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January 1 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 1

  1. ...and drink plenty of fluids
  2. sulphur in eggs
  3. control &c.
  4. magnets
  5. Catastrophal global warming through release of gaseous compounds from ocean floors
  6. Polymaths needed!
  7. coke

January 2 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 2

  1. basis for our current time standards (sec, min and hr) dividing one day/night cycle also 360 degrees in a circle.
  2. basis for our current time standards (sec, min and hr) dividing one day/night cycle also 360 degrees in a circle.
  3. Energy density of gunpowder?
  4. Slave ships
  5. Blood question
  6. etallic taste
  7. Men/women telephone bills
  8. Metal surfaces
  9. Phytonutrient content
  10. valves 3/2 or 3/2 valves?
  11. Calorie consumption at low temperature
  12. Calorific content of Ethanol
  13. Ice

January 3 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 3

  1. Freezing water: If there is no room for expansion, will it still freeze?
  2. Hexane production in Nigeria
  3. Sister symptom to motion sickness
  4. Wahhhh. Physics is so confusing
  5. Homosexual High Pitched Voice
  6. Aerogel filter
  7. Bicycle tire diameter...?
  8. Colonisation of the solar system
  9. avg. frictional force
  10. Why is water removed from a washed hand when you shake your hands?...
  11. circular motion
  12. tug of war
  13. acceleration due to gravity...
  14. Do inanimate objects 'know' they are being watched?
  15. step climber
  16. Grover's Disease...Transient Acanthalytic Dermatosa
  17. Lemon Juice Causing Tooth Damage
  18. Prime Gun or Primegun?
  19. Where does this saying come from?
  20. continuous centrifuge or separator for getting water (and possibly foreign particules) out of oil
  21. Chlorate vs Chloride
  22. Polymeric material used in white goods

January 4 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 4

  1. rodent shrew
  2. Lens Assembly - Collimating Beam
  3. what is the relationship between a football's pressure and throwing accuracy
  4. Fast light?
  5. Bigger world?
  6. as stove burners
  7. Mass spectrometry vs radio carbon dating
  8. Bioelectricity
  9. Equivalents to recreational mathematics
  10. ornithopters
  11. potatoe clock?
  12. ummy tucks and EKGs
  13. Faster than light?
  14. Travel of light
  15. Delta brainwave?
  16. Hard body bits
  17. Resistor value

January 5 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 5

  1. Buzz
  2. Talk:Lemming "so do they jump off cliffs?"
  3. Twice the focal length? You must be crazy...!
  4. Ion Implantation
  5. Crop circles
  6. soil microbiology
  7. resistance of wires
  8. Ortho-effect & ortho-para positioning(Organic Chemistry)
  9. Hippocratic constraints
  10. Biasing a BJT Common Emitter amplifier
  11. Bio Reserve
  12. 48 to 46
  13. Nuclear Fusion
  14. metal reaction

January 6 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 6

  1. Life or death determination
  2. Struggling Butterflies
  3. Butterfly technical question
  4. Love and P A I N
  5. Scientifically speaking Alcohol
  6. Type of Science
  7. Anaerobic respiration
  8. What is sleep apnea ?
  9. Herpes?
  10. sugar
  11. Immunizations
  12. Do cats and dogs understand tv?
  13. Every breath very probably has an air atom also breathed by Julius Caesar

January 7 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 7

  1. haploid/diploid
  2. inding energy
  3. Waterjets for teeth dangerous?
  4. Tilt-shift Photography
  5. What is type of this huge spider? Please let me know if you can figure out.
  6. confidentiallity
  7. The end of time ?
  8. Lactose and yeast fermentation
  9. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  10. liquid nitrogen in the tube
  11. Scientific Question: Regarding Great Intelligence
  12. Price of Copper and Brass
  13. Sculpting a sphere
  14. channel form efficiency and hydraulic radius
  15. Light pollution
  16. Biological night vision
  17. Percentages regarding gas and water components in inspired and expired air
  18. VSEPR Bonding
  19. hat is oxidation?
  20. effects of solvents on styrofoam
  21. Architectural / structural terminology

