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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 1

  1. TEMPERATURE TIME GRAPH
  2. Synchronizing clocks.
  3. Wine drinkware
  4. Minimum protein etc. in a healthy diet
  5. Phosphate
  6. Who was the guy who did the first CO2 readings?

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 2

  1. Unknown squirrel species
  2. Improvised teleprompter - looking for one-way mirror in UK
  3. Planetary rings
  4. Carbon dioxide accumulation
  5. Juicy nose
  6. Electra hydraulics
  7. drive
  8. Tree color.
  9. Power lines compared to Overhead cables on train lines
  10. MBBS 100% free scholarships
  11. How are proton beams created?
  12. What would happen
  13. time on the cross
  14. Tougher than grass
  15. is it possible to get pregnant 6 days after (onset of) menstruation?
  16. PREGNANCY

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 3

  1. SINUS OF NOSE
  2. Baseball physics
  3. Psychological reaction
  4. RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
  5. Body aches and massage
  6. Cute animals with bad attitudes
  7. Electrical power into food in post-holocaust conditions?
  8. Recycling symbol?
  9. What is this lizard?
  10. Cheese Bacteria Manufacturers
  11. fridge
  12. Cinnamon causing depression?
  13. EJACULATION

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 4

  1. Request for id of Anole(?) seen in Guadeloupe, possibly an Anolis marmoratus (Leopard Anole)
  2. calories burned per hour of X activity
  3. Einstein postulate:
  4. Surgical training of doctors with a first professional degree in medicine
  5. Moon Tangential velocity
  6. Finasteride
  7. Physics definitions
  8. Egg heat
  9. Muskrat
  10. Speed of light frame of reference
  11. Happiness: A mental illness?
  12. Kidron

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 5

  1. HEADACE
  2. Electrochemistry
  3. Cat Behavior - combination of "playing the piano" and mate mounting?
  4. bioinformatics question
  5. longest wavelength of EM radiation
  6. Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
  7. Cracking a Chest
  8. Railroad Engineering

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 6

  1. Terraforming Venus
  2. seeing red
  3. What causes color?
  4. What's the nasty stuff in coal ash?
  5. 2012-- mayan civilization
  6. Early Earth
  7. Poles on a DC Motor
  8. Flaming globes of Sigmund - dreaming phenomenon
  9. Thymus vulgaris
  10. Another factoid for discussion...
  11. what am I doing wrong with this acid base problem? (sodium acetate solution
  12. do the effects of smoking ever go away? (smoking regular cigarettes like marlboros)
  13. ex=paratrooper with back problem been put on tramadol for 8 years.........
  14. Sodium bicarbonate
  15. Time and the Big Bang
  16. discrepancies in attempting to isolate enthalpies/entropies of dissociation
  17. Health hazards from living near a busy road
  18. calculating the %protonation of amine in an ammonium acetate like salt...

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 7

  1. Radio station reception
  2. acid rain/ fog
  3. Salt Level in water to corrode metal
  4. physics question
  5. Changes in cooking oil
  6. Renal agenesis
  7. Advanced search engine for sound
  8. germinating
  9. Experiment at Geneva
  10. Electric drill rating
  11. gravitation
  12. Organ donation
  13. Time Travel
  14. Photographs
  15. Titan arum
  16. Destruction of chlorate explosives
  17. population control

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 8

  1. Miners "surviving" by eating sawdust and bark
  2. Are there diets that cause a person to not defecate?
  3. Help with a physics question
  4. Is the ability of scopolamine to suspend free will an urban legend?
  5. Life project
  6. SUV fuel tank
  7. What is the technical name for the sensation that there is someone behind you?
  8. Honey-bee prefered row crops in the U. S.
  9. Gastroenteritis
  10. Armour vs railguns?
  11. Need help identifying a Prunus species
  12. shewees
  13. is the following experiment valid?
  14. Apples numbing the lips.
  15. Why do we need vitamin D?
  16. Sexual attraction to skeletons

