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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 1

1. The evolutionary value of doing calculus?
2. Donna Nook
3. Basic Burn Question
4. Diff. b/w university and college
5. ADHESIVES
6. Communication equipment
7. Overlapping of orbitals
8. Starching a Battledress?
9. Make Your Own Starch
10. Hub Gears
11. Homework Questions
12. Black hole A partial balck body
13. Chronic wounds and maggot therapy
14. Elephants and such
15. How to invest in different stock exchanges?
16. Corn earlage
17. Solubility vs. Temperature Curves for Glycine-Sodium Sulfate Solutions
18. Why gender body size difference in humans?
19. Cashew

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 2

1. MRI Questions
2. Speed of the Space Shuttle
3. What is the difference between electrostatic and electromagnetic levitation and another question
4. U.V- Effect
5. Unknown scientist
6. erosion prediction
7. MRI accident on House
8. EM sound???
9. light speed
10. Quanta UNIVERSE
11. Electron
12. CD-DVD burn
13. Pneumatic brakes
14. catastrophe and the internet
15. how do we know if its been tried?
16. Consumption
17. sexual thought freqency
18. Geologic time scale terminology: Paleo- vs Eo-
19. Megawatt_hour
20. Invisibility
21. Possible to reduce ozone levels indoors?
22. unit question about article : List of countries by electricity consumption
23. Snakes
24. Alcohol Gel and Salt
25. Molecular orbitals and symmetry
26. Brushing your teeth
27. Valium + Alcohol = ?
28. What mushroom is this?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 3

1. Human-raised birds
2. It's really hot in here...
3. Using munitions to disrupt hurricanes
4. Gasoline
5. Scientific question
6. List of countries by electricity consumption - part 2
7. Bubbles
8. Bike Brakes At The Hub
9. Other non-omnipresent animals like hedgehog
10. What kind of Praying mantis is this?
11. Logo or symbol or abbreviation for engineers
12. Hepatitus c and Vitiligo
13. cat with neurological problem - stroke?
14. Ref Desk Archive Problem
15. Physical basis of the Mendelian ratios?
16. Bromine and its effect on swimsuits....
17. hormones
18. gastro-enteritis

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 4

1. question to Doctors.regarding my strainge chest pain.
2. car cell phone charger
3. Hearing pianos over the phone
4. exhausting a portable air conditioner through the chimney flue
5. Meteorite
6. Bullet
7. Energy consumption per country
8. Birds in Slovenia
9. HD-DVD or Blu-Ray
10. priming fuel pumps
11. Rabbit Internal Organs
12. lichen damage to trees
13. Oldest surviving sound recordings
14. about macbook (screen size 13.3 inches)
15. Freaky Plant Situation
16. Reproductivity of results

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 5

1. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
2. Tails of shrimp, stems of peperoncini, and peels of oranges and banannas
3. i ned an urgent info
4. Windows Vista
5. possible infant diarrhea epidemic in Detroit's Harper Hospital in 1943
6. Chromatography
7. atomic physcis
8. Three times the same optical phenomenon?
9. The other side of the Big Bank
10. Photorespiration in wild soybeans
11. Kinetics of Oxalate/Permanganate
12. electromagnetic fields and radiation pressure
13. Vinegar reacts with hairspray to form a solid
14. Intercalating agents and you
15. how a snowboarder turns around while on the air

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 6

1. metals and armor
2. Electrical
3. trying to identify a mineral/rock
4. trying to identify a mineral/rock 2
5. Hair fall problem
6. visual basic
7. Unchangeable Body Weight
8. Tissue energy demands
9. Bio-0 electricity volume and question
10. History of Household Appliances
11. dual core processor
12. Hep C and organic sulfur
13. the white living things on lobsters
14. Death by Dreaming
15. evolution of white skin
16. evolution of snoring
17. Porosity vs. Heat Capacity
18. Persykology
19. natural hydrogyn production

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 7

1. Megawatt Battery
2. Septic System
3. hang-drying clothes indoors with A/C
4. Hot mirrors
5. Plane on conveyer
6. float glass
7. Photons
8. Black holes
9. large low density rock?
10. Two Cars in a Head-On Collision
11. biology
12. Microwaves Lose Power After 15 Minutes Use?
13. Pocket PC emulator
14. A warm sun
15. nursing
16. GPS precision
17. Scientist famous for numbering all correspondence and papers
18. Death of fruits and vegetables