January 8 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 8

  1. electron hotel
  2. Diffuse/Lambertian reflection
  3. Provisions for recharging electric vehicles from the grid by cities
  4. Is meme a scientific concept?
  5. Atmospheric pressure
  6. Hall effect sensor/switch identification
  7. radio broadcasting
  8. Gravity
  9. Gravity of the moon? ...the sun?
  10. Work-Energy theorem
  11. work done by a force
  12. What is the antonym of feral?
  13. Gas Leak
  14. Bananas
  15. Clinical Physiologist.
  16. Darwinism; the human race compared to other animals
  17. Just droppin' objects
  18. .H. Horowitz
  19. I-V characteristics of Josephson junctions
  20. Looking for scientific journals
  21. relation of the sun and wind
  22. Propranolol side effects
  23. Escherichia coli
  24. Horst Tube Submarine
  25. Electromagnetic Radiation from the end of coaxial cable
  26. Caps and Baldness
  27. A fungus among us
  28. Weird science...
  29. Noodle soup
  30. Momentum

January 9 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 9

  1. How to find a reference...?
  2. Standard taper ground glass joints (glassware): ISO vs. US
  3. Importance of academic degrees
  4. Cosmic inflation
  5. trivias about sounds...
  6. Why does catnip have that kind of effect on cats?
  7. Evolution of organs
  8. better cooling
  9. Chemistry Trouble
  10. unfitness test
  11. Galinstan?
  12. Two Hybrid Screening In Yeast
  13. Elemental form
  14. How's it done?
  15. Reversible Gas Turbines
  16. Measuring rainfall
  17. sideways in time

January 10 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 10

  1. Joinery
  2. Corrosive gallium
  3. Healing after a spinal injury/surgery
  4. Why do Acetone and other solvents dissolve polystyrene?
  5. ELISA Reading
  6. Corrupted page
  7. Huntington's disease
  8. force constant
  9. Circuit with two switches
  10. Rider question 8-)
  11. Will there be a mass die-off of my local gulls?
  12. geophysics
  13. Frozen Corona
  14. work done by frictional force
  15. Images with eyes closed
  16. Ink
  17. Blonde haired blue-eyed cavemen
  18. Interaction and placement of magnetic fields in a DC permanent magnet motor...?
  19. medical term for eye crust
  20. Parts of an automobile
  21. Furniture materials and health effects
  22. Water Displacement in Ferries

January 11 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 11

  1. Sweet potatoes don't grow on trees
  2. Red Blood Cells
  3. Chemistry - What is a plasma
  4. What is this psychological phenomenon called ("illusion" seems too general)
  5. Volume of Atmosphere
  6. Names of the toes
  7. free engineering handbook downloads
  8. Minimal diet
  9. physical exercise and aching after
  10. Aloneaphobia?
  11. Ernst Ruska
  12. Peanuts!!!
  13. Questions regarding a Rainbow
  14. The optic nerve
  15. Is it possible to convert random solid objects into liquid?
  16. hemistry Naming question
  17. Plans for building a spaghetti bridge

January 12 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 12

  1. ar crash
  2. Farting between sexes
  3. How does light slow down in glass?
  4. Light speed and time
  5. Tell me about the physical substance of memory and personality
  6. Quantum Physics
  7. Tungsten
  8. Thermal Conductivity?

January 13 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 13

  1. Conservation of energy?
  2. Gallium Reactions
  3. Chemical supplier?
  4. Question 1 about my eyes
  5. Question 2 about my eyes
  6. Frog in boiling water
  7. DVD Vs Real Life clarity
  8. Ampules
  9. Astronomical Distance
  10. Resistance
  11. Planet82
  12. Composition of Solar Radiation: are gamma rays present?
  13. Why is the Moon brighter than the Sun, in gamma radiation ?
  14. Audio file compression
  15. yield stress
  16. sonic screwdrivers
  17. Memory foam outgassing and an air purifier
  18. Entropy vs. Energy
  19. Visualization
  20. Far from home?

