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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 1

1. Why do we need a continuous supply of air?
2. How to muffle the sound of dripping water
3. Please Help
4. Ignition Coil (Update)
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7. dB
8. The first chemical equation
9. Twin "Paradox"
10. oxygen outcome from pongamia plants
11. Global warming
12. Airplane safety.
13. Breathable liquid
14. Torsion and Twisting
15. Spider identification
16. This never got answered in computing, is it more appropriate here?
17. unCircumcision
18. The Dust Bowl, man made?
19. Mailing address of Professor Richard Dawkins

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 2

1. Blood transfusion: what about the antibodies in the donor blood?
2. Elastic Potential Energy
3. Magnetism
4. Temperature
5. writing technology
6. How to add wings
7. DoD carbon emissions
8. arsh Acidity
9. Dolomitic Conglomerate
10. Vacuum Cleaners and Fine Dust as an Explosive Hazard
11. cost of power transmission infrastructure?
12. Earwig identification

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 3

1. batteryless flashlights
2. plant's Water purification
3. Sunrise Sunset Time Differences
4. Difference between Sagittal and Medial planes in human Anatomy
5. Catheter ablation
6. Frogs and lily pads

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 4

1. Bug found in house
2. Los Angeles cable landing station
3. Multi-coloured hair
4. DNP + fat loss
5. Thyroid Function
6. life of plastics
7. Indigenous peoples of the Americas
8. Being fertile

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 5

1. Binary Planets
2. Questions about wasps
3. Exclusion principle and electrons in atoms
4. reenland map, no ice
5. Earth's hot core.
6. Ping times towards a destination in Africa
7. arunbrainy
8. Prozac
9. Should zeaxanthin and lutein be called vitamins?
10. Dead Gill
11. Universe
12. Starvation in cats causes liver disease?
13. Ichthyosis vulgaris
14. If I reduce the pressure of a packet of air in space, will it still get colder?
15. Jatropha Energy
16. Can there possibly be a cure for cancer?
17. Altering DNA
18. People of India contrasted to Caucasian
19. Flame temperature increased by electric arc?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 6

1. Wrestling
2. Indian Race
3. Were early indians white
4. Christmas tree lights
5. Any theories of an early global religion?
6. Modafinil and Bupropion
7. gravitomagnetic acceleration ???
8. Brightest object that we can see in our night sky?
9. Genetic related deseases
10. Humans on planets with gravity greater than the earth's?
11. Question
12. Highest Temperature Possible
13. Number of Muscels in Wolves

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 7

1. Umbrella cockatoo info needed
2. dark energy
3. What is the possible effect of AIDS on human evolution?
4. Powdered alcohol
5. Neural engineering
6. time of flight
7. Lithium-Iron Phosphate Batteries
8. Wal-Mart interior lighting
9. Immunoprecipitation(IP)
10. Atomic orbitals, lineair combinations of
11. Vitamin K Fortification in foods
12. Harvest
13. List of genetic disorders
14. Brain Transplant
15. Robot with just LEDs capable of followwing lights?
16. dark energy question about nature
17. Lat and Long conversion
18. Equidae
19. psychology

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 8

1. Spring board jump
2. Google Maps satellite imagery artifact
3. Which bird is that?
4. Cat Savaging.
5. Current Carrying Capacity
6. HDTV
7. Sugar Maple burning
8. future eye colour change
9. Red Rice Vs. Brown Rice
10. Dietary fiber
11. Stopwatch issues
12. DNA change

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 9

1. Magnesium ribbon
2. What gull is it?
3. study of electron microscope
4. Spider identification?
5. Patient Zero
6. Genetic Linkage
7. hiiiiiii
8. Is there any way to change the color of you're eyes if a person is Indian?
9. Altering DNA
10. Indian/white people/
11. Noncompetitive Research Funding
12. Why is the placement of our internal organs asymmetrical?
13. Information Transfer
14. Chemistry bewilderment
15. Seasonal Distribution of Precipitation
16. Go back in time?

