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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 1

1. Top Ten parasites
2. . Coli
3. Edde triggered logic
4. CRT Tube
5. Non-exploding Sun
6. Formaldehyde
7. When did plant roots first evolve?
8. Hurricane
9. Building inverters
10. what is the relationship between hardness and tensile strength of cast iron
11. Death by Battery
12. color force behavious
13. Curvature of the neck (cervical spine)
14. Determining the critical angle of the substance glycerol/glycerine (I think it's the same thing)
15. Calcium in a bone
16. What Is the Greenish Layer of Some Hard Boiled Eggs
17. Using magnetism to recover coins and jewelry
18. molarity question. help!
19. Eyebrow
20. Dropstones and metals. Or just rubbish.
21. Nuclear hurricane
22. Temperature of the sun
23. Lightbulbs

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 2

1. Reaching the speed of light
2. Breast enlargement (herbal supplements)
3. Rock identification
4. Beating Light?
5. Fuse
6. Hypersonic
7. Prevalence of Freezing Temperatures on Earth
8. Buddhist relics ?
9. cells
10. lewis structure
11. Half Life of a Drug
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26. skin products
27. eat and Dairy and Calcium
28. Football grass colors
29. occer instead of
30. Nitric Acid
31. Rusting Process
32. good books about instincts/desires and evolutionary psychology?
33. Use of color indicators in titrations.
34. Nicotine gum and hiccups?
35. Water drops on outside of bottle
36. Space
37. Hallucinogenic alkaloids and alteration of visual perception.
38. Identify this bizarre fruit?
39. Blood Type Possibility

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 3

1. blood types
2. Half Life of a Drug molecule
3. Coupling Constants
4. Flexibility
5. Source of Light in Color Spectrum
6. The orgin of Earth's spin
7. Grass Of South Africa
8. What type of heron?
9. Electric Control Device
10. Nuclear fuel effeciency
11. The Little Albert Experiment
12. electrolyte mud
13. Photosynthesis
14. Shouting Over High Pitched Sounds
15. Fall speed of parachutes
16. Black hole
17. Color Perception
18. Star Ownership
19. Mobile Phone Batteries
20. Angle of the string of a kite
21. Female/Male Species
22. Déjà vu
23. Déjà vu
24. Speed of light
25. Box of light
26. Acids/Bases
27. Parrots have a different idea as to what is considered 'food' to us - why?

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 4

1. The Unidentified Crawling Objects
2. Length of Legs
3. aglev Speed
4. Plant life
5. The knowledge needed to start from scratch
6. Feedback from the asker
7. little question
8. Electrical conversion
9. black hole
10. Indicator for presense of Humalog® insulin
11. Microwave Ovens

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 5

1. Interstellar probes end points.
2. Spider identification
3. Visible Laser Light
4. [Stinging nettle]]
5. Mid Atlantic Ridge and transatlantic cables
6. Individual People with full knowledge of a technology and its foundation technologies
7. Regarding technology
8. erroxyl indicator
9. Matter waves of photons?
10. The how many-eth cousin is a chimpanzee
11. non mendelian inheritance in arabidopsis thaliana
12. Skin Infection Rates
13. Taking of Wallpaper
14. Burning Calories

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 6

1. Uses of propynol
2. Brainstorming specific examples for biology themes
3. Re: Today's Feature Picture
4. Watts
5. I got some complexes in dealing with complex ions
6. Paper hydrolysis??
7. False color satellite imaging
8. Earth's Spin
9. Apnea
10. 42.2
11. lower Identification
12. Dimensions
13. hudrochloric acid

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 7

1. Balloons
2. anatomy and physiology
3. iPod's capacity for headphone impedance
4. Mental Illness-
5. universe
6. Fuel Cell
7. Late 1960s rechargeable batteries
8. Relation with days
9. Chipboard density
10. Sun spots and tree ring growth
11. sauna use / length of time inquiry
12. starch question
13. ozone
14. Magmatic convection currents
15. Mental IIIness
16. Points of contact
17. Consensus on human evolution?

