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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

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 12

1. Alcohol effects
2. Cutting vinyl discs
3. time dilations at high g
4. How would the [lub dub] of the human heart be represented musically?
5. dot and cross product
6. beams that reflect from bones
7. ?
8. Gay twin
9. Fear suppressing drugs?
10. Graduate degree titles
11. beta sheets
12. LED flickering question.
13. H2O2
14. What is the name of this plant?
15. Is it abstract or not?

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 13

1. Robotic Arms
2. Runaway Global Warming
3. Human birth defects???
4. fixed point calculation by utilisation of non stressed axial expansion joints
5. gdfghdrg
6. Raising metabolism
7. What is the chemical composition of a typical computer?
8. infrared
9. ee assay
10. becoming an alcoholic without alcohol.
11. Resonant frequencies
12. reduction of multiple state logical equations

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 14

1. Maximum limit of kinetic energy?
2. Redox reactions
3. Cyanide Vs. CO
4. microscopy
5. Effects of long term usage of asthma medication
6. Transport Phenomena
7. Spectroscopy of elements
8. CLASSIFICATION
9. Absolute zero
10. question on Sexually transmitted disease--why aren't there more of them?
11. Mitochondrial genome size
12. species

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 15

1. race
2. Breast hormones
3. Kinetic energy, part 2
4. Possibly to make a hybrid/tribrid car that captures wind energy?
5. what is the LD50 of...
6. pulse and bleeding
7. Possible to make a Freeze Gun?
8. Hydrogen Alpha Images of the Sun
9. Galactic Angling
10. Radio Transmissions
11. Growing a mushroom on the skin
12. The moon and stars
13. Pulling wire and the 4th dimension

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 16

1. Why lengthwise instead of widthwise
2. Body mass index
3. Is homosexuality a STD
4. photon momentum and mirror .
5. How non-charged particles are accelerated in particle accelerator .
6. An analogy for the fuel cell?
7. Beta decay .
8. TV animals
9. Declining caffein
10. Hydrogen sulfide oxidizing enzyme
11. kinetic energy of ideal monatomic gas
12. Effect of human population growth on global warming
13. What are super metals?
14. gas ideal - entropy
15. require information on CoMFA (Comparative Molecular Field Analysis)
16. two bodies - different temperatures
17. 24 hr urine - checking that we got a full sample
18. Tongue
19. Lack of oxygen and sleepiness
20. LASIK
21. medicine online
22. How to minimise my exposure to halogens in my food and water?
23. Radio Transmissions and Camera Transmissions
24. Hornworms

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 17

1. silver + potassium nitrate
2. Light for plants
3. coloring your eyes
4. Gulls and Botulinum toxin...
5. carbon resistor
6. The strongest material?
7. Five-Point-Palm Exploding Heart Technique
8. Use of human excrement as manure in farming
9. Activation energy
10. Mobile phone on the moon
11. Sacrificing mice
12. Heat-deactivated FCS and deliberate hypotonic lysis
13. Why Two LEDs in a remote control.
14. double hearing
15. Insect identification
16. An Interesting Event with a Credit Card
17. Steam Freezing?
18. Virtual Photon
19. Carbon-oxygen backbone polymer

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 18

1. sharks
2. Kinetic Energy in the Universe
3. Most Popular Health Topics
4. Medicine = poison?
5. Harnessing biomath
6. Cotton buds/Q-tips
7. Bray-Curtis
8. Hairsplitting
9. Possible to use CGI instead of night vision?
10. Having trouble understanding how Solar Cells work
11. PKC
12. When to use the terms proper motion and Improper motion
13. Ideal gas law example
14. rubber bands
15. Leaky coax antenna?
16. Head polish?
17. Electromechnical elevator/lift control equipment

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 19

1. Sand
2. Reflectivity
3. Bass speakers
4. Is there a unit of energy called "Dq"?
5. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 October 19#|]]
6. Washing hair
7. Biology
8. heart attack!
9. Lights at night appearing 'blurred'
10. Godels constitution loophole
11. rubber band paper airplane
12. How can I tell the difference between male and female seagulls just by looking?
13. earth science
14. Understanding singularities
15. Energy, inertia, or force required to cause injury
16. wind speeds
17. I have a Steam Engine Powered Automobile circa 1880's
18. Is matter infinitely divisible?
19. Earth From Space at Night (earth lights?)
20. Ice cream
21. Toilet light switch
22. Sailing stones
23. Why does silver tarnishes upon exposure to ozone, hydrogen and sulphide or air containing sulphur?
24. math
25. veterinary
26. math
27. Fingers on chalkboard...
28. Nobel laureate biologist James Watson
29. scince
30. math
31. Probability
32. nazrul