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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 1
- TEMPERATURE TIME GRAPH
- Synchronizing clocks.
- Wine drinkware
- Minimum protein etc. in a healthy diet
- Phosphate
- Who was the guy who did the first CO2 readings?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 2
- Unknown squirrel species
- Improvised teleprompter - looking for one-way mirror in UK
- Planetary rings
- Carbon dioxide accumulation
- Juicy nose
- Electra hydraulics
- drive
- Tree color.
- Power lines compared to Overhead cables on train lines
- MBBS 100% free scholarships
- How are proton beams created?
- What would happen
- time on the cross
- Tougher than grass
- is it possible to get pregnant 6 days after (onset of) menstruation?
- PREGNANCY
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 3
- SINUS OF NOSE
- Baseball physics
- Psychological reaction
- RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
- Body aches and massage
- Cute animals with bad attitudes
- Electrical power into food in post-holocaust conditions?
- Recycling symbol?
- What is this lizard?
- Cheese Bacteria Manufacturers
- fridge
- Cinnamon causing depression?
- EJACULATION
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 4
- Request for id of Anole(?) seen in Guadeloupe, possibly an Anolis marmoratus (Leopard Anole)
- calories burned per hour of X activity
- Einstein postulate:
- Surgical training of doctors with a first professional degree in medicine
- Moon Tangential velocity
- Finasteride
- Physics definitions
- Egg heat
- Muskrat
- Speed of light frame of reference
- Happiness: A mental illness?
- Kidron
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 5
- HEADACE
- Electrochemistry
- Cat Behavior - combination of "playing the piano" and mate mounting?
- bioinformatics question
- longest wavelength of EM radiation
- Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
- Cracking a Chest
- Railroad Engineering
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 6
- Terraforming Venus
- seeing red
- What causes color?
- What's the nasty stuff in coal ash?
- 2012-- mayan civilization
- Early Earth
- Poles on a DC Motor
- Flaming globes of Sigmund - dreaming phenomenon
- Thymus vulgaris
- Another factoid for discussion...
- what am I doing wrong with this acid base problem? (sodium acetate solution
- do the effects of smoking ever go away? (smoking regular cigarettes like marlboros)
- ex=paratrooper with back problem been put on tramadol for 8 years.........
- Sodium bicarbonate
- Time and the Big Bang
- discrepancies in attempting to isolate enthalpies/entropies of dissociation
- Health hazards from living near a busy road
- calculating the %protonation of amine in an ammonium acetate like salt...
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 7
- Radio station reception
- acid rain/ fog
- Salt Level in water to corrode metal
- physics question
- Changes in cooking oil
- Renal agenesis
- Advanced search engine for sound
- germinating
- Experiment at Geneva
- Electric drill rating
- gravitation
- Organ donation
- Time Travel
- Photographs
- Titan arum
- Destruction of chlorate explosives
- population control
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 8
- Miners "surviving" by eating sawdust and bark
- Are there diets that cause a person to not defecate?
- Help with a physics question
- Is the ability of scopolamine to suspend free will an urban legend?
- Life project
- SUV fuel tank
- What is the technical name for the sensation that there is someone behind you?
- Honey-bee prefered row crops in the U. S.
- Gastroenteritis
- Armour vs railguns?
- Need help identifying a Prunus species
- shewees
- is the following experiment valid?
- Apples numbing the lips.
- Why do we need vitamin D?
- Sexual attraction to skeletons
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 9
- Use of imaging in cancer diagnosis
- Causality
- crash landing fatality rates - higher for helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft?
- Re-focusing photographs
- why are car wheels the size that they are?
- Making hybrid fruit trees
- Collision
- Physiological diplopia
- Coordinate system
- Adiabatic Expansion
- Chemistry question
- Can I drink dishawshing liquid?
- do bodybuilders get blind or have poor eyesight from overexertion?
- Enzyme for digesting pork?
- Baby teeth
- bride selection
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 10
- Flower unknown
- onion skin layers
- Food additives
- Paddle is moving and stationary at the same time: parallel universes????
- Brain simulations
- Chrome plating
- Atkins diet for small children
- Unknown Caterpillars
- Bird deads, causes unknown
- How power stations deliver electrical energy to my home
- nuclear waste
- Nuclear waste - reuse
- Wheat Berries
- Bus brand
- Question about Autism
- Uncertainty principle
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 11
- Torque due to gravity
- Quantum Entanglement
- What do these formulae mean?
- Owl species
- Is there a way to create a barrier to light rays that LOWERS THEIR FREQUENCY using light or energy?
