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Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 1

1. nature cure
2. Unknown green insect
3. Hoodia Gordonii
4. neutron star
5. medical
6. Difference between PRECISION & ACURRACY?
7. Cattle in a feedlot
8. Acetone as an additive for gas and diesel?
9. genetics
10. Article in Dec 2000 Cleo
11. potentiometer
12. mosquito
13. Petrol additives
14. World spin
15. Zoosex
16. Citric Acid
17. Moon moons ?
18. Private Hospitals in Altanta, Georgia in existence 1967
19. Free software to make contour maps from spot heights?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 2

1. Self CPR
2. Viral Marketing
3. When was redial invented?
4. Karl von Goebel
5. refrigerator vs. environment
6. Seminar report
7. Memory Metal for Cars?
8. Special relativity
   1. 'Moving' source, 'stationary' observer
   2. 'Stationary' source, 'moving' observer
   3. An easier answer (or so I hope)
9. Infinitly improbable events in infinite time
10. Iron
11. Quite simple
12. Northern Cardinal question
13. sun slowing down

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 3

1. Genetic Engineering's impact on Plant Biodiversity
2. Interstellar travel
3. Product Success
4. rubella virus
5. Time dimensions
6. Weird sky
7. Fat or Muscle?
8. Insect
9. Circumstances for watching polarized light
10. STI's
11. HSV 2\HSV-2
12. Why does this edible oil mixture taste bitter?
13. Bicycle seatpost has rusted into frame
14. complex carbohydrates
15. Slow decrease in weight at sub orbital velocities
16. Nikon D70 question
17. Spiral path of a Hawk
18. drawing molecules
19. 600/1000V
20. Question about getting fluids Intravenously
21. TFTs v CRTs
22. Fructose - how much is too much?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 4

1. Just been reading about SMART-1
2. Beer-- why is it fattening?
3. War between humans and another species on another planet in the solar system?
4. Abingdon Island tortoise
5. Tracking down original references
6. Scientist - Enrico Fermi
7. 3d effects
8. MAGLEV
9. Black-holes
10. bio project question
11. i want to be adoctor
12. Death of Jupiter
13. rubella virus
14. Editing problem?
15. How do the unintelligent think?
16. Apples and Saliva
17. How natural cherry flavor is made
18. How does human body maintain ph?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 5

1. Discovering an alien probe
2. separation of chemical compounds
3. California Moss Genus/Species
4. satellite imagery maps
5. Do you smell burning toast?
6. burnt toast
7. Blindness and circadian rhythm
8. Mantle
9. Small writing - should it be allowed?
10. Is it Bad to run PC without proper Earth supply?
11. Memory and aging
12. Phloretin, phloridzin
13. How processors work ?
14. Smelling things that aren't there
15. Plane speed
16. Keep your bowels fit?
17. How does retinol kill?
18. request for location of manuals and papers
19. backlog?
20. Gourami identification needed
21. Simple Law of Motion Question
22. Strange insect identification
23. Construction of Light Emiting Diodes (LEDs)
24. what kind of mirror has best reflection of visible light ?
25. What would happen
26. genetically modified foods
27. What is the process of liqiudizing Oxygen?
28. Reference voltage for decibel measurement
29. canine dental

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 6

1. Ejaculation
2. Mouthwash, alcohol, toxicity, &c.
3. Genetic Gender
4. Sleep
5. Sn1&Sn2 Reactions
6. A car for 1ドル
7. yDNA Mutation Rates
8. Recognize this optimization problem?
9. Dogs and people
10. William Gray (Meteorologist)
11. Trying to get glasses

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 7

1. Value of chemical elements
2. Weight versus elevation.
3. Carbon dioxide
4. pray mantis
5. Water Ananlysis
6. Cyclone/Tornado
7. Molecule Diagrams
8. donations to medical science
9. Why [is] glass transparent?
10. Sailors' Dead Winds
11. Handwashing
12. Portal to define pictures of plants or animals
13. Kuiper belt
14. One lung breathing
15. Can guinea pigs eat lettuce?
16. How can I, as a white man get natty dreadlocks without having to pay for them?
17. Sodium vs sodium chloride in foods
    1. Follow up
18. Mutism

