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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 1

1. Cleaning with soda
2. Disinfecting power of limewater and milk of lime
3. puberty blocking drugs for cisgender children

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 4

1. Electricity flow
2. Could you predict if a specific attempt to crush a flying mosquito with a grab will work if you had enough hand, wind and mosquito data?
3. In the news: Perpetual motion machines may have arrived.

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 5

1. Raw eggs are messy
2. Who get to scientifically and/or legally decide which dog is a pit bull and which is not?
3. Eyeball question I've been wondering for many years

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 6

1. Iron silicides
2. Sir Herbert Macauly
3. Depth Perception in certain birds
4. Peristalsis in dinosaurs and various birds
5. BIOLOGY - Latin binomial nomenclature, e.g. Iris variegata vs. Iris variegatus

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 8

1. Do different persons' immune system create the same anti-bodies?

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 9

1. Genes and crime by sex question

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 10

1. Elasticity and exhaustion

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 11

1. Can a smartphone battery get so old it bricks the phone?
2. Trick or treat

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 12

1. Quadrupoles again

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 13

1. Tessalate a sphere with magnetic frusta
2. Scientific principles behind dating coaches

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 15

1. Hair color articles

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 16

1. Is it possible to sequence degraded genomes by taking many samples?
2. Impulse of black powder rocket motors

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 17

1. Male and female body strength

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 19

1. If two men have anal sex and one man cums inside of the other man's anus, can this man's sperm get inside of the other man's prostate?
2. Do influenza viruses cause the common cold?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 20

1. What's the reason that people in the ancient time believed that removal of spleen will help them to run?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 21

1. Yearly influenza vaccine development time vs. other vaccines

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 23

1. Portuguese man o war reproduction.
2. Turning On LED Lightbulb

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 24

1. Identify shark animal species from zoo photo, from between four options
2. NASA

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 25

1. Which foods becomes to hydrogen ions in stomach?
2. Fusion reactors and the helium crisis

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 26

1. Communicating with ants

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 27

1. Biggest busts on earth
2. "Nordic race" ectomorphic?

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 29

1. Question about topographic maps

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 30

1. Science behind the friend zone
2. Why red and blue become black in the darkness?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 31

1. Halloween eclipse
2. Nearby massive black hole or somesuch?