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 10

1. What is it?
2. AIDS (accuqired immune deficeincy syndrome)
3. UV light from halogen lamps
4. Height of land + sea level change
5. Discontinuous
6. Theists thumbing their noses at science despite the fact that they rely on it every day
7. Brain Cells
8. Genetic Mapping
9. "Sweating out toxins"
10. Is there anything that my doctor can proscribe me...
11. Paleontology question

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 11

1. Gliese 581c
2. Glass
3. Animal anatomy:
4. What is a shaft passer?
5. Hypothetical Runaway Greenhouse effect
6. A website for getting introduced to quantum mechanics
7. menstrual cycle
8. Crow identification
9. Lightning and Grounding

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 12

1. car engine question
2. Asparagus - might as well ask this now...
3. Intranasal NSAIDS
4. Insect cacoomb? cucomb? ARRRG!!
5. nitrogen in tyres
6. lens
7. Temperature
8. argling with salt water
9. Gas cylinders
10. A question of conciousness
11. Sicknesses
12. Psychoactivity of Coleus?
13. Criteria for Sluggish cognitive tempo
14. References
15. Help needed badly

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 13

1. Transpiration rates for pineapple and oak
2. Energy is an adverb; Force is a noun, the real nature of energy - what is it?
3. Function of resin in plants
4. colas effect on bacteria
5. Parts of a Cell
6. Does contact dermatitis always itch?
7. Rainfall Volume
8. Leg disease in gulls
9. amarant
10. Author abbreviation
11. Primate Cities
12. Medicine exams
13. Sapient computers
14. Los Angeles in the year 2040

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 14

1. Galaxies
2. Common ancestor of modern human beings (Homo saipens)
3. Synthetic Science
4. Ship propeller efficiency
5. Burning sensation in throat
6. olor force and free quarks
7. photons consist of an electric and a magnetic field . but why are not they affected by electric or magnetic field ?
8. Nuclear explosions...
9. pposite side of the Earth
10. 006 Construction
11. injured parrot
12. Dissolving Powder
13. Irradiated Blood

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 15

1. What's the name of this plant?
2. pyelonephritis
3. Boat rudder
4. Altimeters
5. Removal of SIO2 from Iron Ore
6. Kinetic Energy of Light
7. geology
8. exploding cars
9. Genetics question
10. alaxy size

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 16

1. discharging batteries
2. thermotropic crystals and mood rings
3. heat and sound
4. Hypersensitivity Classification
5. Panama canal
6. Muscles
7. walking power source
8. Popcorn
9. Fusion
10. Cranial nerves and the brainstem
11. norepinephrine
12. Plants and drugs
13. Noise in hi-res cameras

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 17

1. Lead into Gold
2. Kaganaias - Expert help needed...
3. Atom's ionoc charge and bonding
4. hat is the oldest matter in existance?
5. s there a maximum temperature?
6. Wax Solubility
7. Speaking into a fan
8. Re:Amputation
9. elp to identify an Australian bird
10. Viral proteins with cleavage
11. TV set power supplies
12. How would you go about purchasing a meerkat if you really wanted one?
13. Effect of people on FM reception
14. Where will alien life forms be put in the Linnaean taxonomy?
15. Help understanding a simple circuit
16. Are tea and coffee harmful to parrots?
17. Fabric softener
18. Science Organizations

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 18

1. Attractiveness
2. Atomic mass of 5
3. Idle question about Blood pressure
4. re:heat and sound
5. Global Warming and Precipitation
6. why can I aim a gun?
7. o clones have introns
8. disease polices
9. geography
10. Re-using Satellite TV Receivers
11. Deserts in Europe
12. Hang nails not at the nail
13. Dental hygiene
14. Open and Close stomata
15. Lepton number
16. Unknown moth

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 19

1. "Plant" Identification
2. Spring Constant Discrepancy
3. Confusion with electrical units
4. Parrot jaw strength
5. Carcinogens
6. ost destructive particle
7. Lost matter!
8. Retractable claws
9. Who in their right mind would answer this question?
10. to random questions.
11. Two of my 9v adapters got fried
12. Plants that tend to produce hollow seed pods?
13. Calculating required force for gym lifts

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 20

1. Abnormal Color Correlations due to Psychological "illness"
2. Er, and article please? :)
3. Bare Necessities Only for Survival
4. Muscles
5. antibiotics
6. oda expiration date
7. Raising HDL
8. gasoline
9. name that rock
10. Real hospitals vs. the hospital shown on House MD
11. aterpillar Food
12. ppy
13. J-cough hurting more than usual
14. xy-liquid
15. ses of gas solutions
16. as - air or something else, Hydraulics

