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January 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 1

  1. When beer is left in an open container for a long time
  2. White precipitate
  3. Complex/Quadrature Sampling
  4. Black hole
  5. Sound
  6. Dumping snow in the sea

January 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 2

  1. Manganese(II) oxide color
  2. I-joist
  3. LASERs for every wave?
  4. Secure flying without sexual harassment
  5. Snow as fertiliser ?
  6. I need a strong argument about throwing away incandescent lights to replace them with CFLs right away.
  7. Can some deaf people hear what they see?
  8. What are the lines in this picture?
  9. Strange Weakless Universe
  10. Ricocheting cannonball
  11. endocrine disruptor

January 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 3

  1. Quantum Electrodynamics
  2. Size of Casimir effect vs observed dark energy
  3. Recording sound from a moving car?
  4. where did all the mass go?
  5. Theory of everything
  6. Coloured light
  7. Chimney drought or draft
  8. moons
  9. Aspirin
  10. Light speed

January 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 4

  1. Lines when you squint at a bright light
  2. Relatively invariant.
  3. How will Black & Decker get a Hydrator to work in just 4 years?
  4. Phosphenes!!!
  5. Active Stealth
  6. Number of cell in a human body -- a contradiction?
  7. Hammer and feather
  8. Spring
  9. The Importance of Science
  10. Breathing underwater
  11. mesons
  12. Blackbirds falling from the sky
  13. LHC
  14. benzene
  15. Baking soda as deodorizer

January 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 5

  1. Jet engines
  2. Chemical formulæ
  3. How did the Big Bang escape its Schwartzschild radius?
  4. grueblers equation
  5. Color of food and nutritional value
  6. A six month old orange.
  7. Dog Knot
  8. Dark side
  9. Wine Grape variety abreviations
  10. Soap making
  11. Miracle Mineral Supplement
  12. Formula pronunciation
  13. Plant food

January 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 6

  1. Dragonfruit question
  2. Oscar (fish) question
  3. evolution propaganda
  4. Rotating momentum exchange tethers in LEO, drag and space debris
  5. Cause of vibration of a string
  6. What's the single best case for evolution?
  7. Lost in taxonomy
  8. Followup on element symbols
  9. Why does a grape soda stain on a white paper towel look like a bird map?
  10. ER

January 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 7

  1. Yellow zinc passivated screws and chrome-6 carcinogen
  2. New Jersey Department of Fish and Wildlife field guides
  3. Speed of gravity
  4. Alan Guth's inflation period.
  5. At what temperature does the volume of water decrease, regardless of whether your increase or decrease the temperature?
  6. ball bearing
  7. gravitational acceleration
  8. electronics
  9. Ceramic flat iron
  10. Removing a mole
  11. The loneliest thing in the universe
  12. Primordial black hole evaporation as gamma ray bursts
  13. Relativity
  14. Microwave oven flavor transfer
  15. Definition of life
  16. Gould on transitional fossils

January 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 8

  1. Gravity/Conciousness
  2. Brain
  3. Motor
  4. Cosmology
  5. Faking carbon/radioactive decay
  6. Dedendum circles
  7. SnCl2-Sn(OH)Cl vs. SbCl3-SbOCl conversion
  8. Dioxin in Germany
  9. 2D holographic display

January 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 9

  1. Why does any number muliplied by nine add up to nine?
  2. When and how are 1920s–30s lighthouses lit?
  3. Time lapse from brain to tongue.
  4. electromagnetic waves
  5. circular motion
  6. What did, and will, toilets look like?
  7. Why is the Washlet hard to penetrate the bathroom fixture market here in the US?
  8. Wet-Bulb Temperature vs Dew Point Temperature
  9. People in coma
  10. Balancing of reciprocating masses
  11. Dissolving gases in liquids
  12. Mass/Energy
  13. Car battery
  14. Bailey bridge girders
  15. Rotary mechanical toothbrush
  16. Genealogy
  17. Sugar Chirality.
  18. Tooth Decay/Heat

January 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 10

  1. Single Photon/Electron emision.
  2. Laser and polarization filter
  3. Zero Transit Time
  4. Motor oil leakage in cold weather
  5. Does the skull grow at the Sutures?
  6. electricity through eco friendly means
  7. Engineering
  8. Hiding gold in ink
  9. Why did Alorica close its office in Manhattan, KS?
  10. If I get homeless but still have my Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, how do I make money online with little/no overhead?
  11. Cheapest source of ethanol for sterlisation
  12. Linearization
  13. frost on windows of vehicles
  14. MnCl2 formation
  15. Effective range for a buffer
  16. The term "critical mass" in relation to repopulation

