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October 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 1

  1. Pthirus gorillae
  2. Chemicals in inkjet photo paper
  3. biographical info about Agnes Stroud Lee
  4. ppb
  5. question regarding stars
  6. Ice as a murder weapon
  7. A question I've never pondered
  8. Why weed is illegal
  9. Increasing the range of the Strong Nuclear Force
  10. Microwaving a beetle
  11. Would it be possible (assuming enough materials and labor (!)) to make a stone tower so tall it CANNOT crack? (but instead deforms plastically)
  12. Weak equivalence question

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 2

  1. plasma rockets-pbsnova
  2. How much copper and/or gold is there in an HDMI cable?
  3. Indoor air quality solutions?
  4. Softwood
  5. breast question
  6. Why does my head click if I turn it too fast?
  7. 50 F/500 - speaker
  8. Howwhy tastes enhance eachother or cancel eachother out?
  9. Electrical energy
  10. Mushrooms in BC
  11. Crystaline sucrose
  12. Disease Labs
  13. 3D technology for teaching cats and dogs
  14. Albert Einstein
  15. Vintage sperm doesn't produce vintage offspring?
  16. Gliese 581 g comparisons that are fair
  17. Black holes?
  18. Mushrooms
  19. Phonophore - communication device

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 3

  1. Centre of mass of the Earth
  2. stelar cartography
  3. Bio engineering
  4. How does a rocket "steer"?
  5. Ensembl sucks as*!
  6. Global oxygen production of Algae
  7. Masturbation

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 4

  1. SI: The Logical System?
  2. HIV infection
  3. Pre-positioned nuclear weapons
  4. What is in this picture of Mars?
  5. Jellyfish - bubbles in the top part
  6. Is toxoplasmosis a cause for discrimination?
  7. Dissimilarities between cell lines and genome databases
  8. Disrupting a gene by inserting a marker - how to express the marker?
  9. Six volt automotive systems
  10. calculating odds
  11. Soil PH 8.3
  12. Stinky refrigerator
  13. Storing Cr2032 Batteries
  14. Passage of Time
  15. How fast would you have to be going to get to Jupiter in a year?

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 5

  1. E=mc2
  2. DNA
  3. Robert G. Edwards
  4. Good-smelling bad smells
  5. Gravitational constant
  6. Dealing with excessive moisture inside an apartment...
  7. HIV infection through childbirth?
  8. Paleontology
  9. In-line duct heater
  10. Percentage of common genes
  11. Physical meaning of 1 Farad = 1 Second/Ohm
  12. Permanganate reaction with heat
  13. irish tornadoes
  14. Video clips stuff for science articles
  15. Is E=mc^2 an approximation?
  16. Celebrity endorsement - scientific name of?
  17. Ethanethiol production
  18. Why do parrots mimic human speech?
  19. 5' on sense strand corresponds to C or N terminal on protein?
  20. "treated merino wool

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 6

  1. change in ic engine
  2. Atlantic halibut
  3. Planet gravity
  4. Cleaning detergents
  5. Microfibre cloths for cleaning
  6. The theory of toxic sludge lagoons, re: Hungary's red flood

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 7

  1. using sulfur to make carbon-carbon bonds
  2. 3-second Pop Tarts?
  3. ...sulfuric acid costs 9.8 cents a litre
  4. Slit diffraction
  5. Einstein's view
  6. Why do Some people have heavier sleep than others?
  7. Where to focus to photograph a mirror reflection
  8. Chicken genome nuggets
  9. diffraction of white light versus monochromatic light
  10. Pressure cooker - rubber ring
  11. Can expressing GFP interfere with any cellular processes?
  12. Coin question
  13. Metal detectors outside MRI rooms
  14. Seeing through frosted glass or net curtains with a telescope or zoom lens
  15. Mushroom identification
  16. Boiling milk in a microwave oven
  17. Red mud into iron?
  18. Is "dark energy" really the Universe's brane whipping around?

