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September 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 1

  1. Alkane isomers
  2. Delta formation
  3. Water - oil mixture
  4. Tumor Lysis Syndrome seen in antibody dependent cell mediated cytotoxicity?
  5. Insulation value of aluminium foil
  6. Weight of atom
  7. Balanced wheel
  8. can I see the observer effect in action?

September 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 2

  1. Non-fatal viruses
  2. what is a linear dielecric material
  3. How to know that a drug is safe?
  4. Sunrise progression
  5. "Pocket" flashlight that recharged from sun-light or room-light amount of photons?
  6. What sort of skin diseases are there that look like melanomas?

September 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 3

  1. For how long has Schroedinger's Cat been rotting?
  2. Is D necessarily zero?
  3. Minimal food requirements
  4. Bauxite
  5. anatomy
  6. Extinction
  7. Darold Treffert speculative claims regading genetic memory
  8. Principle of relativity

September 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 4

  1. Reference frame for Dark Energy
  2. Dental question: Toothbrush vs. Toothpaste
  3. Are disabled and mentally-handicapped people self-aware?
  4. Rigid pavement
  5. Machining
  6. Breaking down hardened building cement or concrete
  7. self combustion
  8. What´s happen if we put a reference system in a photon ?
  9. Calorie-equivalent exercise compared to wading in a pool.
  10. Does nioxin shampoo make hair grow?
  11. Mind downloading
  12. Yet another bug ID question
  13. Can runners prevent knee pain by injecting motor oil in their knees?

September 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 5

  1. Beams
  2. Black hole accretion disk spectra from ISM
  3. hearing loss - age
  4. Semimetallic bonding
  5. Malaria in other species besides humans
  6. Star collision
  7. High voltage and CFLs

September 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 6

  1. Glyphosate based Herbicide
  2. Precipitation from NaBr and CaCl2
  3. Psychosocial development
  4. Y-shaped moth
  5. research paper authors and collaboration
  6. Taboos in other animals
  7. "increament in Amino Acids"
  8. Overhead sun at noon in tropics
  9. Changing course of the river Thames over the last 1000 years
  10. Science in Psychology
  11. continuous/gradient refractive index
  12. Dawn mission

September 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 7

  1. Hormonal contraception and pregnancy
  2. One Severe Pain + Self-Applying Pain elsewhere = Less Pain Overall?
  3. Feces and STDs
  4. Discoveries in space (not just developed for the space exploration)
  5. coffee buzz
  6. 1 Photon in all 360 degrees

September 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 8

  1. Gold tunnels
  2. why does some ceramic heat up in the microwave?
  3. Intelligence and drug use
  4. elecrostatice
  5. Diseases crossing the Brain-Blood Barrier

September 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 9

  1. Unidentified larva
  2. Mental Capacities of Prenates and Infants Versus Those of Certain Animals
  3. Neurons and viruses
  4. Efficiency of Vaccinations against Hepatitis B
  5. Comparative strength of fundamental forces
  6. speed of light and spin
  7. Medical Examination Beds
  8. Snow in Muslim nations
  9. Is it true that point particles like quarks and electrons have no volume?
  10. Physical inderpredation

September 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 10

  1. Average age of first childbirth
  2. black sunglasses or brown sunglasses for maximum UV protection
  3. Allergies
  4. Relativity theory: a body moving while emitting an energetic radiation
  5. Does anyone know what this plant is?
  6. Maldives in the Ice Age
  7. Cat
  8. Plate tectonics censored?

September 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 11

  1. Auric reactivity
  2. Socialization and digestion
  3. Does the 'lensmaker's equation apply to non-Gaussian / fast / large-aperture lenses?
  4. why isn't MSG produced in neutral form?

September 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 12

  1. Libya
  2. Toothbrush disinfection
  3. Global Ischemia and Death
  4. Late summer sky color
  5. Janet Armstrong
  6. Use of question mark and exclamation mark above equals signs
  7. Gravitational pull vs. push
  8. sound to electrical energy conversion
  9. Laser Light as Propulsion?
  10. Seeing Our Own Creation

September 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 13

  1. Storm chasing from the sky
  2. How accurate are bathroom scales?
  3. Merck Manual/s

September 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 14

  1. Removing color from/clarifying orange juice
  2. Pointless referencing in science articles
  3. Dihydrogen vs. dihydrido
  4. Entropy of a fan
  5. Octopus reproductive process
  6. How do they determine how many figures are "correct" or "good" for a given computation of a mathematical constant, like pi?
  7. Human viruses
  8. does all the velocity increase come from the energy stored in air pressure when air is forced out of the lungs?
  9. five woody clades
  10. Purple carrots
  11. "Nutty" taste in cheese
  12. Eggs, water, and temperature
  13. Zopiclone
  14. Fungus growing without an apparent food source
  15. Privacy among other animals
  16. Cannabinol in NJ?

