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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 1

1. Toluene, water and isopropanol miscibility
2. Proportion of predicted progeny for a test cross of ABC/abc involving linkage

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 2

1. Why did it take so long to invent the heavy plough?
2. Can anyone identify this caterpillar (Vietnam)

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 3

1. What are the odds of conceiving the exact same embryo in these two scenarios?
2. Inheritance of hair color
3. Does the MRI produce radiation?
4. bug ID
5. How far from Earth before the densest air stops being equatorial?
6. vision is by far the most used of the five senses?
7. What's the relation between fire and electricity?
8. File:Leech crawling.webm

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 5

1. When do fetuses/babies start feeling pain?
2. Ideal pattern for a camera trying to focus automatically
3. Stink but serious
4. Could a cell phone case actually make the device more fragile?
5. Angular Momentum of Electrons

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 6

1. KosherSwitch
2. d-orbital overlap in primitive metal lattice
3. Dead ants in my home

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 7

1. What will be the most correct definition for light?
2. Erie-builts in Russia?
3. Antarctic rescue
4. Questions of Our Expanding Universe
5. Dark Energy

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 9

1. Neutrinos interacting with each other?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 10

1. Could elephants be smarter than humans?
2. Potassium nitrate and nitrosamin formation
3. where is Fram Crater
4. Does the hypothetical compound XeH2 have a dipole moment?
5. Gallium and miscibility with other metals

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 12

1. Drinking human blood
2. Crystal methodist

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 13

1. Reproduction question
2. Negative differential resistance in fluorescent light bulbs?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 14

1. Nuclear shell model, alpha particles=nuclei within nuclei?

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 15

1. Diesel-electric rail emissions
2. Innate responses to tastes

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 16

1. corrosion on zinc platted MS parts when coming in contact with corrugated sheets
2. Are vector components vectors too?

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 17

1. Could/would some Olympic events break spacesuits?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 18

1. Particle Collisions That Never Leave A Bounded Area
2. When was the last time Crimea was an island?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 19

1. A(nta)rctic Circle
2. Landing a plane in high crosswinds and landing gear

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 20

1. Butterfly and flower ID

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 22

1. Question on Solvent Levelling

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 23

1. Movement of electric charges in an electrostatic field or potential

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 25

1. Chimpanzees talking

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 26

1. What snake am I?

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 October 30

1. Influenza vaccine
2. Access request to scientific databases to enable research into the productivity of photosynthesis in low CO2 contexts such as at the last glacial maximum..