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 8

1. Cortisone
2. Solar Dynamo soon?
3. Calculating speed from gravity.
   1. My guess
   2. Accurate value
   3. Pi
4. Pain Threshold
5. Nanotechnology - Nano Coatings and ultra thin films - Market trends
6. Multiple time dimensions
7. Chiropractor titles
8. Cost/Price of an EMD SD40-2 Locomotive in 1972
9. Moths and 100% Nylon
10. uk Frogs
11. Incidence of Down's Syndrome decreasing?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 9

1. Lithium ion batteries
2. Sexual power
3. Disaster forecasting
4. camera
5. Ships Floating
6. raw bacon
7. Flammable
8. What is dam3?
9. Molten-carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs)
10. Swallows, Magpies, and Trains, oh my o:

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 10

1. Spectrum of the elements
2. ants/anatomy
3. ANSI Standard
4. Marshmallow experiment
5. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
6. Waterlilies and scum
7. 8th grade school project on Energy
8. Canon S2 camera behavior
9. What is this old "fat removal / body toning" device called?
10. Care of guitar loudspeaker cabs
11. Strange lump
12. Ants !!
13. organic chemist
14. Nitrocellulose underwear
15. Cancer pain
16. Strange lump Mk2

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 11

1. How to produce TiCL4 in industry
2. IMAGE TRANSFER CONSTANT.
3. Passengers boarding bridges.
4. solution of liquids inside vessels
5. Potency of liquid explosives
6. Strength of HCL
7. Thermodynamics
8. Soda Water
9. Purified water
10. British bombing plot explosives ingredients
11. Speed of Smell
12. Speakers
13. Monogamy
14. The Strange Case of Diabetes, Genetics, and the MP
15. Camera Zoom
16. Smoking and lung cancer

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 12

1. Glow sticks, who invented them
2. Chemistry term
3. Color in Complete Darkness
4. central dogma
5. Another crypsis question
6. minto engine
7. Drugs producing synaesthesia
8. Insecticides --- as Preservatives
9. Vicodin HP Tabs vs. Lorcet 10/650
10. Saving Private Ryan - white powder stuff stops bleeding

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 13

1. Headphones
2. Bigger and blacker is better
3. Libido
4. gender and fetal development
5. can this happen
6. 4G networking and application
7. Animals with weird names
8. the doctors round mirrors
9. Physics
10. How many atoms are there in a cell?
11. Spaced out link
12. Caffeine in breast milk
13. Scientific Journal Access Through Wikipedia?
14. Diesel
15. Common name for Gordionus violaceus
16. kineto baric force and biefeld brown question
17. Why wet things are dark
18. Questions about "self surgery".
19. How to relax my over-exercised muscles without drinking alcohol?

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 14

1. casimir effect scale up
2. Birthday
3. Insect identification
4. non-chlorine bleach
5. Reasons for car batteries going flat?
6. Chronic cough
7. Formula for calculating the Heating Load in KW of Convectional oven
8. Biggest cells, and hen's eggs?
9. Electrical Engineering
10. Why the male Warbler builds unused nests?
11. This piece of 'equipment'?
12. gold - precious metal
13. Human Decomposition
14. The 'save' button is teasing me
15. If mountains have effect on earth Consistency and stabilizing?
16. Instrument
17. artificial insemination
18. Maximum velocity of a sailing ship
19. Sodium azide interferes with SDS-PAGE?
20. Formatting an External Harddrive
21. P = I*V
22. G2B2... what does it mean?
23. broken neon
24. Mammals and body temperature
25. Mushroom clouds

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 15

1. the direction of the Earth's orbit
2. Warm vs cold blooded
3. Brain in computer
4. electric shock abdominator
5. How do plants defend themselves from microbes?
6. Gravity
7. Particle Swarm Optimization Literature Overview
8. microbiology
9. what is PRBS
10. Leuconostoc and Weissella
11. Do insects have brains?
12. New Pollen?
13. Treatment of Erythrasma skin rash
14. defense
15. What is the difference between group velocity and phase velocity?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 16

1. "Black threads" in tilapia (edible fish) ?
2. Safety Glasses
3. Bananas inducing gag reflex
4. Numerical study of rotational effects for rotors
5. Time course of evolution
6. how to check qulaity of cyanoacrylate or super glue
7. living rocks
8. EMP's affect on a crystal radio
9. Cellphones......and the jammers there of
10. Ring tones
11. Hair bleaching question