October 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 8

  1. There are mentions of cross-linked polystyrene. Rexolite is a significant industrial example. Why no mention of it?
  2. Which one of these will change color in a Biuret Reagent test?
  3. Rocket science
  4. Highest mountains in Europe and reliable sources
  5. Lizard hibernation
  6. CM1 is to DMEM as swing is to roundabout?
  7. Seiche
  8. Accuracy of Gas Regulators
  9. Painting a GarageFloor
  10. is empirical electronegativity strictly transitive?
  11. river rock

October 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 9

  1. Why do parrots live such a long time?
  2. Levitating animal
  3. Radio-controlled watch exactly 40 minutes fast
  4. Dead transistor radio
  5. Making selections in Pymol
  6. Why are we not researching this?
  7. Ideal Springs
  8. Whole grain on the food pyramid

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 10

  1. Practical way
  2. Map of direction of stellar and galactic motion
  3. What is this on the roof?
  4. Insect identification
  5. Carbon footprint
  6. Lead toxicity
  7. Work/Power problem
  8. backlighting digital cameras
  9. Which preservatives are used in McDonald's french fires?

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 11

  1. Ascorbic acid (or other antioxidants) as a redox catalyst
  2. How do I grow a really long beard?
  3. B12
  4. Folding my own proteins @home
  5. Holes of insects in old wood
  6. Passing on sex genes
  7. plasma phase carbanions
  8. where can I get tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron?
  9. Phosphodiesterase vs. phosphoesterase?
  10. relativity question
  11. Pigeons on my TV aerial?
  12. Egg in Vinegar

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 12

  1. Missing reference/article
  2. Nuclear isomers for chemical transmutation of gold i.e. alchemy?
  3. Calculate the heat supplied
  4. is it a contradiction to know something about something we can't know anything about?
  5. Electrode potentials at red heat
  6. Chile mine rescue
  7. Unitary operator
  8. Emulsion paint - why not water-soluble when dry?
  9. why wrinkles around mouth
  10. natural sciences v. finance
  11. expansion of the universe

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 13

  1. Water being included as a test subject
  2. Sanpaku
  3. Is it a fungus?
  4. Incinerating raw sewage using liquid oxygen?
  5. speed and distance of expansion
  6. "pass through" versus "bounce"
  7. Conductive Napalm
  8. Humans in North America
  9. Blood tranfusion
  10. If it's not in UniProt, does it still exist?
  11. Identify device
  12. What happened to my apple juice?

October 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 14

  1. difference between quantum state and wavefunction?
  2. Contact lens solutions don't drip out of bottles when inverted.
  3. Space telescope naming question--Edwin Hubble got one, how about Henrietta Leavitt?
  4. Synthesis of 3-Carbethoxycoumarin
  5. magnitude of contact forces
  6. Walking or Cycling?
  7. N-Acetylglucosamine as a protein ligand
  8. Magnesium flame test
  9. Chilean miners' dental problems
  10. Semi-terrestrial octopuses/octopi/octopodes...
  11. How does this levitation magnet system's feedback system likely work?
  12. Horse Chestnuts, leaf miner and bleeding canker
  13. Odds of discovery of Pioneer plaque by an ET

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 15

  1. how do you define time ?
  2. memory storage devices
  3. how to explain the oxidation of ethers to esters with calcium hypochlorite? (and a question about activated C-H bonds)
  4. Upper limit on speeds
  5. reversible oxidation of a USB plug?
  6. Link crashes
  7. Sodium tellurate
  8. methane + CO2 --> acetic acid
  9. Thermodynamics question
  10. Should my neighbor's cat drink old milk?
  11. Next Day Soup.
  12. is there such a thing as "mild chlorine poisoning"?
  13. How does matter fall into a black hole?

