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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 1

1. Food becoming stale
2. Back pain across bra line
3. baby nose color
4. Missing posts
5. Contributors for Pharmacogenomics Wiki wanted
6. Hairy back
7. In tides, why is the eighth wave always the largest?
8. PAL I vs. PAL BG
9. Sperm in Facial Treatments?
10. primary colours
11. Cannabis
12. Giant Redwoods and their cells
13. Indoor Plants
14. Are some plants immortal?

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 2

1. Taxonomy for Extraterrestrial Life
2. Codon inversion
3. air pressure cuts
4. Glucosamine and Diabetes
5. Bird Eggs
6. Strobe
7. I'm searching for information on the workability and physical characteristics of pure Tungsten metal
8. Nokia phones
9. What chemical is this?
10. Valuable substances
11. LED throwie
12. fish

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 3

1. Dying in sleep
2. Big Bang / Black Hole ...?
3. Terrifying, recurring nightmare I used to have...
4. Dreaming of dying
5. Measuring Mass/Volume
6. That stuff between your toes
7. how is newton's 2nd law modified when things reaches the speed of light?
8. germanium
9. Dead Leg
10. vortex ring gun question
11. BP cuff one-way-valve
12. moving shock tables
13. Pink Discolouration Of Clothes
14. properties of sulphur
15. Cryonics
16. Interpreting a sentence about biology
17. geography
18. Tim Clutton-Brock
19. unit cells
20. Blood Alcohol

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 4

1. Hello I Need Hlp With Thses Two Questions Please
2. Why did all the Soviet missions to Mars fail in one way or another?
3. Evaluation of objective type answer sheets
4. Dr. Roger Kornberg
5. ground parrot
6. Blood
7. molarity of water
8. Great Black-backed Gull carrying off (and presumably eating) baby?
9. Garlic Spoilage
10. renal cell carcinoma
11. Blue sea near Bahamas
12. The gyroscope movement

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 5

1. Breaking your own neck
2. Scar Healing?
3. Color of blood
4. Gyro effect on bicycles
5. sulbutiamine
6. PAL
7. 74161 IC
8. TV scanning method
9. M
10. mass
11. Drippy Iron
12. Chlorofluorosulfonic acid
13. How are the oil well fires extinguished?
14. human proteins in plant cells
15. identify a gene
16. On ocean ecology
17. is vaccinatiom possible?
18. Overdose
19. Father of the Solar Cell
20. Mystery bird
21. science
22. Other pde5 inhibitors, besides sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil
23. Rm3
24. Cure for oedipus complex?
25. Chemical prices

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 6

1. can it alter?
2. pH scale
3. variegated plants
4. Calculate Radiation Dosage from X-Ray Machine
5. Isaac Newton
6. Help from a doc interpreting lab results (not advice)
7. preservation
8. molarity
9. immune cell
10. Leo Szilard's Cancer Protocol
11. Triple Point of Water
12. ID this beach object
13. Word
14. ph
15. PH SCALE
16. OIL
17. Teleportation
18. I have an anatomical question about the Spinal discs.
19. Whistling effect?
20. Stepping-up voltage.

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 7

1. Raising a baby bird in isolation
2. taking control of Opportunity and ROver
3. Human eye resolution
4. Eating Disorders
5. james harry keighly McCollum
6. human proteins
7. Acid to dissolve hard rock/stones
8. Holding it
9. Bruhathkayosaurus vs. Amphicoelias
10. Hard question on evolution
11. Are there obstacles to industrial-scale production of cultured animal tissues for food?
12. proteins
13. Fossils made from bone
14. diatomic elements
15. Additive Volumes and Mols
16. Antacids
17. Shrimp diagram request for comment
18. Homework question
19. Masochism
20. Recent news regarding the treatment of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
21. Disproof of the theory that information cannot move faster than speed of light
22. Can a hard drive go through an X-Ray scanner?

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 8

1. The effects of a smoker and non-smoker in the cold
2. Cold and fat
3. Germs
4. Disease
5. sensitivity to sound
6. cochlea
7. Electromagnetic radiation.
8. Euphoria caused by Victory?
9. Time Dialation Confirmation
10. Does snoring affect the snorer's hearing?
11. bizarre
12. difference between AC DC current
13. Heart Rate
14. technology in manufacturing surgical instrument
15. how to make this
16. Popping pimples
17. ABOUT PHARMACY?!!!
18. Quercus × rosacea
19. ACCELERATION of light
20. What is the difference between a nuclear explosion and a nuclear reaction?

