questions & Suggestions
  4. Why isn't bitcoin mining causing the price of bitcoin to level off?

December 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 8

  1. Please identify a weapon
  2. Cheese Curd
  3. Square signal as only clock signal?
  4. current mass ULAS J1342+0928
  5. Bytownite - industrial uses?
  6. Could x moles of acid or base stochiometrically react with more liters or molarity of reactant if it's added quicker?
  7. Using air bubbles to stabilize a ship

December 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 9

  1. Is there a way to know that NASA didn't know about an asteroid?
  2. Big bang and size of the universe
  3. Cold-tolerant trees
  4. Why isn't northern Vermont covered in ice?
  5. The way snow melts
  6. United States map

December 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 10

  1. Towed array
  2. Submarine crew
  3. Nitrate testing chemical
  4. Glock pistol's walls design
  5. mental activity during unresponsiveness
  6. Secondary car mirror reflections

December 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 11

  1. Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants vs. POP Air Pollution Protocol

December 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 13

  1. Are these oranges there in the background?
  2. Thermodynamics of flame front propagation in a closed chamber (two-phase model)
  3. Looking for youtube video that showed a cartoon train in scenarios near the speed of light?

December 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 14

  1. Location of mission critical controls
  2. Cone cell responses to violet
  3. Not following an example from the book The Fabric of the Cosmos
  4. Organ connection

December 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 15

  1. Rod vision color
  2. An positron and proton have opposite charges.
  3. Mechanical hemolytic anemia

December 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 16

  1. What is the opposite of Nootropics?
  2. on sugars and carbohydrates
  3. Safety in construction vs transport
  4. seashore crustacean ID (Southern California)

December 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 17

  1. Evolution death
  2. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 15-1 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/45-11be04713e.jpg JPG]
  3. Different causes of death
  4. How does a cold environment affect human health

December 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 18

  1. circuit breaker
  2. How fast could a specialized company produce generic drugs on demand?
  3. Project lifecycle

December 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 19

  1. Jumbo jet

December 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 20

  1. Cognitive task where children were much better than adults
  2. Crop rotation
  3. Looking for any reliable sources regarding "brainwashed" experiment
  4. Pharmaceutical trademarks/patents?
  5. Recycling cardboard that has stickers on it
  6. How do plants deal with dust coating their leaves?

December 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 21

  1. Oddities of "entombed" toads
  2. Effects of water in the body on sleep
  3. Nutrition in mutton/chicken soup
  4. Daily CNS adult apoptosis VS Daily CNS adult neurogensis
  5. What normally happen to micro foreign bodies that penetrates the skin?
  6. Trazodone#Priapism

December 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 22

  1. Hawking radiation
  2. Does being drunk increase the smallest earthquake you can feel?
  3. Religious views on Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories

December 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 23

  1. The † symbol in biological nomenclature
  2. Can ultracold neutrons form into pairs of neutrons that would be proton-free nuclei?
  3. Ocean photographs
  4. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 15-1 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/45-11be04713e.jpg JPG] 2
  5. Weird space launch shot

December 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 24

  1. Military presence on the moon
  2. "species-preserving captivity"

December 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 25

  1. is it possible to upscale old TV series into 4K
  2. Time travel
  3. Alleged moon phenomenon of 1882

December 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 26

  1. Are any indoor plants or domestic animals endangered?
  2. fish reproduction
  3. Troposphere
  4. TV phosphorescence
  5. tanked hot water heaters

December 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 27

  1. Grohe Eurodisk

December 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 28

  1. Exact value of the strong interaction (constant)?
  2. What do aircraft throttle numbers above 100 mean?
  3. Köppen climate classification in the US
  4. Modern equivalents of chief engineers such as Brunel

December 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 29

  1. Absorption (skin) article
  2. Year of description of a new species

December 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 30

  1. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 16-5 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/47-dd98071fcf.jpg JPG]

December 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 December 31

  1. How many of a 100 year old's atoms have been in their body their whole adult life?
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