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January 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 1

  1. sanding/filing/grinding stainless steel
  2. Split rocks on Theodore Roosevelt Island

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 3

  1. Does Social Peer Pressure prevent people from stating the obvious?
  2. human skeletal muscles

January 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 4

  1. 22° halos

January 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 5

  1. House of mirrors lighting
  2. Cat questions.

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 6

  1. Virus count with common cold (not medical advice)
  2. World Geography
  3. Would people who have lost their long term memory eat the same thing every day?

January 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 7

  1. Haulin' tonnage
  2. Increasing exercise capacity

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 8

  1. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, oxygen in mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration
  2. How we use burning Energy?
  3. health effects of RF radiation

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 9

  1. Recommendations for non-science books by High Energy physicists
  2. Supercritical power plants

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 10

  1. Embryo segments (creationist claim)
  2. DST and India

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 11

  1. Does normal salt intake cause cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure by depressing the renin–angiotensin system?
  2. Titanic
  3. Cool flame

January 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 12

  1. Bizarre error in official PLU code record?
  2. PID controller
  3. Brown crap on people's teeth that doesn't go away
  4. Bollockwarts

January 13

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  1. The Muslim Newton

January 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 14

  1. Nannostomus beckfordi in Rio Guapore?
  2. Accelerating towards the sun
  3. Lying to children about science

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 15

  1. How much care is exercised in naming new concepts in quantum physics? (e.g. "wave function collapse")
  2. trying to identify a plant by pictures
  3. Fire containment calculations
  4. Nuclear Propulsion Technology (Ships)

January 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 16

  1. Stirling single
  2. Physics Question
  3. NSAIDs
  4. How long have zoologists known that animals don't have four legs + wings?

January 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 17

  1. Taxonomic History of Mollusca
  2. Why is pittsburgh pa so cold?
  3. Chemistry question.
  4. Accelerating radioactivity naturally decay

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 18

  1. Coherent or highly monochromatic terahertz
  2. Canon de 75 modèle 1897: The Italian Response
  3. Cold desert at night
  4. Carbon fibre
  5. MPG - casues of significant improvement?
  6. Physics Question (one more)

January 19

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  1. What's a cryogel?
  2. Current uses of radium-226

January 20

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  1. Astronomy Question

January 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 21

  1. TGV
  2. What is the source of this "chapter 43" that found in a lot of sites on the internet?
  3. Any spaceship prototype based on capturing dust and using it as propulsor?

January 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 22

  1. Pyrogens as alternatives to DNP for weight loss?
  2. Dyson sphere
  3. Human head hair - changes from child to adult.

January 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 23

  1. What substance is responsible for a metallic taste/smell?
  2. Blue animals

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 24

  1. Could neutrinos be used practically for cooling?
  2. What factors can we say are responsible for the lifespans of Homo (human) members increasing to 70 years, as seen in modern hunter-gatherers?
  3. Oxyanion naming confusion
  4. Why does a washing machine take hours to do the laundry?

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 25

  1. Super blue blood moons
  2. Detecting an aortic aneurysm
  3. Gametes of decreased size occurring in evolution of sexual reproduction

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 26

  1. Practical implementation of system for electrostatic attraction for pulling and holding large mass

January 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 27

  1. Flame Nebula
  2. Earth analog
  3. Is there a basis for that woman a week after giving birth has negative hormonal changes?

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 28

  1. Trash dumping into the ocean
  2. A group of humans?
  3. Three legged folding chair with a back
  4. Electric Universe concept removed from Wikipedia.

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 29

  1. Electron affinities of the superheavy elements
  2. Reactivity of ytterbium
  3. Is there such a thing as "clean" (non-pathogenic) particulate matter?

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 31

  1. Speaking tubes
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