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 8

1. Latest vaccines
2. Need help with a citation regarding fitness
3. Iron (III) iodide
4. Equations For A Gas Undergoing Adiabatic Process As it Obeys Van Der Waals Equation
5. What The Bleep Do We Know?
6. Can Stars in Foreign Galaxies Be Seen?
7. Are we mostly seeing stars in other galaxies?
8. Glass heating
9. variable
10. really need science help
11. Cards
12. hello

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 9

1. stress transfer theory
2. Pulse
3. motion in universe
4. Questions about birthmarks
5. What's the L in L-ascorbic acid?
6. Life on(to) Mars
7. Mobile phones
8. Hot air balloon speed
9. Converting alcohol to alkene
10. Own sweat smells nice.?
11. yeast
12. Zip line speed
13. Olive plants
14. Anti missile defense in Europe and Booster phase ICBM interception
15. Last night's episode of House - medical question
16. Suger on paper
17. Encyclopedia of Life
18. Liver Cleansing/Detox Foods???
19. Question on Humanities Desk
20. Darwin's Domestic Pigeons

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 10

1. Constellations of stars
2. Measuring Potential Difference
3. Principle,law,hypothesis,theory.theorm
4. Embalming and eyes question?
5. Freezing Points
6. hy elliptical orbits?
7. life question
8. old books
9. ollination
10. paper cut
11. What's the difference between a pathogen and an antigen?
12. Leaf (species) identification for Commons images
13. Onion milk?
14. Titration Question !
15. Climate /United States/lowest rainfall
16. Titration

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 11

1. Vascular bundles
2. rug names
3. Bioethics and astrobiology
4. Alzeimer's Disease
5. EyeBrow Growth
6. Vaporisation of Sweat
7. Intelligent Dinosaurs
8. Kidney donor?
9. artificial symbiosis
10. Body acts as a wireless radio antenna
11. Compact fluorescent lamps
12. Gaslighting
13. Eggplant IQ
14. Soap Bubbles
15. Astronomy : Black dwarf stars
16. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
17. solutions and not solutions

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 12

1. extinction
2. sunlight
3. What's the verb that means 'to move by peristalsis'?
4. Hair
5. Observing influences results?
6. Body Electricity
7. Lupins in New Zealand
8. Earth, Moon and Venus
9. Coral reefs dissapeering from global warming
10. Lighning safety in houses
11. Isotopes: the commercial uses of deuterium
12. snowpack
13. Mother's Day questions
14. Cats
15. Dogs

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 13

1. Lightning in the snow
2. CD-1 Mouse
3. Limbs falling asleep
4. passive solar to generate electricity
5. Fuel Cell
6. Why don't corn cobs burn ?
7. ring species
8. LUNAR ECLIPSE
9. Do we have any pics of an eclipse as seen from space ?
10. Falling
11. Motion through Spacetime (Special relativity)
12. Infinity and Speed of Light (Theoretical question)
13. USA on Fire
14. Scree plot
15. Newts: friend or foe?
16. Thermal expansion
17. Coyote behavior dangerous?

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 14

1. When is it first clear that a child is left or right-handed?
2. insect identification
3. Sigma Replication
4. Speeding up the aging process in paper
5. Atlantis
6. Glass
7. Apparent Mass vs. Invariant Mass
8. Orchids
9. The Celestine Prophesy
10. Sleeping Face-up
11. Extreme p[H]s
12. Need help with definition: Atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis?
13. rugs that affect long-term memories

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 15

1. Can anyone identify this bird?
2. Can anyone explain me The mechanism by which sound wave propagates through air ?
3. what is the aspect ratio of a normal human eye ??
4. voltage
5. Energy from gravity
6. Antidepressants
7. electron and proton attract each other then why there are distance between them in an atom ?
8. final starch question
9. Hospitals
10. Absolute Uncertainty of a mean
11. hydroponics
12. Chemistry (In general)
13. Dark matter
14. Lead-acid batteries
15. Exercising and Sweaters
16. How many HP do humans have?
17. resistance of copper to strong alkali
18. Dark patch on hand
19. biology
20. mouse

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 16

1. One Ounce
2. Macadamia nuts - inedible to everything except for man and parrot...
3. Intelligent Design, my wagon!
4. Proof of Potential Difference and Resistance Formula
5. Spiders of Oregon
6. Evaporation of Raid
7. Bitten cat
8. Cobras
9. Use of flowers
10. calotropis gigantia
11. Physics
12. acyldipeptide
13. Basal Metabolic Rate Question
14. Lightning Strike
15. Stability
16. Fuse
17. platelets
18. math
19. Psychokinesis/Psychic Abilities
20. Floating Shoes
21. Weird question

