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[edit] August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 1

1. The Nile River
2. Help!!!!!anyone help me anwser this question....i have an exam juz few hours to go....i nid the anwser as quick as possible
3. Blindness from birth affecting how one learns body language, etc.?
4. Amesbury Archer had unusual configuration to the bones in his feet.
5. Wormholes
6. Solar Cells
7. human anatomy
8. natural abundance
9. Frog
10. residue left when bleach dries
11. White stuff on old batteries
12. Entry of blood from marrow to circulatory system
13. How many human diseases are there?
14. Trolleybus/Trackless Trolley
15. Type of thought disorder?
16. What is the definition of ORTHODOSES?
17. Laser Pointers
18. Angular momentum

[edit] August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 2

1. volkswagon beetle
2. I was wondering
3. Blue Whale Migration
4. Breath Holding
5. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
6. social studies
7. Paralysis from spinal chord injuries
8. the United Kingdom vs Great Britain
9. spider pigs
10. Re:Solar flares, prominences, and sunspots
11. Pinhole_camera
12. Short term Memory
13. Animala
14. Copper Pipe
15. What is the name of the 'no money - binge reflex'?

[edit] August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 3

1. Finite Photons?
2. Latex discoloration
3. calculation
4. silver plating
5. molecular biology
6. Heart rate
7. Dogs and milk/chocolate
8. Black Iron Pipe
9. Biology/ snakes

[edit] August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 4

1. Beneficial mutations "objective?"
2. "Shunning" in gulls? - re-asking as my original question has been archived without answer...
3. clouds
4. Dr Donor
5. John Doe Plant
6. metric tons conversion to litres fuels
7. Sunflowers with 2 heads
8. efficiency of transport
9. Is the earth materially closed?
10. Boiling with less than the recommended minimum level of water...
11. Piloting a spacecraft
12. How do you declare a theory?
13. Planting acorns and fruit stones
14. Science project - heat to electrical energy transduction...
15. Need help finding health issues
16. Physics
17. Gravity Question
18. Latest consumer battery technology?

[edit] August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 5

1. P -type conductor
2. Messages and/or Words in Microwave Oven Heated Liquid
3. Glare Circles
4. shaver
5. Homework question
6. aircraft cabin pressurization
7. What happens to it?
8. Comfrey- visual recognition of bocking 14 variety
9. Burnt edges of bread
10. Kittiwakes

[edit] August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 6

1. Saw
2. Ants
3. Gene Transfering
4. Does electrons attract or repeal photons ?
5. The Epidermis
6. spin of neutron etc
7. genetic intelligence
8. Peacock snake diet
9. volume of photon .
10. Oil refining energy consumption
11. Cooling down the body
12. Seeing the sky from Jupiter's atmosphere
13. pinprick sensation
14. Where do we get so much energy???

[edit] August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 7

1. Speling queston
2. Blood group and Vegetarianism
3. Where is the brachialis?
4. pale monarch
5. Weather book needed
6. Clarification on Sun tanning
7. Water in the human body
8. Alcohol from beans
9. Frozen Water Picture
10. International Space Hygene
11. Temporary fix to glassware
12. Bernoulli Principle
13. Voice
14. Tappan Zee bridge clearance
15. Human and animal sperm
16. Possibility of landing on a neutron star

[edit] August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 8

1. TRIGA Mark III
2. Help finding news item on the plateau of cancer rates
3. Dehydration and Gatorade
4. Bird crap
5. Microwave Oven Longevity
6. Blood Plasma Discolouration
7. Safe pesticides for use near Florida mangroves
8. Voss and Fiji brand water
9. Are we smarter now?
10. Avoiding decompression
11. Male dogs
12. Just a thought
13. Magpie nests
14. Space Shuttle tracking

[edit] August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 9

1. Do freezers use less energy when empty?
2. centrifugal force and gravity
3. centrifugal force and gravity (gravitons)
4. bunsen burner
5. Marble and Mobile Phones!!
6. Relativity's successor
7. Instruments of Measurements
8. Conv. of units for cholesterol
9. ice cream

[edit] August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 10

1. Death - turning on back
2. Headaches
3. WHICH BIRD CAN FLY IN BACKWARD DIRECTION ALSO?
4. Exact reason for the gender difference in essential body fat percentage
5. light intensity
6. Sleeping feet
7. AIDS enquiries
8. Fading of photogaphic prints
9. Microbiology/statistics
10. about sea monkeys
11. changing the demand for electricity in a 24 hour period
12. Melarsoprol - sorting fact from fiction

