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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 1

1. PC to PC communication using laser torch
2. wiggly line in molecule diagram
3. question about foreskin retraction
4. Does the Abyssinian Highland Zebu exist?
5. probablity of ejection in the photoelectric effect
6. about universe
7. No Drinking on Dialysis
8. What level of weight loss causes stretch marks?
9. Solar electrolysis

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 2

1. strange respirator
2. Can you survive without drinking fluids?
3. Suppositories - and the people who eat them
4. Turkey Turquoise
5. Restricted FTL Without Causality Violation?
6. Making a primitive bathtub
7. Local robot SETI
8. Energy in a mass of fluid
9. Please help me
10. Why isn't solid combustion a popular topic?
11. Genes coding for brain stuff
12. Salt water fuel

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 3

1. Succulent plant ID and advice please
2. Why fungi was differ of green plant?
3. ID Please (Cixiidae)
4. Does swimming make you lose muscle mass?
5. addmision

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 4

1. Pollination
2. Artificial Insemination for "Lonesome George"?
3. Higgs boson
4. apricots
5. Mixing old and new batteries
6. Independant existance of protons and neutrons in the nucleus
7. Quantum field theory
8. Higgs implications and hydrogen radii maximum (was: Hi! two completely unrelated questions)
9. Mosquitoes
10. Glue and Plant Tissue

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 5

1. Why do humans seem to prefer drinks at extremes of temperature?
2. evidence for evolution, as opposed to adaptation.
3. Heat Transfer
4. 2012 summer weather
5. Anal flu
6. Higgs field
7. Waste heat differential recycling in air conditioning
8. Kayaking and physics
9. LHC energy compared to mosquito
10. What sort of eye color is considered black?
11. Academic sources for nutrition

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 6

1. Angiosperms
2. I need to know
3. Extreme weather damage
4. Calcium-48
5. Detonator ?
6. Why do consumer electronics use DC?

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 7

1. Genetic variation between humans
2. Sweet Potatoe vs kumara
3. large hadron collider
4. Large Hadron Collider (Part 2)
5. Gas phase 3rd order reaction rates for various M
6. Law of cause and effect
7. stupid and speculative optical media question
8. Whitewashing coal

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 8

1. On Growth and Form
2. Electrides of elements with Z>173
3. Brain dead pregnant woman
4. about wireless electricity transmission
5. How to change the way the jet stream flows
6. How (in terms of physical motions and mechanics) does a slug foot walk?
7. When was this ice age?

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 9

1. EQUATION HELP;;;
2. Silicone dioxide in vitamins for hair
3. Why can't the extra dimensions of M-theory be temporal?
4. environmental science
5. Newton's atoms in my body
6. environmental science
7. the white whale
8. Terrell rotation matrix
9. Higgs boson
10. Habitatable zone at the tip of RGB
11. Product of animal menstruation?

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 10

1. What is an extended structure?
2. How do ants detect rain long before it arrives?
3. How can air conditioning units be measured in BTUs?
4. HIV transmission by insect
5. Evolution of the four fundamental forces
6. Infant eye glasses
7. What's the street value of testogel?
8. Domestic wiring
9. Why wasn't there fusion in the early evolution of the universe?
10. Electromotive force in an unclosed circuit
11. What causes a material to reflect light and why does light travel slower through matter than vacuum?
12. Mysterious behavior of high-speed projectiles

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 11

1. Dangerous Good Classification
2. Bell / clapper
3. Ant evolution question
4. Air Conditioning
5. Neutralize soap?
6. Why are commercial aircraft round?
7. Size of Earth's orbit last 2000 years
8. Airliner cabin air

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 12

1. derivation of the kintetic theory equation
2. Oughterlony immunodiffusion
3. looking for a chart
4. Lasers
5. Timeline for noticeable adverse effects from 100% recirculated commercial airline cabin air
6. Middle Eastern climate
7. why are IAU constellations biased towards the West?
8. Dark Energy as the Quantum Error Correcting Code of the Universe

