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October 1

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  1. Prevent superheating in microwave
  2. This fish prefers deep waters and it is illiophagus
  3. Waves going toward or away from shore
  4. Russian loudspeakers
  5. Connecting the dots in a graph
  6. Beta carbon nitride
  7. Clouds and pressure

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 2

  1. Kinetic reclamation to your phone due to bodily movements.
  2. Infant mortality rate and birth rate
  3. derivation of lensmaker's equation for a thick lens
  4. what is the resistor for?
  5. Morphine/Dilaudid conversion
  6. Bowel flora
  7. what is the formula for the angular magnification for a single lens?
  8. Animal eyesight and the electromagnetic spectrum
  9. Cellular Renewal
  10. The fossil part of Fossil fuels
  11. Rating rechargeable battery input and output

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 3

  1. Motherboard oscillators in the GHz..
  2. Audio waveform graphs
  3. Selective dissolution
  4. Car servicing
  5. Fishing or harvest algae from a submarine?
  6. try adjusting the phase

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 4

  1. Solar Panel Kits
  2. Tool to remove fuel filler cap?
  3. Tastes of the alkali metal halides
  4. Necessary properties for an element to be a halogen
  5. Using an NPN transistor as a switch - optimal circuit
  6. What constitutes a bacterial species?
  7. SSC and Higgs
  8. What are those spidery black things on Mars?
  9. Segmented sleep and animals

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 5

  1. Gibbs free energy change of a hydration of a gas
  2. Is there a theoretical frames-per-second limit to capturing motion
  3. alcohol
  4. Scurvy and scars
  5. Holographic displays
  6. Can visible light induce an electric current in an antenna?
  7. 12.5 million pixels

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 6

  1. Pressure of a gas
  2. What kind of tech advance will we need to have GPS-locatable wedding rings?
  3. Frog/toad suggestions

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 7

  1. what is the 1D solution for the particle in a box for fermions with spin?
  2. Will Santa Claus' house be underwater by 2020?
  3. Cat eyes
  4. Does carbon dioxide have a quadrupole?
  5. Is it wrong to say that we come from the monkey?
  6. Physical Chemistry question - low pressure vacuum chamber

October 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 8

  1. Accuracy of forward looking economic statements
  2. Pyramids at Giza
  3. Aviation-related question on the humanities desk.
  4. de-salting urine
  5. cells
  6. Unknown flower on Japanese woodcut
  7. PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH QUESTION

October 9

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  1. Yearly hours of sunlight at different latitudes
  2. lightning
  3. Relative speed and position
  4. domestic cats like killing
  5. Scale of eyes
  6. Can anyone do this?
  7. Real image?
  8. Microwave oven question
  9. Can human nature evolve, and if it does evolve, can humans understand earlier humans thoughts millions of years from now?
  10. Genetic bottleneck from the KT and Permian mass extinctions
  11. DermaWand®
  12. Shelf life for sealed lead-acid battery
  13. Amphetamine good for children, bad for adults?

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 10

  1. Awareness of the link between sex and reproduction
  2. DNA transcription information doubt
  3. SCIATIC NERVE EXPLORATION
  4. baseball hat
  5. First environmental science program(me)(s)
  6. Earth-Moon Recession
  7. I'm more like my mother than my father
  8. Genetically modified organisms
  9. Morphine in World War 2

October 11

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  1. depth of voice and time of day
  2. Chemical Equilibrium Expression

October 12

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  1. Dot product and cross product
  2. Two questions for project
  3. Malaria in Europe
  4. Volume of naphtha
  5. DUTASTERIDE/ASPARTAME combined side effects
  6. evolution

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 13

  1. Yagi-Uda antenna for wlan
  2. Physical process at work when airing out some smokey clothes?
  3. Why inorganic and + (plus sign)
  4. Visual imagination of birth-blind people
  5. Getting an oversized Disk though a circular hole in a bendable material ....
  6. Turret milling machine or Universal milling machine..?
  7. Europa from Io
  8. Atomicity of elements
  9. "The current price per package of tasonermin (Beromun 4 vials 1 mg) is EUR11,813.54. "

October 14

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  1. Hypnosis and alcohol blackouts
  2. Does Capsaicin harm plants or their roots?
  3. Honors thesis project
  4. Magnetic propulsion
  5. Flooded skyscrapers
  6. Bioconcentration

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October 24

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October 25

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October 26

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October 27

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October 28

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October 29

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October 30

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  1. Venusian atmosphere
  2. What is the farthest known planet from earth including dwarf planets?
  3. Thermite reaction
  4. Charges on quarks
  5. Strangelet production engine
  6. herpes
  7. Germline Mutagenesis of Cesium 137 in Plants and Animals
  8. Could an accident like Fukushima happen in the US due to Sandy?
  9. Airplanes during storms
  10. EEG correlates
  11. Can a planet orbit inside a red giant for hundreds of thousands of years ?

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 October 31

  1. Where do those fires in NYC come from?
  2. Science Olympiad
  3. Balky burner
  4. Looking for the right word
  5. Are we trying to contact alien civilizations?
  6. Vitamins and mood