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[edit] October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 17

1. Variables
2. Combustion of BIO Gas.....
3. A few questions about the human brain
4. Snake Bite
5. Reversing a Black Hole...
6. Amount of Water in the World
7. Human evolution and immunity to venoms
8. End correction
9. What frequency of microwaves can create an overpressure shockwave?
10. adding a word to search list
11. Jogging and calorie consumption
12. solubility of capsaicin in edible oil
13. Feta
14. Suicide pill
15. Purpose of Viruses
16. What does cannabis smoke smell like?
17. EM wind
18. protozoa - animal report
19. Equine Medicine
20. Thinking

[edit] October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 18

1. How many seagulls...
2. What kind of bird is this?
3. Time machine
4. dirigibles
5. Regarding Earth rotation and revolution
6. sinisoidal RC phase shift oscillators
7. How can I study theoretical physics in one of the US universities?
8. Science, I think
9. orbital plane
10. Flu vaccine
11. membrane capacitive current?
12. DFT bins
13. Spacetime
14. Male marsupial nipples ?
15. electromagnetic interaction and contact for force fields?
16. Domestic Poultry
17. Electromagnetic Pulse

[edit] October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 19

1. How to Read the Periodic Table of the Elements
2. Producing Manganese (III)
3. Time Dilation Confusion
4. Shape of the Universe...
5. PHYSICS,Mechanical Advantage&related topics pertaining to Pulleys
6. Lightning Protection
7. Bug Rivet Paradox
8. air pollution
9. Proof of an Open Universe?...
10. 300 channels and nothing on Static?
11. dimensions of time
12. Current/Voltage
13. Fusion

[edit] October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 20

1. The fourth dimension?
2. ossification and calcification
3. Combustion of BIO Gas...(Didn't get an answer yet!!)
4. rechargeable batteries
5. The Sun Core
6. Puzzling physics question
7. Metabolism etc.
8. Beta particles
9. Human Body
10. The Past
11. Tough pool leak...
12. Nasal mucus
13. Questions about cholesterol and saturated fat
14. link between: diabetes, CHF, renal insufficiency, amputation
15. Patched conics & Lunar Orbit Insertion
16. What is the total number of known chemical elements?
17. Known compounds
18. is this a shockwave affect or just accelerated air?

[edit] October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 21

1. James McCollum
2. Page updating problems.....
3. Phase-determination pressure
4. Cheese longevity
5. Whistling sine waves
6. COSTAS loop
7. Transmission line theory
8. Reality
9. Ic 8038 and Ic 555
10. SATA computer
11. Youngs experiment
12. Hub Gears Wont Change
13. Atheroma
14. Sauropod size
15. What does KIBRA stand for?
16. Surfaces and bonding
17. Zero-point energy and substance compatabilty.
18. General Relativity
19. Quantum mechanics? wave theory?
20. G Protein Coupled Receptors

[edit] October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 22

1. Craneflies - how have these really crappy insects continued to survive?
2. Meaning of TY1CL1
3. Chest rash?
4. BONDING IN SOLIDS
5. Software Radio
6. would enough negative charge from other sources such as pions, down quarks etc react with normal matter?
7. Another EM wind question
8. Affordable Device for Measuring soil water content
9. IR remote
10. What's this aprox. called again?
11. Aqueous Compounds
12. Solar position equations
13. Equilibrium Constant, Kp
14. 3 Questions
15. Nails
16. Rainbow
17. Factual basis in psychology for claims about the power of the imagination
18. Is the human brain a chemical machine?
19. lens
20. Lab report!

