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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 2
- Does it hurt getting shot?
- Photon-tachyon interactions
- Weighing the atom
- Bacteriophages as antibiotics?
- Terrarium vs. tank
- AK47 vs. Bulletproof glass
- Global warming and future
- Wind instruments
- Inflation-Adjusted Cost of Electricity?
- By which methods and how accurate can we predict the properties of an unknown isotope?
- future binary solar system?
- Antimatter vs. black hole
- Exothermic reactions in warm-blooded creatures
- Newton's laws of motion
- Infinite Regress and General Relativity
- Worried about eating gnats
- Alcubierre drive vs. black hole
- Shot three times
- Radar display updating in "real-time"
- Confining the electron
- Building "life expectancy"
- Angle of repose
- N-terminal signal sequences in Archaea
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 4
- High protein in chicken noodle soup
- Egg white vitamin content
- seeing our scalp
- Acrophobia and attachment to the ground
- What are big open questions in Science?
- Maximum weight per unit surface area that water can support
- Class warfare question
- Copper(2+) v.s. copper(1+)
- What species do those fungi belong to?
- firing a blank
- Strength of glass vs aluminium
- What makes a material tough from a molecular point of view?
- Irish winters
- thunderstorms
- Electron probability distribution
- Wardens
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 6
- Nepeta cataria
- induction motor
- homology / analogy of env viral coat proteins, across mammals and Drosophila
- Eating "unpleasant" foods
- Centipedes
- Day Length and Seasons
- oxidation no. in halogens
- Dark energy and the local cluster
- More information on the Marbled Lungfish's genome please
- Damped oscillations in real life
- Gulf stream
- Spin–lattice relaxation of different substances
- Is there software that can animate chemical reactions?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 10
- Lightning and auroras
- Modified HIV-based cancer vaccine
- Human Sensitivity to IR
- How a Latino could not be a Caucasien?
- hydrogen peroxide
- Timing of natural death
- Animal sadness
- How do bats avoid bees and wasps?
- About satellite communication
- Push-ups and the "funny bone" nerve
- Drunkeness
- Etymology of gestures, difference between intented and unintended gestures, and animals
- Woodpecker facts I've been told - true or false?
- Drop impact absorbtion
- time travel
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 12
- menstrual taboo
- Aboriginal North Americans and alcohol
- About the alleged FTL neutrinos
- Knappable stone in Southwestern CT
- Power Input vs. Voltage Output.
- Surrogate instead of abortion
- How long does it take for acquired immunity to form
- Sun seen from space
- Water on Earth and the physical properties of water in ocean
- Species identifcation (flower)
- Can a Chihuahua survive in the wild?
- Electron configurations
- Species identification (beetle)
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 13
- Why are multiple personalities a disorder?
- Microwave oven safety
- Chemical formulae: technical term for subscripted numerals
- Collapsible earth embankment
- Is it true that a normally healthy person can get cancer from the normal background radiation on this planet?
- Species Identifcation
- Bucket brigade efficiency ?
- Online obituary
- Astrologist Claims
- RBC Indices
- What kind of snake is this? (US Rockies region)
- Household Bleach
- Types of fermentation
- Muon positron annihilation
- Silicon based life
- Arbitrary digital record of sound
- Global observation of the Miracle of the Sun
- Is the science in The Subtle Knife correct?
- Becoming ambidexter
- Shock wave and blast wave
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 14
- Is this a viable method for calculating two-body tension?
- Will the two giant stars of Capella merge?
- Neurosurgery questions
- Levers
- Transplanting external human body parts
- Photons in an empty universe
- Dingoes vs. rabbits in Australia
- Shuttle launch camera footage
- p53 damage and its frequency in cancers
- Prions
- Jerks and mental illness
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 16
- termodinamika
- best glue for specific materials
- cholangiocarcinoma advanced stge IV
- Self discipline
- Let's get real: Could we really survive a nuke inside a refrigerator?
- Power generation from Earth Magnetic Field
- Is antiviral prophylaxis possible?
- top 1000 Fan pages on Facebook
- Neutrinos not faster than light: Do GLONASS and GALILEO have dithering, too?
- Claims of 430 ppm CO2 in 1940 atmosphere
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 18
- Wiping out humanity
- Certifying obtained knowledge
- Duck vs. Goose
- Electrothermal-chemical technology
- question (coloured bats)
- Quantum "locked" levitation
- vandalistic cockatoos and Tabasco Sauce
- sql queries
- Fusion, Fission, and Iron
- Urine albumin valid ranges
- Electric energy from highly intensive neutron radiation?
- beaches in shantou
- Successor to the Large Hadron Collider?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 19
- Does a shipping crate made of plywood pass international ISPM 15 standards?
- Future ice age
- how much do sound waves obey the superposition principle?
- Dead zone (satellite) and GIS talking bus system
- Seismic travel time graphs
- constants
- homology between yeast and human alcohol dehydrogenases
- It is between fall and follow
- How long will a 9 volt battery power an LED?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 22
- a fixed volume of gas is heated from 273K to 546K ... does free energy and entropy increase or decrease?
- Where can I get some brown or grey
- Mercury is more dense than lead?
- Archery
- More redox questions
- Measurement uncertainty
- Plutogenic
- malleability and ductility
- Minerals and radiactivity
- Faster than light travel, causality, and time dilation
- Effect of blood sugar on weight loss
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 27
- At the time of when Islam was first arose...
- If a proton were the size of our sun...
- Rods and cones in the male/female eye
- Laws of Physics
- Night vision
- How much heat can Asbestos withstand?
- Egyptian battery powered lamp
- not a science question, but...
- Human pheromone, sextual attractant
- metric system
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 28
- How do human beings copulate?
- Molecular bonding II (Repost)
- Sequentially precipitating certain metal salts out of a solution
- to find out a pill cant find its use
- Red shift due to gravity, where does the energy go?
- What if the best lie detectors only worked on people who haven't been tortured?
- Contact lens + eyeglasses?
- Chlorine trifluoride
- contact lenses
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 October 31
- Colliding black holes
- Scientific integrity
- Firecracker pollution
- Dubois and Fernholz
- Australia's beaches
- Accurate test for mercury poisoning
- Scientist who controlled a bull's brain
- Identify large structures
- Florida building code
- Windows of buildings: Europe vs. US
- Adhesive connecting painted wood and Styrofoam
- IFF: The German roll
- Reverse Time
- Junk food
- Batteries