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[edit] July 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 1

  1. Japanese Giant Flying Squirrels
  2. Smokescreen - how can I make one?
  3. annulation of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner?
  4. Boric acid level of toxicity
  5. hydrogen sulfide, sulfur and ammonia in pond
  6. Learning Java.
  7. key steps to do any project
  8. natural plutonium
  9. conservation
  10. Heart -Stoppers
  11. Automatic WMA to MP3 Converter?
  12. Muay Thai shin conditioning
  13. Dreaming in colors
  14. methanol added in a tank of gas in car - Ratio
  15. What's in this cardboard box?
  16. Want to know about scientific experiments proving anything related to supernatural.
  17. Wild and crazy idea...
  18. Is rolling tobacco healthier than regular cigarettes?
  19. bah

[edit] July 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 2

  1. Palm Beetles vs Cock Roaches
  2. Rate of fall and heat
  3. Root beer float foam
  4. Enlarged stomach lymph nodes
  5. Simple carbohydrates
  6. Nuclear Reaction
  7. Stupid question
  8. A question about Bubble Sort
  9. metaboloites
  10. Nice Looking Carnivorous Plants
  11. Budgerigar behaviour question
  12. Coloration

[edit] July 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 3

  1. Gauge Theory
  2. Nice Looking Carnivorous Pants
  3. RGB conversion to wavelength
    1. Further discussion
  4. Evolution of intelligent species
  5. Antimatter
  6. Time cause of motion?
  7. Quantify heat effect
  8. bilogy
  9. Physics, Maths and Mathematical Physics
  10. TEREPHTALYLIDENEDICAMPHOR SULFONIC ACID
  11. human science
  12. Open proxy
  13. Chiropractors (title added)
  14. The use of the unit 'mole'
  15. Cost of GPS?
  16. How is polyethene prepared?
  17. hawkings new theory
  18. Site archiving software?
  19. internet privacy
  20. how to speed up the download speed using router
  21. claims
  22. Ramjets- how do they get to the operating speed?

[edit] July 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 4

  1. International Time Bureau / Bureau International de l'Heure
  2. Tugs approach and estimated force (kN) for the contact.
  3. Clams
  4. Confused about Java.
  5. Locking WinXP screen
  6. Sex
  7. Equation versus date of Big Bang
  8. Alternative To Drive Belts?
  9. dog health
  10. biotechnology
  11. Error analysis
  12. Teradata
  13. IIS - Internet Information Services
  14. DVD copy prevention
  15. Possible to network with 56k modems?
  16. power regulators
  17. conductivity
  18. Stereo speakers
  19. What age bracket rarely leaves a fingerprint?
  20. Recycling CDs
  21. Economics -- why are unions necessary?
  22. Difference between Anatomy and Physiology
  23. "Surrology"
  24. Leg alignment
  25. meteorologists?
  26. computers
  27. Giant Ape Removal?
  28. Bird in Dubbo
  29. Windows Media Player security vulnerabilities

[edit] July 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 5

  1. How did the mammalian ear evolve?
  2. Camellia Sinensis growth area
  3. Being a biology searcher
  4. a compound
  5. Computer Hardware
  6. Business Networks and telecommunications
  7. Overpopulation
  8. Cramp
  9. bacteria
  10. neuronal and glial vulnerabilities.
  11. RGB value of Tyrian Purple
  12. Command to delete files in Windows / DOS
  13. GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)
  14. Mutagenic but not a carcinogen?
  15. 2 Minutes 15 Seconds Until the Next Beat of Heart
  16. Molecular biology vs Cellular biology vs Biochemistry
  17. Heart stops when sneezing
  18. Entropy
  19. pruning calamnodin trees
  20. Does stainless steel absorb odors?
  21. Sunburned skin coming off
  22. Video CDs
  23. Clamps
  24. steam catapult
  25. Technical Term for Nasally Voice?
  26. Need sources for Battery electric vehicle
  27. Safety of the Space Shuttle
  28. Evolution of the horse
  29. Colostrum Production

