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[edit] July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 1

1. Why are antistatic bags pink?
2. re:heat and sound
3. Wireless Energy
4. Nicotinate concentration in the blood or blood plasma
5. What is a 'stable ectotherm'?
6. If a Tree Falls in the Forest MARK II
7. Fibre glass Polyster Resin
8. Ganymede (moon) volcanic?
9. Decision tables versus classification tables
10. super tall
11. SWIMING POOL CHEMICALS
12. Treadmill Question
13. Business model
14. What did Surrealists like Andre Breton and others think about Zionism?

[edit] July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 2

1. Red light.
2. skin -kojic acid;azelaic acid;bearberry, mullbery, vitamin c
3. Heat Shield
4. Are all Neoptera holometabolic?
5. Development of the water tank
6. Name of Flower
7. Moisture transmissivity of Aluminium.
8. Future of Technology Ten Years From Now
9. Re:Lava lamps and chemical lights
10. A list of Hispanic scientists?
11. Membrane potential
12. protein/protein interaction
13. rigveda, translation bij Griffith
14. Help Needed
15. White teapot or black teapot
16. Tea cosies

[edit] July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 3

1. The Sun on the Horizon
2. Itchy nose at dentist
3. Space tracking networks
4. Negative buoyancy
5. Dimples on back of thighs
6. rays that reflect by bones
7. Denoting Free radicals
8. question
9. radiology
10. Interconnectivity of Earth's Food Web between Oceans and Land
11. Geodesic distance
12. welding..........
13. breathing a bug accidentally
14. How do we know the universe is expanding/accelerating if red shift increases with distance (time)?

[edit] July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 4

1. Identify this lizard
2. dealcoholize alcohol?
3. Need to identify soundfile
4. Planet of the Apes
5. Humming Bee?
6. Earth Natural Satellites
7. Jar lid motion on counter top
8. efficiency?
9. hymen
10. vagina
11. Determining the proper pump for a water fountain.
12. Accuracy of Weather Forecasting
13. How could I engineer weather inside my house?
14. Map of the North and South Magnetic Hemispheres
15. vitamin B12 and vivid dreams

[edit] July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 5

1. SpaceShipOne Orbit Style
2. ultrasound???
3. Satisfaction of Swallowing
4. Food For The Homeless and $1,000,000
5. Re:Protons, Electrons, Neutrons and such
6. Facial hair (from Humanities)
7. Valence electrons
8. UDDERS
9. Hooking up solar panel to appliance
10. Klinefelter's syndrome and homosexuality
11. An unusual application of tack adhesive
12. Burning wood = carbon neutral??
13. Terminal shoot - English botanic name?
14. dimmer switch efficiency
15. hi , my guestion is about c++

[edit] July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 6

1. Voltage to Current converter (2A)
2. Spherical mirror
3. Missing diffraction spikes
4. Nasty Bread
5. Killroy filter
6. Enthaply Change
7. Shaking arm

[edit] July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 7

1. Black olives...
2. RNA/DNA pills
3. preventing pregnancy
4. Vegetarian vs Non-Vegetarian
5. Contrasting Colour Pallette
6. Effects of electricity and magnetism on humans
7. history of emission control standards in automobiles
8. Voltage drop

[edit] July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 8

1. RPM and car control
2. Wet Hair
3. science / jupiters moons
4. Re:Lucid dreaming
5. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
6. Has anyone ever heard of this fish disease?
7. Question concerning Fourier
8. Error in myeloid article?
9. Black hole production
10. Night sky
11. Cleaning pen from whiteboard
12. Supposing that we were to accidentally create a black hole on earth...
13. An insect to identify
14. Butterfly with spotted compound eyes

[edit] July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 9

1. Political views of Scientists
2. Creationism Questions
   1. Spring Flowers
3. 100cc,250cc,500cc
4. Tox Screens
5. 4-legged insect
6. Babies
7. Weather patterns
8. Circuit assistance
9. Colour of matters
10. When Electricity currents in the metals ...
11. Aluminum Carbonate
12. Renewable energy capacity of the planet
13. Speed and energy
14. What causes ice cubes to stick, like your tongue to a pole?

