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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 1

  1. Using LC-MS to test purity of water
  2. Bird Identification
  3. software bug
  4. Why are autopilots not better at landing?
  5. Head Injury Symptoms
  6. osteopathic vs. allopathic medicine
  7. 5-HTP
  8. Guanine analogue antiviral drugs and caffeine
  9. Cyanide and almonds
  10. chlorine damage to bathing suits
  11. Isopropanol dehydration
  12. ALbedo.
  13. Characteristics of living things
  14. autogyro backpack vs. backpack helicopter
  15. About the electromagnetic spectrum

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 2

  1. Hydrogen Compounds: Ionic or Covalent?
  2. nitrogen AgAin!!!
  3. milk removing stains
  4. Biome Biotope Ecosystem
  5. Blood
  6. Activated Carbon
  7. Electricity
  8. Robotics
  9. Cooler temperatures help in fighting wildfires
  10. Some of the king's pigs and some of the king's men put Humpty together again?
  11. DNA paternity tests
  12. pKa (dissociation constant)
  13. Mobile phone communication
  14. Transposons
  15. Food ingredients

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 3

  1. Chemical unbalance in clinical depression
  2. Bean Alcohol
  3. Longetivity
  4. Rolling
  5. Naga Jolokia
  6. Can you see colour in the dark?
  7. Explain Jargon: 'decay'
  8. What is meant by "a void has a time dimension"?
  9. Circular Motion
  10. Finding DNA of Jesus
  11. mechanical nasal congestion relief
  12. Self operation
  13. gravity within a heavy body (Earth)
  14. Science in crisis ?
  15. Visual question
  16. Dry season

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 4

  1. Blue and green eye color in Africans
  2. A four-hour day
  3. What would a YY chromosome person look like?
  4. Time Travel is Impossible
  5. Does any one know what this is
  6. Constructing a lunar orbital station by firing materials from the moon
  7. The Solid
  8. gf has atopy
  9. The science of baseball
  10. Water table in natural pond.
  11. Spider

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 5

  1. Aresol Can
  2. Other "dry ices"?
  3. Power to weight ratio
  4. Does an Electron Occupy Space? Why?
  5. Question regarding electricity
  6. GMT and UTC
  7. White teeth
  8. Henry IV of France and gonorrhoea
  9. tuberculosis (moved from WP:HD)
  10. Gondwanan distribution and Laurelia
  11. engineering question
  12. Atomic vibration

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 6

  1. Dino-mite question
  2. About NARCOTICS:
  3. Genetic code
  4. Washingtonion Palm trees
  5. Alaskan Mosquitos
  6. plastic containers
  7. IMAX type 3D Camera doing time lapse photography!!??
  8. The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
  9. Re: Pronator quadratus muscle
  10. The Law of Gravity
  11. Infinity
  12. What does "qsp" in reference to gelatin or perhaps other polymers mean?
  13. Swinging
  14. Bicycles
  15. Anatomy and physiology

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 7

  1. degree of benefit
  2. Infinity of space
  3. chemical, mineral, vitamin make-up of menstrual blood?
  4. A new Vector Energy Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - what to do?
  5. Amount of zinc gluconate in Zicam
  6. Could time be expanding?
  7. The Doolittle Raid
  8. Proving Technology for Aerospace Applications
  9. Biology
  10. Swings and insurance liability
  11. Are old-growth forests being cleared faster than they regenerate?
  12. Question: What is the compound/name of the chelate of calcium produced by plants?
  13. Conservation of angular momentum
  14. Momentum of a photon
  15. centripetal motion of car

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 8

  1. Taste vs. Smell
  2. Decibels
  3. Expanding Universe
  4. Centrifuge
  5. Pls, helping to answer this question !?
  6. Organic Matter
  7. Pic
  8. Gingiva Recession
  9. subliminal masseging
  10. Validity of Sigmund Freud's work
  11. Stereographic projection
  12. Nuclear Bomb Powered Rocket Project

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 9

  1. How many nucleotides are found in all of the exons of the CFTR gene?
  2. Voyager Spacecraft
  3. Springtime for France
  4. what is the term that refers to the earth's surface features?
  5. Cancer
  6. Book-name
  7. Meaning of a species name
  8. Acute chest pain
  9. Exothermic reaction
  10. CO2 of fans
  11. Sensitivity of Taq polymerase to heat