January 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 11

  1. Why are the 8 planets so far from the sun?
  2. Lewis structure
  3. Theory of Evolution
  4. Negative Matter
  5. Chevrolet Volt heater operation
  6. inversions
  7. flicker
  8. condensation in car
  9. Nectar as a food
  10. Anyone with new ideas for theories in creation of solar system
  11. Black holes and big bangs
  12. Prison nutrition and strength training
  13. Excitation of electron
  14. what is this red and yellow flower/plant
  15. Top speed of the NHSL
  16. bubbles
  17. History of explosives
  18. Organometallic compounds
  19. Dymaxion map

January 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 12

  1. Obesity and diabetes caused by low carb diet?
  2. Something aliens do on TV that I wonder if it's true
  3. Which Animal has the biggest brain?
  4. Synthetic elastomeric polymer
  5. viral inactivation in hpv blood
  6. Energy efficiency: bicycle vs. diesel motor
  7. Four bar mechanism
  8. CRO
  9. Pancreatic cancer image
  10. Earnshaw's theorm: magnetic levitation
  11. Winter
  12. Hypnosis
  13. Woibbly fridge
  14. Electroweak interaction
  15. Flower identification/information needed
  16. dogs and cats

January 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 13

  1. What vehicle is indestructible in any typical commuter's crash?
  2. When will Harley-Davidson get a hybrid powertrain?
  3. Imprinting (biology)
  4. Hydrogen fuel cell weight advantages in airplanes
  5. Six Sigma and Human Resources
  6. skipped lines in raw Cassini images
  7. Is vacuum really vacuum or not
  8. Snow glow
  9. Do vaginas scale?
  10. Primitive extant members of Carnivora
  11. wha t happens to the body after death?
  12. Medical Doctors in Canada
  13. The origin of the term "HVAC"

January 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 14

  1. Sail
  2. Positive beta decay
  3. Kindly help me find some good used solar panels for the [http://www.k-state.edu/umcm/K-State_Wesley/About_Us.html K-State Wesley]
  4. Hiroshima/Nagasaki and radiation
  5. Birds and animals living along the Rhine River
  6. Biomass into Crude Oil
  7. Follow-up: What looks like peas?
  8. Anticoagulant in donated blood

January 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 15

  1. The abundance of chemical elements in the planets of Solar System?
  2. Sulfuric Acid
  3. slingshot effect & Manned Space Travel
  4. Eating cold foods
  5. Half-life
  6. RADIAL TYRES
  7. Momentum
  8. Power to weight ratio
  9. Particle decay
  10. Melting and snowing?
  11. Sharks living in inland seas?

January 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 16

  1. What kills Sudden Oak Death?
  2. Mass of the Earth or any Planet?
  3. How are improved measurements of the speed of light reported?
  4. Hexafluoroethane and fluorine
  5. Diesel passenger cars without diesel particulate filters
  6. What is density?
  7. Is pH applicable to non-water solutions?
  8. German dioxine contamination: how long does food take to pass through retail system?
  9. Image identification
  10. can human beings destroy life on earth?
  11. Massive spring
  12. Makara Jyothi star
  13. Cardiac pressure-volume loop
  14. Evolution of poison dart frogs
  15. Medical question
  16. Feynman diagram art help

January 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 17

  1. Suffocation
  2. Future space journeys
  3. Electromagnet.
  4. Bread
  5. gastric acid
  6. Vikrell wha
  7. Gaseous compounds without gaseous elements
  8. Citric acid in fruit
  9. Flash flood tanks

January 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 18

  1. Rocking Cooking Pot
  2. undetectable viral load risk
  3. Accessing Previous Questions and Dates asked.
  4. Light Sails.
  5. Energy in a magnet.
  6. Will an object past the event horizon of a black hole inevitably reach the singularity?
  7. Ticklish sensation near forehead
  8. what killed Dinosaurs
  9. Sprouts with quickly growing roots
  10. never say death star for pulsars
  11. when the earth was shining
  12. Pre-existing conditions and Medical Insurance
  13. Tidal Locking Formula
  14. An object hanging on a string
  15. Planck length for Idiots
  16. Coal mining efficiency
  17. Stability

January 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 19

  1. Volume (sound)
  2. Fire in a Microwave Oven?
  3. Need a Formula
  4. Why do frozen vegetables taste so bland?
  5. Electrical
  6. Rephrased: relaxing voices
  7. Ice expanding, minimum density
  8. Allergen
  9. Water and brick question
  10. t (radiation and testosterone)

January 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 20

  1. Plant hardiness - temperature versus sunlight volume
  2. Pregnancy and radiation-blocking smocks...
  3. Biology vs. the Cosmetics Industry
  4. Calcium oxide reaction
  5. Is there anybody to reply me positively
  6. Electron proton collision
  7. Research of Light-Dependent reactions as an energy source

January 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 21

  1. S2O32-
  2. Could Erta Ale be the biblical Mount Horeb?
  3. I'd like to report an abuse.
  4. trusting science?
  5. Volume of subatomic particles?
  6. Decaffeination
  7. Radius of Black Hole
  8. Oklo reactor and the fine-structure constant
  9. Cells
  10. Proton target fusion

January 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 22

  1. Interstellar travel using asteroid rubble for shielding
  2. Death by Alzheimer's?
  3. Hazelnuts
  4. gravity waves
  5. gravity did not form the universe
  6. Different brand of growth hormone
  7. How to identify used-up batteries with a multimeter?
  8. Volume of sound at cold temperatures
  9. E=mc²
  10. Discovery of link between food and energy
  11. Head-splitting volume of fire and other alarms
  12. Weight
  13. Are stromatolites our direct ancestors?

