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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 1

  1. Another heat pump
  2. What kind of insect is this?

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 2

  1. Biology: Looking for a Good Overview Book on Population Dynamics

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 4

  1. Why isn't zero viscosity liquid helium a free lunch?
  2. Killing mosquitos

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 6

  1. What power law or physics relation makes distributing required thrust capability into fewer jet engines better for fuel cost?
  2. What's the most complex animal that is isotonic with seawater?

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 7

  1. Searching for vids of living tissue under attack of bacteria
  2. Lagrange points

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 8

  1. Colour specification
  2. Why don't we see a 4-D color space?

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 9

  1. Pain from disinfectant caused by iodine or isopropanol or both?

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 10

  1. Sourish smell of objects made of transparent glass
  2. Northern and southern crossings of the ecliptic and the galactic equator
  3. An entoptic phenomenon which looks like a small Circumzenithal arc
  4. What process of free radical substitution is affected when peroxidation within lipids has a temperature change? 42.2.149.179 (talk) 13:18, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
  5. What is the furthest astronomical object who's motion on the celestial sphere has been detected?
  6. Taser electrocution

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 11

  1. Diamonds
  2. Longwaves and atmospheric opacity
  3. How many moons with Luna's apparent Diameter?
  4. The International Space Station can reach London latitude and no more. Coincidence?
  5. Chemical species

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 12

  1. Avoiding raindrops

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 13

  1. Depression and insomnia
  2. How is the rate of exoplanets shaping up?
  3. Energy and matter

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 15

  1. That Russian rocket explosion
  2. Extremely cold subarctic climate (Dfd/Dsd/Dwd) in the Köppen classification
  3. why is britain suddenly the tornado capital?
  4. Binge-eating cookies: Does the body pass through excess calories?
  5. Light transmission

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 16

  1. Pigeon Toes
  2. Brief Observations on Common Mortars...
  3. What is the difference between allotropy and polymorphism (materials science)?
  4. Alumen
  5. type I renal tubular acidosis

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 17

  1. Anisotropic vs isotropic nature of spacetime in the universe

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 18

  1. Heating the sun with water
  2. Apple varieties and nutrition

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 19

  1. Shadow length
  2. Radon chemistry
  3. Russian nuclear rocket explosion, part II

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 21

  1. Atmospheres on objects at the heliopause
  2. Can white dwarf contain a neutron star at its center? Or vice versa
  3. Mystery of the sliding fish

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 22

  1. Pauli exclusion principle
  2. Is the liver indeed the largest and heaviest internal organ?

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 23

  1. Beshrew me!
  2. Raphia palm

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 24

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. why JFET
  3. Missing keys

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 25

  1. Metal ammine complex for iron
  2. Alkali metals alloys with Fe
  3. Information on New Zealand meteorologist N. G. Robertson

August 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 26

  1. Solubility of transition metals like Fe, Cu, Ni, Zn in liquid ammonia
  2. Why don't hurricane hunters use turbofans?
  3. What's the ratio of nephron / Glomerulus?

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 28

  1. What happens when you mix sodium bicarbonate and monosaccharides in water?
  2. Unrinsed hands
  3. What's the highest molecular weight artificial amino acid?

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 29

  1. Scented bleach
  2. Bright, shiny objects

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 30

  1. Cant wear silver
  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 30#Could_sex_offenders_be_fixed_with_brain_surgery?

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 August 31

  1. Sandwich loop