[edit] July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 10

1. Question about UV light danger
2. How is the frequency response of an acoustic transducer determined?
3. Water Retention
4. induced paranormal experiences
5. how do you get rid of the smell from dried starfish?
6. "Your Face Will Stick Like That!"
   1. Side Notes
7. Question, re: Archaea taxonomy
8. Communication in Behavioural Science
9. old dog dilemma
10. Microwave of Doom
11. Body composition
12. How to Make Someone Feel Something Without Touching Them
13. Noon and the middle of the day
14. Stomatal Density and Transpiration
15. astronomical device

[edit] July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 11

1. Big red insect
2. Reactivity of Chrome plating to Hydrocarbon fuels
3. history of hygiene
4. Anaconda migrations
5. Something of eyesight & light!
6. Cloning
7. Whoa!
8. how hard
9. Coconut Husks and Water absorption
10. Electrical
11. Re:Black Hole(s) Vs. Black Hole(s)?
12. The atmosphere of gas giants (a hypothetical question)
13. Vacuum blimp
14. vortex force decline
15. Pressure Points
16. Cactus

[edit] July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 12

1. Record Player Sound
2. Fates worse than death in nature?
3. Heat transition with colour
4. insulation affecting current
5. Brrrr
6. Baffling Bananas.
7. chemistry
8. Caffiene Overdose
9. A kind of intelligent design
10. Hydrogen Peroxide and Saline Solution/Clothing Stains
11. Black holes, neutron stars and the Habitable zone?

[edit] July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 13

1. Holdridge life zones
2. Most natural shape ?
3. the last bathtub
4. Are we important for this world!!?
5. Three phase electric motor - braking motor speed using motor windings when current disconnected.
6. Child rearing/ sleeping habbits
7. Carbon sequestering
8. Solar powered lifting wing Remote Controlled RC plane
9. Tidally locked at geosynchronous orbit?
10. Red AntHive Invasion
11. Slutty bugs
12. Thermos Mechanisms
13. Fish Hooks
14. Amazon parrots - which is the best breed to get?
15. Jumping off a speeding train - the physics involved

[edit] July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 14

1. A wire from head to toe moving through earth's magnetic field
2. Rafting ants... why?
3. What's the name of this space telescope?
4. Satellite dish
5. Need details about heat-transfer for simplified weather-sim
6. Levers
7. Faster than light travel
8. Alternative To Evolution
9. Somethign that I couldnt find with a quick google.
10. Ants
11. 240 V 50/60 Hz
12. Shape of raindrops - teardrop shape or spherical?
13. Time Zones

[edit] July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 15

1. Harnessing rotational energy into stored energy
2. Weight
3. Legless Lizards
4. Properties of mercury
5. Current rate of extinction
6. Otto Wilhelm Thomé
7. HONEY
8. Organic Adult Diapers
9. industrial use of insecticides
10. Molecular orbital formation
11. Unusual bird behavior
12. Need help with evaporation rate.

[edit] July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 16

1. psi for knockdown
2. Why can the sky be blue or red, but not green?
3. plant leaves turning bright red
4. research for a sermon concerning flames
5. Dead ants on the shore of Topsail Island
6. Flank bell?
7. electrical and electronics project
8. Freshwater and the Himalayas
9. Equilibrim data of CO2 in MEA solution (10%)
10. Rheum
11. 1800-1850 Medicine
12. Popularity of home birth
13. tungsten
14. Texture of testicle

[edit] July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 17

1. Albatross
2. How to apply heat-conduction formulas? (Hopefully my last Wx-sim question!)
3. canebreak or timber rattlesnake / range to desert West Texas?
4. oxygen enriched v. anti-oxidant
5. Coconut Husks and Water Absoprtion
6. Water Stain Removal on Standard Steel SUS430
7. Cottage Grove seismic zone in Southern Illinois
8. The Skimmer - how does it avoid injury whilst feeding?
9. Kerala Fever and Blood Platelet count
10. Is this real?
11. shielding angle and protective margin
12. gapless surge divertor
13. Power Systems
14. three questions in power systems
15. gapless surge diverter
16. Uncertainty in various fields
17. Chemistry and Childbirth
18. thermoconduction
19. why is it
20. So, just how does a gull's eyesight compare to that of your average human's?
21. How do you control and eliminate the aquatic plant Wolffia (aka Watermeal/Mealweed)?

[edit] July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 18

1. Relationship between electron affinity and ionization energy levels
2. Frequent Urination
3. Waterdrops- Perfume spray
4. Excess drinking of water!
5. Number of Perpetual Motion Machine Patents?
6. Kent Couch - Lawn Chair Balloons - did he really go up to 13,000+ feet?
7. Arctic Fox
8. night in the northern hemisphere
9. Is it possible...
10. Mould and Toxins
11. greying eyes
12. Remove Scratches in Leather
13. Wholemeal v. wholegrain in the UK
14. Harmone receptor question
15. Parrot/Conure ID needed

[edit] July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 19

1. Save energy by texting instead of eMailing?!?
2. Game without rules
3. Re:Magnets
4. project
5. Causes of losing a wheel
6. Reusing Nomenclature
7. Need help with particle reactions
8. Electronics: Can something that requires 100mA run off of 500mA?
9. What is the difference between sociopath and psychopath?
10. Relativity