January 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 23

  1. where does the RNA stored?
  2. Solute property
  3. sex
  4. electrical
  5. Schizophrenia AntiBiotics - 52%? success rate that treats and requires no anti psychotics
  6. Sussex cricket meteorite
  7. Heat generating gel
  8. Planck constant constant ?
  9. is it true that Scientists think people walked around for 150,000 being as intelligent as us but without written culture?
  10. State of the art of photorealistic computer animated actors
  11. Disease from eating sheep's lungs?
  12. Bamboo in laptops
  13. Permutation of position weight matrix for biological problem solving
  14. Sterile chicken tells no tales

January 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 24

  1. 2012
  2. the lower dendrites
  3. c-1 m/s
  4. Herpes virus
  5. Inside a mirrored sphere
  6. Parts of a horses skull
  7. Eye bone
  8. Registering a new rock
  9. Pure proteins
  10. Hypothetical question
  11. Taraxacum
  12. Moon

January 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 25

  1. minerls
  2. Lip cells
  3. Loss of cabin pressure / oxygen at high altitude flight
  4. Independence Day
  5. Energy as a measure of damage?
  6. h (home depot)
  7. Genomic DNA in northern blot
  8. What comes after Blu-Ray?
  9. Jupiter," Posibly a furter STAR ?"
  10. Orbit
  11. Autoclaving a bottle of liquid

January 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 26

  1. What's the difference between van der Waals forces and London forces?
  2. The amount of energy in houshold rubbish
  3. Rubbish Island
  4. Submarine speed
  5. Endosome/endocytic vesicle
  6. Why the "Coma" Cluster?
  7. KBOs and TNOs
  8. Proton spheres

January 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 27

  1. Best way to dissolve methane in a liquid that mixes with scintillation fluid
  2. Geographic center of the world
  3. ORME Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements
  4. Mean distance in a square
  5. Religion, mental health and education
  6. Anal sex in the 1800s
  7. Sky photography
  8. incipient fusion
  9. Practicality of experimental procedure for measuring microwave wattage
  10. Safe to store water in garage?
  11. Smallest meaningful length

January 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 28

  1. Artemisia absinthium
  2. Chemistry and Calculus
  3. Hadron collisions
  4. Firing a gun underwater
  5. Full name for invertebrate zoologist "von Linstow" active late C19, early C20?
  6. Fuel efficiency
  7. Can vets determine the cause of death in a hamster?
  8. If the gas pressure decreases what happens with temperature?
  9. please explain binary stars in simpler language than the article
  10. ear piercing
  11. Physics, conservation of linear momentum-collisions
  12. Aside the obvious answer
  13. A hydrogen bomb in an undersea volcano= add new land?

January 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 29

  1. Sweet crude oil
  2. giving m2=0 for newton formula
  3. Anal orgasm
  4. Balloons
  5. Graphite
  6. Converting ohm to siemens
  7. Central American Bat Identification

January 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 30

  1. My Honda Accord will be 10 years old this year. Why no rust?
  2. How do I customize GPS navigation voices?
  3. What's at the edge of a piece of diamond or graphite?
  4. fruit
  5. the temperature of crab nebula
  6. Tidal Locking Formula
  7. Can anyone provide clear, simple answers to these Mandelbrot Set questions needed
  8. Delivery
  9. What do nebulae look like in visible light?
  10. cell sonicator
  11. A scientific test to determine if Blacks are dumber than Whites
  12. How to remove glue?
  13. Codeine and its counterparts
  14. Highbeam's offer of scientific magazines
  15. Big alignment
  16. Subterranean flows of water (contains spoiler of Philip Pullman's The Tiger in the Well)

January 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 January 31

  1. Star formation
  2. color changing mug
  3. Identify unknown mineral
  4. Damiana
  5. Paternity
  6. Monatomic elements?
  7. WiFi laptop or home PC amateur radio packet network equivalent
  8. Brace, brace
  9. ear piercing (2)
  10. Insulated windows
  11. Handheld missile/rocket launchers with multiple missiles
  12. what the species name?
  13. Processing of metals: casting
  14. Parachutes
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