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 8

1. How large are the Mars rovers?
2. Useful fictions inside of science
3. Help to identify spider
4. diabetes in cats
5. ribose sugar
6. Paraffin lanterns & alcohol
7. Burn!!
8. Aldol Compound
9. American passenger rail profitability
10. grasshopper
11. Length of Time To Circumnavigate Globe

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 9

1. Sandalwood characteristics
2. Mechanism of thermoception
3. Dangerous Combination?
4. Physics problem - not homework
5. cholesterol reducing spreads.
6. Flash cubes
7. clicking rat
8. SI unit
9. Is it possible to see the change history of a definition
10. Copper tubing
11. West Nile Virus
12. heating my house
13. Rats wanting to be held
14. LED usage
15. Eye burns
16. EMP's

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 10

1. Insect Costa Rica
2. What do snake eggs look like?
3. Salty Fish
4. How do I tell the difference between male and female gulls?
5. SPSS graph
6. Songs that break music theory rules
7. Interior Plains of the United States
8. irrigation engineering
9. dynamic hermaphroditism
10. Cell phone batteries
11. An amp's power consumption
12. gravitational waves and propulsion
13. We're out of transcluded pages
14. Sexual Advice
15. Curvature of space and time
16. Direct gene transfer using PEG and Calcium chloride
17. Helium Balloon questions
18. Question about Sinusitis
19. What is insect hair largely composed of?
20. How to tell if watermelons are ready to harvest?
21. Are full moons always in the east?
22. Chocolate allergy?
23. Satallites in orbit
24. Is this how to convert moles to grams?
25. Real Talking Animals
26. what plant is this
27. copyright, publication, volumes, and authors

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 11

1. Identifying mission patches
2. The ship in the movie Virus?
3. Microscope Eyes
4. the famous salt problem
5. Time to freeze water?
6. olympic and islam
7. Why did nobody die of a heart attack before 1923?
8. satellites
   1. Deceleration
9. Tfl Oyster system
10. .flv
11. Solution of vessels
12. Need full citation for Gibbard and Kolfschoten chapter (glaciation timeline ref)
13. Portal Paradoxes
14. 700ml liquor + sertraline
15. amyloid beta
16. Highly enriched Uranium
    1. Critical mass of U235
17. Instantaneous Speed
18. further gravitational wave questions
19. Robert Boyle

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 12

1. Organ Transplant...
2. Sinusitis
3. What did I see on September 10?
4. I want to know that .....
5. Conversion of units
6. Construction
7. Water
8. toilet flushing on the equator
9. Bird's Sight
10. Elasticity
11. Acrylamide in sultanas and other dried fruits
12. Myocardium (heart muscles)
13. Inertia
14. Newton's laws
15. velocity
16. Inorganic Chemistry
17. Question about energy states / emission spectrum of hydrogen
18. "Cause of Death"
19. Io MOTH
20. PSS World Medical
21. Stroking a parrot?
22. Getting my head shaved - pros and cons?
23. Small bass cab

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 13

1. Blood-brain barrier
2. How do you define Pica?
3. Psychology and Human Viruses
4. Sinusitis vs. Migraines
5. Preserve human tissues
6. 'Sulfisomezole Sodium'
7. Why isn't a Kerr ring singularity a string?
8. science
9. How thumb drive work?
10. Circular motion
11. Questionable stuff in Endoplasmic reticulum
12. Gold-xenon compound
13. Bacteria question
14. dna
15. Woman/man physiological difference in body structure and movement
16. photo review
17. Help with Science Fair Project Topic
18. KW Vs HP

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 14

1. The Rooster of Bankiva?
2. Northern Hemishere
3. Speed Of Light
4. Eye exercises
5. Gravitational pull between moving objects
6. Sulphur
7. earth science
8. Housefly
9. Fordson tractor
10. Is this a Dracaena?
11. looking for medical word ...
12. Colours
13. Expanding universe
14. brain disorder

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 15

1. To the ends of spacetime itself!
2. Why is glass clear?
3. Drinking Electrolyzed Baking-soda Solution
4. Battery Capacity
5. Computer Software
6. ppDDT and opDDT
7. diet coke.
8. Digital camera image size ratio
   1. Aspect ratio of pictures etc
9. Impregnating the female population of Europe
10. msin i
11. Cystic Fibrosis
12. mesotechnology
13. vitamins and supplements
14. Seagulls and slightly past-the-date sausages?
15. Recharging NiMH batteries
16. Brille, plural
17. Global Warming: ice core question
18. Coins
19. momentum transfer and air molecules