January 14 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 14

  1. Embryonic Stem Cells and the beginning of human life
  2. Metal Working
  3. ight pollution help
  4. Shaking a bottle of ice and water
  5. Hearing problems
  6. Fire Bottle
  7. Why do cats love fish?
  8. Simple microcontroller stepper control
  9. Why Mercury?
  10. manufacture of petorl
  11. Perpetual Motion
  12. Forget frogs. How about crabs?
  13. physics-infrared photographic optics question
  14. Can woodpeckers manipulate objects with their feet?
  15. q
  16. NORTH POLE TO SINGAPORE
  17. effect of total silence on human hearing
  18. Working Mechanism-SRE
  19. Zebra subspecies identification
  20. casimir effect and gravity mix up
  21. ow can digital radios auotmatically jump over noisy channels?
  22. Pluto
  23. Different Interpretations of color
  24. What is this bird?
  25. The illusion of time
  26. ORGANS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
  27. Stars: Supergiants, giants, dwarves and so on

January 15 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 15

  1. Why do some people sneeze when in pain?
  2. avel type: innies, outies and ???
  3. Subway Tunnels and Fallout?
  4. Copying documents before xerography
  5. Acids & Metals?
  6. animal adaptations
  7. Tunnel transport system
  8. Paper and Water
  9. Human Genome Project
  10. Paper and water (different question)
  11. Lemur taxonomy

January 16 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 16

  1. Alkaline battery capacity under high load
  2. Earth's atmosphere
  3. Animals eat plants
  4. How many frames per second is...
  5. Drinking metal?
  6. Where to buy Galinstan?
  7. Is a fully nutritious ready-to-eat paste a "bad" thing?
  8. Star Catalogue SO
  9. Sense Deprivation Chamber
  10. Reversing caries
  11. Oxygen Sensor
  12. How much would it cost to build a hydrogen maser?
  13. P wave of light
  14. chemistry
  15. GENDER PREFERENCE IN ART
  16. enzyl cyanide
  17. cold heat
  18. ID a cat breed for me?
  19. BATTERIES
  20. Health question
  21. appropriate/inappropriate medical image guidelines
  22. hemistry Resources
  23. Fusion Rocket
  24. ====
  25. ====
  26. Gallium corrosion
  27. Battery load testing..?

January 17 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 17

  1. Source of salt in ocean water
  2. Escalator handrails
  3. Economical Nutrition (+ side question)
  4. Unnatural Star Creation
  5. Physics question
  6. zetasizer in small sizes
  7. hydroelectricity and fishees
  8. pixel counter
  9. sea snake reproduction?
  10. Heartbeat sounds
  11. 50/60 Hz Microwave oven
  12. Late 1800 supernaturalism
  13. Non-circular pupil
  14. Autoclaves
  15. the free website for science
  16. Old Age in fish
  17. ecosystems
  18. Not Injecting coffee
  19. Weather
  20. eel
  21. nidentified Sea Creature
  22. Sex demarkation in llamas?
  23. Carnivorous bird species as housepets?
  24. 'Gravity' increase if earth stopped spinning

January 18 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 18

  1. Energy and Radiation
  2. Escape Velocity
  3. Apollo 11
  4. synosphere in fly ash
  5. Suppose someone were to set off a hydrogen bomb on the surface of the moon...
  6. Putting a man on Mars
  7. renewable energy
  8. New inventions in the last 40 years
  9. Tonsilitis and the common cold
  10. Acetylcholine
  11. Blue moon in February?
  12. Why does cuticle skin come off so easily?
  13. Group and phase velocities...
  14. request information on radiation posion
  15. one more question
  16. Time and thought

January 19 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 19

  1. Attacked by aliens
  2. Animal Tracks
  3. Anamorphic widescreen
  4. A compressed virtual disc
  5. Amplitude of EM waves
  6. Heats of combustion of common alkanols
  7. I love you more than....
  8. Odd color perception with a tone of violet
  9. Great White shark and sea lion
  10. Radioactive poisoning and possible cures
  11. Arun S. Bagh
  12. Hydrogen storage and burning
  13. vegetables cooking
  14. Tritium oxide
  15. Thermal Nuclear Rocket

