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[edit] December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 1

  1. global warming
  2. NA code
  3. Are flaxseed meal's omega-3 fattty acids adversely affected by cooking?
  4. Underwater/Undersea Colony
  5. Universe - photon fraction
  6. Palmistry 2
  7. Why is that everything seems to be unionized these days?
  8. Question about bottled water...
  9. Channel Tunnel
  10. Why does increased estrogen cause post nasal drip?
  11. Does spoilt soy milk contain Lactobacillus?

[edit] December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 2

  1. Eyes
  2. bsurd particle accelerators
  3. Earliest memories
  4. type clotting component
  5. Gear Pumps
  6. Access To Scientific Journals
  7. GM Roundup Ready canola gene traits
  8. Sight and taste
  9. omponent/vga compatabilty
  10. The human spleen pore size

[edit] December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 3

  1. Cultivation Theory
  2. chemical bonding
  3. Electrical interference
  4. Looking for an article
  5. Tuning fork
  6. 3D Molecules
  7. Durability of bleach
  8. nitric oxide
  9. -deltaG and positive reduction potential
  10. chrome exploration?
  11. Conductivity Data
  12. building a spaceship from scratch
  13. Mineral Water / Cola Sales
  14. Carbonated water freezes
  15. Thomas Kuhn
  16. Changing an orbit
  17. Born with No Brain
  18. Volcanoes
  19. Router vs. Switch in home networking
  20. If I took HRT
  21. gerbil behaviour
  22. the power of water currents depending on depth
  23. The Playstation 3
  24. Mass/Force Distribution
  25. telescopes

[edit] December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 4

  1. Docking in orbit
  2. Advanced Motion
  3. Dots in eye w/o glasses - explaination/image?
  4. Speed in space
  5. Phenotypic ratio
  6. hemistry Molar Question
  7. Anatomical name for "weenis"
  8. Fastest Piston Powered Aircraft
  9. Really quick question
  10. No of Universe
  11. Magnetism
  12. Coeper pair
  13. tritium
  14. Oxygen Generation
  15. decomposition of phosphene
  16. Cambrian Man - ?
  17. social psychology
  18. Fastest piston warplane
  19. plants
  20. Electricity Efficiency
  21. GSM interference with speakers/amplifiers
  22. Global Warming
  23. Mass, Volume, or Charge Times Distance
  24. Fluorescent light with motion sensor

[edit] December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 5

  1. List Of Latin Genus And Species
  2. human pathogen sizes
  3. When did Laodicea (or area) discontinue shipments of Collyrium?
  4. disease/sickness
  5. Genetic similarity between the sexes
  6. Red blood cells
  7. Number of sexes
  8. blizzard of 1993
  9. Mosquitos - How they benefit humans and the environment
  10. Unit
  11. scientific termn for...
  12. Helium
  13. SOCIAL SCIENCE
  14. Normal flora
  15. Cracking Achilles
  16. Mushrooms
  17. taking growth hormone, side effects?
  18. Moon
  19. Weakness and Numbness to the Leg
  20. What is science?
  21. Auto Rickshaw
  22. predominant power source
  23. Carbon Dioxide Tax
  24. Nurses uniforms
  25. Green Hand-Drying
  26. Chemistry
  27. Toothpaste foaming
  28. How Many Trees?

[edit] December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 6

  1. Discworld's sun
  2. protien
  3. Wikipedia
  4. Old men with young hair
  5. Optional body parts
  6. value of voltage in power supply
  7. glassified nuclear waste
  8. Salting the earth
  9. Solar energy
  10. The Sun
  11. P.O.E.R.K.W.I.U.
  12. Silicon in Diode
  13. Birth Control
  14. What will humans look like in a billion years time?

