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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 1

1. Scientocracy
2. nuclear versus fossil
3. star composition
4. Why not take from the sun?
5. Three (or more)-particle annihilation events
6. Native American Height
7. Re: The Seinfeld Junior Mints episode
8. Citric acid
9. Semantic web
10. LCD Clocks and Plasma Balls
11. Line between species
12. water
13. blatter infections and pregnancy
14. Colder after chewing gum
15. Malitol
16. Exorcists after "the Exorcist"
17. TV color

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 2

1. Solving a simplified 1-D time-independent Schrodinger-esque equation
2. Long legged wasps
3. Coreinae - Insect families/tribes
4. Speckled Bear vs. Spectacled Bear
5. magnetic field
6. Change Simulink Algebric Loop Solver Props
7. plasma
8. Male and female human voices
9. Super-fast spaceship
10. Are chickens intelligent enough to suffer?
11. thermoelectric generators

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 3

1. salt peter
2. brine shrimps
3. Why would anyone use a pH meter instead of an indicator for acid-base titrations?
4. Rate of freezing vs temperature
5. Night Purge Ventilation
6. general principles of pharmacy technician practice
7. Why bring eggs to room temperature?
8. Sexuality of Hedgehogs
9. inhaling
10. String theory
11. mass/weight question
12. Science for Dummies website
13. Turbulent gas
14. Traffic
15. Nothing but the tooth
16. Fire drills
17. Is there a type of Bee/Wasp/Hornet that doesn't have a stinger?
18. anti-gravaton beam
19. theory of relativity
20. Antimatter
21. Sunlight
22. cause of exponential expansion of the universe
23. artificial intelligence
24. anti-gravity and any violent explosion
25. What is leaching?
26. Reversing entropy
27. Warp Drive

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 4

1. In-text and Reference Citation for websites and textbooks
2. euthanasia
3. Vectors
4. Who can make the definition of "Space" understandable to users with a high-school education?
5. Inverted crater on Mars
6. American Cat Scans
7. Compressing Water
8. What type of medical specialist does this?
9. Plasma
10. Sun size
11. Highway-side notches
12. Popcorn
13. How intelligent are beavers
14. PAD vs PADI (peptidylarginine deiminase)
15. Unknown beetle that looks like a large ladybug
16. Is there any life on the planet Earth?
17. Council house with air conditioning
18. energy from earth's rotation
19. acidosis
20. zoonoses from dogs
21. Queen bee naughty bits

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 5

1. Water for Hydrogen Fuel in Deserts (cont.)
2. What does the integral of the position function represent?
3. Sun
4. Thinking brain?
5. Goedel and Wikipedia
6. do we benefit in any way from c?
7. Entropy
8. panda
9. Who's the best when nature calls?
10. Microbial locomotion time
11. 120 volt equipment
12. Matter
13. Ant
14. Species upper limit?
15. relationship between entropy in physics and entropy in information science?
16. Any known planets with satellites with satellites?
17. Telescopes
18. OTC Cryogenics to treat warts or moles
19. 120v v. 240v
20. Genus name
21. A little confusion concerning E=mc^2
22. Protein architecture, motif, domain, fold, topology.
23. Positive and negative features of CATH and SCOP
24. Atoms
25. Anthropophobia?
26. Changed the earth's axis??
27. voltage

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 6

1. Genetics and cousins
2. red shift versus blue shift
3. red shift and blue shift for objects in the Universe
4. Freeze data outside U.S.
5. Static electricity damage
6. Relativity
7. Circular DNA
8. Surviving in a Vacuum
9. Space question
10. Orders of magnitude (voltage) help.
11. Uncommon features of a protein
12. perfect circle
13. Convergent evolution
14. Appropriate Technology Film

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 7

1. Saturn and Jupiter
2. classifying reaction?
3. star birth, life,and death equation and graph
4. Life expectancy
5. Temperature of outer space
6. mind waves
7. Corrosion of copper
8. Cow pats
9. pus-like sinus stuff
10. Pineapple
11. Oldest survival animal species?
12. Extra Life expectancy for the health-concious
13. Telescope
14. Intron question
15. Carbon planets
16. Brain calories
17. Single source for printed label nutrition data and all or most UPC/PLC codes
18. In-text citation and reference for textbooks and websites in scientific journals
19. Cyborgs
20. F-ATPase
21. measurement for light
22. Disulfide bond connecting two adjacent helices not connected by a loop/turn
23. Talking parrots
24. Chicken butt