[edit] August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 11

1. Questions about hydrogen/oxygen ratio in Eternal Tank, Kourou launch site and inclination
2. What is the fate of insulin molecules in the body?
3. name of Middle Eastern herb?
4. Toe Nails
5. biology --- moth question
6. nano tech
7. AC Adapter
8. Intracranial pressure
9. anxiety disorders
10. How to find out the caffeine content thropugh experiment
11. Term for an aggressive signal used by animals
12. New fish in an ecosystem
13. Slow vcr power-up
14. Digital vs Analog Television Broadcasting
15. Health,
16. Enzymes releasing products after the reaction.
17. CO2 levels

[edit] August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 12

1. Need help with another link - hair pulling obsession
2. Silicate Lattice - edges?
3. Concentrated acids - definition, calculations?
4. Fear of reading text books
5. mitosis
6. Recharging batteries
7. Overcast Days
8. Fractional charges on quarks
9. Pseudocodes, DFDs and Flowchart
10. Magic cleaning liquid
11. The double pendulum...

[edit] August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 13

1. BaBar Experiment
2. Japanese Vehicle Horsepower Restrictions
3. Ohm's law
4. seperation of sugar solution from pure water
5. Gravitation
6. Infinite light box
7. Electrons in String Theory
8. box fan
9. Realistic deaths in films?
10. Fire diamond
11. Health fairs at libraries
12. Skin pigmentation in higher latitudes.

[edit] August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 14

1. weather - humidity
2. Ice
3. about scientist of friction
4. Effects of gravitation from and on an object near light speed
5. Swirling Water
6. Car's rim
7. Human body drinking issue
8. Mouldy bread
9. Benzodiazepine
10. Electromagnetic Waves
11. Why does a hand in warm water while asleep cause bed wetting?
12. Lanthionine
13. Adoption
14. Perfectograph
15. Plato on third region beyond true and false, fuzzy logic precursor
16. Physics?
17. Not a question!
18. Laser Cutter in Woodshop

[edit] August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 15

1. xenalights
2. Cardio and Barfing
3. Journal Cell Publication Period
4. Glazing
5. READING BURRETTES IN TITRATION
6. Internet in Africa
7. Hole in a spacesuit

[edit] August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 16

1. Stupid pharmaceutical names..
2. How long would you retain consciousness/awareness if your head was cut off?
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 16#|]]
4. Does Nature utilize prime numbers (qua prime) for any reason?
5. Hibiscus
6. Source of non-copyrighted image of plants
7. Can you fault my logical and scientific proof for personal immortality?
8. Closed Time-Like Loops
9. Iron pentacarbonyl
10. cities
11. Dream question
12. Nero mammoths
13. "Sashimi Grade" fish, and parasites and other nasties
14. Banana skins
15. cytochrome c measurement
16. troubleshooting
17. Birth of a seagull

[edit] August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 17

1. Dangerous love
2. Shape of the eye
3. Chemistry and Botany
4. Stroboscopic Effect again
5. Vertical polarization
6. Adherence
7. clean pharmacy
8. Quarks in the Universe
9. Where do all the animals go that die???
10. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 17#|]]
11. Time-lapse of bark growing
12. Polarization filter for camera
13. Photos of earless humans
14. The sizes of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
15. Sensu?
16. Rotation of drinking-vessel as a means of controlling flow
17. force applied by moving water

[edit] August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 18

1. Strange creature ID needed...
2. Speculation
3. Dreaming
4. Dark energy
5. What kind of squirrel is this?
6. Who was Ed Hummel?
7. pitcher plant
8. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 18#|]]
9. Stovetops
10. Magnetic property of Hydrogen .
11. Why doesn't air conduct current?
12. bush height
13. Absorbtion rate through skin
14. Chagos Trench
15. So, there are red, green and now blue laser pointers...
16. How do I determine the age of an adult female budgerigar?
17. Odd vision problem

[edit] August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 19

1. Why do we go blue?
2. A chemical bond
3. Veins
4. mimimum pixel size of lcd display
5. Night vision
6. TI-89 Titanium Units
7. Bald-headed birds and the sun...

[edit] August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 20

1. Cat Whiskers
2. Peeling
3. Cognitive Error.
4. Birth rates following wars
5. Trends across period 3 of the periodic table
6. BIOLOGY
7. Chemistry
8. chemistry
9. Petrochemicals
10. Eagle Project
11. Utah Mine Disaster
12. Tension in a string tied between two supports
13. MPG: reality versus EPA ratings
14. birds
15. Speed limit "c"?