[edit] December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 7

  1. Runny nose in cold weather
  2. Near and Far - The Automobile Rearview Mirror
  3. Moon
  4. NAD+ turning into NADH
  5. Ionosphere page
  6. Driving behind a truck
  7. If an 18 wheeler is driving along with the back open, is it windier inside the trailer, or on top?
  8. Data communication and Network
  9. the homeostatic nature of skin repair.
  10. Scooting
  11. how..................
  12. tmospheric chemistry units
  13. Calculating a change in temperature during irreversible adiabatic expansion.
  14. Magnets
  15. effect of oil spills on frogs
  16. High tension transmission
  17. herbs
  18. Hypothermia
  19. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT METHODS
  20. Looking for the name of a disease
  21. Weight/force
  22. Retarded
  23. D

[edit] December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 8

  1. B Cell Activation
  2. Musical dyslexia
  3. Wiki Article 'Antibody' - Activation of complement
  4. Black hole mystery
  5. Odd nausea
  6. The history of constants
  7. Medical practice in France 1820
  8. Must I really use "alkaline cells LR6"
  9. Criminology
  10. Medicine
  11. Apollo moon landing hoax theory
  12. reaction of ammonium sulphate with sodium hydroxide.
  13. Dark Matter

[edit] December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 9

  1. Nose bleed
  2. Electromagnetic Radiation Communication Devices
  3. discovery of rhinovirus
  4. Amount of indicated substance
  5. Calories burned
  6. Temperature of nuclear waste
  7. Six pack
  8. What you can learn about LASIK from commercials
  9. Stains (biology)
  10. Crossing satellites
  11. Embryology
  12. Black holes of different sizes?
  13. Old images of eyes
  14. Tryptophan hydroxylase reactivation/reformation
  15. Paper Parachute
  16. engine

[edit] December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 10

  1. Temperature Rising
  2. six pack
  3. ATP
  4. Thermostat ?
  5. alt and Pepper
  6. Homozygous and Heterozygous mutations
  7. Chemistry joke.
  8. dSLR Lenses
  9. Symptoms of insufficient sleep
  10. Static electricity?
  11. Why are mice eyes like black or red beads?
  12. How was cheese invented when pre-Roman population lactose-intolerant?
  13. Supplementary prescribing.
  14. The whale

[edit] December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 11

  1. Antimatter Production
  2. Vitamin C/citric acid
  3. horseshoe crabs
  4. 3 questions
  5. cannons
  6. Request for Equivalent Specification
  7. Surface Tension
  8. lighting
  9. Natural Selection theory without 'agency'?
  10. Human body temperature
  11. solid state pulsed laser
  12. What are cleaning erasers made from?
  13. Sleep apnea and oxygen deficit
  14. hysics question- building a crane
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[edit] December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 12

  1. Investigating the etymology of the term Backhoe
  2. That's a very strange comet indeed!
  3. Particle Accelerators
  4. drying a log
  5. Singularity size?
  6. estimate temp of room
  7. "a constant-amplitude, constant-frequency sinusoid in channel k should have identical analysis phases in all nearby channels."
  8. Inventor of the scratchie ticket
  9. aqueous copper
  10. Help me prove the Earth (and Universe) is over 5,000 years old
  11. A mannan-digesting enzyme?
  12. Guns Fired Into The Air
  13. Balanced forces
  14. Miniature nuclear power plant?
  15. Science Learning Resources
  16. Depth
  17. Paint that generates electricity...
  18. Age of earth

[edit] December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 13

  1. de Broglie / Compton wavelengths
  2. Serotonin/Melatonin in nightshift workers
  3. Helium to lift 5kg
  4. Parallel Line Assay
  5. Lack of Antigens
  6. Banyan trees and adventitious roots

[edit] December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 14

  1. Why do faster moving fluids have lower pressure?
  2. Wind and toilets
  3. Digital camera shutters
  4. chest muscles
  5. William Giaque
  6. Environment
  7. canonical partition function
  8. units
  9. milk shake
  10. Conservation of Energy and Rolling a ball down a ramp
  11. e.coli
  12. Transmission of communication signal along with high voltage transmission line
  13. Science question on Miscellaneous Desk
  14. Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics
  15. Trick chemistry question.
  16. tonsilitis
  17. physics junior cert experiment
  18. a maths proof
  19. Metals and Metals
  20. Dentistry as a separate course
  21. hat is repsonsible for eye drying that comes with sleepiness?
  22. Chicken breasts
  23. Absolutely zero not really that cold?
  24. bullets from spitfires and hurricanes
  25. latent heat

