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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 1

  1. The Nile River
  2. Help!!!!!anyone help me anwser this question....i have an exam juz few hours to go....i nid the anwser as quick as possible
  3. Blindness from birth affecting how one learns body language, etc.?
  4. Amesbury Archer had unusual configuration to the bones in his feet.
  5. Wormholes
  6. Solar Cells
  7. human anatomy
  8. natural abundance
  9. Frog
  10. residue left when bleach dries
  11. White stuff on old batteries
  12. Entry of blood from marrow to circulatory system
  13. How many human diseases are there?
  14. Trolleybus/Trackless Trolley
  15. Type of thought disorder?
  16. What is the definition of ORTHODOSES?
  17. Laser Pointers
  18. Angular momentum

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 2

  1. volkswagon beetle
  2. I was wondering
  3. Blue Whale Migration
  4. Breath Holding
  5. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
  6. social studies
  7. Paralysis from spinal chord injuries
  8. the United Kingdom vs Great Britain
  9. spider pigs
  10. Re:Solar flares, prominences, and sunspots
  11. Pinhole_camera
  12. Short term Memory
  13. Animala
  14. Copper Pipe
  15. What is the name of the 'no money - binge reflex'?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 3

  1. Finite Photons?
  2. Latex discoloration
  3. calculation
  4. silver plating
  5. molecular biology
  6. Heart rate
  7. Dogs and milk/chocolate
  8. Black Iron Pipe
  9. Biology/ snakes

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 4

  1. Beneficial mutations "objective?"
  2. "Shunning" in gulls? - re-asking as my original question has been archived without answer...
  3. clouds
  4. Dr Donor
  5. John Doe Plant
  6. metric tons conversion to litres fuels
  7. Sunflowers with 2 heads
  8. efficiency of transport
  9. Is the earth materially closed?
  10. Boiling with less than the recommended minimum level of water...
  11. Piloting a spacecraft
  12. How do you declare a theory?
  13. Planting acorns and fruit stones
  14. Science project - heat to electrical energy transduction...
  15. Need help finding health issues
  16. Physics
  17. Gravity Question
  18. Latest consumer battery technology?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 5

  1. P -type conductor
  2. Messages and/or Words in Microwave Oven Heated Liquid
  3. Glare Circles
  4. shaver
  5. Homework question
  6. aircraft cabin pressurization
  7. What happens to it?
  8. Comfrey- visual recognition of bocking 14 variety
  9. Burnt edges of bread
  10. Kittiwakes

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 6

  1. Saw
  2. Ants
  3. Gene Transfering
  4. Does electrons attract or repeal photons ?
  5. The Epidermis
  6. spin of neutron etc
  7. genetic intelligence
  8. Peacock snake diet
  9. volume of photon .
  10. Oil refining energy consumption
  11. Cooling down the body
  12. Seeing the sky from Jupiter's atmosphere
  13. pinprick sensation
  14. Where do we get so much energy???

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 7

  1. Speling queston
  2. Blood group and Vegetarianism
  3. Where is the brachialis?
  4. pale monarch
  5. Weather book needed
  6. Clarification on Sun tanning
  7. Water in the human body
  8. Alcohol from beans
  9. Frozen Water Picture
  10. International Space Hygene
  11. Temporary fix to glassware
  12. Bernoulli Principle
  13. Voice
  14. Tappan Zee bridge clearance
  15. Human and animal sperm
  16. Possibility of landing on a neutron star

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 8

  1. TRIGA Mark III
  2. Help finding news item on the plateau of cancer rates
  3. Dehydration and Gatorade
  4. Bird crap
  5. Microwave Oven Longevity
  6. Blood Plasma Discolouration
  7. Safe pesticides for use near Florida mangroves
  8. Voss and Fiji brand water
  9. Are we smarter now?
  10. Avoiding decompression
  11. Male dogs
  12. Just a thought
  13. Magpie nests
  14. Space Shuttle tracking

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 9

  1. Do freezers use less energy when empty?
  2. centrifugal force and gravity
  3. centrifugal force and gravity (gravitons)
  4. bunsen burner
  5. Marble and Mobile Phones!!
  6. Relativity's successor
  7. Instruments of Measurements
  8. Conv. of units for cholesterol
  9. ice cream

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 10

  1. Death - turning on back
  2. Headaches
  3. WHICH BIRD CAN FLY IN BACKWARD DIRECTION ALSO?
  4. Exact reason for the gender difference in essential body fat percentage
  5. light intensity
  6. Sleeping feet
  7. AIDS enquiries
  8. Fading of photogaphic prints
  9. Microbiology/statistics
  10. about sea monkeys
  11. changing the demand for electricity in a 24 hour period
  12. Melarsoprol - sorting fact from fiction

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 11

  1. Questions about hydrogen/oxygen ratio in Eternal Tank, Kourou launch site and inclination
  2. What is the fate of insulin molecules in the body?
  3. name of Middle Eastern herb?
  4. Toe Nails
  5. biology --- moth question
  6. nano tech
  7. AC Adapter
  8. Intracranial pressure
  9. anxiety disorders
  10. How to find out the caffeine content thropugh experiment
  11. Term for an aggressive signal used by animals
  12. New fish in an ecosystem
  13. Slow vcr power-up
  14. Digital vs Analog Television Broadcasting
  15. Health,
  16. Enzymes releasing products after the reaction.
  17. CO2 levels

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 12

  1. Need help with another link - hair pulling obsession
  2. Silicate Lattice - edges?
  3. Concentrated acids - definition, calculations?
  4. Fear of reading text books
  5. mitosis
  6. Recharging batteries
  7. Overcast Days
  8. Fractional charges on quarks
  9. Pseudocodes, DFDs and Flowchart
  10. Magic cleaning liquid
  11. The double pendulum...