October 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 16

  1. Wedge Constant:- newton laws of motion
  2. EDTA reaction
  3. aging and sensory capacity
  4. Elliptical Orbit vs Circular Orbit problem
  5. Train tracks and leaves
  6. tunnel diode
  7. Sapience
  8. Nuclear Physics

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 17

  1. Cobalt chlorides
  2. Controlled mass loss of Earth.
  3. unprovoked reoccuring blister type lesions on feet
  4. Mass of copper
  5. Flatulence smelling
  6. pressure exerted by expanding ice
  7. caffeine
  8. Carbon monoxide detector
  9. Papillomaviruses stable for months??
  10. Killing Me Softly With a TV
  11. Absorb my frameshifts
  12. Amount of energy required to boil water
  13. Elbow braces and tendinitis
  14. To what extent are humans adapted to meat-eating?
  15. Wildlife ID - does this sound like a slime mold?

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 18

  1. Train Speed vs Plane Speed
  2. In the animal kingdom, do females compete over males?
  3. Beatrice being buried alive in Kill Bill Vol. 2
  4. linear diode
  5. Galvanic corrosion
  6. light pulse intensity with time
  7. Mass spectra
  8. Squirrel locomotion
  9. What we see is a prediction
  10. When a balloon pops, does it go supersonic?
  11. Nepal timezone
  12. Can acid reflux irritate the tonsil?

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 19

  1. Modified Stern-Gerlach device
  2. sofa acquiring static electricity from sunlight
  3. Forests half blown down
  4. How long is my exon?
  5. what do you do with a hypothesis? "decide" it?
  6. Lithium hydroxide reaction with carbon dioxide
  7. Special PCR machine for touchdown PCR?
  8. NIR Technology
  9. Multiple partners
  10. Tin(II) oxide hydrate
  11. Wave function for large objects
  12. Oyster name

October 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 20

  1. Pancreatin
  2. P-v curve problem
  3. Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
  4. how much would it cost a fit 20 year old to go die on Mars with a 5% chance of dying sooner
  5. exploring mars
  6. Thermodynamics question
  7. Animal nutritional requirements
  8. voice
  9. Bismuth toxicity
  10. Mass spectrometry

October 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 21

  1. Griswold - knitting industry machine
  2. Explanation
  3. Visible, or not visible?
  4. Age of the universe by isotope ratios
  5. Turning flight
  6. isolated system
  7. wireless transfer of elecrticity for long distance transmisan
  8. Water in the equilibrium expression?
  9. white light fringes in the Michelson interferometer
  10. Improved Brownian ratchet would overcome the second law of thermodynamics?
  11. Is sushi healthy?
  12. Focusing on a blurred image
  13. Tritan
  14. MCH and MCHC units
  15. Coplanar forces

October 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 22

  1. How many generations have there been?
  2. Dark matter: cold gravitationally bound clumps of H and He?
  3. Age of plants and animals in Copernican exoplanet expectations
  4. Bread made with "100% British Wheat"
  5. Feeling of blood circulation
  6. "HMS Astute: world's most advanced nuclear submarine runs aground" -- world's most advanced? why?
  7. nerve regeneration and pain?
  8. Tin(II) oxide hydrate oxidation
  9. good bacteria
  10. Pancreatin Reaction
  11. positive on-off switch

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 23

  1. The "sound" of light
  2. Drooping crops..
  3. Rope on a table
  4. Flowering in Basil (Ocimum sp.)
  5. Moment of Inertia
  6. Steam or smoke from nuclear sub
  7. Patents for fuel-efficient engines owned by oil companies - did they also bribe Snopes?
  8. How to find an astronaut
  9. light travel time vs. light year distance
  10. DNA
  11. Bodies in space
  12. Library of Congress
  13. Potential habitability of extrasolar planetary star systems
  14. Expanding gas
  15. toothbrushes
  16. center of mass problem
  17. thermo-plastic emulsion
  18. Kinetic Energy Lost
  19. Which red cattle breed in Guadeloupe?
  20. Green pennies
  21. Chicken vs chicken

