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[edit] May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 1

  1. Top Ten parasites
  2. . Coli
  3. Edde triggered logic
  4. CRT Tube
  5. Non-exploding Sun
  6. Formaldehyde
  7. When did plant roots first evolve?
  8. Hurricane
  9. Building inverters
  10. what is the relationship between hardness and tensile strength of cast iron
  11. Death by Battery
  12. color force behavious
  13. Curvature of the neck (cervical spine)
  14. Determining the critical angle of the substance glycerol/glycerine (I think it's the same thing)
  15. Calcium in a bone
  16. What Is the Greenish Layer of Some Hard Boiled Eggs
  17. Using magnetism to recover coins and jewelry
  18. molarity question. help!
  19. Eyebrow
  20. Dropstones and metals. Or just rubbish.
  21. Nuclear hurricane
  22. Temperature of the sun
  23. Lightbulbs

[edit] May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 2

  1. Reaching the speed of light
  2. Breast enlargement (herbal supplements)
  3. Rock identification
  4. Beating Light?
  5. Fuse
  6. Hypersonic
  7. Prevalence of Freezing Temperatures on Earth
  8. Buddhist relics ?
  9. cells
  10. lewis structure
  11. Half Life of a Drug
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  23. skin products
  24. eat and Dairy and Calcium
  25. Football grass colors
  26. occer instead of
  27. Nitric Acid
  28. Rusting Process
  29. good books about instincts/desires and evolutionary psychology?
  30. Use of color indicators in titrations.
  31. Nicotine gum and hiccups?
  32. Water drops on outside of bottle
  33. Space
  34. Hallucinogenic alkaloids and alteration of visual perception.
  35. Identify this bizarre fruit?
  36. Blood Type Possibility

[edit] May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 3

  1. blood types
  2. Half Life of a Drug molecule
  3. Coupling Constants
  4. Flexibility
  5. Source of Light in Color Spectrum
  6. The orgin of Earth's spin
  7. Grass Of South Africa
  8. What type of heron?
  9. Electric Control Device
  10. Nuclear fuel effeciency
  11. The Little Albert Experiment
  12. electrolyte mud
  13. Photosynthesis
  14. Shouting Over High Pitched Sounds
  15. Fall speed of parachutes
  16. Black hole
  17. Color Perception
  18. Star Ownership
  19. Mobile Phone Batteries
  20. Angle of the string of a kite
  21. Female/Male Species
  22. Déjà vu
  23. Déjà vu
  24. Speed of light
  25. Box of light
  26. Acids/Bases
  27. Parrots have a different idea as to what is considered 'food' to us - why?

[edit] May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 4

  1. The Unidentified Crawling Objects
  2. Length of Legs
  3. aglev Speed
  4. Plant life
  5. The knowledge needed to start from scratch
  6. Feedback from the asker
  7. little question
  8. Electrical conversion
  9. black hole
  10. Indicator for presense of Humalog® insulin
  11. Microwave Ovens

[edit] May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 5

  1. Interstellar probes end points.
  2. Spider identification
  3. Visible Laser Light
  4. [Stinging nettle]]
  5. Mid Atlantic Ridge and transatlantic cables
  6. Individual People with full knowledge of a technology and its foundation technologies
  7. Regarding technology
  8. erroxyl indicator
  9. Matter waves of photons?
  10. The how many-eth cousin is a chimpanzee
  11. non mendelian inheritance in arabidopsis thaliana
  12. Skin Infection Rates
  13. Taking of Wallpaper
  14. Burning Calories

[edit] May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 6

  1. Uses of propynol
  2. Brainstorming specific examples for biology themes
  3. Re: Today's Feature Picture
  4. Watts
  5. I got some complexes in dealing with complex ions
  6. Paper hydrolysis??
  7. False color satellite imaging
  8. Earth's Spin
  9. Apnea
  10. 42.2
  11. lower Identification
  12. Dimensions
  13. hudrochloric acid

[edit] May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 7

  1. Balloons
  2. anatomy and physiology
  3. iPod's capacity for headphone impedance
  4. Mental Illness-
  5. universe
  6. Fuel Cell
  7. Late 1960s rechargeable batteries
  8. Relation with days
  9. Chipboard density
  10. Sun spots and tree ring growth
  11. sauna use / length of time inquiry
  12. starch question
  13. ozone
  14. Magmatic convection currents
  15. Mental IIIness
  16. Points of contact
  17. Consensus on human evolution?