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 17

1. Where is the center of earth's land?
2. Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit....
3. Science fiction: stellar explosions and disc formation.
4. Doner kebabs
5. why does water boil at low pressure?
6. poltergiests are in my water!
7. biochemistry
8. FOOD SCIENCE
9. Underwater Communication
10. bikini atoll
11. Limiting magnitude
12. Electrical generator
13. Color of Blood Question
14. Second Color of Blood Question
15. Article Request: Hemocromotosis
16. Engine braking
17. shortwave transmitter
18. When is a bird 'born'?
19. Phelp's Box
20. EMP

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 18

1. six degrees of separation
2. Virtual Particle
3. Process Instrumentation and Analyzer maintenance
4. negative energy and paul davies
5. DVD ram camcorder video movie creation problem
6. Rubix cube
7. time travel
8. Standard error
9. bioluminescent pigs
10. question on evolution
11. Gold and Silver
12. Nystagmus upon waking
13. Changing DNA on the fly
14. Eyes rolling to the back of the head
15. Do it your self X-ray

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 19

1. bee B-gone
2. Sheep and goat breeding
3. Sea water turned Sweet
4. No glare using UV
5. Where did the brain of the zygote/fetus come from?
6. Symbols on electrical appliances
7. Which Glue in a Microwave-Convection Oven?
8. Airplane's low oxygen
9. Complete replacement of cells
10. Time measurement
11. vacuum propulsion
12. Dreams what do they mean?

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 20

1. What happens if the sun stops shining?
2. Any practical method for calibrating a bathroom scale?
3. a wierd question!!
4. dispersal of seeds
5. Elbow injury
6. Breaking down of a polysaccharide
7. LpH disinfectant
8. corroding aluminum
9. aromatic plants-distillation
10. bowel movements
11. tempometer
12. male/female speaking rates
13. Butterfly's life from the begginng to the last stage
14. skull fracture

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 21

1. Photosynthesis limit
2. working with dams for dummies (and choosing to build them in the first place!)
3. Stopping my chickens fighting?
4. Physics (waves)
5. Exercise/Immune system
6. Spinning wheels
7. Do lightning strikes on water kill fish ?
8. Relative Humidity
9. Identify a spider
10. Information about, or proper name of, circular magnetic keys as used on tills and (less commonly) shared doors.
11. Hairs standing up when frightened: evolution
12. Attaching multiple speakers to my amplifier
13. Headlights changing colour
14. WIKI "Methane Gas" article is DANGEROUSLY UN-Scientific & MISLEADING
15. Night sky
16. Itraconazole
17. Memory Loss in Mental Illness
18. Valentin Glushko's mystery killer rockets
19. Hermaphrodite
20. Sunbeds
21. Crotch sensation - strange question a
22. Crotch sensation - strange question b
23. Scale up a herring gull to the same height as a human...
24. Quality of WP:RD/S Decreasing?
25. Zoology
26. Baygulls, seagull bagels, and bagels

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 22

1. Scale a Horse down to Gull Size...
2. Hydrophilia
3. Wasps
4. General anesthetic
5. geomagnetic movement
6. files
7. seagull bagel
8. Extraction of DNA from the rabbit spermatozoa
9. Is lymphoma really cancer?
10. Conductive hearing loss
11. Air Pollution on ship
12. Category:Accuracy disputes
13. Interpreting aural information as visual sensation
14. Water toxicity (moved from talk:methane)
15. Earths magnetic field - effects of reduction

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 23

1. Physicians
2. Simulating zero 'g' in the vomit comet
3. ICP-AES safety
4. Giant Caterpillar?
5. human urine scents
6. Mmm... grass
7. Discovery of Uranus and Pluto
   1. IQ of RD wikipedians
8. Structure of Cholesterol
9. I'm allergic to my dog's toenails; why would that be?
10. Computer / Automated Testing
11. Genetic Engineering
12. Nipples
13. Chromosomal crossover
14. How do spacecraft change direction?
15. handset splitter/adapter
16. Methadone Clinics
17. Why do people's arms move when they walk?
    1. Center of mass
18. Safe Disposal of Chemical Weapons
19. Mistakes in the history of science
20. Curly wire- how is it made?
21. Switching power supplies
22. Massive Object Collisions in Particle Accelerators

