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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 1

  1. Why are antistatic bags pink?
  2. re:heat and sound
  3. Wireless Energy
  4. Nicotinate concentration in the blood or blood plasma
  5. What is a 'stable ectotherm'?
  6. If a Tree Falls in the Forest MARK II
  7. Fibre glass Polyster Resin
  8. Ganymede (moon) volcanic?
  9. Decision tables versus classification tables
  10. super tall
  11. SWIMING POOL CHEMICALS
  12. Treadmill Question
  13. Business model
  14. What did Surrealists like Andre Breton and others think about Zionism?

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 2

  1. Red light.
  2. skin -kojic acid;azelaic acid;bearberry, mullbery, vitamin c
  3. Heat Shield
  4. Are all Neoptera holometabolic?
  5. Development of the water tank
  6. Name of Flower
  7. Moisture transmissivity of Aluminium.
  8. Future of Technology Ten Years From Now
  9. Re:Lava lamps and chemical lights
  10. A list of Hispanic scientists?
  11. Membrane potential
  12. protein/protein interaction
  13. rigveda, translation bij Griffith
  14. Help Needed
  15. White teapot or black teapot
  16. Tea cosies

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 3

  1. The Sun on the Horizon
  2. Itchy nose at dentist
  3. Space tracking networks
  4. Negative buoyancy
  5. Dimples on back of thighs
  6. rays that reflect by bones
  7. Denoting Free radicals
  8. question
  9. radiology
  10. Interconnectivity of Earth's Food Web between Oceans and Land
  11. Geodesic distance
  12. welding..........
  13. breathing a bug accidentally
  14. How do we know the universe is expanding/accelerating if red shift increases with distance (time)?

July 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 4

  1. Identify this lizard
  2. dealcoholize alcohol?
  3. Need to identify soundfile
  4. Planet of the Apes
  5. Humming Bee?
  6. Earth Natural Satellites
  7. Jar lid motion on counter top
  8. efficiency?
  9. hymen
  10. vagina
  11. Determining the proper pump for a water fountain.
  12. Accuracy of Weather Forecasting
  13. How could I engineer weather inside my house?
  14. Map of the North and South Magnetic Hemispheres
  15. vitamin B12 and vivid dreams

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 5

  1. SpaceShipOne Orbit Style
  2. ultrasound???
  3. Satisfaction of Swallowing
  4. Food For The Homeless and $1,000,000
  5. Re:Protons, Electrons, Neutrons and such
  6. Facial hair (from Humanities)
  7. Valence electrons
  8. UDDERS
  9. Hooking up solar panel to appliance
  10. Klinefelter's syndrome and homosexuality
  11. An unusual application of tack adhesive
  12. Burning wood = carbon neutral??
  13. Terminal shoot - English botanic name?
  14. dimmer switch efficiency
  15. hi , my guestion is about c++

July 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 6

  1. Voltage to Current converter (2A)
  2. Spherical mirror
  3. Missing diffraction spikes
  4. Nasty Bread
  5. Killroy filter
  6. Enthaply Change
  7. Shaking arm

July 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 7

  1. Black olives...
  2. RNA/DNA pills
  3. preventing pregnancy
  4. Vegetarian vs Non-Vegetarian
  5. Contrasting Colour Pallette
  6. Effects of electricity and magnetism on humans
  7. history of emission control standards in automobiles
  8. Voltage drop

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 8

  1. RPM and car control
  2. Wet Hair
  3. science / jupiters moons
  4. Re:Lucid dreaming
  5. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
  6. Has anyone ever heard of this fish disease?
  7. Question concerning Fourier
  8. Error in myeloid article?
  9. Black hole production
  10. Night sky
  11. Cleaning pen from whiteboard
  12. Supposing that we were to accidentally create a black hole on earth...
  13. An insect to identify
  14. Butterfly with spotted compound eyes

July 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 9

  1. Political views of Scientists
  2. Creationism Questions
    1. Spring Flowers
  3. 100cc,250cc,500cc
  4. Tox Screens
  5. 4-legged insect
  6. Babies
  7. Weather patterns
  8. Circuit assistance
  9. Colour of matters
  10. When Electricity currents in the metals ...
  11. Aluminum Carbonate
  12. Renewable energy capacity of the planet
  13. Speed and energy
  14. What causes ice cubes to stick, like your tongue to a pole?