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 21

1. Relative Motion - how I loathe thee
2. Resonances in cylindrical tube.
3. Global Warming
4. Food test
5. Help me to ans.what is the ex.of sympathetic and parasympathetic
6. thermodynamics
7. Geostationary Orbit
8. Theory of Relativity Question
9. Messy/illegible handwritting correlated with certain segments of the population
10. Birds
11. air vortex s and inverse square law

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 22

1. Amino acid analysis: Asn and Gln always missing
2. Bugs
3. thermodynamics:
4. Definition of temperature units
5. Insulation
6. accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit
7. can we have non functional Mc1r on purpose
8. Budgerigar/sparrow hybrid?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 23

1. microorganisms
2. pH - 2 little questions
3. Seeing what isn't there.
4. Boeing 747 and Airbus
5. differential gear(battle tank, wheel chair)
6. the old relativity pole and barn paradox with a twist
7. heart attack
8. car batteries
9. Cloud brightness
10. Mammary glands

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 24

1. Cat Milk
2. Lunesta commercial
3. Why do stars look like that?
4. Kaiser Permanente's origens
5. The evolution of annoying fish bones
6. Electroblotting
7. Which city in the U.K are you most likely to find Rats?
8. How was matter created in the universe?
9. Earth
10. Polyester
11. The cytotoxic T cell that wasn't
12. Circular orbits -- Saturn's rings?

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 25

1. Leg cramps
2. Fluorescent lighting and human health
3. Flight of a plane
4. Ringing of copper versus zinc pennies
5. Airbus 300 and 330 & Boeing 747
6. Re:Speed of light
7. Australian Aborigines and race
8. nipples
9. cruelty-free toiletries
10. Scientific names Iulus maximus and Everyx myron
11. What are the byproducts of mixing Sodium Bicarbonate with Aqueous Chlorine?

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 26

1. Harvesting Static Electricity
2. Land/Water ratio for Northern Hemisphere
3. Notch Signalling - Why capital 'n'?
4. Cowper's Glands
5. Speed of turbulent incompressible flow
6. Boeing 747 Vs Airbus 340
7. Yellow tabs on heavy vehicle nuts
8. Cat bite
9. Dark energy and wormholes?
10. omega 3 or omega minus 3?
11. Electrical resistance of the earth
12. Acupuncture and Hypnosis
13. bentonite
14. facial gymnastics and face lifting
15. Tongue pickier than nose?
16. Eyes Very Sensitive to Bright Light
17. Survival of the fittest - winner
18. Timekeeping

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 27

1. Aphids among the thorns
2. Chief Executive Officers
3. History of the "direct" current term
4. What is a 'return vector'?
5. calling mobiles
6. Yeast Infection
7. Mars Direct
8. Why would spot or arc welding not electrocute someone holding non-insulated metal?

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 28

1. Are all flamingos pink?
2. Bird first aid
3. Is this game a pyramid scheme?
4. Fibroblast growth factors (FGF)
5. recovering from nail-biting
6. toxic/ heavy metals
7. Einstein's Concept of relativity....
8. Bohr Model
9. Our solar system.
10. Twin paradox
11. Atomic Radius and Melting Point
12. Audubon copyrights

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 29

1. One really strange effect...
2. hydrometallurgy in situ leaching
3. Largest cow
4. If a Butterfly Flaps its Wings
5. The Flight of the Bumblebee
6. When you push your eye...
7. What's up with lightning?
8. Liquid metal technology
9. What is this plant?
10. How to explain holding a balloon in an air stream?
11. Can tooth enamel be restored?
12. Shaggy cows?

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 June 30

1. Black spots in front of eyes after vigorous coughing?
2. manufactured prescription drugs
3. Job
4. If a Tree Falls in the Forest ...
5. Blood-sampling for measurement of sex-related hormones
6. FGFR
7. event horizon
8. water purification of plants
9. TV letterbox and 16:9 TVs
10. Microwave oven accident
11. Hybrids different... how do you call this?