[edit] December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 15

  1. Coilgun
  2. "Sodium Coma"
  3. Herion OD = 1-10mg Narcan. Cocaine OD = ?
  4. Steroids and HGH
  5. alling
  6. starfish
  7. Hallucinogens in palliative care?
  8. Repetition speed for strength exercises- fast or slow
  9. Withdrawal of Supplies of amitripyline tablets
  10. earth
  11. Audio - Centre Channel Extractor on Adobe Audition
  12. ants
  13. circumcision and aids
  14. phosphoric acid as electrolyte
  15. Gums
  16. The Temporal Resolution of the Compound Eye
  17. High temperature nuclear waste repository
  18. Digitising photos
  19. Tobacco Addictiveness
  20. Conjunctivitus

[edit] December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 16

  1. pyramid power
  2. Explosives
  3. What sort of apple was this?
  4. Large intestine
  5. Natural Resources
  6. What are opioid relative potencies? to morphine?
  7. INvestigatory project
  8. Copper gluconate in breath fresheners
  9. examples on elasticity,plasticity and brittleness
  10. Waste water treatment
  11. Bio-gas
  12. Wellbutrin & Zyban
  13. TV reception
  14. Homologous vs Analogous
  15. pill identification chart

[edit] December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 17

  1. Blood cells discarded per day
  2. Valence orbitals
  3. Kill Mosquito Larvae in a Water Tank
  4. six pack
  5. Which kinds of cells undergo cellular respiration?
  6. SL & XR
  7. water heater corrosion
  8. in Reactions
  9. Digital Extension
  10. Fish mate
  11. Parasitic Worm
  12. Sensitiveish Microphone Advice
  13. Evil Beth
  14. Is the (north) polar ice cap floating ?
  15. Neurologist/Neurosurgeon

[edit] December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 18

  1. trismus &faciculations of upperlimb during menstrual cycle
  2. Sexual abstinence
  3. Human Adaptations
  4. A drop of water in space
  5. Formation of a comet
  6. Decaffinated coffee beans
  7. Drying out silica gel
  8. Walking
  9. books
  10. Video games a cure for ADD?
  11. Quantum Mechanics
  12. Weight Fluctuations
  13. How does panting reduce heat?
  14. Gargle salty liquid
  15. How dangerous, if ingested, is shampoo?
  16. Creation of the VCR internal clock
  17. Sense of touch

[edit] December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 20

  1. New cochleas
  2. Sauna questions
  3. empirical formula
  4. Text Color
  5. honey
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  8. Chemical Reaction
  9. Evolution question
  10. lysergic acid diethylamide
  11. No-op microprocessors
  12. owner/investor model
  13. Ions affecting Rheumatoid Arthritis
  14. Is my daughter being poisoned?
  15. To Refreeze.. Or not to Refreeze
  16. Random Question
  17. Where is the origin/homeland of the Mongol (Chinese) race?
  18. LD50
  19. B12
  20. weight
  21. Matter

[edit] December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 21

  1. Name this bug
  2. Pantheon building maintenance ?
  3. Melons
  4. tension in a rope
  5. How can you tell if a gemstone is real?
  6. Craft
  7. The darkest hour is just before dawn.
  8. Water and Sodium Electric Power
  9. Papular Mucinosis
  10. Vacuum balloon
  11. Evolutionary Biology perspectives on Fear of Speaking in Public
  12. "Stable" Hydrogen?
  13. EE - Why do fast battery chargers have larger power bricks?
  14. Listing of AC power cord plugs?
  15. black holes
  16. Poseidon
  17. Solar system and stardust

[edit] December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 22

  1. Electric Kettles
  2. Why are skis no longer made from wood?
  3. Textual vs Pictorial Memory
  4. Water displacement
  5. Gauss (unit)
  6. Bromelain, the protease enzyme in pineapple

[edit] December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 23

  1. Motorway building
  2. Battery Producing Two Voltages Simultaneously?
  3. Kettle Boil Off
  4. Brightest Bulb On 12v At Low Cost
  5. Correlation
  6. HOW TO find a PDF copy of the book?
  7. Casino Royale Poison
  8. Estimating backup time of a electric backup power device
  9. Faraday Cage Use In Security
  10. Why quarantine astronauts?
  11. Critical criteria for human life...?
  12. nyone got a manometer?
  13. resultant forces
  14. Ear remedy for loud bang
  15. Capacitor Calculations
  16. Blood color ?
  17. Medicine books
  18. Searching for a way of contacting Neurosurgeon Yasargil and his Swiss Surgeon Team
  19. Flower blossom
  20. Normal hearing and perforated eardrum
  21. Give The Focal Length Game!
  22. hat is that green stuff inside grasshoppers when you squish them?
  23. How to write elements
  24. Sexual Safety
  25. Rider question
  26. Things that go bang
  27. elium crisis