July 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 10

  1. Question about UV light danger
  2. How is the frequency response of an acoustic transducer determined?
  3. Water Retention
  4. induced paranormal experiences
  5. how do you get rid of the smell from dried starfish?
  6. "Your Face Will Stick Like That!"
    1. Side Notes
  7. Question, re: Archaea taxonomy
  8. Communication in Behavioural Science
  9. old dog dilemma
  10. Microwave of Doom
  11. Body composition
  12. How to Make Someone Feel Something Without Touching Them
  13. Noon and the middle of the day
  14. Stomatal Density and Transpiration
  15. astronomical device

July 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 11

  1. Big red insect
  2. Reactivity of Chrome plating to Hydrocarbon fuels
  3. history of hygiene
  4. Anaconda migrations
  5. Something of eyesight & light!
  6. Cloning
  7. Whoa!
  8. how hard
  9. Coconut Husks and Water absorption
  10. Electrical
  11. Re:Black Hole(s) Vs. Black Hole(s)?
  12. The atmosphere of gas giants (a hypothetical question)
  13. Vacuum blimp
  14. vortex force decline
  15. Pressure Points
  16. Cactus

July 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 12

  1. Record Player Sound
  2. Fates worse than death in nature?
  3. Heat transition with colour
  4. insulation affecting current
  5. Brrrr
  6. Baffling Bananas.
  7. chemistry
  8. Caffiene Overdose
  9. A kind of intelligent design
  10. Hydrogen Peroxide and Saline Solution/Clothing Stains
  11. Black holes, neutron stars and the Habitable zone?

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 13

  1. Holdridge life zones
  2. Most natural shape ?
  3. the last bathtub
  4. Are we important for this world!!?
  5. Three phase electric motor - braking motor speed using motor windings when current disconnected.
  6. Child rearing/ sleeping habbits
  7. Carbon sequestering
  8. Solar powered lifting wing Remote Controlled RC plane
  9. Tidally locked at geosynchronous orbit?
  10. Red AntHive Invasion
  11. Slutty bugs
  12. Thermos Mechanisms
  13. Fish Hooks
  14. Amazon parrots - which is the best breed to get?
  15. Jumping off a speeding train - the physics involved

July 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 14

  1. A wire from head to toe moving through earth's magnetic field
  2. Rafting ants... why?
  3. What's the name of this space telescope?
  4. Satellite dish
  5. Need details about heat-transfer for simplified weather-sim
  6. Levers
  7. Faster than light travel
  8. Alternative To Evolution
  9. Somethign that I couldnt find with a quick google.
  10. Ants
  11. 240 V 50/60 Hz
  12. Shape of raindrops - teardrop shape or spherical?
  13. Time Zones

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 15

  1. Harnessing rotational energy into stored energy
  2. Weight
  3. Legless Lizards
  4. Properties of mercury
  5. Current rate of extinction
  6. Otto Wilhelm Thomé
  7. HONEY
  8. Organic Adult Diapers
  9. industrial use of insecticides
  10. Molecular orbital formation
  11. Unusual bird behavior
  12. Need help with evaporation rate.

July 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 16

  1. psi for knockdown
  2. Why can the sky be blue or red, but not green?
  3. plant leaves turning bright red
  4. research for a sermon concerning flames
  5. Dead ants on the shore of Topsail Island
  6. Flank bell?
  7. electrical and electronics project
  8. Freshwater and the Himalayas
  9. Equilibrim data of CO2 in MEA solution (10%)
  10. Rheum
  11. 1800-1850 Medicine
  12. Popularity of home birth
  13. tungsten
  14. Texture of testicle

July 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 17

  1. Albatross
  2. How to apply heat-conduction formulas? (Hopefully my last Wx-sim question!)
  3. canebreak or timber rattlesnake / range to desert West Texas?
  4. oxygen enriched v. anti-oxidant
  5. Coconut Husks and Water Absoprtion
  6. Water Stain Removal on Standard Steel SUS430
  7. Cottage Grove seismic zone in Southern Illinois
  8. The Skimmer - how does it avoid injury whilst feeding?
  9. Kerala Fever and Blood Platelet count
  10. Is this real?
  11. shielding angle and protective margin
  12. gapless surge divertor
  13. Power Systems
  14. three questions in power systems
  15. gapless surge diverter
  16. Uncertainty in various fields
  17. Chemistry and Childbirth
  18. thermoconduction
  19. why is it
  20. So, just how does a gull's eyesight compare to that of your average human's?
  21. How do you control and eliminate the aquatic plant Wolffia (aka Watermeal/Mealweed)?

July 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 18

  1. Relationship between electron affinity and ionization energy levels
  2. Frequent Urination
  3. Waterdrops- Perfume spray
  4. Excess drinking of water!
  5. Number of Perpetual Motion Machine Patents?
  6. Kent Couch - Lawn Chair Balloons - did he really go up to 13,000+ feet?
  7. Arctic Fox
  8. night in the northern hemisphere
  9. Is it possible...
  10. Mould and Toxins
  11. greying eyes
  12. Remove Scratches in Leather
  13. Wholemeal v. wholegrain in the UK
  14. Harmone receptor question
  15. Parrot/Conure ID needed

July 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 19

  1. Save energy by texting instead of eMailing?!?
  2. Game without rules
  3. Re:Magnets
  4. project
  5. Causes of losing a wheel
  6. Reusing Nomenclature
  7. Need help with particle reactions
  8. Electronics: Can something that requires 100mA run off of 500mA?
  9. What is the difference between sociopath and psychopath?
  10. Relativity