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 8

1. Scientific journals
2. Colour of glass
3. The Lions
4. bombardment of hydrogen isotopes with neutrons
5. Can persistent high blood pressure be someone's fault?
6. menstrual period information
7. Orbit
8. Why is hunger so mild?
9. An interesting website
10. menstrual period correlation with Metonic and other lunar cycles
11. scientists
12. gravity versus electromagnetic forces
13. Lorentz transformations
14. about thrusters used in the spacecrafts
15. Happiness
16. Artificial diamond
17. What is meant by decreasing the "vacuum"???
18. Seasonal fruits
19. English name of an object
20. Charting unknown part of space
21. adaptaion of bones to our environment
22. Truth or myth about rebuilding the brain?
23. So how did we all get here in the first place?
24. White Sussex hen

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 9

1. Yellow hands
2. plastic? it breaks weird
3. plant growing
4. price wiki
5. Name of an "larva"
6. Mobile phones on airplanes
7. Half life zpe device for book
8. nuclear power station sites
9. What's the average amount of caffeine in a single medium roasted coffee bean?
10. Convert to mhtml
11. Black is black?
12. magnetic field
13. Reaction type
14. Lorentz dilation?
15. Nomogram construction
16. Properties of metals

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 10

1. crazy raccoon
2. slouching
3. Minkowski Diagram
4. chrome sink
5. Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
6. weather
7. Bubbles
8. Structure of the earth
9. Biogas from plant and animal waste
10. Heating through air resistance
11. Nanomaterials
12. (Arabic question)
13. Prices of some raw materials
14. Dehydrated people
15. is it possible to express matter in the form of sound?

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 11

1. Spinach and strength
2. Fluorescence in polar and nonpolar environments
3. nitrile gloves
4. advances needed to truly democratize the Internet?
5. Cooking oatmeal
6. expansion of the universe
7. nuclear candle
8. Shielding against Electro magnetic induction
9. Birds fall out of the sky?
10. Pressure in a liquid
11. Boiling water
12. Temperature of Diet Coke
13. Fermi problem: neurons vs. transistors
14. Free Particle
15. Too much Potassium in diet
16. Chemical compounds with many elements
17. Addicts - do they prefer to be cured?
18. Mix 'n' Match genetic sequencing

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 12

1. Looking for a bird
2. Reflex subwoofer query
3. Likely outcome of an all-out thermonuclear war between the US and Russia at the height of their nuclear capabilities?
4. csi
5. orbit of moon
6. is there intelligent sleep like beauty sleep?
7. Lorentz invariant
8. do you retain information better if you sleep on it?
9. center of mass
10. Deriving the Lorentz transformations
11. tidal forces
12. Animals that feed only on animals of their own kind
13. Terminal cancer
14. lab rats
15. galactic spiral arms

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 13

1. Sodium bicarbonate
2. The mass of a singularity
3. the frog still alive
4. Was there sex in the biosphere?
5. Cylindrical Fuels rods??any
6. MATERIALS USED IN BATHROOMS
7. is it possible to boil water through the power of the mind alone?
8. Radio waves
9. acid reflux
10. Feigning death drug

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 14

1. Is it possible to cause a prolonged temperature increase (eben a small one) in the skull just through mental activity?
2. A silly question
3. Brain acceleration?
4. Temperature of a high-gravity planet?
5. Is Chrysler 300 equiped with brake override system?
6. Marine Creatures
7. Methane
8. How can i analyse......subject
9. barbs
10. Moments in space
11. A simple Buffer Question
12. no longer on speaking terms
13. Drainage Systems in New York State
14. Fission Reactors
15. is it possible to detect, at a distance the power of the mind?
16. egg sexer or egg sexing

