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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 1

1. Spacecraft Thermal Blankets
2. Photochromism
3. Cigarette Filters
4. Instant and Land cameras
5. Jasmine tea
6. Triangulation accuracy via GPS versus WiFi
7. Predicting and preventing seasickness
8. Fermented fish and meat

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 2

1. Difference in methanol and ethanol surface tension
2. Stellar gravitational collapse
3. Variation and productivity
4. mirrored room

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 3

1. Parabolic Bird Dives
2. Fear of cotton balls

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 4

1. Jet engine snow blowers VS traditional snow blowers
2. Sound waves in plasma.
3. "lake" "rain" "surface patterns"
4. Periodic table, just "because"?
5. Molecular gyrostats
6. Switchable current source
7. Can Ebola mix with other similar virusses?
8. Contrail length

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 5

1. Oil and condom breakage
2. Crude oil as medicine
3. Erections and Transitioning From Male to Female
4. Molecular thermodynamics
5. Kelvins per second
6. aromatic nitration
7. Dry density and dry unit weight
8. Is scrupulosity a culture-bound OCD disorder?

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 6

1. The Origin of Gunpowder.
2. Fea
3. solar eclipse viewing
4. evolution
5. Type of mutation in Fragile X syndrome

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 7

1. GPS time dilation question (I need an expert in physics or special relativity)
2. Last count of Uranus and Neptune's moons to be realistic
3. Aurora Borealis
4. Military History: Weapons That Changed Warfare
5. Mutton meat cooling
6. Battery power supply for DRL?
7. Is E85 a good deal ?
8. Workplace noise reduction

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 8

1. Maths in physical geography, geology and environmental science courses at college
2. Unapproved drugs
3. Cardiac cycle figure
4. Transparent Styrofoam ?
5. how do mobile phones know how much battery is left
6. Wrong structure in DiI
7. General medical question.

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 9

1. do fish ever sink?
2. Hückel theory
3. Infrared goggles and bullets
4. question about three studies
5. Phasor diagram
6. Bathyspheres and submersibles
7. How long do smoke chemicals stay in ex-smoke rooms?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 10

1. How does usa.com know precip, average humidity & wind, degree days, and snow for extremely obscure places?
2. Motion and frame of reference
3. Rubbing your hands will make them burst into flames
4. What is the smallest Big Bang possible?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 11

1. Why do rabbits always move their nose from down to up perennially?

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 12

1. Finite State Transducers
2. Binomial authority for Octopus tetricus?
3. Kite-powered ships and yachts

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 13

1. Surfactant chemistry
2. What is toilet paper and paper towel glue made from?
3. what is the slowest anything has dropped in freefall (unobstructed and unaided except by aerodynamics)
4. Uninstall Comet Arcade
5. Why do people say Ebola is as contagious as HIV?
6. Scientific reports
7. Inductor only psu smoothing circuit
8. Electrostatic Induction
9. Coral, Cucumber and Carnivorous Plants conundrum
10. how bad could ebola get in united states?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 14

1. Sweat transmission of disease
2. Allergy can be caused only by proteins?
3. Peeing in a toilet
4. Volcanism on the Moon! Consequences for colonization
5. Does China still have sparrows?
6. Soil compaction
7. What are scientific opinions as to which part of the brain experiences qualia?
8. Slow tire leak and tire pressure at speed vs sitting.

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 15

1. water hands arthritis now
2. Why do the nuts usually end up on the top of the muesli?
3. structural columns
4. [Reusing ground current]
5. ebola in animals
6. Woman having a penis
7. Smoke detector placement and orientation
8. Why is Germany's power-to-gas so far ahead of the English-speaking world's?
9. How to convert an arbitrary monochromatic light (its wavelenght) to a displayable trichromatic light (that is an sRGB screen)?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 16

1. Greased sword
2. How many molecules build the cell? (not types, but in general)

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 17

1. Giving blood to lose weight
2. Effect of oxygen percentage vs. partial pressure on flammability
3. Dialysis plus

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 18

1. How is ebola affected by fppp (fossilized phido plankton powder) or by natural chlorine from onions?
2. 12th century Arabic constellation

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 19

1. types of the cells
2. Why Do Sugary Foods Cause Instant Discomfort in Teeth with Cavities?
3. I need information about a cross -pollinated fruit named a "brugnon" .
4. Are small bodies (<C/2013 A1 size) less likely to be active comets than 1-3 km stuff? How does this vary with distance?
5. Is all so-called mental illness just anxiety?
6. "Offset bandages" ?
7. Why don't good bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?
8. Massive shooting star
9. Chemistry - Dual Supercritical CO2 extraction?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 20

1. How text book problems are conceived
2. World record for widest monocrystalline silicon crystal

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 21

1. Skeleton question
2. Natural immunity to Ebola
3. Mushroom identification

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 22

1. Black holes in the sky during the day
2. Effects of celestial bodies in close proximity
3. Velocities in Blue Origin Logo

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 23

1. Time versus space
2. Heroin Addict -vs- Varicose Vein
3. Dot on the sun
4. ClearVUE Television Antenna vs. the expensive ones on Radio Shack's website

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 24

1. Duckweed on ponds
2. Wind turbine on a car
3. Cotyledon function
4. Bird chirp sounds like water sloshing?

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 25

1. Ebola virus cure
2. Species ID
3. Invasive species *from* North America
4. How many asteroids with retrograde paths are there?
5. Making a chemical from only knowing the formula
6. Is the number of the cells like the number of the tissues?
7. May it be the tissue thick, or any tissue is thin?
8. what type oscillator is this
9. What is the different between Atom and element?
10. Is any winter prediction lore better than chance?

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 26

1. Ebola virus hardiness
2. Difference between diffusion of vapors and diffusion of gases

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 27

1. What is the diffrence between Teflon and Plastic"
2. Identification of a naval base structure
3. Light blend modes
4. which is re-usable for another mission: Rockets, Space-Craft or Space Flight?
5. Lymphogranulomatosis
6. Why do people do so little to fight volcanoes?
7. highest price of oil per barrel

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 28

1. Space blanket - contra indication
2. What is this a state?
3. state of matter
4. Converting 5V USB to 12V?
5. mixing medicine liquid with another liquid
6. What is the difference between syrup and elixir?

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 29

1. Ocean Water density and temperature
2. What is a good way to identify tablets?
3. facebook
4. Right prefrontal cortex function
5. The main property of the electrons
6. Given a battery and a device, how can you calculate how long the battery will last?
7. Does driving behind semi trucks increase gas mileage?
8. Macadam
9. Road sub base & Macadam base

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 30

1. Cygnus CRS Orb-3
2. Dose any ampule contain substances which shouldn't meet the air?
3. non-orientable matter
4. Sunrise or sunset ?
5. Why ionizate equation of weak base are written as single step.
6. Fea modelling
7. If you have a dynamo but what a specific output
8. What is the difference between stochastic model vs statistical model
9. How do 32 electrodes transmit a complex behavior?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 October 31

1. Leclanché cell and Vanadium redox battery
2. Smelloscope
3. Hyperventilating
4. Why do concrete bridges have slight arches at the bottom
5. Meteorite impact and electron degeneracy
6. PUJT vs DIAC
7. Insect overwintering
8. Bridge supports
9. Measurement query
10. Space Vacuum confusion
11. Warnings on prescription labels
12. Cell Phones on Cruise Ships
13. What is the reason of the putting dextrose into the 5W?
14. What is the purpose of the lactate in the Hartman's solution?
15. Chemical compounds