[edit] July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 20

1. Tabby Markings in Lions
2. Mechanical engineering
3. Generator Problem
4. Principle of the hand pump
5. Are humans the most successful creatures on earth?
6. Reflection
7. Sharlel Mary Talo Palsy?
8. an indelicate question
9. Psychopathy vs suicide rate
10. Pollination of sacred fig (peepul tree, bo tree)
11. LASER RADAR (LIDAR) operated by police
12. Hypothetically moving a mountain
13. batteries constructed on chip same as transistors on ICs
14. fates worse than nature

[edit] July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 21

1. Cough cough
2. Economics Question
3. Is this proof of seagull intelligence?
4. Ice hardness
5. Sky colour question
6. feline table manners
7. Barium
8. centrifugal pump
9. Mouth-movements of puppets or animations
10. Honeysuckle species
11. colour of compounds
12. DNA and its being double-stranded
13. ethanol production

[edit] July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 22

1. Aliens
2. Herms
3. 172" or 17.2" pipe @ 3,740 psi
4. Common knowledge in 2007 that would be insanely valuable in 1807.
5. Spider identification
6. Tree rain
7. Visible Insect With Large(st) Population
8. Castor oil on eyelashes
9. Binturongs

[edit] July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 23

1. Hereditary talent?
2. Chickenpox
3. Philaethria dido page and butterfly identification
4. TECH CHALLENGE ! Need source for 12 v Non-Lead acid Battery of the golf cart size ? This for some reason is very hard to find?
5. Moving Energy
6. Double Pendulum
7. Rolling Up Projection Screen
8. Insulin
9. Acoustic inertance of a long thin slit in a wall of negligible thickness
10. Is Teflon safe to cook with?

[edit] July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 24

1. Diabetes
2. Transsexual
3. effect of acid on plant life!
4. extraction of hydrogen from methane
5. Do Electrons in an atom slow down in lower temperatures?
6. Girls vs Boys
7. Tusks
8. Blood serum vs blood plasma
9. RepHresh
10. coal crisis
11. Synonym of "potential"
12. Whole wheat and multi-grain
13. Question about E=mc^2
14. Centre of mass of the universe
15. Lightning/sand/glass
16. Lithium ion battery

[edit] July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 25

1. Technetium
2. Constant laws of physics?
3. Climate Change
4. Friction Ridges / Finger Prints
5. which is more durable:metal or non metal?
6. Diuretics and potassium
7. Eating excess sugar?
8. Air speed and PSI
9. Name for a filtering problem formulation
10. Medical Illness
11. metal

[edit] July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 26

1. Lettuce in the dishwasher
2. Identify this insect
3. what percentage of bone is carbon?
4. Charge buildup through friction with air
5. Iron ore
6. Exotic or Negative Mass to reduce net mass?
7. automobile steering
8. Tilting Immersion blenders
9. Nano tubes synthesis
10. Future of Key Boards
11. Salmonella odds
12. aids

[edit] July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 27

1. random number generation by the human mind
2. Using the ground for a ground
3. Individual Timeline
4. Theory Of relativity
5. Sea water
6. Is there any way to stop my budgerigar 'pleasuring himself'?
7. FTL
8. primitive Weighing scale ?
9. PINE TREE
10. Solid bloodveins
11. Creationism
12. Who discovered lathosterol?
13. Magnetic North/South
14. Newton's Third Law of Motion
15. dairy cow slaughter weight
16. Blood glucose monitoring
17. The Equator

[edit] July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 28

1. Force particles
2. Brain Memory
3. chicken skin
4. does photon move in straight line ?
5. Artificial lung
6. Lightning
7.  ?????
8. FM signals
9. Animals eating their waste

[edit] July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 29

1. solar flares
2. Paraphilias
3. IS there something such milk allergy
4. computer INTELLIGINCE how far ?
5. "Shunning" in gulls?
6. what happens when photon struck proton ?
7. sunrise to solar noon?
8. Disposal of medications
9. Uterine Fibroids
10. Zoloft pill life
11. Salt and health
12. Walnuts - idle thought whilst snacking...

[edit] July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 30

1. six-legged logging robot
2. cfl lamps
3. A Question
4. Computer games causing migraines
5. alkyl group
6. Radio powered
7. Global Warming?
8. Plant defense
9. Animal reproduction
10. Paper

[edit] July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 31

1. Turning the Pampas into forest
2. Thermo Wells
3. How MUCH air moves with the wind?
4. leather
5. oral chelation
6. Size of Euro Banknotes
7. What is the difference between light and EM energies besides frequency?
8. Vitamin Scare
9. TECH CHALLENGE - The missing Ni-MH battery- Can you find one ? In america? of power to run a car?
10. Does petroleum ether (or ligroin) evaporate fully?
11. commercial uses of amino acids
12. Aircraft speed through moving air (Title updated for clarity)
13. Back Crack
14. Brushing teeth before breakfast