July 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 20

  1. Tabby Markings in Lions
  2. Mechanical engineering
  3. Generator Problem
  4. Principle of the hand pump
  5. Are humans the most successful creatures on earth?
  6. Reflection
  7. Sharlel Mary Talo Palsy?
  8. an indelicate question
  9. Psychopathy vs suicide rate
  10. Pollination of sacred fig (peepul tree, bo tree)
  11. LASER RADAR (LIDAR) operated by police
  12. Hypothetically moving a mountain
  13. batteries constructed on chip same as transistors on ICs
  14. fates worse than nature

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 21

  1. Cough cough
  2. Economics Question
  3. Is this proof of seagull intelligence?
  4. Ice hardness
  5. Sky colour question
  6. feline table manners
  7. Barium
  8. centrifugal pump
  9. Mouth-movements of puppets or animations
  10. Honeysuckle species
  11. colour of compounds
  12. DNA and its being double-stranded
  13. ethanol production

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 22

  1. Aliens
  2. Herms
  3. 172" or 17.2" pipe @ 3,740 psi
  4. Common knowledge in 2007 that would be insanely valuable in 1807.
  5. Spider identification
  6. Tree rain
  7. Visible Insect With Large(st) Population
  8. Castor oil on eyelashes
  9. Binturongs

July 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 23

  1. Hereditary talent?
  2. Chickenpox
  3. Philaethria dido page and butterfly identification
  4. TECH CHALLENGE ! Need source for 12 v Non-Lead acid Battery of the golf cart size ? This for some reason is very hard to find?
  5. Moving Energy
  6. Double Pendulum
  7. Rolling Up Projection Screen
  8. Insulin
  9. Acoustic inertance of a long thin slit in a wall of negligible thickness
  10. Is Teflon safe to cook with?

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 24

  1. Diabetes
  2. Transsexual
  3. effect of acid on plant life!
  4. extraction of hydrogen from methane
  5. Do Electrons in an atom slow down in lower temperatures?
  6. Girls vs Boys
  7. Tusks
  8. Blood serum vs blood plasma
  9. RepHresh
  10. coal crisis
  11. Synonym of "potential"
  12. Whole wheat and multi-grain
  13. Question about E=mc^2
  14. Centre of mass of the universe
  15. Lightning/sand/glass
  16. Lithium ion battery

July 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 25

  1. Technetium
  2. Constant laws of physics?
  3. Climate Change
  4. Friction Ridges / Finger Prints
  5. which is more durable:metal or non metal?
  6. Diuretics and potassium
  7. Eating excess sugar?
  8. Air speed and PSI
  9. Name for a filtering problem formulation
  10. Medical Illness
  11. metal

July 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 26

  1. Lettuce in the dishwasher
  2. Identify this insect
  3. what percentage of bone is carbon?
  4. Charge buildup through friction with air
  5. Iron ore
  6. Exotic or Negative Mass to reduce net mass?
  7. automobile steering
  8. Tilting Immersion blenders
  9. Nano tubes synthesis
  10. Future of Key Boards
  11. Salmonella odds
  12. aids

July 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 27

  1. random number generation by the human mind
  2. Using the ground for a ground
  3. Individual Timeline
  4. Theory Of relativity
  5. Sea water
  6. Is there any way to stop my budgerigar 'pleasuring himself'?
  7. FTL
  8. primitive Weighing scale ?
  9. PINE TREE
  10. Solid bloodveins
  11. Creationism
  12. Who discovered lathosterol?
  13. Magnetic North/South
  14. Newton's Third Law of Motion
  15. dairy cow slaughter weight
  16. Blood glucose monitoring
  17. The Equator

July 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 28

  1. Force particles
  2. Brain Memory
  3. chicken skin
  4. does photon move in straight line ?
  5. Artificial lung
  6. Lightning
  7. ?????
  8. FM signals
  9. Animals eating their waste

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 29

  1. solar flares
  2. Paraphilias
  3. IS there something such milk allergy
  4. computer INTELLIGINCE how far ?
  5. "Shunning" in gulls?
  6. what happens when photon struck proton ?
  7. sunrise to solar noon?
  8. Disposal of medications
  9. Uterine Fibroids
  10. Zoloft pill life
  11. Salt and health
  12. Walnuts - idle thought whilst snacking...

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 30

  1. six-legged logging robot
  2. cfl lamps
  3. A Question
  4. Computer games causing migraines
  5. alkyl group
  6. Radio powered
  7. Global Warming?
  8. Plant defense
  9. Animal reproduction
  10. Paper

July 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 July 31

  1. Turning the Pampas into forest
  2. Thermo Wells
  3. How MUCH air moves with the wind?
  4. leather
  5. oral chelation
  6. Size of Euro Banknotes
  7. What is the difference between light and EM energies besides frequency?
  8. Vitamin Scare
  9. TECH CHALLENGE - The missing Ni-MH battery- Can you find one ? In america? of power to run a car?
  10. Does petroleum ether (or ligroin) evaporate fully?
  11. commercial uses of amino acids
  12. Aircraft speed through moving air (Title updated for clarity)
  13. Back Crack
  14. Brushing teeth before breakfast