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May 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 1

  1. Entangled Qubits as Polarized Light
  2. Size of the cat's eye nebula
  3. Air in submerged car
  4. What does this mean? Gravitational waves should penetrate regions of space that electromagnetic waves cannot.
  5. Amputating limbs of quadriplegics
  6. wasp

May 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 2

  1. Meditation and Sleep
  2. White Blood Cells & infection
  3. pre-antibiotic era
  4. free space in atoms
  5. Do children of people with speech impediments learn the speech impediment?
  6. attractive force from virtual particles
  7. bromocresol gren
  8. Lifting buoyant things with just a few drops of water

May 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 3

  1. Who would and wouldn't want to live forever
  2. Programmed death
  3. Very laid back Bluebottles, how to distinguish true C. vomitoria?

May 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 4

  1. All-axial or all-equatorial?
  2. How fast it takes for Venus to lose its atmopshere
  3. Toxicity of lead anti-radiation materials
  4. Boiling water
  5. Hollywood etymology
  6. 2 questions about a chemical solution
  7. Lions not on the Gulf of Guinea?

May 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 5

  1. Dimensions of inflation
  2. Article about rain
  3. DVD player
  4. Is Planetary Resources making a space VLBI telescope array?
  5. Over-active Immune System
  6. Pronunciation of vitamin?
  7. Temporary change in sexual orientation
  8. Neutrons
  9. pearsons r and F TEST

May 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 6

  1. Chemical smells
  2. Where does the vitamin D in polar regions come from?
  3. Oil near the Great Lakes
  4. entanglement Logic
  5. What percentage of human zygotes end up dying in the womb?
  6. Virtual work
  7. Is it safe to keep batteries in a tin can?
  8. Perchlorate ion electronic structure
  9. dripping under sink
  10. Fractional degrees of freedom
  11. Metro lines and building

May 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 7

  1. Most specific term for the misleading sensation I am feeling
  2. how nuclear radiations caused pancytopenia?
  3. Quantum Mechanics/Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
  4. adding angular momenta in quantum mechanics (QM)
  5. Generic lifts

May 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 8

  1. Speed of Light and Black Holes
  2. How harmful are the expected failure modes of London subway congestion?
  3. Putrescine
  4. Real-life applications of Pokéballs
  5. Newly discovered pathogen in Roundup Ready crops
  6. Light bulbs
  7. How long do adult flies live ?

May 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 9

  1. "Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing"
  2. Crude oil, 'condensate'
  3. Historical rate of beta decay?
  4. free space in atoms 2
  5. Maltose vs Lactose
  6. In so-called "99% ethanol", is this 99% by concentration or mass? --150.203.114.37 (talk) 23:47, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

May 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 10

  1. Why are salad shrimps so cheap?
  2. Measuring human tasked energy consumption with calorimetry
  3. Nutrients for human brain tissue culture
  4. Two diagonal rings, one touching the other at just one point and spinning
  5. Master of Public Health
  6. Lava tornado

May 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 11

  1. before penicillin
  2. Minimizing the effects of aging on skin
  3. Is Element Zero In Mass Effect Possible
  4. is the file autorun.inf executable by itself?
  5. What's the term for one way only traffic lane design?
  6. WTC
  7. Transitional relativity ?
  8. Digging to Vesta's iron core
  9. Cobra Mist
  10. Eating pearls

May 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 12

  1. Rate data for dissociation & recombination reactions
  2. Lift controls
  3. What do these presumably space related acronyms mean?
  4. Herschel and life on the Moon, etc

May 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 13

  1. While I know that it's a myth that you can stop a moving car...
  2. Rusting after burning
  3. Autism
  4. 1 year.
  5. Why is CO not the anhydride of formic acid?
  6. Are there any traits (genetic traits) that are only inherited from one parent?(mom or dad)
  7. Greenland as three islands
  8. The Nature of Jupiter's Metallic Hydrogen Interior
  9. Stronger superacids than fluoroantimonic acid
  10. Steel laptop and electroshock
  11. Promiscuity and inbreeding
  12. Lead poisoning and weight gain
  13. thd
  14. How does myopia work?
  15. what is cally disease

May 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 14

  1. Why is KCN basic but not KNO3?
  2. Are the injuries sustained by Tony Stark at all possible?
  3. Weight loss question
  4. Thermodynamics of nuclear reactions
  5. Help identifying swallowtail
  6. Help Identifying another swallow tail
  7. Is it possible (however unlikely) for quantum fluctuations to violate conservation of energy?
  8. women
  9. Will Mira B explode?
  10. glass in soil

May 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 15

  1. Surfactants
  2. Proper Dimensions for Mortality Rates
  3. how much farther does a giraffe see
  4. Magnetic moment of a neutron
  5. Lemonade (Citrus limon × reticulata)
  6. Help identifying moths
  7. relationship between telomere length and cancer risk
  8. Grasshopper in Zion National Park

