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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 1

  1. Can Middle-Easterners be of mixed racial heritage?
  2. Corynebacterial porin B
  3. Why does the same temperature feel so much hotter at the beginning of summer than once it's been summer for a while?
  4. 2-Oxabutan-3-one or ethyl formate
  5. Isotope enrichment
  6. Time period of a pendulum when placed in water
  7. What does "[O]" mean?
  8. Electromagnetic absorption by water
  9. projectile motion
  10. Are we made to process decimal numbers?
  11. Gastroesophageal reflux disease Herbal Remedies
  12. Disinfectants that don't stink ?
  13. Does anyone know this mushroom?

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 2

  1. How do scientist/astronomer figure out the star loss mass at giant/supergiant tip
  2. Temple of the rats
  3. Hemorrhoid infections
  4. Deballocker
  5. Deriving the momentum operator.
  6. Inert gas
  7. ITC
  8. Origin of the belief that parrots eat crackers
  9. Electromagnetic induction thru an unclosed ring

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 3

  1. Dietary Reference Intake/Percent Daily Value
  2. recognizing a beetle
  3. Accelerator required for high intensity x-ray?
  4. What are the natural controls on Eh and pH?
  5. Was there ever a real species of dinosaur that resembled Barney?

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 4

  1. Trimmer vs shaver
  2. How energetic x-rays (kV) is required to reach above background?
  3. Spin
  4. Hassium
  5. How to get shine/glow in face like celebrities?
  6. efficiency
  7. Cooling of smartphones
  8. Science of mating in humans

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 5

  1. can one derive a language's grammar from sample code
  2. Sodium hydroxide for washing dishes?
  3. Pope alexander of the borgia family used vitriol or sulfur as a mood anhancer..
  4. Beef vs. chicken
  5. Does frequent reading/writing affect neurology of spoken language?
  6. Athletes and alcohol
  7. Optimizing learning habits
  8. Is the blood test influenced by water?

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 6

  1. A few chemistry questions
  2. I want to change a reference on the Elephant Cognition page.
  3. What kind of bug is this?
  4. Meteor trail color
  5. Tetrahydrofuran

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 7

  1. Practically insoluble
  2. Explosive experiments
  3. Aeronautical Engineering
  4. Biplane vs. fighter jet
  5. Zero point energy and the volume of the universe.
  6. Why do we need omega-3 fatty acids?
  7. bioremediation
  8. Remote Sensing
  9. Venus fly trap digestion
  10. Why does stirred water reverse direction slightly just before reaching a stop?
  11. Sodium carbonate electrolysis?

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 8

  1. Predicting the history can be wrong
  2. Nasal congestion and sleep
  3. Can sun actually magnify electromagnetic waves as depicted in Three Body (science fiction)?
  4. Bird question
  5. Arthritis
  6. How would a Sulfur Aluminum battery compare
  7. drafting - mechanical drawings

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 9

  1. When was the cactus introduced to China?
  2. Is there actually a trend in the size of fragments of a broken object or is it a hoax?
  3. The size of sun seen from planets look bigger during sunset?
  4. Electromagnetic radiation effect
  5. Earth's orbital plane and its revolution
  6. Question about Science career choice in India
  7. Genetic diversity of dogs vs. other mammals
  8. How did our Stone Age ancestors get enough vitamin A?

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 10

  1. collars and tie outs
  2. Why have there not been visitors from the future?
  3. Mountain prominences and parentage
  4. List of Products that contain triclosan
  5. Double minor

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 11

  1. Photography treatment at The Guardian online.
  2. Scuba + weight training?

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 12

  1. Why are there no terrestrial creatures that can emit electricity as a weapon?
  2. Harbor seal rookeries in Maine & northeast
  3. Homo superior and human brain evolution
  4. Astrophysics & Geography
  5. Special Relativity

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 13

  1. Other than dogs, what animals mainly perspirate by drooling?
  2. Clam meat
  3. A Boy and His Atom
  4. Peroxodisulphate
  5. Zero point energy and the volume of the universe.
  6. Carbohydrate jacket potato overdose?
  7. Hot Jupiters
  8. galactic plane all the same?
  9. Determination of titratable acidity in apple juice

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 14

  1. has solar system sidereal rotation
  2. "Nipple delay"?
  3. Animal defense
  4. Big Bang
  5. The Universe
  6. Sucrose gradient
  7. 3 core 0.229in diameter wire vs 7 core 0.229 in diameter wire pure copper
  8. Did Prafulla Chandra Ray discovered Mercurous nitrite?
  9. What do you call the inverse of speed?