[edit] October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 23

1. The "Wholly Grail".....
2. How gyrocompasses work
3. Mercury and Fillings
4. Archiving
5. Different roles for insects in a hive/nest
6. how may calories are in... me?
7. Feral Horses of the World?
8. Chlorinated water and eye damage.
9. Fissile material
10. Genetic tendancy towards AIDS amongst Black people?
11. Gamma rays
12. Application of Nature Cure for treatment psoriasis
13. alluvial sedimentary rock
14. heat
15. Chemistry/ Heat curves
16. Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
17. Bad horror-movie bacteria!
18. Reishi and Birth Control Pills
19. watershed management
20. Alpha Helix
21. Black Engineers
22. Crucell
23. Algorithms
24. Rate of lunar transit
25. Abnormal waves and tides

[edit] October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 24

1. Ivan Pavlov's Insomnia cure
2. Beer, wine, or something else?
3. Bugs Bunny and shotguns
4. Relativity Paradox
5. Smoking Question
6. Defibrillator voltage, intensity and energy?
7. enzymes
8. Why Does My Wife Kill Battery-Powered Wristwatches and Computer Hard Drives?
9. application
10. Touch lamps
11. science
12. Sitting up while asleep
13. audio timescaling
14. Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
15. Chemistry
16. Low testosterone and high hemoglobin/iron test
17. first sex
18. Where Art Though Contact Lens
19. vacuolated glandular endometrial cells
20. Defibrillators and stupid people...
21. Where to buy sulphur

[edit] October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 25

1. Function of small intestine
2. Latent heat
3. Global population of gorillas?
4. Volume of semen during ejaculations
5. Fermenting blood to create an alcoholic beverage?
6. Endangered large cats
7. Cotton
8. Electrolytes
9. Sense of Color In Animals
10. 400Hz Frequency Apllied to Copper Conductors.
11. "scientific" name for grass. . .
12. Insulation R-values
13. Temperature - Kinetic Energy Relationship
14. Self-dissolving Miracle-Gro
15. Taste and aging
16. green leaves all over the ground
17. reverse casimer effect??

[edit] October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 26

1. When They Test You For Genital Herpes, Do They Take A Blood Test?
2. Microscope Lenses
3. Help with relativity
4. chemical reactions
5. eography
6. erivation and Use of Clausius-Clapeyron relation
7. Expert In Opacity Needed
8. Eiinstein's theories
9. research project
10. ocus and focal point
11. lind Dreams
12. itrectomy aftermath
13. s and d orbitals
14. Warm-bloodedness in birds and mammals.
15. Colour of semen
16. Plane Crash
17. The Science magazine?
18. Basic Physics: Force Question

[edit] October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 27

1. Where to Purchase Digestive Enzymes
2. Pectodictyon
3. Airships
4. composite materials
5. Sexual Dysfunction
6. Communication Engineering
7. high frequency gravitational waves truth or myth
8. Colour of dreams
9. Earthing/Grounding
10. measurement by vernier
11. Tooth Transplant
12. Walls
13. Why aren't large interlocking bricks practical for construction ?
14. Colon Cancer
15. the word for when stuff feels nice
16. dynamic motion
17. Title of doctor.

[edit] October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 28

1. Helium
2. observing stars other than the sun
3. Gel-based ice packs - removing dried contents?
4. Questions about salt water
5. looking for the name of a thing used to view still photos moved by a crank
6. Papain, Bromelain, Ficin and Actindin
7. Neutrinos and Antineutrinos
8. Variables
9. control system
10. how to create an artificial force field
11. Weight
12. Complete proteins
13. Valence Electrons
14. Shimmering tarmac on a hot day

[edit] October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 29

1. Cell Cycle of a Human Brain Cell, Human Liver Cell, and a Yeast Cell
2. science-fiction weapon
3. Iron and Steel ingredients
4. Maps of the universe
5. Energy Density
6. Sodium phosphate
7. Sex-determination history
8. computational neurosciences
9. Variables, part 2
10. acid base equilibrium

[edit] October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 30

1. Industrial Processes
2. Natural instinct of a right handed person
3. Evolution and Organo Metallic Complexes?
4. f mice and lab rats
5. latinized names?
6. Caffine/Keeping awake
7. How do we 'hear ourselves think'?

[edit] October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 31

1. Sense of humour
2. Burnt Stock Pot
3. Evolution
4. dry cell
5. mysteries of mirrors
6. Expense of PCR
7. substituents
8. why human beings can not fly like birds?
9. V8 Engines
10. Car top
11. Mating/pairing off behaviour in seagulls
12. hollow head
13. Digital MULTIMETERs