[edit] August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 21

1. Quantum Immortality....WTF?
2. Psychomotor Retardation
3. Travel adaptors
4. Earth science
5. pitcher plants
6. What is true
7. Pneumatics Vs Hydraulics
8. Nettles
9. isoxazole
10. Palmetto Bug communication
11. telescope design
12. Hyperventilation
13. DNA
14. unidentified bird, mammal, insect
15. Conjoined twins
16. boat in current
17. Qauntum Decay
18. STS-3xx
19. randomness mechanism
20. Sea Shells

[edit] August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 22

1. Medicine - The Spleen
2. is this right?
3. Power used by a car
4. Toads and warts
5. insuline
6. PHYSICS D/L
7. BOTANY
8. sea
9. Death by Fire
10. physics
11. Conjoined Twins
12. How many islands are there?
13. Light Bulb Pressure
14. Why is warm cheese more flavorful than cold?
15. Swallowing toothpaste
16. helium ballons
17. oxidative phosphorylation
18. Vehicles Submerged in Water
19. Alzheimer's Disease
20. Quick, slightly vulgar question...

[edit] August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 23

1. What is Lanalool?
2. sun and moon simultaneously visible
3. Megapixel equivalent of eye
4. where is the sun in google sky?
5. Recovering wet electronics
6. The Federal Puke Ray: How does it work?
7. Which animals sweat?

[edit] August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 24

1. Weak bosons
2. Wouldn't it sensible if Nature made us all hermaphrodites?
3. Geometry of complex
4. Colour question (related to one above)
5. Scary Movie
6. Salt in processed foods
7. Editing Wikipedia telekinetically
8. Running On Water
9. Space-time continium
10. user knowledge
11. Maglev technology & Meissner Effect/Flux trapping

[edit] August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 25

1. Mountain height limit
2. Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated Fats
3. regarding heat
4. bird blood
5. Toxicity of unrinsed dishes
6. Spherical Magnet?
7. Bacteria in human mouth vs. at the end of the digestion process
8. Camera emulating the human eye
9. WHAT HAPPENS DURING MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER?
10. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BRAIN DURING THE DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER?
11. 21 grams
12. Hooke's law and its integral
13. Mains adapter
14. + & - chargged metals
15. Sacrificial Anode - Aluminium
16. Fused NaCl
17. Recharging a Lone Ranger atomic bomb ring
18. Fields of science
19. Elasticity and Strain
20. Animal intelligence testing
21. liquid pressure
22. Accents

[edit] August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 26

1. Prozac and Weight Change
2. Psychology
3. Newtonian camera
4. stepped transmission
5. Building a wall or fence to block traffic noise
6. Unidentified disease of Marigold
7. lenses
8. Acoustics
9. If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
10. How do you demolish a skyscraper?

[edit] August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 27

1. Noise reduction history
2. Plants Water Purifacation
3. Photon duality
4. Riverstone pebble tiles
5. True open circuit- calculation
6. toothpaste
7. reaction machenism
8. Telescope Physics
9. Earths magnetic pole swapping
10. Time dilation at the speed of light
11. composite material, kitchen work top made of clear resin and white pebbles

[edit] August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 28

1. When is the best time to change gear in a manual car?
2. katydids/diet
3. Laser
4. XRF Bremsstrahlung Shape
5. Area of Earth one can see.
6. Gull feathers - do they make better duvet filling than duck/goose/chicken feathers?
7. experiment to determine planck's constant
8. ANTI-GRAVITY WORKSPACE
9. White House
10. Does ice conduct electricity?
11. Unidentified Fixed Object

[edit] August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 29

1. Chill
2. Hollow moon
3. Vision improved?
4. Germans then and now
5. Biros!
6. Speedy Than Light
7. What effect do creatine supplements have on insulin levels?
8. Network subscribers in South Africa
9. Helium Baloons
10. odd question - spin inversion
11. Discouraging collared doves from my bird table?
12. The American Dental Association made a vaccine to Streptococcus mutans and then patented it and sat on the patent so ensure dentists stayed in business???
13. Wind data

[edit] August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 30

1. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ON BODY WEIGHT
2. Gecko feet
3. Physics
4. Hunger related
5. Spider Web
6. Time period for the deposition of calcium carbonate in Italy.
7. geography/cartography issue, example included
8. Bachelor of Science in Engineering vs Bachelor of Engineering
9. SOAP Notes
10. Time, space and the universe.
11. Colored water on plants
12. Looking back in time
13. Flies in the dark
14. Titration and pH meter/indicator
15. Mythbusters

[edit] August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 31

1. Fourth dimension
2. Blood Sugar Dropping
3. Gauss's law
4. Moths.
5. Gaussian_surface#Spherical_surface
6. phenomena-defying gravity
7. Really Odd Insect
8. Black and white spinner
9. The Membrane Cell for NaOH Production
10. Blueprints
11. eyesight
12. Cobalt weight vs Nickel weight
13. wbc
14. The E
15. Burning gas indoors
16. Young snakes
17. riverstone pebble tiles
18. In an aqueous solution, why is [H][OH] always equal to a constant?
19. Hydrophobic vs. Hydrophilic
20. Escape velocity of the solar system for the sun
21. Is my Sun Conure in pain??
22. The gloowwww, the wonderful glowwww!