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 9

  1. Use of imaging in cancer diagnosis
  2. Causality
  3. crash landing fatality rates - higher for helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft?
  4. Re-focusing photographs
  5. why are car wheels the size that they are?
  6. Making hybrid fruit trees
  7. Collision
  8. Physiological diplopia
  9. Coordinate system
  10. Adiabatic Expansion
  11. Chemistry question
  12. Can I drink dishawshing liquid?
  13. do bodybuilders get blind or have poor eyesight from overexertion?
  14. Enzyme for digesting pork?
  15. Baby teeth
  16. bride selection

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 10

  1. Flower unknown
  2. onion skin layers
  3. Food additives
  4. Paddle is moving and stationary at the same time: parallel universes????
  5. Brain simulations
  6. Chrome plating
  7. Atkins diet for small children
  8. Unknown Caterpillars
  9. Bird deads, causes unknown
  10. How power stations deliver electrical energy to my home
  11. nuclear waste
  12. Nuclear waste - reuse
  13. Wheat Berries
  14. Bus brand
  15. Question about Autism
  16. Uncertainty principle

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 11

  1. Torque due to gravity
  2. Quantum Entanglement
  3. What do these formulae mean?
  4. Owl species
  5. Is there a way to create a barrier to light rays that LOWERS THEIR FREQUENCY using light or energy?
  6. Filling a volcano with water
  7. Destroying the Earth
  8. Nitrogen/neon atmosphere
  9. Plants
  10. Stains
  11. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure
  12. internal balance
  13. Venus of Willendorf
  14. Miscellaneous Meteorology
  15. Swallowed by a whale
  16. Mystery Box
  17. Least common cause of death

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 12

  1. I know why the sky is blue...
  2. high altitude training chamber levels blood acidity
  3. Gold
  4. Organic crops and contamination
  5. Is there a term for that shimmery border you get where two vibrant colours meet?
  6. Biological pest control for Fruit fly
  7. three phase electric energy meter
  8. Cholestasis in humans and animals
  9. is it possible to "work off" cholesterol?
  10. Printing on aluminum cans
  11. Old television smoky exploding madness!
  12. "Neutron-activatable elements"?.. I'm inventing terms because I don't know English well.
  13. about generators
  14. Air ducts
  15. Using imaging software to determine the length of a section of coiled apparatus

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 13

  1. Problem about capacitors in series
  2. Wasp question (not about the insect)
  3. generalising the pI = pH formula for situations where the opposing weak acid and base are of different concentrations
  4. Voltage Divider and a Wheatstone Bridge
  5. Plants - pinching new growth? pinching? really?
  6. marine animals that have evolved from land animals.
  7. Primaeval woodland in the UK
  8. Gravity, friction and mass.
  9. Homosexuality and Pedophilia
  10. Making my own tubular steel shelving in needed dimensions

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 14

  1. Pressure
  2. Research influenced by funding source
  3. Metal in the microwave?
  4. IIT QUESTION
  5. Even harmonics in Electrical power lines
  6. Gravity, friction and mass II
  7. Memory
  8. about science
  9. how does the nitrate reduction test work in microbiology?
  10. Using earwax to test purity of water
  11. wielding
  12. decarboxylation and reduction of pyruvate
  13. "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds"
  14. Physics - Safer Car
  15. Flashing of white tail by alarmed animals
  16. Cryptorchidism in patients with 5-Alpha-Reductase Deficiency. [?]
  17. Cat and dog repeller
  18. Bear locomotion
  19. Mastering crystallography
  20. doctors dont wear gloves
  21. Fractals and the structure of the brain
  22. Birds riding thermals

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 15

  1. Caustic size variation with temperature
  2. ISS EVA Capabilities
  3. Car trick
  4. Wolverine vs Honey Badger
  5. now result
  6. What do these symptoms lead to?
  7. DNA Bases
  8. Electrolysis
  9. sodium carbonate