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 9

1. Car, chain
2. Babirusa
3. Size of Human Epidermis Cell
4. why cant saltwater fish live in freshwater?
5. Mucopolysaccharidosis
6. HOMEWORK QUESTION
7. Gene defect
8. bursting cells
9. cell theory
10. About the Big Bang
11. Human skin colour
12. international awards in physics.
13. prices of toluene
14. Oil absorption into skin
15. chemical engg
16. Skies of the distant past/future
17. effect of growth on oxygen demand
18. i need help
19. Underground nuclear tests
20. Reduced salt area
21. Refraction of light
22. narcotics
23. Wood Integrity
24. Is it possible to artificially increase a metal's physical weight to indefinitive amounts?
25. Water...Sily question?
26. Mother gull is double-clutching this year...

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 10

1. Super Cannon of Doom
2. An estimaste of the thermal power output and specific heat capacity of a human being
3. UG Nuclear tests
4. fainting at the sight of blood
5. weapon testing
6. Lead acid storage batteries
7. Critical MAss
8. Transition Metal Chemistry question
9. Question about Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Physical Meaning of Temperature
   1. more
10. Symmetry in technical drawing
11. WEIGHT OF HUMAN BEING IN THE MOON
12. having laser eye surgery
13. Cell Biology
14. Why are Magnets RED?
15. magnitude of electrical force
16. Electricity
17. dissolving

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 11

1. Tryptophan versus melatonin
2. Methane for CO2 manufacturing?
3. belly
4. rethinking science!
5. Quantum field theory
6. Colours
7. REPRODUCTION
8. vortex ring simplification

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 12

1. sodium hydroxide
2. Mould
3. How many "frames" per second can our eye process?
4. Radiocarbon dating
5. Critical molar volume of a van der Waals gas
6. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
7. Equations for black body radiation
8. magnets
9. LAser Eye Surgery
10. I'm searching for an inexpensive portable medical X-ray device, or are there any build-your-own kits?
11. Negative refractive index
12. Loop DNA
13. Types of rock or stone?
14. Earth's moon: why it always shows the same face
15. Cooling Towers
16. Ballistics
17. Ants
18. Goldfish
19. brain

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 13

1. Chromosomes
2. Threat to human race
3. Looking for medical term...
4. Oxygen
5. Alpha level and power for a hypothesis
6. Stored energy in tempered glass pellets
7. Microbiology math?
8. Education
9. a short brief essay
10. Double-slit experiment aiming
11. How does the transferrin and ferritin be cleared in human body, respectively?
12. Flu shot
13. definition of the word "plaxing"
14. Black Hole
15. Food pyramid
16. Calculating wavelength of radio waves at a given frequency
17. Nuclear fission (in nuclear weapons)
18. Decompression

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 14

1. Space Shuttle: burn-up.....
2. Planetary rings
3. stadium construction
4. A cold
5. Boiler Efficiency
6. do-it-yourself X-ray Crystallography?
7. homemade NMR?
8. mass spectrometer?
9. RadioShack?
10. synchrotron?
11. New Dynamo Not Working Right
12. Speed of digestion
13. rainbow
14. Clotrimazole 1% Cream
15. Contaminated drinking water
16. Why does my stomach growl?
17. Asian giant hornet
18. Building Audit
19. What kind of insect is this?
20. Two questions about chemical reactions

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 15

1. How big must it BE?........
2. Come nuclear armageddon...
3. What could be a physiological explanation for the Chinese folk medical concept of 熱氣 ("heat")?
4. six pack
5. Seeing Colors
6. How Many calories does a Gram of Human Fat Have?
7. Am I secretly gay?
8. What kind of frog is this?
9. "Absolute hot"?
10. physics
11. Triple point revisited
12. Decrease in Sexual Interest?
13. what genes are in a genes pair
14. Identical alleles are found in what type of gene
15. Science Fair

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 16

1. bananas
2. Critters in the stomach
3. Arm wrestling
4. Can you identify this strange bug?
5. Why is some skin immune from sunburn?
6. Diesel fuel life
7. Most effective firearm
8. Humans driving a ship
9. Unknown Goat
10. pistons in combustion engines
11. Epidermis
12. Fuel consumption
13. Bacterial Infection
14. Compact Bone
15. Hormones
16. Science Fair Proposal
17. Dodgy Bike Chain/Sprockets
18. frequency / function generator? Buying one?
19. Pickled food and tooth decay
20. Water
21. question about microwaves [EM really] and momentum transfer
22. Angle of reflection for light.