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 24

1. Chemistry - Stoichiometry and Gas Laws at the Same Time
2. IQ
   1. Standarisation
3. Laws in biology
4. Kinetics of a Redox Reaction - Importance of Including [H+] in the Rate Law
5. Alcoholism Disease a addiction rather than a disease
6. Cell nucleus
7. Evolution/Biogenesis Experiment Ideas
8. Multiple Enzyme complexes
9. Butterflies - loners?
10. Sound waves
11. school project
12. swallowing things
13. Ear hairs
14. Pluto: min distance to Earth
15. can skin cancer cause stomach cancer
16. Point-of-care documentation
17. Earth
18. Bailey's Liquor Commercial - Combustion
19. North Pole explorers
20. Planets..
21. String/M Theory
22. My ancestors in AD 1000

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 25

1. what causes breathing related pain in shoulders, neck ?
2. Variable freezing in identical solutions
3. Abdominal pain while running.
4. Increasing life expectancy
5. Human ear on a mouse's back
6. Planet
7. Biotechnology vs Genetic engineering
8. Help me please.
9. NationalFSP
10. Robby vs HAL
11. Ear update
12. Therapeutic Gene Modulation vs Gene Therapy
13. New Scientific Category
14. 9/11 Pentagon Attack help
15. Snake repelant
16. Duck's quack
17. Reverse rotaion of earth
18. Earth's magnatic field
19. Schizophrenics
20. Red scrotum
21. Frozen air
22. Speed Vac (centifugal concentrator)
23. Jumping Spider
24. Robinow Syndrome
25. biomeidcal model

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 26

1. Jamming the shutter button
2. about new energy source
3. Optical effect
4. Shortest lifespan
5. The vaporization temperature of Salvinorin A at sea level
6. Removing packing tape adhesive

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 27

1. NHS Eyecare voucher
2. group of doves
3. Doxycyclin
4. Diptera on Board
5. any major application of heat,internal energy and work
6. Theory of Relativity in Simple Terms
7. hmm another wierd question..
8. Largest Cargo
9. Long-term Effects of Fasting On The Brain
10. Telephone numbers
11. Stroke risk.
12. secondary dysmenorrhea

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 28

1. paranchute for jumping off building?
2. Can solar panels be called "Free Energy Device"?
3. What is "Donnan effect"?
4. Another grass question
5. Maltodextrin - "the ultimate complex carb"
6. Why does blueberry juice thicken cream?
7. Referencing Wikipedia
8. Quartz watches powered by the pulse of our hand
9. Changing of Centre of Gravity
10. high pressure air plasmas
11. planets
12. What kind of fish "gives birth" to baby fish instead of laying eggs?
13. Specific Heat
14. Two-hybrid System
15. Friction
16. Mass
17. Cutting veines
18. Ear pain - what does this sound like to you?
19. Plant metabolic rate.
20. biology

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 29

1. A Plant
2. Antacid
3. Excellent
4. Seagulls!
   1. Followup question
5. War-plane crash
6. Optimal slope
7. The HP ScanJet 4600 Flatbed Scanner
8. Intubation for blocked tear duct
9. pH meter and buffer solutions
10. Movement
11. The elevator broke
12. Alarms during a thunderstorm
13. shackle poisoning
14. A hypothetical question about teleporters.
15. I H8 EndNote
16. Hyperventilation
17. Destructive interference, audio?
18. Pseudoscience
19. Closed universe theory / edge of the universe
20. Epilepsy
21. Chinese pheasant
22. Space
23. Global warming

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 30

1. Bouncing babies...?
2. Noise Cancelling Within Commercial Aircraft
3. induced gravitational effects
4. What does benzoxycamphor mean?
5. Dense material
6. Algae
7. Body fat and menstruation
8. tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (TCDD) and Thyroid disease
9. Mattresses
10. Over active thyroid
11. Intelligence
12. creatine article
13. Asking a subject reference question
14. Iran and Nuclear Power
15. Most distant spacecraft visible from Earth
16. Why can't we feel the mantle heat through the crust of the earth?
17. I need to find critics to the socialist ideas.
18. Question on the derivative market
19. Perpetual Motion

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 August 31

1. Beef jerky
2. physics andtehnology
3. Body hair
4. Enthalpy and heat
5. Steorn and Free Energy
6. Atoms
7. Distance traveled by a soccer ball when kicked in different angles.
8. specific question for medicine/hematology
9. Surviving by drinking seawater
10. Physics
11. Science of gayness
12. biogas
13. Carbon
14. Orangutans in TV and Movies
15. automotive