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October 1 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 1

  1. Car power
  2. Solubility units
  3. Common ancestor in the theory of evolution
  4. The tortoise and the hare
  5. Limits of a dynamo
  6. Bad eggs?
  7. semiconductors called alloys
  8. yDNA results
  9. Identify species of grasshopper

October 2 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 2

  1. Can human live for a long period under a gravity of 2g?
  2. Magistral blood vessels
  3. Rabies as a behavior-altering parasite
  4. ‎chemicals ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReference_desk%2FScience&diff=575462324&oldid=575456347 affect of sleep on brain chemicals involved in memory])
  5. How much alcoholic content is in church wine in Orthodox churches?
  6. Do any ancient Egyptian drugs cause amnesia?
  7. redox buffer? Acids and bases have buffers, why not oxidizing and reducing agents?
  8. parallel and series cct
  9. Ancestor of human races

October 3 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 3

  1. Sugar conductivity
  2. Space-time origami
  3. Ionic bonds
  4. Equation
  5. Concrete mixer truck

October 5 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 5

  1. 3D printer that can make a copy of itself
  2. Neanderthal diets
  3. Why does skin feel nicer after a shower?
  4. Side Effect -vs- Symptom in Psychological Disorders (context = psychopathy)
  5. Is the tricuspid valve identical to the semilunar valve?
  6. Do batteries exposed to the cold lose their ability to produce power permanently or just temporarily?

October 6 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 6

  1. SAM system guided by phased array radar whose components are distributed over a wide area
  2. Anomolous nature of LiAlH4
  3. Islamophobia
  4. Sal ammoniac for soldering and "tip refresher"

October 7 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 7

  1. Fossils in antartica
  2. What's the likelihood of a disease occuring by means of a french kiss?
  3. Could we eat grass?
  4. Brain wrinkles

October 8 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 8

  1. Going to Space
  2. 1999 gmc yukon slt
  3. I have a chemistry question: If you mix hydroxycitric acid and Atropa_belladonna together in a bowl what will happen?
  4. Good alcohol, bad alcohol
  5. Suppose the entire observed and extropalated universe

October 9 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 9

  1. Does anyone know of philosophers or physicists who've discussed turtles all the way down vs.
  2. Chemistry
  3. Saturated fat research

October 10 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 10

  1. Compulsive disorder
  2. Types of Iodine?
  3. Fluorine planet
  4. I'd like to submerge my hands in boiling water...
  5. Ancient years
  6. Non-flammable explosive
  7. Efficiency of a thermodynamic cycle
  8. Rain in Midwest United States
  9. Georgia's water shortage

October 11 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 11

  1. Have people really fused with their own sofas?
  2. Why do light rays bend while passing from one medium to another (during refraction)?
  3. Metal used in hard disk drive chassis?
  4. What kind of spider is this?
  5. Say WHAT? Nostril specific sniffing test for Alzheimers
  6. Ethics in scientific research
  7. Digital clock speeding up.
  8. Photonic molecules

October 12 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 12

  1. Eat stuff or convert light into energy
  2. Einstein disproof of Friedmann's expanding universe calculations?
  3. What roads (non-mwy) in the UK have jct numbers?

October 13 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 13

  1. Floor tile material
  2. Vegetable identification
  3. Solution book of University Physics with modern Physics 13th edition
  4. What is a prepalate?
  5. What is the scientific explanation for this !
  6. Is there any picture of the mixed flow compressor in the pratt and whitney pw 600f?
  7. amazing spider web bridge line (which type of spider?
  8. Male and female variation, height and puberty

October 14 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 14

  1. Do fruit flies spontaneously generate?
  2. Spectral radiance/Planck's law
  3. Are neutron star collision energies as large as supernova energies?
  4. Cytomegalovirus and HIV
  5. Is light from light-emitting diode emitted with same phase?
  6. What is the opposite of Wikipedia's List of mental disorders?
  7. Can axon tracts travel *around* the internal capsule?

October 15 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 15

  1. Overview of chemistry - book?
  2. ray of light theory of eyes
  3. binder related to textile.
  4. Thermal radiation
  5. Surgical Caps and Shoe Covers
  6. Domestic waste solder
  7. Human mortality question

October 16 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 16

  1. Trackside thing
  2. Children crying because they can't do something?
  3. Power used by mobile phone and radio towers
  4. A geometrical analyze of camera capture blur?
  5. Can natural remedies also be synthetic?
  6. Antibiotics in routine lab work
  7. Bupropion: Elontril and Wellbutrin
  8. Lucid dreams
  9. is it true you can peer into the distant past?
  10. Quantum Relative Entropy