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 15

  1. Is this an artifact?
  2. Office plant identification
  3. Weak mixing angle
  4. The number of microbes in the throat in case of cough
  5. Nuclear reaction
  6. Explosions...IN SPACE!
  7. Amateur (or professional) mycologist wanted

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 16

  1. Use of degree symbol with Fahrenheit
  2. Dimensional analysis of a punch
  3. Shadows cast by moonlight

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 17

  1. Cold myth
  2. Type 1a supernova with a neutron star instead of a white dwarf? (a twofer for that star)
  3. Toluene
  4. Special Relativity: follow up
  5. Small golden brown beetle
  6. why silver reduces gold?
  7. Sleep theory

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 18

  1. Strange-looking cherries
  2. Bonobo endocrinology
  3. We've heard about beneficial bacteria, perhaps there are beneficial cancers?

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 19

  1. Quantum foam, zero-point energy, the fabric of the cosmos
  2. What time of day and date of the year would most people on earth be in darkness?
  3. Dark band between two lasers?
  4. Are dogs ever allergic to wheat gluten ?
  5. Machine made of Human parts

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 20

  1. Throwing one's hands in the air
  2. Decay product
  3. Mysterious lack of airspeed
  4. Human body
  5. Original Earth-Moon distance

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 21

  1. what is the most amazing tornado footage ever filmed?
  2. Spoiled Tabasco
  3. why atomic silver clusters catalyze ionic silver reduction?
  4. Deriving the Saha equation Using statistical Mechanics
  5. Teen Invents Super fast battery charger
  6. Melting point of a diamond
  7. Meowing of male and female cat

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 22

  1. More questions about earth-moon distance
  2. Which types of dogs lives longer, larger dogs or smaller dogs?
  3. Measuring entropy
  4. Special Relativity: follow up
  5. Steroids and bodybuilding
  6. Biology
  7. Name the following psychiatric symptoms
  8. Butterfly effect and scientific method
  9. Damp proof course
  10. Which is bigger?
  11. Buying pure elements
  12. Using small LCDs for other purposes
  13. "Non-Newtonian Play-Doh"
  14. ADSL filter with 2xBS 6312 sockets and one ADSL (RJ11 is it?) socket...

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 23

  1. Bodies of water silting up
  2. Validity of the ideal gas law
  3. Is there any scientific evidence about spirits and their ability to affect the living?
  4. Measuring roughness
  5. global warming referred to in article - is this statement up to wiki standards?
  6. Why do East Asians, particularly Chinese people, dominate at table tennis?

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 24

  1. Chicken game
  2. interference
  3. Are there giant rats of about 90cm large?
  4. Can Minkowski's addition to Special Relativity be experimentally supported / disproved?
  5. How much electric shock can cause permanent tissue damage?
  6. Scientific name for a local variety of radish (Choti) grown in Karnali region in Nepal
  7. Breathing
  8. Smallest living being able to learn?
  9. Can you gain more weight than you eat?

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 25

  1. Are super-tankers fully automated ?
  2. Solubility of Iron(II) oxalate
  3. Organ theft

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 26

  1. Antipsychotic studies
  2. Sky cloudier near ocean

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 27

  1. Salt and sea salt
  2. ELectrostatic Energy
  3. Purpose of small building connected to upper floor of generating station
  4. I need to know the names of 4 things
  5. How is water pumped to the treetop?
  6. My cat and formic acid, etc.
  7. No blossoming

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 28

  1. What's New by Bob Park
  2. Self-contamination possible? Trying to understand bathroom germ contamination and how it works
  3. Life expectancy corrected for sleeping time
  4. Best Hook Orientation

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 29

  1. A superacid under extreme conditions
  2. Berylium inhalation when needle-scaling.
  3. How can I measure the weight of a plant without unrooting it, or cutting it into pieces?
  4. solar wind
  5. Physical attractiveness of men
  6. Size of the nucleus
  7. Which Scientific name is correct
  8. Question regarding the statistical approach to define entropy
  9. Proto-languages and proto-genomes
  10. Are there similar things to ruin marble?
  11. Radiation and motion sickness

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 30

  1. Is my dwarf Aleppo pine tree dying?
  2. Any body can help me with ansys??
  3. Window or Incandescent light better for illumination versus heat
  4. Li-po battery underperformance
  5. Titration question
  6. Bird identification
  7. Calories

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 May 31

  1. Nanocrystalline silicon?
  2. Can we invent something here? (Ice thickness and ultrasound)
  3. Ice stalagmite (or something)
  4. PCE and BTEX remediation
  5. Is the size of the two testicles remain same throught whole life?