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 17

1. Variables
2. Combustion of BIO Gas.....
3. A few questions about the human brain
4. Snake Bite
5. Reversing a Black Hole...
6. Amount of Water in the World
7. Human evolution and immunity to venoms
8. End correction
9. What frequency of microwaves can create an overpressure shockwave?
10. adding a word to search list
11. Jogging and calorie consumption
12. solubility of capsaicin in edible oil
13. Feta
14. Suicide pill
15. Purpose of Viruses
16. What does cannabis smoke smell like?
17. EM wind
18. protozoa - animal report
19. Equine Medicine
20. Thinking

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 18

1. How many seagulls...
2. What kind of bird is this?
3. Time machine
4. dirigibles
5. Regarding Earth rotation and revolution
6. sinisoidal RC phase shift oscillators
7. How can I study theoretical physics in one of the US universities?
8. Science, I think
9. orbital plane
10. Flu vaccine
11. membrane capacitive current?
12. DFT bins
13. Spacetime
14. Male marsupial nipples ?
15. electromagnetic interaction and contact for force fields?
16. Domestic Poultry
17. Electromagnetic Pulse

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 19

1. How to Read the Periodic Table of the Elements
2. Producing Manganese (III)
3. Time Dilation Confusion
4. Shape of the Universe...
5. PHYSICS,Mechanical Advantage&related topics pertaining to Pulleys
6. Lightning Protection
7. Bug Rivet Paradox
8. air pollution
9. Proof of an Open Universe?...
10. 300 channels and nothing on Static?
11. dimensions of time
12. Current/Voltage
13. Fusion

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 20

1. The fourth dimension?
2. ossification and calcification
3. Combustion of BIO Gas...(Didn't get an answer yet!!)
4. rechargeable batteries
5. The Sun Core
6. Puzzling physics question
7. Metabolism etc.
8. Beta particles
9. Human Body
10. The Past
11. Tough pool leak...
12. Nasal mucus
13. Questions about cholesterol and saturated fat
14. link between: diabetes, CHF, renal insufficiency, amputation
15. Patched conics & Lunar Orbit Insertion
16. What is the total number of known chemical elements?
17. Known compounds
18. is this a shockwave affect or just accelerated air?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 21

1. James McCollum
2. Page updating problems.....
3. Phase-determination pressure
4. Cheese longevity
5. Whistling sine waves
6. COSTAS loop
7. Transmission line theory
8. Reality
9. Ic 8038 and Ic 555
10. SATA computer
11. Youngs experiment
12. Hub Gears Wont Change
13. Atheroma
14. Sauropod size
15. What does KIBRA stand for?
16. Surfaces and bonding
17. Zero-point energy and substance compatabilty.
18. General Relativity
19. Quantum mechanics? wave theory?
20. G Protein Coupled Receptors

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 22

1. Craneflies - how have these really crappy insects continued to survive?
2. Meaning of TY1CL1
3. Chest rash?
4. BONDING IN SOLIDS
5. Software Radio
6. would enough negative charge from other sources such as pions, down quarks etc react with normal matter?
7. Another EM wind question
8. Affordable Device for Measuring soil water content
9. IR remote
10. What's this aprox. called again?
11. Aqueous Compounds
12. Solar position equations
13. Equilibrium Constant, Kp
14. 3 Questions
15. Nails
16. Rainbow
17. Factual basis in psychology for claims about the power of the imagination
18. Is the human brain a chemical machine?
19. lens
20. Lab report!