[edit] May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 8

  1. Latest vaccines
  2. Need help with a citation regarding fitness
  3. Iron (III) iodide
  4. Equations For A Gas Undergoing Adiabatic Process As it Obeys Van Der Waals Equation
  5. What The Bleep Do We Know?
  6. Can Stars in Foreign Galaxies Be Seen?
  7. Are we mostly seeing stars in other galaxies?
  8. Glass heating
  9. variable
  10. really need science help
  11. Cards
  12. hello

[edit] May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 9

  1. stress transfer theory
  2. Pulse
  3. motion in universe
  4. Questions about birthmarks
  5. What's the L in L-ascorbic acid?
  6. Life on(to) Mars
  7. Mobile phones
  8. Hot air balloon speed
  9. Converting alcohol to alkene
  10. Own sweat smells nice.?
  11. yeast
  12. Zip line speed
  13. Olive plants
  14. Anti missile defense in Europe and Booster phase ICBM interception
  15. Last night's episode of House - medical question
  16. Suger on paper
  17. Encyclopedia of Life
  18. Liver Cleansing/Detox Foods???
  19. Question on Humanities Desk
  20. Darwin's Domestic Pigeons

[edit] May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 10

  1. Constellations of stars
  2. Measuring Potential Difference
  3. Principle,law,hypothesis,theory.theorm
  4. Embalming and eyes question?
  5. Freezing Points
  6. hy elliptical orbits?
  7. life question
  8. old books
  9. ollination
  10. paper cut
  11. What's the difference between a pathogen and an antigen?
  12. Leaf (species) identification for Commons images
  13. Onion milk?
  14. Titration Question !
  15. Climate /United States/lowest rainfall
  16. Titration

[edit] May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 11

  1. Vascular bundles
  2. rug names
  3. Bioethics and astrobiology
  4. Alzeimer's Disease
  5. EyeBrow Growth
  6. Vaporisation of Sweat
  7. Intelligent Dinosaurs
  8. Kidney donor?
  9. artificial symbiosis
  10. Body acts as a wireless radio antenna
  11. Compact fluorescent lamps
  12. Gaslighting
  13. Eggplant IQ
  14. Soap Bubbles
  15. Astronomy : Black dwarf stars
  16. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
  17. solutions and not solutions

[edit] May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 12

  1. extinction
  2. sunlight
  3. What's the verb that means 'to move by peristalsis'?
  4. Hair
  5. Observing influences results?
  6. Body Electricity
  7. Lupins in New Zealand
  8. Earth, Moon and Venus
  9. Coral reefs dissapeering from global warming
  10. Lighning safety in houses
  11. Isotopes: the commercial uses of deuterium
  12. snowpack
  13. Mother's Day questions
  14. Cats
  15. Dogs

[edit] May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 13

  1. Lightning in the snow
  2. CD-1 Mouse
  3. Limbs falling asleep
  4. passive solar to generate electricity
  5. Fuel Cell
  6. Why don't corn cobs burn ?
  7. ring species
  8. LUNAR ECLIPSE
  9. Do we have any pics of an eclipse as seen from space ?
  10. Falling
  11. Motion through Spacetime (Special relativity)
  12. Infinity and Speed of Light (Theoretical question)
  13. USA on Fire
  14. Scree plot
  15. Newts: friend or foe?
  16. Thermal expansion
  17. Coyote behavior dangerous?

[edit] May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 14

  1. When is it first clear that a child is left or right-handed?
  2. insect identification
  3. Sigma Replication
  4. Speeding up the aging process in paper
  5. Atlantis
  6. Glass
  7. Apparent Mass vs. Invariant Mass
  8. Orchids
  9. The Celestine Prophesy
  10. Sleeping Face-up
  11. Extreme p[H]s
  12. Need help with definition: Atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis?
  13. rugs that affect long-term memories

[edit] May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 15

  1. Can anyone identify this bird?
  2. Can anyone explain me The mechanism by which sound wave propagates through air ?
  3. what is the aspect ratio of a normal human eye ??
  4. voltage
  5. Energy from gravity
  6. Antidepressants
  7. electron and proton attract each other then why there are distance between them in an atom ?
  8. final starch question
  9. Hospitals
  10. Absolute Uncertainty of a mean
  11. hydroponics
  12. Chemistry (In general)
  13. Dark matter
  14. Lead-acid batteries
  15. Exercising and Sweaters
  16. How many HP do humans have?
  17. resistance of copper to strong alkali
  18. Dark patch on hand
  19. biology
  20. mouse

[edit] May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 16

  1. One Ounce
  2. Macadamia nuts - inedible to everything except for man and parrot...
  3. Intelligent Design, my wagon!
  4. Proof of Potential Difference and Resistance Formula
  5. Spiders of Oregon
  6. Evaporation of Raid
  7. Bitten cat
  8. Cobras
  9. Use of flowers
  10. calotropis gigantia
  11. Physics
  12. acyldipeptide
  13. Basal Metabolic Rate Question
  14. Lightning Strike
  15. Stability
  16. Fuse
  17. platelets
  18. math
  19. Psychokinesis/Psychic Abilities
  20. Floating Shoes
  21. Weird question

