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December 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 1

  1. Is it warmer to wear 2 medium sweater vests or a large and a medium?
  2. What is "power for an average home" in journalism?
  3. Claimed efficacy of disinfectants

December 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 2

  1. RNA induced protein production life cycle

December 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 3

  1. What material would remove the most oxygen from a space in a short period of time?
  2. why there is no rabies vaccine?

December 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 4

  1. Scientific backing of pick up and dating coaches

December 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 5

  1. DNA polymerase
  2. Water

December 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 6

  1. Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis

December 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 8

  1. Covid vaccine

December 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 9

  1. Lifejackets and buoyancy center
  2. Why does Richard Bowie Spikes and Jan Ernst Matzeliger have the same image?

December 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 12

  1. Pressure cooker

December 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 13

  1. What's the least soft thing you could cut with an atomically perfect diamond without breaking a bond?
  2. Cannabis plant does itself adjust/move how the sunlight runs
  3. Psychology
  4. Zebra

December 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 14

  1. How small could red green blue camera pixels get?
  2. Why do so many explosives feature the elements of life i.e. H, C, N, O?

December 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 15

  1. Do people who get their entire noses removed also sometimes experience empty nose syndrome?

December 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 16

  1. Who's been nibbling my neeps?
  2. What are the kilos of man per kilo of plant ratios that will sustain life?
  3. Ureter regeneration

December 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 17

  1. Tubes in the human body that are not vital for human life?
  2. Saturnalia
  3. Is there a coronavirus tracker tracker? "tracker tracker" doesn't Google well

December 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 18

  1. What triggers the hormones that induce labor?
  2. Why large flags don't fly as much as small ones
  3. Vas deferens sheath removal question

December 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 19

  1. Measurements
  2. Post-surgery examination question
  3. Why don't epithelial tubules grow out of the foreskin area after one gets one's foreskin removed?
  4. Are all blond people related by a common ancestor?

December 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 20

  1. Cocking and sliding handguns
  2. Free atom radius of hydrogen

December 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 21

  1. Where does a man's sperm go after a bilateral epididymectomy?
  2. Will discovery of "anyons" bag Nobel prize?
  3. Scientifically proving the multiverse theory

December 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 22

  1. Frontal Suture Curve

December 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 23

  1. Stars in winter

December 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 24

  1. vaccine injection
  2. Plutonium tetroxide
  3. How to plot magnetic field lines around a metal?

December 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 25

  1. fastest way to chlll a bottle of champagne

December 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 26

  1. Comparison of RNA vaccines and RNA viruses

December 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 28

  1. Covid-19 vs. Spanish Flu, who would win?
  2. How does Gravitational waves discovery useful in daily life?
  3. When did GPS satellites launched in space?
  4. What's the difference between photovoltaic and photoelectric effect?

December 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 29

  1. UV-C sanitizing machine that works against the covid?
  2. Does Rabies virus harmful to dog also?
  3. vaccination after COVID 19 infection

December 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 30

  1. Cryogenic freezer at Monterey aquarium
  2. Healing from cuts ability

December 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 December 31

  1. Multi-shot vaccines
  2. Need assistance identifying these satellite images on the covers of three editions of Oxford Atlas of the World