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 24

  1. UDFy-38135539 both exists AND may have been seen by space aliens, or something
  2. Stay with me, buddy; we're gonna make it through this
  3. Large rigid structures on the ocean
  4. The law of thermodynamics
  5. Underwater wrecks and pressure
  6. is this real?
  7. follicles
  8. Foucault pendulum swings
  9. measuring id, ego, etc.
  10. regarding use of solumedrol
  11. glacier grit
  12. Why do humans need potable water?
  13. Light speed and giant sticks

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 25

  1. Dark spots/bruises on old people's skin
  2. Calorimetry
  3. Atom pic
  4. Dry CuCl
  5. When do you think they'll come out with plasma weapons?
  6. 2 errors ?
  7. Sticking the Landing
  8. how would we even know
  9. Probability amplitudes
  10. Making Helium
  11. Golden cross on the Moon
  12. Comet identification
  13. Pulpit Rock

October 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 26

  1. Digestion
  2. Angular momentum
  3. Evaluating IQ without math
  4. Ironing interferes with digital TV reception
  5. Number of people on earth
  6. Highest rank with only one species in it?
  7. Magnetic flux and electricity
  8. Tachyon
  9. relation between friction and area
  10. Lagrangian point
  11. Orangutan strength
  12. Double Displacement Reactions

October 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 27

  1. Naturally-occurring promethium
  2. Formation of gold deposits
  3. some one will helpme that in which place i should ask my questions
  4. Spelter
  5. Magnetic flux and electricity
  6. Magnetic flux and magnets
  7. Tillage
  8. chocolate bar
  9. The Vitamin B12
  10. mosquito eggs and larva
  11. does puree count as a liquid?
  12. Magnets and electricity...again!
  13. Combining tornadoes
  14. Colloidal iron?
  15. Are the majority of birds noisy fliers?
  16. Go (weiqi) - computers vs human brains
  17. Cryosurgery to repair torn tissue?
  18. Quantum Entanglement

October 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 28

  1. Why do flour and sugar store so well?
  2. force
  3. Sexuality question
  4. My theory on why we often can’t run in dreams – is it valid?
  5. solar enery storage
  6. Is ADD real?
  7. O2 effect on metabolism
  8. Pyrotechnic colorant
  9. Complement system and antibody-antigen complexes
  10. Tachyons
  11. Another chemistry question
  12. Geodesic dome garden shed
  13. Figuring names out for cells
  14. Possible circuit that shows this particular voltage/current pattern
  15. BPA degrade

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 29

  1. Are "spectrum disorders" really just a way of saying "we don't know" ?
  2. 120W power supply 30W load
  3. Phase behavior of pure substances below triple point pressure
  4. electricity doesn't weight anything
  5. Fuel Consumption vs CO2 emmissions
  6. Firing a ceramic
  7. Multiple tasks with both individual hands difficulty
  8. Energy Anomaly??
  9. Is the thymus an endocrine gland?
  10. Clamped buttress
  11. on utilizing sound energy
  12. Big Cats
  13. Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power
  14. CFL bulbs afterglow "flashing"
  15. my project
  16. Toothpaste
  17. Hardness of human teeth
  18. What looks like peas?

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 30

  1. Carbonated drinks and digestive health?
  2. uakari fruits
  3. Time dilation? Time speeding?
  4. Stained glass
  5. Is it possible to create an exotic atom with antiprotons instead of electrons?
  6. Woodchip bug
  7. volcanic tropical cyclones
  8. Pure energy
  9. DC Circuits - resistors
  10. What is the average age of onset of Alzheimer's disease?
  11. SECIS element
  12. does citric acid actively mask the taste of ethanol?
  13. Difficulty in differentiating actors and actresses from the fictional characters they portray?
  14. Theory?

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 October 31

  1. Artificial reefs
  2. Earthworms
  3. Optical computing
  4. why do plants use so much more potassium than animals?
  5. Contradiction in the solution to a Physics question?
  6. Solar cells, dark current and current direction
  7. Creature in Thailand
  8. Curious phenomenon
  9. Birefringence