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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 6
- Chemical smells
- Where does the vitamin D in polar regions come from?
- Oil near the Great Lakes
- entanglement Logic
- What percentage of human zygotes end up dying in the womb?
- Virtual work
- Is it safe to keep batteries in a tin can?
- Perchlorate ion electronic structure
- dripping under sink
- Fractional degrees of freedom
- Metro lines and building
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 13
- While I know that it's a myth that you can stop a moving car...
- Rusting after burning
- Autism
- 1 year.
- Why is CO not the anhydride of formic acid?
- Are there any traits (genetic traits) that are only inherited from one parent?(mom or dad)
- Greenland as three islands
- The Nature of Jupiter's Metallic Hydrogen Interior
- Stronger superacids than fluoroantimonic acid
- Steel laptop and electroshock
- Promiscuity and inbreeding
- Lead poisoning and weight gain
- thd
- How does myopia work?
- what is cally disease
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 14
- Why is KCN basic but not KNO3?
- Are the injuries sustained by Tony Stark at all possible?
- Weight loss question
- Thermodynamics of nuclear reactions
- Help identifying swallowtail
- Help Identifying another swallow tail
- Is it possible (however unlikely) for quantum fluctuations to violate conservation of energy?
- women
- Will Mira B explode?
- glass in soil
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- Non-ethanol effects of alcoholic beverages
- Ripping someone a new one
- List of Self Limiting diseases?
- red giant's maximum diameter
- An inquiry into the nature of solenoids
- Orbital Chainsaw
- Compatibility (mechanics)
- Whether I saw the moon.
- Controversy on Gravitational Singularities
- Beryllium barrier
- Irish Great whites
- Urgent Antihistamine Question
- Antihistamine and general drug dosage question
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 19
- Eye movement limit
- Clomethiazole
- Proton-Proton Chain Reaction
- Equilibrium in analytical mechanics
- Plastic cities
- Species identification
- Unidentified houseplant
- Geiger tube
- Do microwave ovens use less energy than stoves?
- Specific entropy
- Why isn't dinitrogen toxic?
- Dasyuromorphia and carnivores
- Problems with xenon tetroxide xenate formulas
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 20
- Locomotives
- Geiger tube continuation
- Domestic Heat Pump connections
- Hexahydrogen sulfide
- Ingredients of paint primer?
- Electricity of x cm³ of water at y m
- State of radon related to radioactivity?
- Ultra High power mechanical HVDC-breakers?
- Planetary Resources, Inc.
- electric car batteries
- Are these "proper" moobs?
- Wood as an electric conductor
- Asthma meds for otherwise healthy people
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- Rotating in space
- Gravitational time dilation at the centre of a large mass
- Physics: Aerodynamics of Pigeon Wing.
- "Whoa!" moments
- Fun examples of body parts that go on living
- F-22 Raptor's deadly toxic stealth goo
- Quick weather question
- do most mainstream water-resistant sunscreens have dangerous ingredients?
- Gravitational Blueshift Equation
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 27
- Driving speeds and fuel efficiency
- Why are there no albino horses?
- How often should sausages be turned on the BBQ?
- Never before seen color
- SleePology
- Light deflection by gravity
- Intestinal aganglionosis
- String theory
- Poynting vector about a charge moving at constant velocity.
- Why would being low on freon cause ice to build up around the AC unit's pipes inside?
- Sulfur nitrides and nitrogen oxides
- Catenane structural formula
- "Sharp diagnosis"
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 29
- Central Sleep Apnea theory contested
- Low frequency sound waves
- Refraction and entantiomers
- What evidence is there that DNA has a double helical structure in vivo?
- non-determinism and causality
- What is the nature of life
- How does the pressure-temperature diagram for refrigeration look like?
- Physics/Math Theory ... Flat Flexible Object ... Volume Mass Force
- Making Ammonium sulfate
- What kind of latch ?
- Color does not actually exists?
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