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 10

  1. Could magnetism be said to warp space-time in a similar way to gravity?
  2. Dogs and cats
  3. Conditioning
  4. sauna temperature control
  5. Rube Goldberg pendulum
  6. What is a "geographic feature"?
  7. Screech of Chalk on a Blackboard
  8. determining the sugar content of grapes
  9. Aircraft as flying disc
  10. Accelerated Thought.
  11. Photon energies in cosmological redshift.
  12. Proving alcohol
  13. aurora borealis from space
  14. Why are magpie's tails so long?
  15. machine that destroyeds itself
  16. airport security system x-rays (part I)
  17. airport security system x-rays (part II)
  18. rechargeable batteries
  19. Soil moisture measurement (copied from Misc. desk)
  20. What's the name of the fish species...
  21. Ridiculous genomic databases and their stupid lies
  22. Seagulls

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 11

  1. absolute zero
  2. Why does this microwave have electric-plug-shaped ventilation holes?
  3. Concentrate Juice vs Non-Concentrate
  4. Platinum
  5. crystals
  6. Nutrient needs of brain
  7. ionizing radiation
  8. Dark matter
  9. math and physical difference in mental ability
  10. Concentrated Blackcurrant Juice
  11. Why was I born to my parents in my town at a specific time?
  12. Taste of apple seeds
  13. Aluminum chloride
  14. Hardness of water
  15. Pressure and altitude
  16. Energy sources
  17. Which genes flank TJP1
  18. How does something vibrate in 10 dimensions?
  19. Dogs in heat
  20. Chemists: solvents for spot cleaning carpet?
  21. Emission line

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 12

  1. Guinea Pig head bump
  2. Maps and Time lines of plants, insects, sm. animals, and terrain.
  3. ARUN SINGH BAGH
  4. telecommunication-microwave survey as used in network establishment
  5. Insanity
  6. Entropy and Creationism
  7. Michelson Interferometer
  8. Aloe Vera
  9. Plants
  10. Global warming
  11. Protoplast fusion
  12. Finding CpG islands with genomic databases
  13. Widely-distributed, semi-technical history of moon shot?
  14. Oceans, Lakes, and Seas
  15. Earthquakes
  16. Paleontology
  17. Male to female ratio
  18. Does the universe spin?
  19. Cloned fingerprints
  20. shortwave radio
  21. Sociocultural evolution
  22. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 12#Brown versus green (fuel/CO2 versus O2 production)
  23. Ergonomics of press-up exercise

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 13

  1. Can my macaw breed with his macaw?
  2. Animal stripes
  3. Push/press ups with equipment
  4. help in cleaning up a dog's skull
  5. hydrocarbons
  6. Current in capacitor and nature of magnetic fields
  7. Darwin
  8. kitty's diet
  9. Thailand food production

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 14

  1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 14#MnO2<.2Fsub>|MnO2]]
  2. Natural vibration of solids
  3. PHYSICS- "FORCE"
  4. technological pudding
  5. Auntie, what's the matter?
  6. CO2 + energy = fuel. But how?
  7. Where to get the CO2 from
  8. WMD
  9. Masturbation
  10. STEAM
  11. Inductor on a bike wheel
  12. Diabetes and the treatment of warts
  13. healthcare Infomatics
  14. Avoidance of other people embarrassing themselves
  15. Does stars have that divine light , the reason for creation? Which guides humanity and other creatures? if so, where are they channelized?
  16. Tapeworms as a weight-loss aid?
  17. Trees in paper

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 15

  1. Identify the spider
  2. Inventions & Inventors
  3. Sinking of London
  4. Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps used as Backlights in LCD computer monitors and televisions
  5. Heel on wooden floor
  6. Discharging a capacitor on a metal sheet
  7. Mice and candle wax
  8. spectral lines of helium
  9. Joules, Newton Meters, and Foot Pounds
  10. Area of cathode in an MFC
  11. Particle deceleration
  12. Dandelion invasion
  13. Does light attract itself gravitationally?
  14. Suspensions
  15. greenhouse gases
  16. density of paraffin wax
  17. Trees vs Lamp posts
  18. A few questions about neurotransmitters
  19. Squirrel feces
  20. I have a science project that I am allowed to get help for some information
  21. Benzene resonance

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 16

  1. Transformer configurations.
  2. I was reading FANCD2 article.
  3. Higher frequency mean more bandwidth
  4. Endangered Species- Polar Bear
  5. PAUA OPALS
  6. flame test
  7. Airport X-rays
  8. Bush Stone Curlew
  9. Exercise pill
  10. Rolling
  11. Eating freshly harvested grains
  12. What if the Ice Age never happened?
  13. Indefinite Viral Carriers
  14. CO2
  15. Effect of salt on blood ADH concentration
  16. Speed of Thought
  17. biology
  18. Twaron subject to UV degradation?

