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[edit] October 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 1

  1. Food becoming stale
  2. Back pain across bra line
  3. baby nose color
  4. Missing posts
  5. Contributors for Pharmacogenomics Wiki wanted
  6. Hairy back
  7. In tides, why is the eighth wave always the largest?
  8. PAL I vs. PAL BG
  9. Sperm in Facial Treatments?
  10. primary colours
  11. Cannabis
  12. Giant Redwoods and their cells
  13. Indoor Plants
  14. Are some plants immortal?

[edit] October 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 2

  1. Taxonomy for Extraterrestrial Life
  2. Codon inversion
  3. air pressure cuts
  4. Glucosamine and Diabetes
  5. Bird Eggs
  6. Strobe
  7. I'm searching for information on the workability and physical characteristics of pure Tungsten metal
  8. Nokia phones
  9. What chemical is this?
  10. Valuable substances
  11. LED throwie

[edit] October 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 3

  1. Dying in sleep
  2. Big Bang / Black Hole ...?
  3. Terrifying, recurring nightmare I used to have...
  4. Dreaming of dying
  5. Measuring Mass/Volume
  6. That stuff between your toes
  7. how is newton's 2nd law modified when things reaches the speed of light?
  8. germanium
  9. Dead Leg
  10. vortex ring gun question
  11. BP cuff one-way-valve
  12. moving shock tables
  13. Pink Discolouration Of Clothes
  14. properties of sulphur
  15. Cryonics
  16. Interpreting a sentence about biology
  17. geography
  18. Tim Clutton-Brock
  19. unit cells
  20. Blood Alcohol

[edit] October 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 4

  1. Hello I Need Hlp With Thses Two Questions Please
  2. Why did all the Soviet missions to Mars fail in one way or another?
  3. Evaluation of objective type answer sheets
  4. Dr. Roger Kornberg
  5. ground parrot
  6. Blood
  7. molarity of water
  8. Great Black-backed Gull carrying off (and presumably eating) baby?
  9. Garlic Spoilage
  10. renal cell carcinoma
  11. Blue sea near Bahamas
  12. The gyroscope movement

[edit] October 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 5

  1. Breaking your own neck
  2. Scar Healing?
  3. Color of blood
  4. Gyro effect on bicycles
  5. sulbutiamine
  6. PAL
  7. 74161 IC
  8. TV scanning method
  9. M
  10. mass
  11. Drippy Iron
  12. Chlorofluorosulfonic acid
  13. How are the oil well fires extinguished?
  14. human proteins in plant cells
  15. identify a gene
  16. On ocean ecology
  17. is vaccinatiom possible?
  18. Overdose
  19. Father of the Solar Cell
  20. Mystery bird
  21. science
  22. Other pde5 inhibitors, besides sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil
  23. Rm3
  24. Cure for oedipus complex?
  25. Chemical prices

[edit] October 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 6

  1. can it alter?
  2. pH scale
  3. variegated plants
  4. Calculate Radiation Dosage from X-Ray Machine
  5. Isaac Newton
  6. Help from a doc interpreting lab results (not advice)
  7. preservation
  8. molarity
  9. immune cell
  10. Leo Szilard's Cancer Protocol
  11. Triple Point of Water
  12. ID this beach object
  13. Word
  14. ph
  15. PH SCALE
  16. OIL
  17. Teleportation
  18. I have an anatomical question about the Spinal discs.
  19. Whistling effect?
  20. Stepping-up voltage.

[edit] October 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 7

  1. Raising a baby bird in isolation
  2. taking control of Opportunity and ROver
  3. Human eye resolution
  4. Eating Disorders
  5. james harry keighly McCollum
  6. human proteins
  7. Acid to dissolve hard rock/stones
  8. Holding it
  9. Bruhathkayosaurus vs. Amphicoelias
  10. Hard question on evolution
  11. Are there obstacles to industrial-scale production of cultured animal tissues for food?
  12. proteins
  13. Fossils made from bone
  14. diatomic elements
  15. Additive Volumes and Mols
  16. Antacids
  17. Shrimp diagram request for comment
  18. Homework question
  19. Masochism
  20. Recent news regarding the treatment of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
  21. Disproof of the theory that information cannot move faster than speed of light
  22. Can a hard drive go through an X-Ray scanner?

[edit] October 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 8

  1. The effects of a smoker and non-smoker in the cold
  2. Cold and fat
  3. Germs
  4. Disease
  5. sensitivity to sound
  6. cochlea
  7. Electromagnetic radiation.
  8. Euphoria caused by Victory?
  9. Time Dialation Confirmation
  10. Does snoring affect the snorer's hearing?
  11. bizarre
  12. difference between AC DC current
  13. Heart Rate
  14. technology in manufacturing surgical instrument
  15. how to make this
  16. Popping pimples
  17. ABOUT PHARMACY?!!!
  18. Quercus × rosacea
  19. ACCELERATION of light
  20. What is the difference between a nuclear explosion and a nuclear reaction?