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 17

1. Ducks
2. Fructose being "better" in fruit than candy
3. Easiest way to have a self-sufficient life?
4. Hovering Shoes
5. Black holes again!
6. Biochemistry Universities
7. andom v. linear evasion
8. the presence of melanin(pigment) in human skin is determined by human gene . presence of melanin makes skin look darker .
9. Conservation of Mass - kids
10. Acidity of "Special Parts"
11. Lightning
12. Marx generator?
13. Use of Jasmine and Rose flowers
14. Ashwagandha
15. blood system
16. Torch testing In Software Jargon
17. OK this really is the final starch question
18. Does a thermodynamic capacitor exist?
19. So a thermodynamic capacitor does not exist....
20. Can a lake have two outlets?
21. Flower identification
22. Relative Speed
23. 100% reflextion
24. mouse

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 18

1. heat to elrctricity
2. Price of chemical type stuff and stuff
3. Can Elephants Really Paint?
4. is there any secure website where anyone can submit their new scientific idea for worldwide response having all the rights of the invention ?
5. Electrical Current
6. Egg yolks
7. Left shoe squeaking more than right
8. using various nimh batteries togather
9. Mineral Hardness
10. aircraft engine
11. Identifying Identical Twins' DNA...How Can One Tell Which Identical Twin May Have Committed A Crime?
12. Drilling for Oil
13. question about multinertia
14. Do snakes have eye lids?
15. Non-linear voltage amplifier
16. Amplifying 6 different signals in a breadboard using the least space possible.
17. manta rays
18. roblem (punching Marines in the head)
19. Pressure on ears while scuba diving?

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 19

1. Where can I buy a spaceship
2. Evolution vs Cars
3. A/C efficency
4. Thermogenerator efficiencie
5. what's are the processes that an electron emit and gain energy in form of photon ?
6. temperature question !
7. Submarine pens and air pressure.
8. ucalpytus balls
9. automobiles
10. i.c.engines
11. effexor xr
12. planes in air
13. Purely Hypothetical
14. How does Diabetes cause damage to blood vessels
15. Area Moment of Inertia with Multiple Materials
16. Isotretinoin / Roaccutane
17. purely hypothetical
18. green eyes
19. ASTROPHYSICS
20. Barometer animals?
21. Plants water purification
22. Venom
23. t as Hydrogen Catalyst
24. The hole truth
25. Evolutionary purpose of eye colour
26. Globular Clusters
27. Volcanoes- Mount Krakatoa in Indonesia
28. Mount Everest
29. Northern bluefin tuna
30. need help with birds

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 20

1. Evolutionary purpose of anal sex
2. Identification
3. Red something syndrome
4. energy loss = mass loss
5. Siphon
6. identifying a bird
7. Absolute Error
8. Last question (not about starch)
9. Electrical source
10. Varenicline and dreaming
11. Arctic Waters - Why so prolific?
12. Lightning safety
13. merging of storms
14. Why do magpies like metallic objects?
15. derivation for the moment of inertia of a sphere
16. Alex Chiu - "Better living through the power of magnets"...
17. My head's spinning...
18. When someone is cold = liquid snot. When someone is warm = solid boogers
19. Rage Virus
20. Ice cream in hospitals

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 21

1. Resilience of light polarization
2. Energy and mass - Binding energy
3. Seeing imaginary colors
4. Filter standard
5. AUTOMOBILES...................HELP
6. Bucklling
7. Moments
8. Carbonic acid & stomach acid
9. Tension
10. planetary conjunction
11. Plane on treadmill
12. stick towers
13. Weird unusual bays and lakes and islands etc
14. Sirius and Procyon
15. deadlock
16. Eggs
17. "Hydrogenated" vs. "partially hydrogenated" fats
18. Microwave Auditory Effect - Quack Science?
19. paracetamol synthesis
20. Ideal gas laws and molar weights

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 22

1. Number of chromosomes in a Great White Shark?
2. cost of aerogel
3. Laser pointer low on power
4. Transistor breakage
5. Pronunciation of scientific Latin
6. % of light hitting a solar panel
7. efibrillate
8. electromagnetic waves
9. empirical formula
10. Light Antenna
11. Snail question
12. QED photons
13. Ekman Layer
14. Airport x rays
15. Shot in the heart