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 17

  1. fossil fuel
  2. DNA in multiregional model of human origins
  3. How Geology & Material Science are related?
  4. Television screens
  5. Forest
  6. Distribution restriction
  7. how to determine the rate of reaction of haloalkanes?
  8. Hydration in chemistry
  9. A well defined demographic barycenter

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 18

  1. Toyota Truck Ad off Cliff
  2. Do I just suck?
  3. Possible Fuel Alternatives
  4. Weight of the Universe
  5. Magnetism
  6. Graviton powered cars
  7. DNA base letter representations
  8. Gearing a wind turbine?
  9. Optimal dishwashing efficiency
  10. First Primate
  11. Why do large wind turbines have only a few blades and turn slowly?
  12. Boson Bomb
  13. Home generator idea
  14. Neutrinosphere
  15. When was Ephemeris Time adopted, exactly?
  16. Measurements
  17. Spontaneous activation
  18. My computer will be shut down automatically every time I try to logon...Please help

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 19

  1. Which genes flank TJP1
  2. the brain
  3. Fluffy birds
  4. Solar Power - SILICON FEEDSTOCK
  5. plate tectonics
  6. Mastubate
  7. DNA sequencing - why the plasmid?
  8. non-flammable wax
  9. Cost of DNA sequencing
  10. why does Microsoft lags behind Apple

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 20

  1. Refractive Index
  2. Please explain why coefficient of kinetic friction is less than its static counterpart by referring to electromagnetic bonds
  3. Question about the Alcubierre Drive theory
  4. Please can anyone tell me why australia's earth is red?
  5. Stellar evolution and Sun
  6. Description of Human Being if last Ice Age didn't happen...
  7. Fluorescent lights degrade products on shelf?
  8. Can natural oil ignite at normal temperatures?
  9. Weak Interaction Bosons
  10. Francium reacting with water

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 21

  1. Evolution of nutritious veggies
  2. Peanut allergy
  3. Fruits and vegetables
  4. Identify the flower
  5. hiv
  6. black holes
  7. Chemistry
  8. Physics
  9. Full wave rectifier
  10. Aspartame
  11. Stink bomb cure
  12. Prognostic marker - practical implications of (non-)independence
  13. POLY MERASE CHAIN REACTION (Regarding Factors Limiting Speed)
  14. is this true????
  15. Connecting together small generators
  16. Snails and their homing instinct
  17. Scientific control
  18. Can BritaTM Containters Leach BPA?
  19. Egg drop
  20. BPA In Camelbaks?
  21. What is completely collapsible personal transportation (fits flat in briefcase)
  22. diketopiperazines
  23. Aspartate
  24. Computer Mice

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 22

  1. Bug identification
  2. Local mean time
  3. Magnetic Moment
  4. i need help finding the name of a fish
  5. Truck Slipstream
  6. Fleas
  7. RTI International
  8. explaining science to kids
  9. ARUN S BAGH QUES ABOUT THING
  10. Nuclear Bomb
  11. oil shortage.
  12. Watermelon seeds
  13. Riding a Bike
  14. Animals and earthquake
  15. Long-Life Milk
  16. Multivalent Ionic Charges
  17. Weird growth on agar plate

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 23

  1. How heavy should a healthy, adult male captive-bred Budgerigar be?
  2. Philosophical science-related job?
  3. Who where the first people with acne?
  4. Plausible Theory
  5. What will happen if a virus leaves its host cell for a long time?
  6. Whether weather
  7. Record Cumulonimbus
  8. Carpet / R-value (insulation)

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 24

  1. Concrete dampening and evaporation
  2. Studies
  3. How to deal with very recent developments? Pulser pump, mechanical mathematician, accumulating solar barbecue, dripper trackers.
  4. WHAT IS THE HYPOTHALAMUS
  5. Earwax
  6. New portal
  7. Peer Reviewed?
  8. automobile wheel size
  9. Studies
  10. Water Clouds
  11. Dosage of a Drug
  12. Scientists
  13. Metallurgy
  14. Spin

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 25

  1. Genetics: Linked genes
  2. Transformers
  3. Signal fade
  4. Chemistry.
  5. Leaky o-ring
  6. How can I change reality?
  7. Stephens aldehyde synthesis
  8. Pronunciation of Name
  9. Education & Career
  10. Wonder bar
  11. Evolutionary Anthropology and Psychology
  12. "For shaver only"
  13. Glass & Acid
  14. Same protein with two names?
  15. Electroelution

