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[edit] 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

[edit] 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?

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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?

[edit] 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:

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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?

[edit] 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

[edit] 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?

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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?

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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