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October 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 1

  1. CO2 fire extinguisher vs. burning office cubicle
  2. Mars in 2024

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 2

  1. Earaches
  2. Applying coloured print to silicone?
  3. Article on pubmed
  4. Get h without h20

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 3

  1. More firefighting Q's...
  2. Efficiency of jet engine
  3. How does the Portuguese man o' war eat
  4. Complex roots by numerical methods
  5. Refilling Glycogen Stores
  6. Anti-biotics questions.
  7. Big science equipment - rolled on wooden trunks?
  8. Atmosphere and gravity

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 4

  1. Website showing heavens appearance at a given date
  2. Muscle and liver glycogen, which refills first?

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 5

  1. What is this thing?
  2. Slide-fire adapter

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 6

  1. Can electron quantum tunnel out of a black hole?
  2. Limit of temperature generated by electricity
  3. Global warming
  4. Is there a wikipedia article debunking the "Never Adjust for Curvature of Earth" claim of Flat Earth?
  5. Name of 'Bill Gates just walked in the room effect'
  6. Skin moisturizer as universal solvent ?
  7. Conductive fingernail decoration strip?
  8. Salmon
  9. Those human-looking robots

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 7

  1. Are pumice stones a rational response to a callus?
  2. Electric powering a vehicle through induction
  3. "Chemtrails"
  4. Why not re-attach the kidney?

October 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 8

  1. FLAT EARTHER speaks the truth
  2. The equations of dynamical systems in our physical theories
  3. Nose blindness
  4. Toothache becoming pulmonary problems

October 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 9

  1. How much effect do humans have on tides, wind, Earth's rotation and the Moon's position?
  2. Conservation of energy
  3. How exactly are populations calculated by the minutiae?
  4. Immunity against viruses by changing the way DNA sequences code to proteins and changing the DNA code so that the same proteins are produced?

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 10

  1. Largest Snake
  2. Battery

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 11

  1. Cosmic-ray-based random-number generation?
  2. Reconstructing TV

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 12

  1. Detecting a primitive alien civilization
  2. Understanding physics formula intuitively
  3. Vertebral column in the center
  4. Evolution
  5. Protein

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 13

  1. instead of alpha decay or beta decay, why doesn't there also exist decays by a proton and a neutrino, or by a neutron and a neutrino happen?
  2. What's the highest sulfur fossil fuel ever made?

October 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 14

  1. Schroedinger's mathematician
  2. colds and endogenous opiates

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 15

  1. Confirmation of Special relativity

October 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 16

  1. Holographic interactions

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 17

  1. Kilonova and superheavy elements
  2. Moving from warfarin to heparin + surgery
  3. Clean air in the UK
  4. Voltage drop
  5. Flu vaccine and disease prevention (US vs. Europe)
  6. How many grams of food caused each gram of blattella germanica in a someone's home?

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 18

  1. How (un)likely are these science fiction inventions to ever exist in this universe?
  2. Elliptical Orbit of planets
  3. Pitch-drop experiment and scientific method
  4. Is cosmic deflation possible, etc
  5. Infrastructure civil engineering

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 19

  1. Science and translating ideas into English
  2. Does the human body store salt?
  3. Fatty-acid metabolism disorder
  4. Unidentified bird
  5. Immune System

October 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 20

  1. What is a "nucleated brain"?
  2. Death toll due to anti-vaccin movement

October 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 21

  1. Ternary ideal mixture obtained from non-ideal binaries

October 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 22

  1. How does a battery powered pendulum work?
  2. Suitable conduit for conveyance of steam from kettle

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 23

  1. Do old farts dream of flying insects?
  2. "Fun science" for kids using a laser pointer
  3. Reason for large difference in pyrethrin solubility due to a methyl group
  4. Gull intelligence

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 24

  1. Source of elements
  2. Closed Room and extinguishing fire with halon

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 25

  1. Is it possible to see Philadelphia from New York City?
  2. Question about gravity assists and space probes
  3. Hellenistic astrology
  4. Vertebrate intelligence

October 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 26

  1. Lead leaching out of metal
  2. Mass to the Moon
  3. Hydraulic motors

October 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 27

  1. Zero living diet

October 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 28

  1. How many N-receptors are there (2 or 3?)
  2. Physical exertion causing rheumatism
  3. Time for Wow signal to reach Earth

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 29

  1. E-Z notation: why not just use "cis" and "trans" as infixes?
  2. J. E. Hogarth

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 30

  1. Locomotive efficiency
  2. Zero Living Diet Pt2
  3. Moist sodium chloride density data
  4. What's the average or median tidal range of the coast of the World Ocean?
  5. Finding Voyager 1 goes dark

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 October 31

  1. Math used in doctoral-level natural sciences
  2. Molecular Summary Table
  3. IEC standards list
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