October 17 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 17

  1. Second opinion
  2. Why do people tie off their arms when shooting up?
  3. Fish tank
  4. Good scholarly sources
  5. Drinking coke
  6. Megawats, generating capacity and consumption
  7. How much time should I studying for the astronomy GCSE?
  8. Binaural beats

October 18 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 18

  1. DNA variability within a single organism
  2. Hot food kills good gut bacteria?
  3. Hydrocarbon smell
  4. Nazi gas chambers
  5. How to make a real 3D movie?
  6. How long from TIA to CVA (stroke)
  7. How rare is it to have no viewable eclipse for 5 2/3 yrs?
  8. CFL fixture problem

October 19 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 19

  1. Global warming and agriculture
  2. Icebreaker
  3. Largest and most used Gastroenterology textbook?
  4. Asymmetric reciprocal effects
  5. i ask you again:is there any picture or graphic of the mixed flow compressor from the Pratt and Whitney pw610f?
  6. Special dietary treatments for Autism
  7. Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy
  8. Recrystalization vs. acid-base extraction
  9. Health effects of low exposure to pesticides

October 20 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 20

  1. Measuring tension in a belt
  2. Is reading in your DNA?
  3. Dropping a Slinky
  4. Power use in simple remote control
  5. Can airplane runways be sloped?
  6. Galvanised nails as plant water sensors
  7. Effects of high speeds in outer space
  8. Did the Nazis performed unethical psychological experiments too?

October 21 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 21

  1. Metric
  2. Regarding the absence of a very well known info on SEXUAL DESIRE on wikipedia
  3. Opportunities for Exploring Comets and Minor Planets
  4. Soda pop can exploding when frozen
  5. Meat from unstressed animals
  6. Cline variation
  7. Why are screw propeler more efficient than paddle wheels?

October 22 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 22

  1. Penicillin-producing fungi in the human body
  2. House dust mite - Helping me with this could very well improve my life
  3. Damp clothes smell
  4. anaphilaxis and andrenaline
  5. Looking for articles or references on epidemics due to lack of immunity
  6. is space what we really see?
  7. Feeding habits of the subterranean invertebrata
  8. Cleaning from background radiation
  9. Smog contest: Great Smog of 1952 in London versus today in Harbin, China
  10. What is this medical process called?

October 23 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 23

  1. Killed so quickly pain is not registered
  2. Cryogenic neutrons
  3. Pin tumbler lock
  4. Escape velocity
  5. How do mirrors work ?
  6. Ammonia to remove mildew from clothes?
  7. Repotting a Marigold and Inducing Flowering
  8. cancer evolution

October 24 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 24

  1. Why does the green of afterimages look so weird?
  2. Deflection calculation
  3. Can lungs by cleaned by inhaling a spray of lung macrophages?
  4. Plugged noses

October 25 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 25

  1. Soil dynamics
  2. Mr Frosty cryogenic storage containers - replacing isopropyl alcohol
  3. Sooo.... what does the fox say?

October 26 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 26

  1. Elements in other stellar systems
  2. What is the velocity of the particle at the origin?
  3. Flexible-fuel vehicle: diesel + ethanol + gasoline
  4. physics (T-equation is the the real solution of time dependent Schrodinger wave equation)
  5. Hunting oscillation
  6. "Real world" length contraction

October 27 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 27

  1. About (vomitting while) pregnant
  2. Insolation as a function of latitude (alone)
  3. Woolly bear caterpillars
  4. Fukushima radiation on the NW coast of the US

October 28 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 28

  1. Ice cube capilliary free energy?
  2. Touching a black dwarf
  3. Infrared and microwave radiation
  4. How to research symbols?

October 29 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 29

  1. Voltage divider.
  2. Questions about Dietry Fibers
  3. Wouldn't retrograde amnesia erase a person's mental illnesses too?
  4. Side-stick controls in cockpits
  5. Animal learning by experiences of other animals without direct exposure themselves...
  6. Does anybody know how many citations an article has been cited?

October 30 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 30

  1. The term for the tendency for dominant entities to get more dominant
  2. Heisenberg's delusion of adequately well behaved standard reality?
  3. Division by nothing
  4. Drinking Ethanol, does it makes you live longer?
  5. Practically visible universe stops growing
  6. XENON-100 project regarding dark matter detection?

October 31 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 October 31

  1. Testing for Pink Noise
  2. Agriculture and global food supply
  3. World Population in 50 years
  4. Trousers
  5. RPG-29
  6. 'Real world length contraction' moved to archives. Why?
  7. Contracted Earth diameter and atmosphere depth
  8. SSRI/SSNRI WITHDRAWAL
  9. Effect of poor Eyesight on life skill development