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 16

  1. The mass of something 1836 times smaller than you?
  2. Internet searches for non-linear notations
  3. Icelandic volcano and air travel.
  4. Black lights, wattage, and wave lengths
  5. Palatine uvula
  6. Do plants need to sleep?
  7. Refractive index less than one
  8. The Leaning Brown Building of the Spanish Steps
  9. brain activity and dreams
  10. Why can't plants move?
  11. Mind controlling gene function.
  12. Map of the world folded along the equator
  13. Let's split...
  14. football effecting brain
  15. Movie about the "representative town in sampling"
  16. Largest Recorded Solar Flare
  17. Escape velocity
  18. beer
  19. Help comprehending units of energy
  20. c and si

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 17

  1. Jets in front of wings
  2. Space elevator
  3. health/meth/sex/ed
  4. Communicating dates to future civilizations
  5. Head Hair
  6. Article needs help
  7. Dandelion-lettuce hybrid?
  8. Is there any realistic danger to Europe from Icelandic Volcanos?

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 18

  1. Vegetarianism and Diabetes
  2. Sunrise and sunset
  3. Concentration of urine
  4. enzyme activity
  5. Proposed emergency ash reducing: "Rapid glacier removal operation" off the top of volcano on Iceland.
  6. Asexual reproduction
  7. iodized salt
  8. Saltwater ecosystems
  9. Historical Alternatives to Ballistic Pendulums
  10. ocean currents
  11. bond formation of SiO
  12. single crystal chalk (kitchen chemistry woohoo!)

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 19

  1. Rain will clear the skies of ash, but can we artificially fill up the water by nuclear power?
  2. use for nuclear waste
  3. ISS framework overbuilt?
  4. sperm for Iceland
  5. being really happy
  6. Arterial injuries
  7. can combine theory
  8. Test for swelling in knee joint
  9. Air Conditioning
  10. Circadian rhythm abnormalities in non-humans?
  11. Greenwich meridian.
  12. How much ash to stop a car?
  13. Billiard ball and slipping
  14. help with the seasons
  15. Do royalty masturbate?
  16. Plants
  17. Volcano - worst case scenario
  18. Cockatoos and music

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 20

  1. ISI flight path during landing
  2. knee posture?
  3. word for a taxonomy guide
  4. meditation
  5. pain receptors of preys
  6. Evolution, intelligent design, and irreducible complexity.
  7. Is volcanic ash worse for aircraft than other dust and sand?
  8. Russian EMP weapon used in Smolensk?
  9. If my wife dies, how much time would I have to extract her eggs with which to produce children in-vitro?
  10. deleted youtube vids
  11. Silver nitrate
  12. eggs
  13. Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
  14. of the following, which informs the innate sense of rhythm
  15. Causes for human genitalia variation range?

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 21

  1. tongue map
  2. toba bottleneck
  3. cleaning up chemical spills
  4. Wrongly cleaned copper nickel coin resulting in light copper colored stains.
  5. Self-replicating molecules
  6. Sunset color on a different planet
  7. Volcanic ash vs other jet engines
  8. blood-vessel building
  9. Genotype and drug resistance
  10. is clozapine antiaromatic?
  11. Fish trachea
  12. Scientific Principle
  13. Muscle tingling after exercise?
  14. PDF
  15. Force of a magnet on metal
  16. Cast iron object unknown
  17. How would one calculate the total entropy of the sun?

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 22

  1. Dry ice engine
  2. Galactic feature
  3. electromagnetic wave - atom - electrons
  4. A dim Sparky?
  5. Abnormal daisy
  6. what do they do with the glass slides after a skin scraping test
  7. Orgasm
  8. Passive immunity in humans
  9. Eustachian Tube
  10. nicotine gum expiration
  11. Frequency of STDs in population
  12. Pumping seawater into the volcano crater
  13. Time machine
  14. One stuffy nasal passage suddenly clearing itself... what physical mechanisms are at play?
  15. ghosts