September 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 15

  1. continuity equation -- why partial, but not total derivative with respect to time ?
  2. Question about QM
  3. The return of the aether
  4. deer
  5. Conduction of heat and electricity.
  6. Height of the nail
  7. Speed on one point

September 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 16

  1. So-called "stealth" aircraft
  2. Chirality in spiders
  3. Cavitating bubbles party trick
  4. Intelligence and reproduction
  5. Three Sisters
  6. Barium Wiki page
  7. Distribution of translational and rotational kinetic energy in a gas
  8. sound to electrical energy conversion (part 2)
  9. What does Unsexed mean?
  10. Blood vs sperm
  11. Lagrangian_mechanics#Pendulum_on_a_movable_support
  12. Wavy paper
  13. Chemistry: How to remove H2O and impurities from an ammonium formate mixture?
  14. Biology/Genetics: The minimal male/female ratio for genetic diversity?
  15. Running Everywhere

September 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 17

  1. Electron magnetic field
  2. Have there ever been any surrogate mothers over 70 in India?
  3. Circuits problem
  4. Image of the universe
  5. Question number 1: Other forms of carbon chemistry
  6. Question number 2: Silicon biochemistry
  7. Question number 3: Cosmic Abundance
  8. Ajax solution successful
  9. Arabian desert
  10. Has any woman over 70 has used another woman as a surrogate mother or Vice versa?That's what I mean to ask.
  11. molluscum contagiosum
  12. Clostridium
  13. Skinny gene
  14. Would it be possible for sentient species to be carnivores, herbivores or flyers?
  15. Length of the hair under the skin

September 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 18

  1. how to figure out the habitable zones
  2. Newtonian two-body problem
  3. Chemistry change
  4. glass in thistles/nettles
  5. Highest railway gradient in England
  6. Are black holes point particles?
  7. Observer effect
  8. gas-filled fiber for space elevator cable

September 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 19

  1. stochastic curve fitting

September 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 20

  1. Satellite imaged from a satellite - first?
  2. No-cloning theorem
  3. Plant exposure to vacuum
  4. volcanic activity
  5. Large submarines rise because of their large sophisticated mechanisms, but how do small or midget submarines do this "rise and dive" activity in a much more simpler manner
  6. Human height growth
  7. University Textbook Soapboxing
  8. where is my question
  9. Slug reproduction
  10. Live oak growth
  11. Women and pimples

September 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 21

  1. Metabolism
  2. Why does Precordial Catch Syndrome cause blurriness of vision?
  3. snapping turtle hibernation
  4. Thanks a lot
  5. Mason jar
  6. science
  7. CFC cleavage
  8. photon to world ratio
  9. Simple description of a gyroplane
  10. How to correctly solve density tolerance

September 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 22

  1. Undersea river system 100-200 miles southwest of Ireland
  2. Bread hardening in open air
  3. Land reclamation
  4. American squirrel behavior
  5. Real life applications of chaos theory
  6. ISS re-supplying
  7. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?
  8. Transgender Animals

September 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 23

  1. Guitar strings: tuning and tension
  2. Line of lakes in North America
  3. has crab nebula rotation round any center?
  4. Coprolalia
  5. Discovery of the God particle.
  6. Legs > 4
  7. Pitch Rising?
  8. Banana storage
  9. Chicken broth
  10. Colour scheme of large macaws

September 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 24

  1. Black rat taxonomy
  2. ANTI MICROBIAL CLOTHING
  3. hurricane, cyclone & typhoon
  4. supernova
  5. Drawing faster than your own shadow
  6. Doppler effect

September 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 25

  1. Can DNA be used for data storage ?
  2. endermologie
  3. Crystalline ceramic vs. salt
  4. Health effects of Tobacco
  5. Leaf growth and development
  6. Unidentified spiders from Brazil
  7. By what factor can a nose get desensitied to a smell?
  8. Children and sugar

September 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 26

  1. Space and radiative cooling
  2. Tuition returns on net present value of tax revenue
  3. delayed capsaicinoid pungency
  4. Male pattern baldness
  5. What causes these lines on paper birch leaves?
  6. At a molecular level
  7. Chimpanzee-Human percentage of relatedness

September 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 27

  1. magnetic sensor
  2. Ganglion cyst
  3. Could someone fix the Ununtrium articles, I don't trust my science skills
  4. Benefits/effects of fasting
  5. Every seventh ocean wave larger?
  6. Color of the ocean
  7. Slowing 'death by burning'
  8. Magnetic potential from current densitty
  9. White spirit/Mineral turpentine
  10. coronene (chemical).

September 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 28

  1. Doldrums fact or fiction
  2. Ketamine in the UK
  3. Van der Waals fugacity as a function of pressure, volume, and a and b. How do I eliminate molar volume?
  4. Banking your own blood for emergencies
  5. How much biomass is in Canada?
  6. Chemistry and Molecular Mass
  7. GLP-1 agonists and exercise

September 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 29

  1. One's Sexuality
  2. Wavelength
  3. Is DNA always coiled up the same way in each of our cells ?
  4. Fruit ripening
  5. Eyes rolling back
  6. Regarding dimension of physical quantities
  7. Extreme cold weather clothing
  8. Phase
  9. When were tracking chips invented?
  10. Violets
  11. What this paragraph on tetany mean?

September 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 September 30

  1. pink nebula
  2. abbreviation question
  3. Pancreatin use
  4. cool melting
  5. theoretical extent of hydroplaning -- how to calculate?
  6. Are these images useful?
  7. Does the Vagainal Mucos and Vagainal Lubrication are same?
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