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 15

1. "Survival of the fittest"
2. Applications of Quantum Electrodynamics
3. interstitial defects in ice
4. Ammonium chloride as a Korean condiment?
5. Oddball coordinates/geolocation
6. gsp
7. Software for synchronising separately recorded sound to HD video
8. Feeding stick insects
9. the 80s
10. suicide
11. A.I. Apollo Program
12. Sneezing and hair length

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 16

1. 3,3-Dimethylmalic acid
2. Squirrel identification
3. Compression of purely digitally animated films
4. a question about light
5. Scientific results on animal telepathy?
6. Treadmill vs uphill
7. Psychological tests, job interviews
8. Photon
9. Economical preference gene?
10. Noise in MRI scan
11. Avocado pit use and safety
12. Programmable food
13. "Te voy a llevar a un pinche vaile!"
14. Flow through a pipe
15. Electrode potential of ethanol
16. Bee Flies
17. most effective footrace training?
18. Flour from Grasses
19. Chemistry
20. strontium iodide

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 17

1. Chocolate/Theobromine poisoning
2. Galaxies as iron filings
3. Chart
4. Question on Sapphire and Blue Emrald.
5. My telescope
6. Decomposition
7. Digoxin in health
8. Animal clitorises
9. Time Dilation
10. nitrogen temp
11. if you eat too much, will your body not digest it?
12. Cyclooxygenase-1 in thrombocytes
13. Organic chemistry
14. choking
15. don't we want to use non-nucleophilic base to form epoxides? (unwanted diols)
16. New York State Regions

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 18

1. Wild bird with a foot band
2. has anyone ever been born completely reversed?
3. Inflation (cosmology)
4. Trains
5. Purpose
6. Multiverse
7. blue chemical
8. bleach
9. Narcissus in the aquarium
10. Calculation of lifespan of the sun
11. expansion exceeding speed of light
12. Which converter?
13. auxins - geotropism and photo-tropism
14. string theory and space
15. Freshly-made Bradford Reagent
16. 3D TV and Animals
17. Current over large distances
18. How long does a snake need to be in order to constrict an average-sized man?
19. Decay of large dead animal in water
20. Aquarium bugs above the waterline

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 19

1. 360 degree lightmeter
2. Using a digital camera as a light meter
3. psychology
4. I'm quite curious how these tricks are done:
5. Learning Fourier Transform in 2 days
6. Fourier transform 2
7. CFL Afterglow
8. Reusable chemical, cyronic or organic movie camera?
9. PROJECT WORK
10. ignitor and voltage
11. NMR
12. Extractor fan overrun timer
13. effects of alkaline on carbohydrates
14. Anti-plasmodial

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 20

1. Location of herpes hideout
2. Symbol for angular impulse
3. Angular friction
4. <<<Static Electricity Question>>> Is it possible to excite BOTH light particles (in a small area) and the air surrounding them, with the SAME charge?
5. Confused about Fourier Transform
6. Phase
7. Essential oils
8. Relationship between Bragg planes, atoms, unit cells in crystallography
9. determining a person's age
10. Solar power satellite
11. raw data on smoking deaths
12. Testosterone and intelligence

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 21

1. Intermittent blood supply
2. Lorentz invariant
3. Short-pulse NMR
4. speaker and receivers
5. guns in video games
6. Copperhead lookalike?
7. hairdryers
8. Natural Gas
9. Medical Advice
10. Meaning of retrolateral and prolateral
11. Reaction quotient, dependent on standard state?
12. Teleportation
13. Fourier Transform
14. are thermal baths bad for the skin
15. CO2 in Antarctic Ice Sheet

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 22

1. Tides
2. How did the Atlas ICBM navigate?
3. Cloud base measurement
4. Number of conjugated double bonds and photon energy absorbed
5. Radiocarbon dating
6. Sabbath feeling
7. Theory of relativity
8. Angular frequency in x-ray crystallography
9. Emission (Fluorescence) in Polar and hydrophobic environments
10. Is E2 (17beta-estradiol) a dioxin?
11. Orbiting junk