[edit] December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 24

  1. Observation whilst feeding the gulls...
  2. cognitive intelligence - name for the occurrence of role reversal between subject and object in test situation.
  3. ged whiskey
  4. Dominant genes?
  5. monoline roots
  6. Perfect Hurricane
  7. Squeeze Those LEDSs!
  8. One Device. One Non-rotating Speaker. 360 Degrees
  9. Reading in the Dark
  10. Custard Bread?
  11. Infrared Filters
  12. Immitation compulsion
  13. Fluorescent light is dead...
  14. Lips
  15. Why is the neutron more massive than the proton?

[edit] December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 25

  1. IR Transmissibility Of Materials
  2. The jagged things in a dog's mouth
  3. Different tastes of bottled water
  4. Heavy water production
  5. lasers
  6. Methadone
  7. Lizard speed indicative of dinosaur speed...?
  8. THE BRAIN
  9. Evolution versus Creation...?
  10. Usefulness of solubility
  11. Calculating voltage
  12. This equation describes... what?

[edit] December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 26

  1. Orbit of a particle
  2. How to seep and steep herbal teas and remedies
  3. Budgie video on YouTube
  4. Capacitance of batteries.- its a hard one this!
  5. Riskiness Rankings
  6. electroscope
  7. Eyes
  8. Friction
  9. Physics
  10. orth Atlantic oscillation
  11. Squirrels
  12. Cation and anions
  13. lassification of an amoeba
  14. Bacteria in the Intestines
  15. Paternal Age

[edit] December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 27

  1. Lack of Visual 'Imagination'
  2. Is red and pink coral illegal in Canada?
  3. skins compression clothing
  4. muscles
  5. Science name
  6. What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times)
  7. What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times) - PART 2
  8. Lipitor and grapefruit
  9. Nuclear war
  10. Tracking of dynamically-changing objects on TV
  11. Fatty Acid Enzymes
  12. What was a man able to withstand of wounds and injuries during the past (medieval times) - PART 2
  13. Trans fat question
  14. instrument for measuring an orifice diameter

[edit] December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 28

  1. adhesives
  2. Transformation of energy
  3. Electronics: IC that will take a 0-5V analog input and output a 0-100% PWM
  4. Ear infection
  5. Birds' hearing
  6. Futuristic Glass Touch Sensor
  7. Super Duper Bright LEDs
  8. Carbon nanotube
  9. Suicidal animals
  10. wearing rubber gloves
  11. Why does chalk cause fever?
  12. Soret band? yes/no
  13. Painful but nonlethal stabbing
  14. Suffering from exposure to Frost, cold and water
  15. On the sun...
  16. Is there really any difference between "friction" and "collision"
  17. Faster-than-light aspects
  18. stream velocities for Red River (USA)
  19. Egg shells

[edit] December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 29

  1. Relativity of light
  2. DAD in hydrology
  3. Running muscle
  4. what seems cheaper, $9.99 or $10
  5. Color Changing Glass
  6. ndentation marks
  7. WATER GOING BANG!
  8. query (Fullform of Rx ?)
  9. Unknown reptile eggs
  10. buses
  11. 2 questions
  12. time interval
  13. Focusing the sun's rays through a giant orbital lens?

[edit] December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 30

  1. Vegetarians and Meat
  2. fluorescent tubes
  3. Vomiting reaction to endives in children
  4. Stem cells
  5. Tarantula found in San Francisco Bay Area
  6. Lightsabers?
  7. immunology
  8. Spinning and orbiting
  9. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
  10. retrovirus and telomerase
  11. British broad-based cloud physicist Frank Ludlam
  12. Veg food
  13. North Star
  14. RBMK
  15. Aerogel properties
  16. Snowfall and Sir Isaac Newton

[edit] December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2006 December 31

  1. Seeing the Moon in the morning
  2. Ju 52
  3. not logged in message?
  4. Silence
  5. Harry Potter and the Deadly Elbows
  6. Birds hopping and walking
  7. Antibiotics
  8. NaF
  9. Instant unconciousness from long-drop hanging?