- Filling a volcano with water
- Destroying the Earth
- Nitrogen/neon atmosphere
- Plants
- Stains
- Systolic and diastolic blood pressure
- internal balance
- Venus of Willendorf
- Miscellaneous Meteorology
- Swallowed by a whale
- Mystery Box
- Least common cause of death
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 12
- I know why the sky is blue...
- high altitude training chamber levels blood acidity
- Gold
- Organic crops and contamination
- Is there a term for that shimmery border you get where two vibrant colours meet?
- Biological pest control for Fruit fly
- three phase electric energy meter
- Cholestasis in humans and animals
- is it possible to "work off" cholesterol?
- Printing on aluminum cans
- Old television smoky exploding madness!
- "Neutron-activatable elements"?.. I'm inventing terms because I don't know English well.
- about generators
- Air ducts
- Using imaging software to determine the length of a section of coiled apparatus
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 13
- Problem about capacitors in series
- Wasp question (not about the insect)
- generalising the pI = pH formula for situations where the opposing weak acid and base are of different concentrations
- Voltage Divider and a Wheatstone Bridge
- Plants - pinching new growth? pinching? really?
- marine animals that have evolved from land animals.
- Primaeval woodland in the UK
- Gravity, friction and mass.
- Homosexuality and Pedophilia
- Making my own tubular steel shelving in needed dimensions
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 14
- Pressure
- Research influenced by funding source
- Metal in the microwave?
- IIT QUESTION
- Even harmonics in Electrical power lines
- Gravity, friction and mass II
- Memory
- about science
- how does the nitrate reduction test work in microbiology?
- Using earwax to test purity of water
- wielding
- decarboxylation and reduction of pyruvate
- "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds"
- Physics - Safer Car
- Flashing of white tail by alarmed animals
- Cryptorchidism in patients with 5-Alpha-Reductase Deficiency. [?]
- Cat and dog repeller
- Bear locomotion
- Mastering crystallography
- doctors dont wear gloves
- Fractals and the structure of the brain
- Birds riding thermals
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 15
- Caustic size variation with temperature
- ISS EVA Capabilities
- Car trick
- Wolverine vs Honey Badger
- now result
- What do these symptoms lead to?
- DNA Bases
- Electrolysis
- sodium carbonate
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 16
- The mass of something 1836 times smaller than you?
- Internet searches for non-linear notations
- Icelandic volcano and air travel.
- Black lights, wattage, and wave lengths
- Palatine uvula
- Do plants need to sleep?
- Refractive index less than one
- The Leaning Brown Building of the Spanish Steps
- brain activity and dreams
- Why can't plants move?
- Mind controlling gene function.
- Map of the world folded along the equator
- Let's split...
- football effecting brain
- Movie about the "representative town in sampling"
- Largest Recorded Solar Flare
- Escape velocity
- beer
- Help comprehending units of energy
- c and si
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 17
- Jets in front of wings
- Space elevator
- health/meth/sex/ed
- Communicating dates to future civilizations
- Head Hair
- Article needs help
- Dandelion-lettuce hybrid?
- Is there any realistic danger to Europe from Icelandic Volcanos?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 18
- Vegetarianism and Diabetes
- Sunrise and sunset
- Concentration of urine
- enzyme activity
- Proposed emergency ash reducing: "Rapid glacier removal operation" off the top of volcano on Iceland.
- Asexual reproduction
- iodized salt
- Saltwater ecosystems
- Historical Alternatives to Ballistic Pendulums
- ocean currents
- bond formation of SiO
- single crystal chalk (kitchen chemistry woohoo!)
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 19
- Rain will clear the skies of ash, but can we artificially fill up the water by nuclear power?
- use for nuclear waste
- ISS framework overbuilt?
- sperm for Iceland
- being really happy
- Arterial injuries
- can combine theory
- Test for swelling in knee joint
- Air Conditioning
- Circadian rhythm abnormalities in non-humans?
- Greenwich meridian.
- How much ash to stop a car?
- Billiard ball and slipping
- help with the seasons
- Do royalty masturbate?
- Plants
- Volcano - worst case scenario
- Cockatoos and music
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 20
- ISI flight path during landing
- knee posture?
- word for a taxonomy guide
- meditation
- pain receptors of preys
- Evolution, intelligent design, and irreducible complexity.
- Is volcanic ash worse for aircraft than other dust and sand?
- Russian EMP weapon used in Smolensk?
- If my wife dies, how much time would I have to extract her eggs with which to produce children in-vitro?
- deleted youtube vids
- Silver nitrate
- eggs
- Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
- of the following, which informs the innate sense of rhythm
- Causes for human genitalia variation range?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 21
- tongue map
- toba bottleneck
- cleaning up chemical spills
- Wrongly cleaned copper nickel coin resulting in light copper colored stains.