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 23

1. "Forces of Potential"?
2. Coriolis Force
3. Air pollution UK
4. Question about blackbodies and emissivity.
5. aircrafts
6. Pressure in a liquid
7. Damage due to loss of circulation in extremities
8. What is the quantum model for refraction of light?
9. National Medal of Science
10. Thiomersal/Thimerosal
11. Scrambled eggs
12. Thermal Radiation
13. Trailing off...
14. UH-60L data busses ....
15. Rh disease and James Harrison
16. Avalanches

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 24

1. Bone marrow donations
2. About coefficient of mastication
3. Question on Scientists
4. Editing Wikipedia
5. DC supply in tripping circuits
6. Screw Compressor
7. testicles
8. has anything impossible ever happened for sure, well verified, with scientific consensus (there will be a followup question)
9. How much of the Sun's energy is used for light and how much is used for heat?
10. standing on one leg with eyes closed
11. How long does it take to see changes in blood cholesterol levels?
12. Another vacuum cleaner drive belt bites the dust
13. household voltage and frequency
14. population stratification in a normal sample of the general population
15. Dentists identifying need for fillings by x-ray
16. What's in a can of tuna?
17. supermarket salt + vinegar
18. Unusual rock
19. Finding amount of chloride in a solution using ion-selective electrode

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 25

1. Currency manipulator
2. Questions about casting resin
3. cosmology
4. what, in a physical sense, is an impossibility?
5. this question's for you SteveBaker - is this demo rigged?
6. How might a person be exposed to (x number of) rems?
7. Political spectrum
8. Space colonisation
9. JASSA
10. meat products
11. Are ad hominen reasons sometimes reasonable?
12. Nicotine and the kappa-opioid receptor
13. Terminology for planetary orbits
14. Converting from eV to cm^-1
15. Taxonomic promotion

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 26

1. Biology (Incompatible bloods?)
2. Cityscape and skyline
3. G-23 paxilon hydrochlorate (PAX)
4. Moon crashes into the Earth
5. black and white
6. Ethanol
7. Rusted hammer
8. Pyrophoric qualities of Ni-MH cells
9. Diet defined by required and forbidden foods
10. Chile

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 27

1. Do topical vitamins still work if dietary intake is sufficient?
2. Interference (wave propagation)
3. gravity
4. dark matter
5. F-CENTERS IN CRYSTAL DEFECTS
6. Air pressure drop
7. How do we make a bathtub full of lather and bubbles like how they show in the movies?
8. What is the spin rate of a black hole?
9. Flying Black Holes
10. Salty garlic
11. Hydrogenation of vinyl chloride
12. If your tongue was removed...
13. Yawning
14. Missed beats

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 28

1. Stomach Cancer Genome
2. Where to start with extreme theoretical physics?
3. The Russian Sleep Experiment
4. Dust Bowl
5. Lowering tone as I stir drink mix
6. will bleach oxidise hemiacetals?
7. Anyone know about Victoria building and guttering?
8. Turnover number
9. If there was a giant hole through the Earth...

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 29

1. Electroweak theory
2. What muscle is this, and how do I exercise it?
3. Heat producers
4. Space Radiation and the Earth's Atmosphere —how are high-frequency light rays affected?
5. Nuclear bomb on Jupiter?
6. theobromine's effect on pets like dog or cat
7. The patterns on windows made by frost
8. Sinus Infections
9. Torque and angular momentum
10. Defrosting and re-freezing
11. Grasping the EPT
12. What is the psychological term denoting the strong reaction (weeping, sobbing) when divulging a traumatic experience?

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 30

1. US household voltage
2. Role of the Pudendal Nerve in male sexual function?
3. PAC MAN MOON
4. Number of organs
5. Evolution - E. coli
6. why pumice stone
7. transpiration
8. Scalar energy
9. Why does swishing water help my toothache?
10. Cancer disease
11. number of sites
12. calorie consumption
13. Broom handle manufacture

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 March 31

1. Dying from "old age"/"natural causes"
2. I'm not seeing the cataclysm here.
3. Light Cones in GR
4. E. vigintioctopunctata or H. vigintioctopunctata?
5. Electronvolts
6. Galileo & GPS
7. LEFT OVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS
8. melting ice
9. Pouring antimatter into a black hole
10. What kind of animal is this...
11. Hurricanes