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 23

1. The "Wholly Grail".....
2. How gyrocompasses work
3. Mercury and Fillings
4. Archiving
5. Different roles for insects in a hive/nest
6. how may calories are in... me?
7. Feral Horses of the World?
8. Chlorinated water and eye damage.
9. Fissile material
10. Genetic tendancy towards AIDS amongst Black people?
11. Gamma rays
12. Application of Nature Cure for treatment psoriasis
13. alluvial sedimentary rock
14. heat
15. Chemistry/ Heat curves
16. Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
17. Bad horror-movie bacteria!
18. Reishi and Birth Control Pills
19. watershed management
20. Alpha Helix
21. Black Engineers
22. Crucell
23. Algorithms
24. Rate of lunar transit
25. Abnormal waves and tides

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 24

1. Ivan Pavlov's Insomnia cure
2. Beer, wine, or something else?
3. Bugs Bunny and shotguns
4. Relativity Paradox
5. Smoking Question
6. Defibrillator voltage, intensity and energy?
7. enzymes
8. Why Does My Wife Kill Battery-Powered Wristwatches and Computer Hard Drives?
9. application
10. Touch lamps
11. science
12. Sitting up while asleep
13. audio timescaling
14. Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area
15. Chemistry
16. Low testosterone and high hemoglobin/iron test
17. first sex
18. Where Art Though Contact Lens
19. vacuolated glandular endometrial cells
20. Defibrillators and stupid people...
21. Where to buy sulphur

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 25

1. Function of small intestine
2. Latent heat
3. Global population of gorillas?
4. Volume of semen during ejaculations
5. Fermenting blood to create an alcoholic beverage?
6. Endangered large cats
7. Cotton
8. Electrolytes
9. Sense of Color In Animals
10. 400Hz Frequency Apllied to Copper Conductors.
11. "scientific" name for grass. . .
12. Insulation R-values
13. Temperature - Kinetic Energy Relationship
14. Self-dissolving Miracle-Gro
15. Taste and aging
16. green leaves all over the ground
17. reverse casimer effect??

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 26

1. When They Test You For Genital Herpes, Do They Take A Blood Test?
2. Microscope Lenses
3. Help with relativity
4. chemical reactions
5. eography
6. erivation and Use of Clausius-Clapeyron relation
7. Expert In Opacity Needed
8. Eiinstein's theories
9. research project
10. ocus and focal point
11. lind Dreams
12. itrectomy aftermath
13. s and d orbitals
14. Warm-bloodedness in birds and mammals.
15. Colour of semen
16. Plane Crash
17. The Science magazine?
18. Basic Physics: Force Question

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 27

1. Where to Purchase Digestive Enzymes
2. Pectodictyon
3. Airships
4. composite materials
5. Sexual Dysfunction
6. Communication Engineering
7. high frequency gravitational waves truth or myth
8. Colour of dreams
9. Earthing/Grounding
10. measurement by vernier
11. Tooth Transplant
12. Walls
13. Why aren't large interlocking bricks practical for construction ?
14. Colon Cancer
15. the word for when stuff feels nice
16. dynamic motion
17. Title of doctor.

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 28

1. Helium
2. observing stars other than the sun
3. Gel-based ice packs - removing dried contents?
4. Questions about salt water
5. looking for the name of a thing used to view still photos moved by a crank
6. Papain, Bromelain, Ficin and Actindin
7. Neutrinos and Antineutrinos
8. Variables
9. control system
10. how to create an artificial force field
11. Weight
12. Complete proteins
13. Valence Electrons
14. Shimmering tarmac on a hot day

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 29

1. Cell Cycle of a Human Brain Cell, Human Liver Cell, and a Yeast Cell
2. science-fiction weapon
3. Iron and Steel ingredients
4. Maps of the universe
5. Energy Density
6. Sodium phosphate
7. Sex-determination history
8. computational neurosciences
9. Variables, part 2
10. acid base equilibrium

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 30

1. Industrial Processes
2. Natural instinct of a right handed person
3. Evolution and Organo Metallic Complexes?
4. f mice and lab rats
5. latinized names?
6. Caffine/Keeping awake
7. How do we 'hear ourselves think'?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 October 31

1. Sense of humour
2. Burnt Stock Pot
3. Evolution
4. dry cell
5. mysteries of mirrors
6. Expense of PCR
7. substituents
8. why human beings can not fly like birds?
9. V8 Engines
10. Car top
11. Mating/pairing off behaviour in seagulls
12. hollow head
13. Digital MULTIMETERs