- Self-replicating molecules
- Sunset color on a different planet
- Volcanic ash vs other jet engines
- blood-vessel building
- Genotype and drug resistance
- is clozapine antiaromatic?
- Fish trachea
- Scientific Principle
- Muscle tingling after exercise?
- PDF
- Force of a magnet on metal
- Cast iron object unknown
- How would one calculate the total entropy of the sun?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 22
- Dry ice engine
- Galactic feature
- electromagnetic wave - atom - electrons
- A dim Sparky?
- Abnormal daisy
- what do they do with the glass slides after a skin scraping test
- Orgasm
- Passive immunity in humans
- Eustachian Tube
- nicotine gum expiration
- Frequency of STDs in population
- Pumping seawater into the volcano crater
- Time machine
- One stuffy nasal passage suddenly clearing itself... what physical mechanisms are at play?
- ghosts
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 23
- Eyjafjallajökull: Tephra color
- Invertebrate stomach
- Milk protein denaturation
- Why exactly do pet parrots mimic (or attempt to learn, if you believe that) human speech?
- gravity-south pole
- 9 volt battery
- Global warming.
- Perpetual motion machine
- Antimatter bomb
- Penguins
- Exoplanet naming scheme
- III
- The basic assumptions of GR
- Empty balloons
- Number of mammals in the world
- Oil Depth
- GLYCOLYSIS video(s) in µm/Å-scale
- What's the point in some reflexes?
- Abdomen
- scuba
- muscle fuel
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 24
- Energy used in travel
- Why no plastic beer bottles?
- Catabolic breakdown of muscles
- Number of cells in a human body
- Katla
- Stratified Italian soda + cold cream => Salt fingers??
- First human
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 25
- relation between the expansion of orbits and of the universe
- Physics-Question regarding Vacuum
- power in watts used when sending a phone text message.
- What is suprastine
- Riding a bicycle - reducing energy used per mile
- What to do with left over cooking oil?
- homoaromaticity in dimedone?
- Volcanoes
- Is this correct?
- Small windmill for electricity
- Mass wrapping around a rod
- Detonations and the like
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 26
- Stingray question
- is there an exit valve? what about on the scuba fireman where? and on oxygen tanks in a ambulance or hospital?
- milk
- Source of pneumonia in bedridden elderly?
- Hubble's "visible spectrum" image of the Carina nebula
- Dibenzodiazepines follow-up
- Life expectancy of nuclear power plants.
- Ant for ID
- Mold
- CCs?
- Kepler mission field of view
- Chromoscope pictures of the galaxy
- Who turns the machine off from a terminally ill patient?
- Reactivity of Na or Ca
- Protein
- Soda Bottle Rocket
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 27
- Methanol poisoning
- Snowflake symmetry
- Mechanics of motion sensors
- microbes outside earth
- Sea blue - Sky blue
- Human-Animal perceptions
- Ambidextrous people
- What is this box?
- Light-straight line; but how many?
- penury
- Spiders
- Asystole and CSI: Miami
- Dropping a potato out of a plane
- Railguns on ships
- % of water when raining
- extreme human evolution
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 28
- Molecular Electronics
- Warm Sector
- Chemistry: Si face and re face
- Are cars and planes Faraday cages?
- EM colours
- Dream Recall
- Ambient construction
- Ions
- help me please (eating heroin rabbits)
- Naming of a species
- Mass to energy conversion
- Is it normal for men to have a noticeably reducing libido at the age of 50.
- Chromate formation
- Geology
- Ghost
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 29
- Albert Einstein
- Cell
- Aliens
- God
- Black hole
- Wormhole
- Titration curve: help!
- conductivity of crumpled aluminum foil
- Reactivity series for anions
- dietary fiber supplements such as methycellulose and inulin. What is each of these, and what is the difference between the two?
- Eagles and their Wings
- Living and Non-living
- Gas and Gravity
- Alarm clock
- How to Identify nylon 6 from nylon 6,6?
- animal government
- Biological Classification
- Fact checking from Fight Club
- Superconductivity and gravity
- Edge of the Universe
- Healing of cut
- Dissolution of Metals
- Death
- Reduction of Iodate
- Why do birches grow in clumps
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2010 April 30
- Rust metal quickly.
- noble barrier
- Solar sail
- Spaceship propulsion
- chrome plating
- How to remember names?
- amines and hydroxide ions
- magnetic question
- Why the "niger" in Sciurus niger ?
- transformer
- Expansion of the universe
- increase the likelihood of having dreams
- Question about gun-type fission weapon
- the thermodynamics of an ideal air conditioner
- Gun with balloon
- Telescope
- Habeñero pepper safety