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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 2
- If the universe is constantly expanding....
- Physics
- Can we harness the power of tectonic plate movements?
- Big Bang in the USA
- Solving Britain's housing crisis
- Acids taste sour...
- Limit to the number of discovered elements
- Caffeine in potatos?
- Brita water filter
- Bomb into Lake
- Question about volume of helium in a balloon
- arguments against vaccinating babies
December 3 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 3
- Game Over
- Do we have the engineering capability to dig a hole all the way thru the Earth?
- chemical reaction of copper with limestone
- Making metal
- Escaping a black hole
- Coffee
- Protein Structure
- Looking back in time through space
- Smelling your own B.O.
- Measurement of the speed of light
- Rare as hen's teeth
- Mercury's extra day
- Will wind farms, solar power,and ocean wave power destroy the Earth?
- Parrot - how cold is too cold for her?
December 4 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 4
- Kinetic energy weapons or using "flying crowbars" to kill tanks
- Losing weight by cold weather?
- Knee arthroscopy
- Drug making
- Creating a new page
- Decline in LED light output after several weeks of use
- Another LED question
- The Universal Expansion Paradox
- Fox killing 13 penguins
- Double cross product of angular velocity
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 7
- Electric Tooth Brush
- Rare meat
- Natural orbitational phenomenon
- nepeta
- Why do CFL bulbs take a while to reach full brightness?
- What puts the fluorescence in fluorescent lights?
- making Part II
- Asking the gods of science for some help.
- Common descent
- Displaying carbon and hydrogens in Symyx/ISIS draw
- A California earthquake causing an associated blackout and causing people to see the Milky Way
- Rhizobium
- Long train journey
- Citrus identification
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 9
- Coconut water as an IV
- Extracting oxygen from ferrous oxide (FeO)
- Time Travel
- Containing a super-volcano?
- Stellar Classification
- Energy crisis
- Speed and mass
- Sequence line-ups
- Why does light refract upward at cold temps?
- Cheese and intestinal blockage.
- Road salt
- How do you use microwaves to find out if there's foil inside butter tubs?
- cosmic string
- Native Americans and Atlantis
- Does lemon juice damage your teeth?
December 10 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 10
- Tea and diabetics
- Fleeting bad memories
- Jets flying over populated areas
- Reducing fat
- Clockwork Toy (Homemade)
- LPG
- Test your microwave with a mobile phone?
- paper mache external fuel tank
- Diamonds Part 2
- Travis Pastrana
- Washing up
- Lonely inventor builds working cyborg girlfriend in own home - malarkey or effective way?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 13
- Calc-sinter ???
- Small children and names
- What's the cause of an inability to distinguish an actor from a character?
- Schrödinger's Particle Accelerator
- Faster means lower pressure?
- Determining the sex of a seagull?
- Pills
- Ocean floor water temperature
- ESPVR curve shift
- TOOLS/HARDWARE IE:Europian style "cup hinges".
- Freezing hot water
- Chemical depilatory
- Temporal Fenestra
December 14 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 14
- Tuberculosis
- Effect of various pH levels on pepsin hydrolysis
- cacti
- Use of prions in anti viral combat
- Bond Strengths and Electronegativities
- are all cactus edible?
- Why is bacon so delicious?
- telegraph network structure
- Nuclear Re-breather?
- Children
- BLAST not working?
- foods changing color
- Colourblindness
- Driverless cars as means against IEDs
- Human consciousness
- Andromeda collision
- Speed of sound in SF6
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 17
- The Vagina and an imperforate hymen
- Does human hair change color while decomposing in water?
- Liquid light
- speed of sound
- plants
- Indian apple
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial
- What is the difference between a male seed and a female seed?
- Researching Invention for child's project
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Question
- Helium latex Balloon Questions
- "Good" Chemical
- Evolution of the liver
- Copurification, Pull-down assays, and co-immunoprecipitation
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 19
- Getting a Shine On
- The sky is falling! Positive or negative feedback mechanism?
- how to reduce alcohol or menthol smell but keep the cool function
- IMMUNOLOGY
- Conjoined twins longevity question
- Demineralised water
- beta sisteral
- Symbol for Litre: uppercase or lowercase?
- Burt Rutan comments on V-22 Osprey and 1960's tiltrotor prototype
- optics
- How the heck does a car move?
- Mysterious Music Box Malfunction
December 20 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 20
- Eye Layers
- Question on Perception
- Milk
- Why do young women giggle all the time?
- Artificially recreating the earth's magnetic field
- Flash point of fission in atmosphere
- Why do some children have the concept of growing down after one grows up?
- Why does chronic stress sometimes lead to stroke
- is it possible to produce a novel algorithm USING THE POWER OF THE MIND ALONE? (no other tools of any kind)
- What does the "LIO" prefix mean in the scientific name of "Pocket Mice"?
December 21 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 21
- Hey, have they ever expanded on that life creating experiment thing?
- Lipid Layer
- Identifying an unknown mammal
- Skua vs. Great Black-backed Gull - who would win?
- Whats so special about Half-Integer spin? 59.93.92.192 (talk) 13:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- Mystery flower
- Overcooked vs. burnt food
- Wood-burning stoves, creosote and soup cans
- Esclorophile Bush?
- Paranoid park (spoiler warning)
- Metal detectors for non-magnetic metals
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 23
- Material with highest melting point?
- TASTE BUDS
- Science/Humanities question on Egypt's buried tombs
- Why is the static between channels loud?
- Ion slowing down in plasma
- What happens to sexual desire after penectomy?
- nutrition facts
- Genetic Misogyny and sex war?
- Not so bright question...
- A tool for measuring cubic volume
- Non-lethal weapon against gangs
- AeroGarden gizmo.
- Sail all wet?
- Red Panda, Giant Panda thumb.
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 27
- Paramedic Milk?
- Cockatiel and budgerigar utterances
- Strange weather seen on radar. Small scale "lake effect" perhaps?
- Binomial authority
- Color of hydrocarbons
- Foreclosure
- Cigarette v. Cigar Second Hand Smoke
- transistor feed back network
- Disodium Edta
- Methylchloroisothiazolinone
- Are there any scientists out there that dont swear?
December 28 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 28
- What is the minimum amount of heat it takes to burn you?
- "Ba humbugi"
- Freesat, free satellite, DVB-T, DVB-S and satellite dish mounting
- Psychoactive drugs and human survival
- chemical reactions
- Can I have some more Sun Conure advice, please?
- You people look all the same to me!!
- Methane clathrates, global warming, and such
- Do photons lose energy?
December 29 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 29
- consuption of electricity by refrigrator
- female virginity question
- Differnece in growth of Neem tree and Banana tree
- What logical fallacy is this?
- Multiple near-death experiences and emotions
- chances developing same affliction
- antibiotics
- Genome: Both good and original, but...
- Putting milk in coffee
- Ni-MH Battery Behavior (Nikon EN-4 knockoff for D1 camera)
- Optimal Eyepiece Diameter
- What is this??????