[edit] October 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 9

  1. Car, chain
  2. Babirusa
  3. Size of Human Epidermis Cell
  4. why cant saltwater fish live in freshwater?
  5. Mucopolysaccharidosis
  6. HOMEWORK QUESTION
  7. Gene defect
  8. bursting cells
  9. cell theory
  10. About the Big Bang
  11. Human skin colour
  12. international awards in physics.
  13. prices of toluene
  14. Oil absorption into skin
  15. chemical engg
  16. Skies of the distant past/future
  17. effect of growth on oxygen demand
  18. i need help
  19. Underground nuclear tests
  20. Reduced salt area
  21. Refraction of light
  22. narcotics
  23. Wood Integrity
  24. Is it possible to artificially increase a metal's physical weight to indefinitive amounts?
  25. Water...Sily question?
  26. Mother gull is double-clutching this year...


[edit] October 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 10

  1. Super Cannon of Doom
  2. An estimaste of the thermal power output and specific heat capacity of a human being
  3. UG Nuclear tests
  4. fainting at the sight of blood
  5. weapon testing
  6. Lead acid storage batteries
  7. Critical MAss
  8. Transition Metal Chemistry question
  9. Question about Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Physical Meaning of Temperature
    1. more
  10. Symmetry in technical drawing
  11. WEIGHT OF HUMAN BEING IN THE MOON
  12. having laser eye surgery
  13. Cell Biology
  14. Why are Magnets RED?
  15. magnitude of electrical force
  16. Electricity
  17. dissolving

[edit] October 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 11

  1. Tryptophan versus melatonin
  2. Methane for CO2 manufacturing?
  3. belly
  4. rethinking science!
  5. Quantum field theory
  6. Colours
  7. REPRODUCTION
  8. vortex ring simplification

[edit] October 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 12

  1. sodium hydroxide
  2. Mould
  3. How many "frames" per second can our eye process?
  4. Radiocarbon dating
  5. Critical molar volume of a van der Waals gas
  6. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
  7. Equations for black body radiation
  8. magnets
  9. LAser Eye Surgery
  10. I'm searching for an inexpensive portable medical X-ray device, or are there any build-your-own kits?
  11. Negative refractive index
  12. Loop DNA
  13. Types of rock or stone?
  14. Earth's moon: why it always shows the same face
  15. Cooling Towers
  16. Ballistics
  17. Ants
  18. Goldfish
  19. brain

[edit] October 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 13

  1. Chromosomes
  2. Threat to human race
  3. Looking for medical term...
  4. Oxygen
  5. Alpha level and power for a hypothesis
  6. Stored energy in tempered glass pellets
  7. Microbiology math?
  8. Education
  9. a short brief essay
  10. Double-slit experiment aiming
  11. How does the transferrin and ferritin be cleared in human body, respectively?
  12. Flu shot
  13. definition of the word "plaxing"
  14. Black Hole
  15. Food pyramid
  16. Calculating wavelength of radio waves at a given frequency
  17. Nuclear fission (in nuclear weapons)
  18. Decompression

[edit] October 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 14

  1. Space Shuttle: burn-up.....
  2. Planetary rings
  3. stadium construction
  4. A cold
  5. Boiler Efficiency
  6. do-it-yourself X-ray Crystallography?
  7. homemade NMR?
  8. mass spectrometer?
  9. RadioShack?
  10. synchrotron?
  11. New Dynamo Not Working Right
  12. Speed of digestion
  13. rainbow
  14. Clotrimazole 1% Cream
  15. Contaminated drinking water
  16. Why does my stomach growl?
  17. Asian giant hornet
  18. Building Audit
  19. What kind of insect is this?
  20. Two questions about chemical reactions

[edit] October 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 15

  1. How big must it BE?........
  2. Come nuclear armageddon...
  3. What could be a physiological explanation for the Chinese folk medical concept of 熱氣 ("heat")?
  4. six pack
  5. Seeing Colors
  6. How Many calories does a Gram of Human Fat Have?
  7. Am I secretly gay?
  8. What kind of frog is this?
  9. "Absolute hot"?
  10. physics
  11. Triple point revisited
  12. Decrease in Sexual Interest?
  13. what genes are in a genes pair
  14. Identical alleles are found in what type of gene
  15. Science Fair

[edit] October 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 October 16

  1. bananas
  2. Critters in the stomach
  3. Arm wrestling
  4. Can you identify this strange bug?
  5. Why is some skin immune from sunburn?
  6. Diesel fuel life
  7. Most effective firearm
  8. Humans driving a ship
  9. Unknown Goat
  10. pistons in combustion engines
  11. Epidermis
  12. Fuel consumption
  13. Bacterial Infection
  14. Compact Bone
  15. Hormones
  16. Science Fair Proposal
  17. Dodgy Bike Chain/Sprockets
  18. frequency / function generator? Buying one?
  19. Pickled food and tooth decay
  20. Water
  21. question about microwaves [EM really] and momentum transfer
  22. Angle of reflection for light.

[edit] October 17

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