[edit] July 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 6

  1. Substantial Revision of a Stub
  2. Combustion of the atmosphere
  3. Folder protecting
  4. Ugandan Space Program [28]
  5. So who's the parasite?
  6. Genital herpes/warts?
  7. testosterone and interstitial cells
  8. CAN I DRAW GRAPHS IN MICROSOFT WORD?
  9. Fixpoints On Cars - What Is A Fixpoint?
  10. NANO
  11. Shipping a hard drive (with data) safely
  12. University and career prospects
  13. PDF page transformations in Linux
  14. Bug identification
  15. Iontophoresis Device

[edit] July 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 7

  1. Recover Hard Drive Table Information From Previously "Mounted" Drive
  2. PHP developing environment
  3. Excel sheet to powerpoint
  4. Anti Gravity
  5. sleeping
  6. Electrolysis
  7. Two Wikipedia Pages
  8. energy band
  9. windows on ships
  10. ANCIENT BEER
  11. Agent Orange

[edit] July 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 8

  1. How was metal mined in the middle ages?
  2. Want to learn more about Ozone Generators
  3. Lightning rod
  4. Half life of common medications
  5. Effect of radiation on water
  6. microbiology
  7. Chest hair
  8. hyperterminal
  9. Hatred between gulls and magpies
  10. MUD with largest player base
  11. Wattage

[edit] July 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 9

  1. Hatred between gulls and moonpies
  2. What's the best.. ?
  3. Running MAC apps on a Windows box
  4. Physics
  5. Hallucination
  6. Does twisting add strength?
  7. Laptops needing harddrives
  8. Bumblebee stings
  9. Spinach
  10. sun-oriented structures

[edit] July 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 10

  1. Leaders in thinking
    1. The list
    2. History of Sciences
  2. Dodgy dreams...
  3. Difference between solstice and the coldest/warmest average daily temperatures
  4. Gosh Numbers
  5. Theoretical basis of miniaturization
  6. ionic equation
  7. Is there an infinite nature to the universe?
  8. So, how clever are magpies in comparison to gulls?
  9. Whats my groggy feeling after stretching?
  10. Disabled Task Manager
  11. can the fruit conduct electricity?
  12. Deflating tyres
  13. Rename files using VB .NET 2003
  14. Observable Ray of Light
  15. unknown pain
  16. How many time it takes for a dog carcass to decompose
  17. Quicktime DAT/IDX files
  18. water supply for trees in urban environments

[edit] July 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 11

  1. Electrochemistry
  2. Diet problem
  3. Mooon craters.
  4. leitz edinger projection apparatus.
  5. Direction of current in the coil
  6. please help me answer the following
  7. sepsis
  8. Equivalent term for BSS in UMTS world
  9. Laparoscopic excision of moderate endometriosis
  10. holy shit
  11. 302 windsor ford V8 torque specifications
  12. Little unknown dead critter
  13. Cannibus and Coffee
  14. Security of cordless telephones?
  15. Negative effects of ameteur massage
  16. Falling off a building?
    1. Falling Inside a Building
  17. Something to do with MP3 CDs
  18. If I were the last man on Earth

[edit] July 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 12

  1. sepsis
  2. Artificial gravity
  3. Which species?
  4. password to folder
  5. Seeing Sun & Moon together
  6. Rainforests produce Oxygen?
  7. Old Rifles
  8. Algal bloom
  9. botany
  10. gravity
  11. science
  12. Speed of Light Squared
  13. Naproxen
  14. Norwalk Virus and kidney problems/complications?
  15. So important to have been returned
  16. CD picture
  17. optimum mph for best mpg
  18. nuclear power plant