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 23

1. Do other animals snore besides humans? Possibly gorillas and other species that share very similar traits to humans?
2. What is the word that means a meeting place of both salt and fresh water in a river?
3. Help! my dog ate Lisinopril
4. Solar System
5. Insect Identification
6. re:electromagnetic waves>>wireless energy propagation
7. Architecture is music made solid
8. fusion
9. TTL digital output to +10V/-10V analog output
10. Help identifying tree
11. Landing on Jupiter or Saturn
12. Hooke's law (physics - elasticity)
13. Static cannon
14. Bought two "9 db" gain wifi aerials - disappointed with performance.
15. Can blood type change over your lifetime?
16. Psychology - methods of coping with solitude?
17. iodegradable
18. Free Particles in Quantum Field Theory

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 25

1. Dark Energy
2. Deserts
3. Changing one atom into another
4. Energy, mass and gravity
5. Protein Shake's
6. about horse power
7. Name this bird
8. Units within equations
9. WoW Pet Name
10. Molecules in a grain of salt
11. Dream Recall
12. thermal noise

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 26

1. The gulls have started laying their eggs...
2. Nuclear forces
3. Equivalent Resistance
4. Elephants mammary glands
5. Bird identification
6. Exor gate
7. Catalysis and equilibrium
8. About Contacts
9. More nipples
10. H3

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 27

1. Momentum of the world trade center collapse
2. Is the universe getting lighter, heavier or neither?
3. Lead acid batteries
4. more:em waves
5. Year 12 Chemistry
6. The Pill
7. Handycam
8. Question about a disease
9. What body parts are seen as interesting or valuable to keep?
10. Do we have an article on electrical burns?
11. Contraception
12. Washing hands and static electricity
13. Shock
14. Lactated Ringer's solution
15. xperiments which can be performed with a TV
16. Faeces in urine
17. The Effects of Music on Plants
18. Eggs and matches

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 28

1. What is the largest encyclopedia ever existed?
2. Why is Ostrich meat Red?
3. Lagrange points with other bodies nearby
4. Radioactivity
5. Distillation of ethanol, temperature
6. ARUN ARUN QUES ABOUT PENIS
7. Red Rice - Health benefits
8. Regression analysis for tidal water levels
9. Blind sugar-eating dogs
10. Is it possible to get to proxima centauri in a practicle timescale?
11. Glasses effect
12. What would happen if I were to eat lugduname?
13. Net Ionic equation
14. Simple Static Mechanics Problem

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 29

1. Black Body Radiation
2. My cooler pump???
3. Space Elevator
4. Allergies
5. Heat and Waves ??any relation
6. A psychological experiment where half of the subjects took on the role of a guard and the other half the role of prisioners
7. Seagulls
8. Opposite of helium?
9. The Earths Atmosphere
10. ARUUN ques. about clitoris
11. Heavy gases ans speker enclosures
12. Puking up turds?
13. Vented cabinet.
14. Phase diagrams for mixtures of ethanol and water.
15. Which do you think is more likely to happen first?
16. What would happen
17. A cell's life?
18. Biology

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 30

1. History of Nursing in the Caribbean
2. Dimensions > 3
3. Dryers vs. handTowels
4. Design considerations for a water bridge?
5. esons
6. MCAT Prep Question
7. Million decibel march

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 31

1. Aneurysm
2. educational
3. liver cirrhosis
4. Mugugudhu Tree? + plant ID
5. Dream world & dog world
6. John Kanzius's "salt-water fuel" claims
7. Interstellar travel - the best man for the job is an asshole?
8. How big a scope?
9. Ethene
10. Future of Medicine
11. Clarification of table salt vs Na+
12. Bromine
13. Finding gravity
14. Wind speed at altitude
15. Zooming in on planets
16. Sleeping
17. How to make a milkshake
18. Consuming out of date yogurt
19. Delta H
20. Speeding up my scope
21. Why has lactose tolerance become universal (in western world) in only 2000 years?
22. Peanuts not good for pregnant women - why?
23. How small are tiniest tv cameras?
24. Dark Matter "Planets"?