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 13

1. Gravitational potential energy
2. term meaning
3. Testing for an Alzheimer's gene
4. Does gravity remove space?
5. MTT assay in vivo
6. mole as a fundamental SI unit
7. The usefulness of knowledge of Higgs Boson etc.
8. Deflecting photons with electricity or magnetism
9. Order of treatment in cancer

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 14

1. Cognitive biases and predictions of the end of Moore's Law
2. Can Cannabis grow in the Colorado high country?
3. Question about Big Bang theory.
4. Blood test after getting infected by HIV....
5. Do Sounds Played at the Same Time Add?
6. Black Holes and Dark Energy/Matter
7. Polyvinyl fluoride and PubChem name. A little confusion.
8. Genetic difference between Africans
9. Name for numbers in chemical notation?
10. Making graphite out of wood
11. Do algae like or even need darkness once in a while?
12. What color skin did the earliest humans have?

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 15

1. CIELAB color coordinates
2. Blood agents
3. Yet another Higgs question
4. Preserving body part for future genetic sequencing
5. Sticky robots
6. Lightning captured in nuclear explosion photograph
7. Name the Lamp - please!
8. Strength training
9. Alcohol absorbition from mouthwash
10. Is aging slowing as life expectancy increases?
11. Chimmney-like thing in boats
12. How long does it take for wind turbines to pay for themselves?
13. Hydrogen critique?
14. Science disciplines
15. Mathematical Formulation of the Standard Model

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 16

1. How long can you thrive/survive on water and calories?
2. Is it unhealthy to smoke tea?
3. Experience of submariners ascending from USS Tang?
4. hot and sneezy
5. Horticulture question
6. 3-pole magnetic field
7. Preserving sugar
8. Shock wave faster than the speed of sound?
9. A secondary question (on shock waves)
10. organic chemistry
11. Is there a "how long you've been asleep"/awake calculator?
12. Could they DNA test athletes and their pee so they don't try to cheat by giving other peoples' urine?

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 17

1. First law of Thermodynamics
2. Damselfly identification
3. Please check my maths
4. What flower is this? (Seen in Chihuly Garden)
5. Satellites
6. quaternary ammonium compounds
7. Is there a list of yeasts that infect Humans?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 18

1. were the apollo missions classified
2. Pluto / Charon satellites
3. Creationist time line refuted by Neandertal DNA
4. airlifting a diver to hospital
5. Circles, flares around sun in photography.
6. Camera on a timer in 1850?
7. Noise reduction
8. Meowing bird sound in western Montana
9. Radio comedy live audience
10. London Weather

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 19

1. Image artifact of purplish and greenish/yellowish stripes
2. To what extent are astronomical observations automated ?
3. Gluconeogenesis image review
4. Galactic wind-up problem
5. Li-ion current price per kWh
6. energy drink
7. Earth and Jupiter
8. Cell Signalling in Development
9. Equivalent Animal Processing Power of Modern Computers
10. Energy requirements for reverse osmosis
11. Neurodynamics of biomusicology
12. Medical Term

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 20

1. Do different languages have different IUPAC names?
2. Freezing a liquid evaporating a part of it
3. What would happen if a whale hit a deepwater petroleum pipe?
4. Thermoelectric materials
5. What components of cigarettes keep weight down ?

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 21

1. Is is possible to be a sociopath in a narrow area?
2. Effect of Electric or magnetic fields on crystallization
3. How is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCf29FPM4k this] (the Poincaré recurrence theorem) consistent with the second law of thermodynamics?
4. Homo Erectus (et al) Extinction?
5. Does this physicist literally want to go back in time to save his dad?
6. How is steam weighed?
7. missing sub-topic under either Buprenorphine or Substance Abuse on "Methods of detxiing off of Long Term Buprenophine Maintenance"
8. Micro-stuttering and perceived frame rate
9. Will-o'-the-wisp
10. Has the Altair spacecraft been cancelled?
11. Gold and non-gold pendants together?
12. Production of chemical fertilisers

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 22

1. Short-term memory fading
2. 3rd order gas phase reactions - pressure limit
3. Effective power of a satellite dish turned into a solar cooker
4. Water
5. Confusion on proportional sign
6. Why has this kid got fecal matter in his or her armpit?
7. Working of rockets
8. What do butterflies eat?
9. Objectum sexuality and orgasms without physical stimulation
10. heat wave
11. Added reference DOI not linking and same reference showing multiple times.

