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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 3
- Using the IUCN Red List
- Body shape and structure
- Focal distance and light intensity (camera question about f-stop)
- Lens focusing by eye
- Excessive emotional responses
- What is this object?
- ISO setting verus shutter speed
- indian resources on iron
- Falling Leaf
- I am writing a presentation
- Kidney in hagfish
- Battery effect
- Flash evaporation of a solution
January 4 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 4
- Bike mechanics - removal of rear sprocket (single speed - no cassette)
- Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
- What is the difference between Nernst equation and Nerst's equation?
- Amazonian insects and fruit for identification
- How much gas can a candle burn?
- Gluing plastics together
- Speed of Light
- Temperature data archives
- Photography: closing aperture
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 7
- Parasites
- Sun
- K shell
- Science
- Question on salt and excercise
- Cells
- Microscope
- why does a comet leave atrail behind it?
- Falling from an aircraft into the sea
- Going without orgasm for a long time
- Hydrogen peroxide solution still good?
- energy efficient houses
- molds and organisms
- Whiskers
- Three big cocks!
January 8 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 8
- unknown disorder
- Cells
- Cells (2)
- Annihilation - energy of photons from electron-positron interaction
- Rail Guns
- Carbon black
- Square-cube laws
- SEARCHING FOR FREE E-BOOKS BASED ON SUBJECT CALLED SYSTEM DYNAMICS
- FUEL CHARACTERISTIC STUDY RELATED E-BOOKS ALTERNATE RESOURCES
- water vapor and global warming
- Size of Earth
- Is ash carbon?
January 9 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 9
- Population genetics problem
- That double-crossing cerebellum!
- Earth's mass
- Hypersensitivity of the senses
- Advantage &disadvantages of Industry
- History of quantum mechanics
- PROVIDING LINK FOR FRESH USERS FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS
- Why do most penguins have black feathers?
- incorrect 3d structure
- Bears in the south
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 11
- Dysgraphia/Agraphia
- Geiger muller tube internal quenching
- Tremulating musssels
- Poop (moved from entertainment desk)
- Would a machine be affected by Chemical, Biological, or Radiological weapons?
- What does antimatter look like?
- Do clones have introns?
- Inertia Theory of E Mach
- "Einstien said nothing can accelerate to the speed of light, beause its mass would become infinite"
- Three Phase 600V systems in Canada
- Physics of playground swing
- Looking for Standard/Info on Food vacuum packaging
- Academia and standardization buzzwords
- The Acidity of stomach acids in other animals
- Minimum input conditions for human life
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 13
- Help! I have woodlice in my house!
- Mercalli scale
- Methysergide
- molecular weight
- Obesity/popular culture
- Does light stop at the surfaces it's reflected from?
- Precisely how do baleen whales exist during the many months they abstain from eating?
- Microwave cooking
- tweaking a pellet fired boiler
- Subatomic particles
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 14
- Why does food taste delicious?
- What will happen if...
- Odd question
- Name of medical condition ?
- A delicious 9V battery
- Body Language
- water and fire
- Traditional Japanese sitting arrangement
- 9V battery on the tongue again...
- Insect maturbation and animal in general
- Electrical question
- Permanent Marker
- Feline Breeding
- Spice effects
- Gene synthesis
- Blood Clot
- Diet Coke/Pepsi, ice, and foam
- Ripply heat effect
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 16
- Simple decomposition question
- Water density fluctuations?!?
- Towel snapping, water, and pain
- Energy determination
- 'Company doctor'
- ARUN S BAGH QUES ABOUT PLUTO
- Most Toxic
- Salty water
- determination of percentage for aspirin
- Does stretching a muscle increase muscle mass?
- Car polution
- self-heating food
- Memory Battery
- renewable energy street lights
- Carbon Monoxide resonance forms
- Date genus Bubo was first given(for want of a better word)
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 17
- Macaw training
- Itchy ears
- Momentum Of A Chicken
- Rocket in vacuum
- Camping lantern - glowing white netting
- A proton and electron in an atom
- LASER mixing questions
- A doorbell that rings itself
- Canalphones
- Electrostatic Problem
- Why do newer rifles have a lower rate of fire (typically) than older rifles?
- Unidentified Plant
- MESSENGER and the white spot
- Does wood burn faster in colder temperatures?
- Can someone explain this to me?
- why dont we heat with rocks from hot places and cool with rocks from cool placse.
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 22
- how do i get taller
- leg stab
- Things spinning really fast
- Western blot
- Location of spleen (in humans)
- Testing an electric fence
- Chemistry: molarity vs. normality
- Which better to go after if being sexually assaulted (not for the squeamish)
- Snap crackle pop
- Glass dust?
- Post-coital urticaria in a penicillin-sensitive patient
- Melonized Steel
- Circular motion/ conservation of energy.
- Creatine
January 23 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 23
- discovery of how to measure blood glucose with a home blood glucose meter
- Ichthyophobia
- Anchoring a Ship
- Analyzing notation H7h6 and similar notation
- Training my Macaw (reposting because noone replied)
- In the universe, light exists most abundandtly at what wavelength/energy?
- physiology
- If you could give neutrinos a negative charge...
- Science and Consciousness
- Sirius
- alka seltzer
- Fever: Better to tough it out or bring it down?
- Does light move slowly at absolute zero?
- Identification of this rock and minerals
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 25
- cardiac muscle tissue
- Gulls again...
- urea again
- science fair, please help
- Subconsciousness
- is there any sensor that checks the intensity of light
- Old people leaving the gas on
- Hangover, sleeping position dependent
- what is the areodynamic function of flaps
- Hydrocodone
- Moon and Sun visible at the same time
- trippyfans and turkey
- phenogenomics
January 26 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 26
- Time Travel
- MMR Vaccine
- Producer Gas through fixed bed coal gasification
- What kind of bird is this?
- Do we want experiment pages?
- Bright object in the sky last night...
- Setting toaster timer: stand by...
- cheap scientific tools
- Are RGY and RYB monitors possible?
- Highest village in Tibet
- Sykeds ?
- Reason for lack of sense of time - i.e.: thinking it's years ago?
- pyro
- Sitting too close to TV
- Thermochemical tables
- Malonic acid
- RC Copter Problem
January 27 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 27
- Summer Solstice
- Cross breeding of rats and squirrels
- Medical one way material
- Inhaler dream
- Ideal tax rate
- Mesozoic bird taxonomy
- Fossils from mountains and islands
- Big flashes of flame while cooking
- Danger of collecting blood samples for experiment
- Glaciers
- Prehistoric love
- What do dogs search for?
- Calendar calculation
January 28 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 28
- Irreversible enzymes?
- "Down's Syndrome" in animals
- Depth of ignition
- Musical brains
- Phage titration / Identify bacteria
- Digital modulation transmission rates
- Classifying transformed bacteria (biohazard)
- What major would this fall under?
- British Rail Steam Locomotives
- IMAX lamps -- as hot as the sun?
- How well would modern body armor stand up to musket fire?
- Do British men have higher pitched voices than American men?
- Species Identification
- β-mercaptoethanol uses
January 29 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 January 29
- Alkaline drinking water
- Global Warming/Greenhouse Gases
- Are these whales using tools?
- Does light have a finite distance it can cover?
- the mute button
- Gravity
- Expansion and contraction
- seeing through metal
- Detailed info (with pics) how cable internet works
- zero order hold
- Relation of ohms to watts in speakers
- Divergence of a species (speciation)
- Mystery metal
- Rotten Coconuts
- Commercial aspects using License Plate Identification software
- Unknown husk