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 16

1. Gull
2. Onions going green
3. How to Build a Catapult
4. Effects of using spent perlite as soil conditioner to improve yield of corn
5. Black Rain
6. we have heard of 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , 32 and 64 bit processors .why not there any processor that is of odd bit number?
7. help me to know more about the colour of the urine
8. lexapro
9. Luminosity
10. Weird strings during nuclear explosions
11. name of species - or common name
12. On Glass Cleaners, Ammonia.
13. Cancer stats
14. Psychopathy prevalence
15. Project management
16. Micro-climate in Nigerian houses
17. ABS with a manual transmission?
18. histologia

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 17

1. Geochemistry of ultrabasics.
2. Lactic Acid in Yogurt
3. How does radar work?
4. Chemical, Molecular, and DNA Computers
5. Kids, help
6. energy
7. Time
8. twin paradox - curved space?
9. Do animals prefer raw or cooked food, and can evolution cope with cooking?
10. Speed of Radio
11. Faster than light???
12. Tree identification
13. Burmese Python
14. Fact check me?
15. DAB Broadcast Range

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 18

1. Future of plant genetic engineering
2. Turpentine
3. Metals, non-metals, and semi-metals
4. distinguish between network bridge,repeaters,routers,ethernet hub,bluetooth and gateways?
5. Questions about allergies
6. Fishy coincidence
7. Flies
8. indium oxide
9. spot goo
10. SOLAR PANEL PROJECT
11. egg drop
12. Speech to text conversion
13. ID Card size
14. Hot and Cold as Sensations...
15. Solvents
16. watts into kwh
17. butterflies
18. Why Do Men Have Nipples?
19. Info on an american polar-expedition...
20. fluid behind our cats ears

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 19

1. Work, lifting vs walking - 7th Grade Physics
2. Tylenol Overdose
3. MPTP article image
4. Freezing to death
5. Space travel
6. Global Warming/ Ozone layer
   1. Perspective viewpoint
7. Magma
8. Fidel Castro's eyes
9. the magnetic field can effect to FO ( mazut oil) using in burner
10. Contact glue
11. Rows of teeth...
12. Ear Throat connection - Eustachian Tube
13. Gold reacting with Mercury
14. Satellite
15. laws of motion
16. "Protein molecules of the ninth configuration?"
17. Science Projects on the Titanic
18. redox reaction help
19. car

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 20

1. Health Care Supply in Canada 12 years ago and today
2. Breast removal
3. about non watson and crick base pairing
4. Can you prove existance of colors if you can only see B/W?
5. Surface area of a pin
6. Piano tuners
7. What kind of bug is this?
8. Energy when cycling
9. Glycemic response
10. a question about seed
11. ANSWERED -> Capacitance Time Delay Circuit
12. A Question Of Bread
13. Water window ph4 - ph 9
14. Micrometeorites and radiation
15. Em momentum transfer
16. Basic Law of Electrostatics
17. Human evolution
18. Sound waves and momentum transfer
19. Has anyone ever held a seagull?
20. Calling The Future

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 21

1. Hurricanes and Tropical Storms in Europe
2. Rubbing Alcohol and Blindness?
3. Shape and Finish of granite rocks in Texas Canyon in Arizona
4. Antimatter
5. Do herons swim?
6. matter
7. Copper sulfate
8. Hepatitis?
9. shark's name
10. empirical formula
11. Advantages of skimmed milk?
12. Point light displays
13. unidentified insect, need help
14. Milk --> cheese?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 22

1. Animal Respotory System
2. Worms
3. Does it?
4. Do Bugs "Hybernate"?
5. M>S in Engineering from your University
6. genetics
7. What is the word that means 'linking a memory to a smell'?
8. Thermometers
9. Is fire plasma?
10. conception/ovulation
11. ID Card size2
12. Submarine Periscopes
13. Involuntary/Voluntary memory
14. Blood Physiology
15. Do gulls swim?
16. AIDS after WWII in Europe
17. Battery life
18. light acting as waves
19. Limestone vs Siltstone for aggregate
20. Is it possible for a man to have multiple penises?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 23