[edit] May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 17

  1. Ducks
  2. Fructose being "better" in fruit than candy
  3. Easiest way to have a self-sufficient life?
  4. Hovering Shoes
  5. Black holes again!
  6. Biochemistry Universities
  7. andom v. linear evasion
  8. the presence of melanin(pigment) in human skin is determined by human gene . presence of melanin makes skin look darker .
  9. Conservation of Mass - kids
  10. Acidity of "Special Parts"
  11. Lightning
  12. Marx generator?
  13. Use of Jasmine and Rose flowers
  14. Ashwagandha
  15. blood system
  16. Torch testing In Software Jargon
  17. OK this really is the final starch question
  18. Does a thermodynamic capacitor exist?
  19. So a thermodynamic capacitor does not exist....
  20. Can a lake have two outlets?
  21. Flower identification
  22. Relative Speed
  23. 100% reflextion
  24. mouse

[edit] May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 18

  1. heat to elrctricity
  2. Price of chemical type stuff and stuff
  3. Can Elephants Really Paint?
  4. is there any secure website where anyone can submit their new scientific idea for worldwide response having all the rights of the invention ?
  5. Electrical Current
  6. Egg yolks
  7. Left shoe squeaking more than right
  8. using various nimh batteries togather
  9. Mineral Hardness
  10. aircraft engine
  11. Identifying Identical Twins' DNA...How Can One Tell Which Identical Twin May Have Committed A Crime?
  12. Drilling for Oil
  13. question about multinertia
  14. Do snakes have eye lids?
  15. Non-linear voltage amplifier
  16. Amplifying 6 different signals in a breadboard using the least space possible.
  17. manta rays
  18. roblem (punching Marines in the head)
  19. Pressure on ears while scuba diving?

[edit] May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 19

  1. Where can I buy a spaceship
  2. Evolution vs Cars
  3. A/C efficency
  4. Thermogenerator efficiencie
  5. what's are the processes that an electron emit and gain energy in form of photon ?
  6. temperature question !
  7. Submarine pens and air pressure.
  8. ucalpytus balls
  9. automobiles
  10. i.c.engines
  11. effexor xr
  12. planes in air
  13. Purely Hypothetical
  14. How does Diabetes cause damage to blood vessels
  15. Area Moment of Inertia with Multiple Materials
  16. Isotretinoin / Roaccutane
  17. purely hypothetical
  18. green eyes
  19. ASTROPHYSICS
  20. Barometer animals?
  21. Plants water purification
  22. Venom
  23. t as Hydrogen Catalyst
  24. The hole truth
  25. Evolutionary purpose of eye colour
  26. Globular Clusters
  27. Volcanoes- Mount Krakatoa in Indonesia
  28. Mount Everest
  29. Northern bluefin tuna
  30. need help with birds

[edit] May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 20

  1. Evolutionary purpose of anal sex
  2. Identification
  3. Red something syndrome
  4. energy loss = mass loss
  5. Siphon
  6. identifying a bird
  7. Absolute Error
  8. Last question (not about starch)
  9. Electrical source
  10. Varenicline and dreaming
  11. Arctic Waters - Why so prolific?
  12. Lightning safety
  13. merging of storms
  14. Why do magpies like metallic objects?
  15. derivation for the moment of inertia of a sphere
  16. Alex Chiu - "Better living through the power of magnets"...
  17. My head's spinning...
  18. When someone is cold = liquid snot. When someone is warm = solid boogers
  19. Rage Virus
  20. Ice cream in hospitals

[edit] May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 21

  1. Resilience of light polarization
  2. Energy and mass - Binding energy
  3. Seeing imaginary colors
  4. Filter standard
  5. AUTOMOBILES...................HELP
  6. Bucklling
  7. Moments
  8. Carbonic acid & stomach acid
  9. Tension
  10. planetary conjunction
  11. Plane on treadmill
  12. stick towers
  13. Weird unusual bays and lakes and islands etc
  14. Sirius and Procyon
  15. deadlock
  16. Eggs
  17. "Hydrogenated" vs. "partially hydrogenated" fats
  18. Microwave Auditory Effect - Quack Science?
  19. paracetamol synthesis
  20. Ideal gas laws and molar weights

[edit] May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 22

  1. Number of chromosomes in a Great White Shark?
  2. cost of aerogel
  3. Laser pointer low on power
  4. Transistor breakage
  5. Pronunciation of scientific Latin
  6.  % of light hitting a solar panel
  7. efibrillate
  8. electromagnetic waves
  9. empirical formula
  10. Light Antenna
  11. Snail question
  12. QED photons
  13. Ekman Layer
  14. Airport x rays
  15. Shot in the heart

