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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 1

1. Lightning as source of electricity
2. Hall of mirrors
3. Penis question
4. Iridescence
5. What are the isomers for C7H16 (isomeric heptanes)?
6. "God initiated the Big Bang and then burned and died in the flames of his own creation..."
7. Mix dogs
8. Is this a new question?
9. Locust flying speed

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 2

1. Weighty of charge
2. Another tick question I just thought of...
3. Does water expand when heated?
4. Atoms
5. Foucault Pendulum Animation
6. Dimensions in a World
7. To Sweep Mercury
8. calcium phosphate
9. Propidium iodide stains only necrotic cells?
10. patents::??
11. Carbonated Water
12. Michoud Fault article
13. Fungus fungus
14. Do "voices in one's head" ever engage one in normal "small talk"

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 3

1. First missile guidance system
2. joints in the human body
3. Household electroplating
4. Hominin evolution
5. Building 140 decibel or higher system at 25KHZ (ultrasonic)
6. Reaction to frankincense?
7. Couple of Questions on Acids
8. Balancing equations
9. Electron arrangement
10. HCl vapor from Na2CO3 + H2SO4?!
11. Marfan Syndrome
12. Possible to create an aircraft supported by magnetic levitation alone?
13. Human Spine
14. Quantum physics (I think). Confused. Deuterium is a wave?
15. Confirm vs define
16. speed
17. Toe Nail
18. Tattoos, Moles and Fat
19. Doppler Effect
20. normal variation sample #

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 4

1. How come cigarrettes don't have nutrition facts?
2. Lungs vs stomach
3. When do pipes freeze?
4. Is it liquid mercury?
5. Ice cubes and the family jewels
6. Unplugging electronic devices
7. Identifying an insect
8. Peri-synaptic
9. about optical microscope
10. Jack plug
11. Definition of a Human
12. Moon Rise and Set
13. Thirst for knowledge and the human condition

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 5

1. Level of fossilization in T.Rex Tissue?
2. Macaroni and cheese mystery
3. digestive tract
4. Klebsiella Infection
5. What kind of lock / key combination is this?
6. aids
7. unlitateral carotid ligation
8. Petroleum jelly
9. Modulation techniques book
10. Preferential Solubility?
11. Scarlet Macaw
12. Glucose in benedict's solution

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 6

1. Self sufficient communities
2. Spider ID
3. Killing with sound
4. microbiological test
5. Spinal cord, ventral and dorsal tracts
6. Physics???
7. RE: helium
8. Harvard Chart Method
9. beams that reflect from bones
10. Lethal acceleration/jerk
11. Schizophrenia vs. multiple personality disorder
12. Finding acid disassociation constants
13. positron
14. psychology

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 7

1. exceed the speed of light
2. Brain damage in new borns
3. Science - Movement Receptors
4. Mosquito bites
5. Through the woodchipper
6. Cerebellum and neural pathways
7. chemicals
8. Common wildflower ID
9. Speeds of Jaguars
10. important people in biological sciences
11. Personality Disorders
12. Excess of Speed of Light

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 8

1. muscular development
2. silicon life forms
3. Friction in Trains
4. materials&metallurgy
5. Human Horns
6. Oxidant, oxidising agent, oxidation...
7. How was precession of the Earth's axis explained in Geocentric models of the solar system?
8. Geology of the Balearics (Mallorca)
9. Atomic Composition of Animals
10. Mushrooms
11. Locations of virtual image charges versus optical images
12. Dialysis bag permeable to sucrose?
13. Wormhole creation
14. Tetrachromatic, ultraviolet, etc

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 9

1. Banned airlines
2. The winter plumage of large gulls...
3. Degradation of Ubiquitin
4. mass of phosphorus
5. Peroxide blocking
6. Comet ETA
7. Influenza vs Common Cold
8. Difference between seagulls with white and dark heads
9. Hydrogen fuel

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 10

1. 9th cartilage of the larynx
2. Are we Monkeys?
3. Source of fruit flies
4. need info on milk
5. Identify this spider
6. Are electrons gaining weight?
7. solanine poison
8. bovine serum albumin blocking
9. Neutrons and protons in the nucleus
10. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 10#British fetus<.2Fs> embryo standards|British fetus embryo standards]]
11. What would a nuke do to a Tornado?
12. What does blood color mean
13. what is water phase?
14. White Tailed Eagle
15. Image of Sun going around the earth
16. 2N in 2N HCl

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 11

1. Do you think that this is real?
2. Schoolgulls
3. Connecting two tanks automatic siphon?
4. charged particle and electromagnetic radiation .
5. Source of water to create homeopathic remedies
6. How do “selfish gene” principles account for biased demographic effects?
7. Silver nitrate staining
8. Controlling earthquakes by setting them off
9. Tapping the world's rotational energy
10. Effects of concrete under high temperature
11. black contact lenses
12. Crystallization and entropy
13. Can one have echolalia with thoughts? Or is that called something else?
14. Caudate nucleus left/right asymmetry
15. Photoconductive cells
16. Expansion of Universe and expansion of expansion measurement device
17. ISEL vs TUNEL
18. taser
19. Are basic anhydrides basic according to Arrhenius's definition?
20. geogaphy