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 23

1. Can our scientific knowledge be understood any other way than it is?
2. Pseudo-freezer
3. Passive smoking locked
4. Will science come to an end?
5. Sulfonamide antibiotics
6. How does the seat push when a pilot ejects?
7. a puzzling biophysical relationship
8. SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHROMATOSUS
9. LHS and RHS differentiation
10. Value of second square
11. Body hairs
12. "Musical orgasm"
13. Why California Highway 57 south extension were never built
14. Determining gender of peachfaced lovebird using a pendulum?

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 24

1. volcanos
2. latex usage statistics
3. Ansul Fire Suppression Systems
4. Specific heat capacity
5. Is there a correlation between incidence of type 1 diabetes and vitiligo?
6. Blood filter
7. How many quantum fields are there?
8. Why don't constellations move?
9. Urban OS
10. Why can milk splatter so high?
11. Mallorca sea levels 1 m higher 81,000 years ago than today?
12. Carbon balance

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 25

1. Angle of Vega in Summer Triangle over time.
2. Transition hydrides
3. Synthesizing HeO using alpha decay
4. Cryonics and its Viability
5. Melted cheese
6. H1 antagonist and sleepiness
7. Hell's Kitchen taste taste
8. hunter education program
9. How does curvature correlate to velocity in a random walk (Brownian motion) ?
10. Converting a density into Daltons/A^2
11. On Superman breaking and entering
12. Location of Big Bang
13. Camel humps and dehydration
14. Sexual peak
15. Efficiency of Solar Water Heaters

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 26

1. Entropy decrease in disorder
2. Who is the Oldest Living African-American Man Right Now?
3. Were Any Verified Male Supercentenarians Jewish?
4. cell
5. Hyperdimensional Three-Jet Events
6. Superbig Bang Theory ?
7. Another question
8. Why has Pluto a different orbit?
9. Is shooting star is faster than a comet?
10. using dialysis in cooking
11. hunting in county parks
12. Foul smell from mouth

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 27

1. Synthesis of ZnS
2. Sun
3. Follow up. Can our scientific knowledge be understood any other way than it is? 2
4. Spider identification needed
5. Latent heat
6. Calculate properties of chemical compounds given the properties of chemical elements
7. Rectifier
8. Camel urination and defecation
9. Densest substance at standard conditions?

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 28

1. Cloning
2. Psychology and historical context
3. Most important genes of life
4. Wireless energy
5. What would it be like to walk on Gliese 581g?
6. Physics of mace (club)-like weapons
7. Levelling

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 29

1. Need a flat metal surface for heat sinking - suggest melting aluminium or solder?
2. Does atrioventricular block benefit the heart of athletes?
3. Origin of HIV/AIDS
4. Argon fluorohydride
5. Radon
6. Locking car doors to prevent being thrown out
7. Kinky tails on asian cats
8. my daughter has apha thalassemia
9. Collimated electromagnetic field
10. de-colorized iodine
11. What is exceptional about the human body ?
12. Melted cheese, part 2

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 30

1. Explain how ducks & chickens stay alive without their heads.
2. Names of a couple of extremely hazardous chemicals
3. Sustainable athletics
4. Rough food
5. Energy density of springs and the like
6. Human interaction
7. 7 billion pieces of paper
8. Foraging worker ant behavior

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 July 31

1. Very specific spider question
2. What Do Women and Gay Men Find Attractive in Men?
3. Does Occam's Razor Make the Existence of Gods Unlikely?
4. Why would the heat shield fly forward and not go back into the parachute?
5. How much space and time is required to compute a simple weather model?
6. Should I trust these kinds of websites?