1. Fate of the Universe
2. Covering answers on a worksheet
3. Science Question
4. Sliding...erm, thing (physics)
5. Potential energy and mass
6. Center pivot irrigation
7. Nostrils--how long and why?
8. Why does some hair stop growing at a certain length?
9. Nuclear fusion in stars - iron
10. Order of magnitude values
11. User:Molecular Hamiltonian/monobook.js
12. maps

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 24

1. Landmines in films
2. Gulls vs. Magpies - update
3. Energy Needed
4. Bath oils
5. Urinate
6. air conditioners
7. Emphysema
8. Diffusion & Concentraton
9. Selectively-permeable membrane
10. Chemical composition of wine
11. Thin Layer Chromatography
12. dc or ac?
13. pyrex comosition
14. cell biology: cytolysis vs. plasmolysis
15. Managed Care
16. Thermodynamics
17. copper
18. Why do I have so much trouble picking up women in bars?
19. static and dynamic lung volumes
20. plasma (4th type of matter)
21. A source for bimetal strip coils
22. Castrated ejaculation?
23. Treatment of MCAD

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 25

1. Aeroplane advertising
2. Very high SPLs at bass frequencies
3. Force Dynamics
4. Relativity theory
5. Engine behaviour (with film)
6. Past experiences effecting future perception - psych reference wanted
7. Creation week (moved from misc)
8. Electrical resistance caused by gravity
9. permethrin as it relates to sulfa
10. Fresh frozen plasma (FFP)
11. Pressure lost from air flowing through a pipe
12. why does me knee go crack
13. Adventurist Theory
14. Most radioactive element

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 26

1. Gasoline and Fire
2. Down-grading of serotonin receptors-prevention
3. Palpitations
4. My heart (nearly) stood still (Rodgers & Hart)
   1. Progress statement #1
   2. Progress statement #2
5. Flu vaccines
6. Heart muscle
7. Speeding up iron oxidation
8. Liver transplant
9. Silver cars are safer
10. Climate Change
    1. Examples
    2. References and footnotes
11. Appearance of lights when short-sighted
12. Psychology question: name of syndrome
13. Vision at speed of light
14. Movement at the speed of light and beyond it.
15. Cellphones and Cancer?
16. How long is a moment
17. Brain injury
18. Oh god, not another speed of light question... :(
19. Climate Change and the speed of light
20. Hmmm....
21. Speed of light =)

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 27

1. Destroying the earth with high speed object...
2. Pseudoscience
3. How many digits of pi for the known universe?
4. What pressure is Hydrogen stored at?
   1. Answered
5. natural bleach source
6. earths motions
7. Tarsola
8. Medical
9. Solar wind/Gamma rays
10. do you metabolize trans fats?
11. Relativity-: Theory, hypothesis ,conjecture or philosophy?
12. spirulina
13. velocity
14. Speed of light
15. Negative Kelvin Temperatures?
16. belostomatidae or giant water bug (or beetle)
17. Wetness
18. When the sun goes red giant...
19. Brown noise
20. How many humans have ever lived?
21. Where are the "Fulcher bands"?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 28

1. Corynebacterium and sweat
2. Edible glowing things
3. Gender??
4. Wrist
5. Largest Dinosaurs
6. Null-G Manufacturing?
7. pathology
8. Lactose and blood glucose
9. Cold and Flu viruses
10. glutamine
11. white oak tree
12. Speed of molecules
13. Increasing the volume of my ejaculations?
14. NMR Spectroscopy
15. Ringtones

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 29

1. magnetic north
2. leptin???
3. Rib Removal: 11th and 12th: Why?
4. Albratrosses and gulls
5. Daleks vs Magpies vs Gulls
6. Nuclear density
7. Nuclear Fusion
8. Case of the Missing Printhead
9. Bathing after meals
10. How much pot is too much?
11. Largest sensor size in compact digital cameras
12. top of the world?

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Science/2006 September 30

1. Singing parrots?
2. STAFFING A POLITICAL LEADERS OFFICE
3. Farrukh (nursing and heart transplants)
4. Electrical power
5. illness
6. Nutritionist
7. Aircraft Turbulence
8. Chemistry Help
9. Trouble Identifying Cactus
10. Simple AC circuit?
11. Kinetic energy's dissipation in vacuum
12. Moving charge
13. Steering trams
14. How much sleep
15. Valium + caffeine: Why does it make me feel like Jesus' son?