[edit] July 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 13

  1. Firefox Question
  2. Why does red fade in the sunlight?
  3. anemia
  4. Virtual library ?
  5. REMOVING FAT FROM MILK AT HOME
  6. anatomy
  7. Cost of modern hollow clay block plant.
  8. Sound runs ahead of video in movie.
  9. World map in a single file.
  10. Pre-industrial float glass
  11. HEY PLS HELP ME??? THX!!
  12. food habits of animals
  13. Solar Panels Efficiency`
  14. Maxwell equation modification
  15. The Amount Of Pressure Glass Can Withstand
  16. Supernatural levitation
  17. lead paint? second hand smoke? germs? baby boosters? alchohol during pregnancy? STDS? blah, blah, blah
  18. Wind direction in weather forcasts
  19. Bluetooth
  20. Relationship of Eukaryotic Organelles to Prokaryotes
  21. Dinitrophenol for Weight Loss
  22. Beer and Wine
  23. Management of animal tissue culture wastes
  24. Who was more technologically advanced (during the same age)
  25. light travel delay and grammatical tense
  26. physics
  27. contains! sulphites
  28. Meatloaf safety.

[edit] July 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 14

  1. CSS issue
  2. Can a camera flash cause a fire?
  3. Universal proxy
  4. Cool as a cucumber
  5. Average age at which Americans lose their vrginity
  6. Can someone convert this into JPEG or PNG?
  7. Network Printer
  8. Photon Belt
  9. Label for particle mass
  10. Angioplasty
  11. help pls...
  12. Windows XP - OEM vs Retail
  13. Moon dissappears?
  14. Brain size, body size and intelligence
  15. Switching voltage regulator
  16. Displaced itch?
  17. High creatine level
  18. Sneezing spot

[edit] July 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 15

  1. Bruises
  2. Megalosaurus name
  3. LOAD Vs FORCE
  4. Reflexes/Conditioning
  5. "Universal resonator"
  6. Mobile Display technology
  7. radiation of energy from black holes
  8. Microwave Arcing
  9. Plank constant
  10. Spleen
  11. Vaccine trial length.
  12. new article
  13. Carborised match-stick
  14. 12 bee lifetimes to make one teaspoon of honey?
  15. How many square feet of wheat field to make one 800g loaf of bread?
  16. Optimum size of grid in trellis fence to reduce traffic noise?

[edit] July 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 16

  1. Chemical formula
  2. Citric acid in lime
  3. mammals
  4. C++ Compiler
  5. Increasing resting metabolic rate
  6. Tame birds vs. domesticated birds?
  7. What is optimum rate of a having a rare treat to maximise pleasure?
  8. biophyscics
  9. gemeology
  10. Diseases
  11. Units of Measure
  12. Emailing photos
  13. Why do some creatures live longer than others?
  14. Cornstarch vs Baby Powder
  15. Python question
  16. Kuru and prions
  17. Headrush!

[edit] July 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 17

  1. Is Gadolinium(III) Oxide magnetic?
  2. Gallbladder
  3. GIS data
  4. what type of acid can conduct electricity better.
  5. Supersonic Passenger Flights
  6. Best scanner for books/magazines?
  7. Micrometer tolerance
  8. Image Tiler
  9. Top-selling PC manufacturers
  10. What is anticipation.
  11. Citing a software program
  12. changing IP addresses to another country
  13. Earth's freefall acceleration.
  14. Gulls, magpies, moonpies
  15. Is it possible to think without using words?
  16. Ring flashes for Canon EOS DSLRs.
  17. Simple web-page that creates a URL
  18. iontophoresis
  19. Andreas Effect, droplet behavior
  20. Electronic beeps & hearing loss
  21. ct machines
  22. Oven Cleaner on Rims?
  23. How does smoking pot affect bodybuilding?
  24. Suicide

[edit] July 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 18

  1. Metal: Dissolving and melting.
  2. Rims and Oven Cleaner
  3. Brain Surgery for Bedwetting
  4. Gas Stove/Ovens and Electricity
  5. BBC 396 2V
  6. Moles
  7. Little Orange Beetles in Wiesbaden Germany
  8. Congo Fever or Congo Virus
  9. DVD Video burning
  10. Plant Search
  11. Judging the most “flammable”
  12. International System of Units
  13. architectural working drawings
  14. When a bird moults, is it painful?