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 23

  1. Eyjafjallajökull: Tephra color
  2. Invertebrate stomach
  3. Milk protein denaturation
  4. Why exactly do pet parrots mimic (or attempt to learn, if you believe that) human speech?
  5. gravity-south pole
  6. 9 volt battery
  7. Global warming.
  8. Perpetual motion machine
  9. Antimatter bomb
  10. Penguins
  11. Exoplanet naming scheme
  12. III
  13. The basic assumptions of GR
  14. Empty balloons
  15. Number of mammals in the world
  16. Oil Depth
  17. GLYCOLYSIS video(s) in µm/Å-scale
  18. What's the point in some reflexes?
  19. Abdomen
  20. scuba
  21. muscle fuel

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 24

  1. Energy used in travel
  2. Why no plastic beer bottles?
  3. Catabolic breakdown of muscles
  4. Number of cells in a human body
  5. Katla
  6. Stratified Italian soda + cold cream => Salt fingers??
  7. First human

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 25

  1. relation between the expansion of orbits and of the universe
  2. Physics-Question regarding Vacuum
  3. power in watts used when sending a phone text message.
  4. What is suprastine
  5. Riding a bicycle - reducing energy used per mile
  6. What to do with left over cooking oil?
  7. homoaromaticity in dimedone?
  8. Volcanoes
  9. Is this correct?
  10. Small windmill for electricity
  11. Mass wrapping around a rod
  12. Detonations and the like

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 26

  1. Stingray question
  2. is there an exit valve? what about on the scuba fireman where? and on oxygen tanks in a ambulance or hospital?
  3. milk
  4. Source of pneumonia in bedridden elderly?
  5. Hubble's "visible spectrum" image of the Carina nebula
  6. Dibenzodiazepines follow-up
  7. Life expectancy of nuclear power plants.
  8. Ant for ID
  9. Mold
  10. CCs?
  11. Kepler mission field of view
  12. Chromoscope pictures of the galaxy
  13. Who turns the machine off from a terminally ill patient?
  14. Reactivity of Na or Ca
  15. Protein
  16. Soda Bottle Rocket

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 27

  1. Methanol poisoning
  2. Snowflake symmetry
  3. Mechanics of motion sensors
  4. microbes outside earth
  5. Sea blue - Sky blue
  6. Human-Animal perceptions
  7. Ambidextrous people
  8. What is this box?
  9. Light-straight line; but how many?
  10. penury
  11. Spiders
  12. Asystole and CSI: Miami
  13. Dropping a potato out of a plane
  14. Railguns on ships
  15. % of water when raining
  16. extreme human evolution

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 28

  1. Molecular Electronics
  2. Warm Sector
  3. Chemistry: Si face and re face
  4. Are cars and planes Faraday cages?
  5. EM colours
  6. Dream Recall
  7. Ambient construction
  8. Ions
  9. help me please (eating heroin rabbits)
  10. Naming of a species
  11. Mass to energy conversion
  12. Is it normal for men to have a noticeably reducing libido at the age of 50.
  13. Chromate formation
  14. Geology
  15. Ghost

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 29

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Cell
  3. Aliens
  4. God
  5. Black hole
  6. Wormhole
  7. Titration curve: help!
  8. conductivity of crumpled aluminum foil
  9. Reactivity series for anions
  10. dietary fiber supplements such as methycellulose and inulin. What is each of these, and what is the difference between the two?
  11. Eagles and their Wings
  12. Living and Non-living
  13. Gas and Gravity
  14. Alarm clock
  15. How to Identify nylon 6 from nylon 6,6?
  16. animal government
  17. Biological Classification
  18. Fact checking from Fight Club
  19. Superconductivity and gravity
  20. Edge of the Universe
  21. Healing of cut
  22. Dissolution of Metals
  23. Death
  24. Reduction of Iodate
  25. Why do birches grow in clumps

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 30

  1. Rust metal quickly.
  2. noble barrier
  3. Solar sail
  4. Spaceship propulsion
  5. chrome plating
  6. How to remember names?
  7. amines and hydroxide ions
  8. magnetic question
  9. Why the "niger" in Sciurus niger ?
  10. transformer
  11. Expansion of the universe
  12. increase the likelihood of having dreams
  13. Question about gun-type fission weapon
  14. the thermodynamics of an ideal air conditioner
  15. Gun with balloon
  16. Telescope
  17. Habeñero pepper safety