January 20 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 20

  1. What does RCSWI mean?
  2. Paracetemol
  3. Accented beats in music
  4. RF Load
    1. Further details from OP
    2. Waveguide or coaxial cable feed?
    3. Silicon oil
  5. Head on collision between atoms and thermodynamic temperature
  6. Vocal loading
  7. Arun arun arun
  8. Metal identification and care
  9. Sleep and long-term memory
    1. Sleep patterns in the elderly
  10. Why do we steadily lose high frequency hearing ?
  11. Atoms & subatomic particles
  12. Number of farads per square foot or pound...?
  13. Heat
  14. water body

January 21 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 21

  1. gallon challenge
  2. Supercapacitor research...?
  3. Length of an hour...?
  4. Osmosis
  5. Nuclear
  6. The rusting of Iron compunds
  7. Boltzmann distribution
  8. science project question
  9. Meteor (?) near Geneva
  10. Speed of light and Relativity
  11. Ornithopters again.
  12. Photons
  13. Biology
  14. You can eat it, or throw it away...
  15. When the gulls are eating together
  16. Antihypertensive Foods?
  17. adrenal glands

January 22 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 22

  1. Hypothetical
  2. Amp hours...?
  3. Stethography
  4. Planetary positions in the future
  5. Water Fuel
  6. Blood conductivity.
  7. Crazy Voice
  8. References
  9. DEBATE HELP ON GLOBAL WARMING
  10. Strange phenomenon with digital camera
  11. Antibiotics question
  12. Hydrogen Vehicles on a Mass Transit Scale
  13. What kind of wood??
  14. Incendiary laser pointer: Star Wars junior?
  15. What Bird Is This
  16. sun's energy
  17. time

January 23 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 23

  1. Seagulls
  2. Ducks
  3. Experiments for time dilation
  4. String theory
  5. Steroids
  6. Working Out
  7. Why do animals cock their heads?
  8. Prana-bindu
  9. Alkanes and their Boiling Points
  10. Stars in the southern sky
  11. Silicon Oil
  12. Stem Cell Research Global Funding
  13. Ambient Infrared/Ultraviolet
  14. measurement standard of blade sharpness
  15. Burled wood
  16. Tame budgies falling asleep when spoken to softly...

January 24 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 24

  1. non-venomous snakes
  2. Zinc and HCl reaction with copper catalyst
  3. Electricution by speakers
  4. Sound energy
  5. Buying Copper?
  6. Homosexual transexual
  7. rf load
  8. How to find technical bibliography of biology professor
  9. Cooking with gas.
  10. national geographic
  11. Dead body reflexes
  12. Liquids that are safe to drink?
  13. choir boys
  14. Safety Critical Decision Making
  15. Assistance needed on Dolorimetry
  16. Balloon Question
  17. linkage analysis and association analysis
  18. Black hole
  19. Towing and 4WD
  20. albino mammals
  21. CO2 emissions in production of concrete
  22. Deuterostomes and Protostomes
  23. In heat...?
  24. Weight of electric aircraft power source...?

January 25 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 January 25

  1. Acid/base Indicators
  2. What is the etymology of 'Pakicetid' ?
  3. Nasal Drift Theory
  4. What happened to J. J. Sakurai?
  5. Deleted Global Warming Graph
  6. physics help
  7. Medicine and sneezes
  8. Energy density of a Supercapacitor...?
  9. Ice/physics question
  10. Economisers for steam bouilers
  11. Interglacials
  12. Strange noise from a lightbulb
  13. Appeal to restart the improvement process at physics
  14. First Time in Outer Space
  15. Oceanography and Marine Biology
  16. Energy density of compressed air...?
  17. Global Warming
  18. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  19. Mesotherapy is it safe?
  20. Commercial vs Academic Scientific Research
  21. Determining the therapeutic index of a drug
  22. Future Human Evolution
  23. Nickel's anti-corrosive properties
  24. What type of plastic do I need?
  25. photographic memory
  26. Light from the Sun
  27. Physical appearance of ovarian cyst
  28. Transfat now, sugar later...?
  29. Nuclear bombs in a vacuum
  30. Different species of humans
  31. Applied kinesiology
  32. Superconducting magnetic energy storage...?
  33. What is the appropriate device for viewing terrestrial objects at high magnification
  34. Could Japan really sink in our lifetime?

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January 28 & 29 edit

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January 30 & 31 edit

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