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 26

  1. Alka-Seltzer Neutralization
  2. Partial UV protection in sunglasses
  3. Oilfield Volcano
  4. Solar panels on the Moon
  5. To what other uses can a water pump/ motor be put to?
  6. Vesna Vulović's fall duration (pt. 2)
  7. stomach
  8. What is SUTWELL Nursing Device?
  9. Only Black and White pictures from Mars
  10. polymers
  11. Article with explanation
  12. Colour photos of Mars
  13. Carrier concentration in doped semiconductors
  14. Gravity powered electricity generator
  15. flu

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 27

  1. Mars rovers
  2. Pathogens in body
  3. Drunk animals and Marula trees
  4. Tasting a meadow in butter
  5. Blowing one's nose
  6. You probably get this question all the time...
  7. Question
  8. Battery sizes
  9. Questions about acceleration due to gravity
  10. Car economy accuracy
  11. Chemistry project Help
  12. tire/wheel diameter
  13. Unidentified concept car
  14. Plasma TV surface hot after use?
  15. Follow-up on Geographic feature
  16. Strange parrot behaviour - what's really going on?

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 28

  1. Can you make black holes move?
  2. Magnetic Moment
  3. Zero point energy
  4. Can BritaTM Containters Leach BPA?
  5. height and alcohol
  6. Glow Sticks
  7. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 28#|]]
  8. Subtance that increases sex drive?
  9. Cleaning a dog skull part two
  10. Survivable?
  11. Homing distance of snails
  12. http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Musical_instrument_classification_by_physics-based_organology.png
  13. Current, volts, Ohm's law...
  14. solar power
  15. Homing Instinct of snails.
  16. Chemistry: What exactly is produced by immersing steel in salt water?
  17. Ethyl Alcohol
  18. Terminal Velocity
  19. TECHIE COOLIE
  20. Water + grease fire: Why so much energy released?
  21. Conservation laws and space-time symmetry

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 29

  1. electrons and perpetual motion
  2. antioxidants to delay ageing and damage of cells
  3. Career
  4. Thermo Pond Epoxy
  5. Brain + Sex
  6. Under a burning night sky
  7. Power Generators
  8. Mortality rates expressed as hazard rates
  9. Horrible plastic smell!
  10. A doubt
  11. Optimal nap/sleep time
  12. Shindo earthquake scale
  13. Original rotation of solar system.
  14. Nuclear reactors and fissile materials
  15. Diodes
  16. Electronics home project
  17. Nuclear Power Plant on "automatic mode"
  18. List of Physics equations
  19. Logic gates
  20. How to calculate minimum wind speed to cause white caps on ocean
  21. Definition for trompe on wikipedia please

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 30

  1. Adipocere smell
  2. COOLING TOWER EVAPORATION
  3. CHEMISTRY
  4. Burning stomach fat with an ab machine
  5. Battery question, part II
  6. hens eggs
  7. abreva for genital hsv2 treatment
  8. chemistry - material science
  9. SPACE
  10. Canthaxanthin concentration in Cantharellus cinnabarinus
  11. animal colouration
  12. Can anyone identify this bird?
  13. Uncontacted Tribes in Brazil
  14. Hologram monitors?
  15. Orgasms
  16. Jack
  17. Ants
  18. EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNITY:
  19. Sky color with thicker atmosphere
  20. ladybug diseases and breeds
  21. worm farms
  22. Sciences
  23. Amino acid substitutions in engineering; phosphorylation
  24. Liquid

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 May 31

  1. Fermentation in eukaryotic cells
  2. EEG and epilepsy
  3. Acceleration Due to Gravity
  4. Ice in a Hot Room?
  5. Human Biology
  6. Night Luminous Pearl (Ye Ming Zhu in Chinese PinYin)
  7. logic programming
  8. Got Lost In One Of The Questions (I'll Post This On Entertainment, As I'm Not Sure Which Desk Is Most Appropriate)
  9. Humidity and electronic equipment
  10. Birds and hot chips
  11. Power Quality Managment
  12. Can you shoot yourself in the head twice?
  13. Trapezius muscle—A doubt!
  14. Pauli Equation
  15. NUCLEOPHILICITY VS BASICITY
  16. Properties of silk dope
  17. Asthma + Other disease
  18. Help with my daughter
  19. Muscle Growth
  20. Genome and DNA
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