[edit] May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 23

  1. Do other animals snore besides humans? Possibly gorillas and other species that share very similar traits to humans?
  2. What is the word that means a meeting place of both salt and fresh water in a river?
  3. Help! my dog ate Lisinopril
  4. Solar System
  5. Insect Identification
  6. re:electromagnetic waves>>wireless energy propagation
  7. Architecture is music made solid
  8. fusion
  9. TTL digital output to +10V/-10V analog output
  10. Help identifying tree
  11. Landing on Jupiter or Saturn
  12. Hooke's law (physics - elasticity)
  13. Static cannon
  14. Bought two "9 db" gain wifi aerials - disappointed with performance.
  15. Can blood type change over your lifetime?
  16. Psychology - methods of coping with solitude?
  17. iodegradable
  18. Free Particles in Quantum Field Theory

[edit] May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 25

  1. Dark Energy
  2. Deserts
  3. Changing one atom into another
  4. Energy, mass and gravity
  5. Protein Shake's
  6. about horse power
  7. Name this bird
  8. Units within equations
  9. WoW Pet Name
  10. Molecules in a grain of salt
  11. Dream Recall
  12. thermal noise

[edit] May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 26

  1. The gulls have started laying their eggs...
  2. Nuclear forces
  3. Equivalent Resistance
  4. Elephants mammary glands
  5. Bird identification
  6. Exor gate
  7. Catalysis and equilibrium
  8. About Contacts
  9. More nipples
  10. H3

[edit] May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 27

  1. Momentum of the world trade center collapse
  2. Is the universe getting lighter, heavier or neither?
  3. Lead acid batteries
  4. more:em waves
  5. Year 12 Chemistry
  6. The Pill
  7. Handycam
  8. Question about a disease
  9. What body parts are seen as interesting or valuable to keep?
  10. Do we have an article on electrical burns?
  11. Contraception
  12. Washing hands and static electricity
  13. Shock
  14. Lactated Ringer's solution
  15. xperiments which can be performed with a TV
  16. Faeces in urine
  17. The Effects of Music on Plants
  18. Eggs and matches

[edit] May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 28

  1. What is the largest encyclopedia ever existed?
  2. Why is Ostrich meat Red?
  3. Lagrange points with other bodies nearby
  4. Radioactivity
  5. Distillation of ethanol, temperature
  6. ARUN ARUN QUES ABOUT PENIS
  7. Red Rice - Health benefits
  8. Regression analysis for tidal water levels
  9. Blind sugar-eating dogs
  10. Is it possible to get to proxima centauri in a practicle timescale?
  11. Glasses effect
  12. What would happen if I were to eat lugduname?
  13. Net Ionic equation
  14. Simple Static Mechanics Problem

[edit] May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 29

  1. Black Body Radiation
  2. My cooler pump???
  3. Space Elevator
  4. Allergies
  5. Heat and Waves ??any relation
  6. A psychological experiment where half of the subjects took on the role of a guard and the other half the role of prisioners
  7. Seagulls
  8. Opposite of helium?
  9. The Earths Atmosphere
  10. ARUUN ques. about clitoris
  11. Heavy gases ans speker enclosures
  12. Puking up turds?
  13. Vented cabinet.
  14. Phase diagrams for mixtures of ethanol and water.
  15. Which do you think is more likely to happen first?
  16. What would happen
  17. A cell's life?
  18. Biology

[edit] May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 30

  1. History of Nursing in the Caribbean
  2. Dimensions > 3
  3. Dryers vs. handTowels
  4. Design considerations for a water bridge?
  5. esons
  6. MCAT Prep Question
  7. Million decibel march

[edit] May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 May 31

  1. Aneurysm
  2. educational
  3. liver cirrhosis
  4. Mugugudhu Tree? + plant ID
  5. Dream world & dog world
  6. John Kanzius's "salt-water fuel" claims
  7. Interstellar travel - the best man for the job is an asshole?
  8. How big a scope?
  9. Ethene
  10. Future of Medicine
  11. Clarification of table salt vs Na+
  12. Bromine
  13. Finding gravity
  14. Wind speed at altitude
  15. Zooming in on planets
  16. Sleeping
  17. How to make a milkshake
  18. Consuming out of date yogurt
  19. Delta H
  20. Speeding up my scope
  21. Why has lactose tolerance become universal (in western world) in only 2000 years?
  22. Peanuts not good for pregnant women - why?
  23. How small are tiniest tv cameras?
  24. Dark Matter "Planets"?