[edit] July 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 19

  1. Beer Gut
  2. Sun Poisoning
  3. mango madness
  4. Run Out of Semen
  5. disasters
  6. Vitamin C impact on Fats
  7. humidity
  8. Train Question
  9. how to calculate SMR using poisson or bayesian apprpaches
  10. Why do we prefer room temperature?
  11. lightweight computer system
  12. Bird: Ostrich Skeleton.
  13. pH balanced
  14. Can you tell me the legally correct way for a licensed nurse to take a telephone order form a physician and how should it be documented in the resident's chart. This is in a long term care setting.
  15. Electricity
  16. Atomic attack on the moon
  17. Jumping into water
  18. nerve endings
  19. What Do You Think Of This
  20. Stingy hot-weather eyes
  21. Nuclear Fusion

[edit] July 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 20

  1. Spliting The Atom
  2. Integer Sorting using Pointers
  3. COREX SYRUP
  4. Integration!
  5. Air to water
  6. Why when you are in front of a switched on fan you experience more cold?
  7. Infinitely Variable Transmission
  8. Music software (open source?)
  9. Plasma Cooling
  10. The Dust Bowl, man made?
  11. nuclear physics
  12. New computing reference desk
  13. Opthamology
  14. Dell Vs Gateway Vs Mac Processors
  15. Spectral Equivalent to the Sonic Boom Phenomena
  16. The Universe
  17. Mine disaster survival
  18. Z machine
  19. Horse Fly
  20. Where do enzymes in Biological Washing Powder come from?
  21. How many planets in the solar system?
  22. Will our robots survive us?
  23. Gulls vs. Humans
  24. How to make DIY ear plugs or ear protectors?
  25. Heart Attack
  26. The Sun

[edit] July 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 21

  1. DNA.... Magnetic?
  2. basics of UAV
  3. History of crypsis
  4. height increase
  5. Making Waxed Cards
  6. Fast Help Please! Spain electricail suppy
  7. Why is diamond not anisotropic?
  8. Price of small diamond
  9. Blood sugar and artificial sweeteners
  10. virus infections
  11. Lucozade
  12. designing a capacitor plate
  13. Unknown plant?
  14. concrete
  15. mars encounter thisAug.
  16. Red patange
  17. 1965 and 1967 chevy bel air station wagon windows

[edit] July 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 22

  1. cancer development
  2. information technology
  3. Evolution
  4. Hypoglycemia in diabetics
  5. What data to use for an experiment?
  6. Torn ligament
  7. Interspecies Fight Club
  8. Takeout containers for frozen food storage - any concerns?

[edit] July 23

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 23

  1. Proton Exchange Membrane
  2. How many birds would you have to tie to your body in order for them to carry you into the air?
  3. Skin
  4. Hand held scanners
  5. Deep cycle batteries
  6. Hurricane energy
  7. A chameleon related question
  8. Tube based instrument
  9. Pollination in Plants
  10. Arrangement of Flowers
  11. space/time
  12. Atom
  13. Bug Identification
  14. skid marks
  15. Moon change
  16. Lights & Insects

[edit] July 24

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 24

  1. Vindon, anthracite-based synthetic fibre
  2. Speed of time?Reality is instantaneous?
  3. theoretical maximum EER
  4. The "i" in Apple
  5. Yellow Fever Vaccine & Meningitis A+C
  6. Difference between wood charcoal powder and steam coal dust
  7. rn lpn rpn what is the difference
  8. Airoplane
  9. Life expectancy & such
  10. Technology
  11. pronounce death
  12. Rotational Cooling?
  13. Birds and Trucks

[edit] July 25

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 25

  1. Name that syndrome
  2. Hurricane to Typhoon
  3. Question about atoms and electrons
  4. Unit conversions (title added)
  5. Where did the hemp go on my farm?
  6. animals
  7. Chemical Composition of CEP 2563
  8. The Wolrd bank
  9. Flexible PVC products
  10. Intestinal Worms
  11. Formula info.
  12. Water and ice questions.
  13. how to anliyze talc(3MgO4SiO2H2O)
  14. Galaxy/Balck hole
  15. Ointment Battle
  16. Will the Universe tend towards a single point
  17. Eating raw mushrooms