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 13

  1. BaBar Experiment
  2. Japanese Vehicle Horsepower Restrictions
  3. Ohm's law
  4. seperation of sugar solution from pure water
  5. Gravitation
  6. Infinite light box
  7. Electrons in String Theory
  8. box fan
  9. Realistic deaths in films?
  10. Fire diamond
  11. Health fairs at libraries
  12. Skin pigmentation in higher latitudes.

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 14

  1. weather - humidity
  2. Ice
  3. about scientist of friction
  4. Effects of gravitation from and on an object near light speed
  5. Swirling Water
  6. Car's rim
  7. Human body drinking issue
  8. Mouldy bread
  9. Benzodiazepine
  10. Electromagnetic Waves
  11. Why does a hand in warm water while asleep cause bed wetting?
  12. Lanthionine
  13. Adoption
  14. Perfectograph
  15. Plato on third region beyond true and false, fuzzy logic precursor
  16. Physics?
  17. Not a question!
  18. Laser Cutter in Woodshop

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 15

  1. xenalights
  2. Cardio and Barfing
  3. Journal Cell Publication Period
  4. Glazing
  5. READING BURRETTES IN TITRATION
  6. Internet in Africa
  7. Hole in a spacesuit

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 16

  1. Stupid pharmaceutical names..
  2. How long would you retain consciousness/awareness if your head was cut off?
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 16#|]]
  4. Does Nature utilize prime numbers (qua prime) for any reason?
  5. Hibiscus
  6. Source of non-copyrighted image of plants
  7. Can you fault my logical and scientific proof for personal immortality?
  8. Closed Time-Like Loops
  9. Iron pentacarbonyl
  10. cities
  11. Dream question
  12. Nero mammoths
  13. "Sashimi Grade" fish, and parasites and other nasties
  14. Banana skins
  15. cytochrome c measurement
  16. troubleshooting
  17. Birth of a seagull

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 17

  1. Dangerous love
  2. Shape of the eye
  3. Chemistry and Botany
  4. Stroboscopic Effect again
  5. Vertical polarization
  6. Adherence
  7. clean pharmacy
  8. Quarks in the Universe
  9. Where do all the animals go that die???
  10. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 17#|]]
  11. Time-lapse of bark growing
  12. Polarization filter for camera
  13. Photos of earless humans
  14. The sizes of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
  15. Sensu?
  16. Rotation of drinking-vessel as a means of controlling flow
  17. force applied by moving water

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 18

  1. Strange creature ID needed...
  2. Speculation
  3. Dreaming
  4. Dark energy
  5. What kind of squirrel is this?
  6. Who was Ed Hummel?
  7. pitcher plant
  8. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 18#|]]
  9. Stovetops
  10. Magnetic property of Hydrogen .
  11. Why doesn't air conduct current?
  12. bush height
  13. Absorbtion rate through skin
  14. Chagos Trench
  15. So, there are red, green and now blue laser pointers...
  16. How do I determine the age of an adult female budgerigar?
  17. Odd vision problem

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 19

  1. Why do we go blue?
  2. A chemical bond
  3. Veins
  4. mimimum pixel size of lcd display
  5. Night vision
  6. TI-89 Titanium Units
  7. Bald-headed birds and the sun...

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 20

  1. Cat Whiskers
  2. Peeling
  3. Cognitive Error.
  4. Birth rates following wars
  5. Trends across period 3 of the periodic table
  6. BIOLOGY
  7. Chemistry
  8. chemistry
  9. Petrochemicals
  10. Eagle Project
  11. Utah Mine Disaster
  12. Tension in a string tied between two supports
  13. MPG: reality versus EPA ratings
  14. birds
  15. Speed limit "c"?

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 21

  1. Quantum Immortality....WTF?
  2. Psychomotor Retardation
  3. Travel adaptors
  4. Earth science
  5. pitcher plants
  6. What is true
  7. Pneumatics Vs Hydraulics
  8. Nettles
  9. isoxazole
  10. Palmetto Bug communication
  11. telescope design
  12. Hyperventilation
  13. DNA
  14. unidentified bird, mammal, insect
  15. Conjoined twins
  16. boat in current
  17. Qauntum Decay
  18. STS-3xx
  19. randomness mechanism
  20. Sea Shells

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 22

  1. Medicine - The Spleen
  2. is this right?
  3. Power used by a car
  4. Toads and warts
  5. insuline
  6. PHYSICS D/L
  7. BOTANY
  8. sea
  9. Death by Fire
  10. physics
  11. Conjoined Twins
  12. How many islands are there?
  13. Light Bulb Pressure
  14. Why is warm cheese more flavorful than cold?
  15. Swallowing toothpaste
  16. helium ballons
  17. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007 August 22#|]]
  18. Vehicles Submerged in Water
  19. Alzheimer's Disease
  20. Quick, slightly vulgar question...
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