[edit] July 26

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 26

  1. Talking starling video on YouTube
  2. Should I turn off my computer during a thunderstorm?
  3. Mr Wheeler, of Wheeler's formula for inductance fame
  4. Lizard
  5. What's the Deal With Water Boiling at Altitude?
  6. Silly question?... but
  7. weather - temperature change in same area
  8. Steak on a black eye
  9. E=MC²
  10. About the main parts of an experiment.
  11. protists
  12. The diference
  13. Master/Slave for CD-ROM/CD-RW stuff
  14. Testosterone or DHT increases muscle size?
  15. odd water fowl seen on a trip to Tennessee
  16. about masturbation
  17. oldest tv program
  18. UV light through glass

[edit] July 27

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 27

  1. Dizzy.
  2. Rifle Bullets and Speed of Sound
  3. Protein in Synovial Fluid
  4. Regardig child Hemoglobin
  5. Pharmaceutical color coating
  6. Synasthesia
  7. Laurus nobilis, fertilization of
  8. Pauli's principle Pauli's exclusion principle
  9. science
  10. Cashew nuts healthy?
  11. nephrology laboratory terminology
  12. prada willy syndrome
  13. Sound and Wind
  14. Stiches and Nosebleeds
  15. billion
  16. UV lightbulb vs. UV light bulb

[edit] July 28

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 28

  1. the age of reason/the enlightenment
  2. Male/Male & Female/Female only fertilization?
  3. rotation speed of the universe?
  4. herniated disc
  5. Energy density of alcohol
  6. Portable X Server for Windows?
  7. EPR spectra have three peaks, why?
  8. About vision
  9. Plant Pathology
  10. Banks of south-flowing rivers in Europe
  11. Energy
  12. Help Me Identify This Plant

[edit] July 29

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 29

  1. Nose-breathing aircraft
  2. What is the chemical structure and properties of...
  3. Gray's Anatomy
  4. Amperes
  5. QED
  6. Electrical signals
  7. Snowing in Winter
  8. topic suggestion
  9. water after excercise
  10. Canada 1930's - History of Fish Oil
  11. Time travelers stranded at the beginning of human civilization. How to recreate civilization/infrastructure quickly?
  12. how do alterations of the CNS account for psychiatric disorders like clinical depression
  13. i need a new trend in electronic field because i need to take a seminar
  14. Toxicity levels of these vitamins
  15. If Americans invented the Hovercraft, did the British invent aircraft?
  16. Sound of explosions
  17. scientific question!
    1. follow up scientific question!!
  18. science project
  19. I think I f-ed my windows install

[edit] July 30

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 30

  1. What species is a seagull with a gray band around its beak?
  2. Einstein's attempted T.O.E.
  3. Diving fitness requirements
  4. Gulls - carnivores or omnivores?
  5. Evolutionary relationship between skuas and gulls?
  6. Yes, but .........
  7. Feasability of man-portable miniguns...
  8. Hookes Law?!?!?!!
  9. Retinitis Pigmentosa Gene Therapy
  10. How many calories??
  11. Stomach
  12. Info about unexplained undersea sound
  13. Electricity
  14. InputStreamReader
  15. Is a seagull a 'vulture'?
  16. Reoccuring question topics on Science
    1. Can Seagulls Masturbate?
  17. In small arms ballistics, how is "effective range" defined?
  18. Railroads: Where are the breaks on a freight car?
  19. Hall Effect
  20. Fear of losing possessions?
  21. Help

[edit] July 31

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 July 31

  1. regulation of psychotherapy
  2. Name for a class of chemical reactions
  3. black hole and parital black body
  4. Physics - alfoil
  5. Acceleration/Deceleration
  6. sun
  7. star
  8. Sulfuric Acid
  9. Intersexual or Hermaphrodite?
  10. Digital cameras and battery life?
  11. Reflection and Radiation mutually exclusive?
  12. String Theory as a T.O.E.
  13. Sleep deprivation induced cogntive impairments
  14. What disorder?