May 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 16

  1. Non-ethanol effects of alcoholic beverages
  2. Ripping someone a new one
  3. List of Self Limiting diseases?
  4. red giant's maximum diameter
  5. An inquiry into the nature of solenoids
  6. Orbital Chainsaw
  7. Compatibility (mechanics)
  8. Whether I saw the moon.
  9. Controversy on Gravitational Singularities
  10. Beryllium barrier
  11. Irish Great whites
  12. Urgent Antihistamine Question
  13. Antihistamine and general drug dosage question

May 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 17

  1. What is the formal definition of a chromosome, or is there one?
  2. Metal loses its magnetic properties when in a liquid state?
  3. Space radiation
  4. Mario Rabinowitz
  5. Cooperative lightning? Intelligent grass?
  6. Where can drugs get in your body? What barriers are there?

May 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 18

  1. sun become a red giant 5 or 7.5 billion years?
  2. Eclipse question
  3. Phd stipend life sciences
  4. What's the most likely problem with my tire inflator/spotlight?
  5. about sodium silicate
  6. Gibbs free energy
  7. Zeta potential
  8. Flat universe have zero total energy?
  9. Mootractor

May 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 19

  1. Eye movement limit
  2. Clomethiazole
  3. Proton-Proton Chain Reaction
  4. Equilibrium in analytical mechanics
  5. Plastic cities
  6. Species identification
  7. Unidentified houseplant
  8. Geiger tube
  9. Do microwave ovens use less energy than stoves?
  10. Specific entropy
  11. Why isn't dinitrogen toxic?
  12. Dasyuromorphia and carnivores
  13. Problems with xenon tetroxide xenate formulas

May 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 20

  1. Locomotives
  2. Geiger tube continuation
  3. Domestic Heat Pump connections
  4. Hexahydrogen sulfide
  5. Ingredients of paint primer?
  6. Electricity of x cm³ of water at y m
  7. State of radon related to radioactivity?
  8. Ultra High power mechanical HVDC-breakers?
  9. Planetary Resources, Inc.
  10. electric car batteries
  11. Are these "proper" moobs?
  12. Wood as an electric conductor
  13. Asthma meds for otherwise healthy people

May 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 21

  1. Oxidation state trend
  2. Could obesity be caused by a lack of magnesium in the diet?
  3. Cartography - resolution?
  4. steam engine plans
  5. Purple lightning
  6. Comparing climate between places in Australia & North America
  7. Diversity of sexuality
  8. Odd notation in genetics (greater than symbol?)

May 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 22

  1. Rotating in space
  2. Gravitational time dilation at the centre of a large mass
  3. Physics: Aerodynamics of Pigeon Wing.
  4. "Whoa!" moments
  5. Fun examples of body parts that go on living
  6. F-22 Raptor's deadly toxic stealth goo
  7. Quick weather question
  8. do most mainstream water-resistant sunscreens have dangerous ingredients?
  9. Gravitational Blueshift Equation

May 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 23

  1. Diversity of sexuality #2
  2. Could plants extract metabolic energy from wind?
  3. Science Project
  4. Where's the rule about how high model rockets can go in the US
  5. Trebuchet design.
  6. Odd smell after a hailstorm
  7. SELF CHARGING ELECTRICAL CAR
  8. Oestrogen injections for sociopaths
  9. Is the psi function real?

May 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 24

  1. Calories in coffee
  2. Super Heros and capes
  3. Geology of DRC
  4. Taxonomical names
  5. What class is a fox?
  6. Household uses for reactions
  7. Why does LASIK work?
  8. Solar flares and radioactive decay
  9. Where cometh the meme about heorin being less adictive than tobacco?

May 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 25

  1. Two questions
  2. What accounts for temperature increase at night in a modern home?
  3. Orange Plasma on ICP-AES
  4. Hand clap
  5. Jupiter Rise?
  6. Sunny weather and arthritis
  7. Border control discovering smuggling inside the body

May 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 26

  1. Catenanes
  2. What's so paradoxical about Paleoparadoxia?

May 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 27

  1. Driving speeds and fuel efficiency
  2. Why are there no albino horses?
  3. How often should sausages be turned on the BBQ?
  4. Never before seen color
  5. SleePology
  6. Light deflection by gravity
  7. Intestinal aganglionosis
  8. String theory
  9. Poynting vector about a charge moving at constant velocity.
  10. Why would being low on freon cause ice to build up around the AC unit's pipes inside?
  11. Sulfur nitrides and nitrogen oxides
  12. Catenane structural formula
  13. "Sharp diagnosis"

May 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 28

  1. Separating catenane links
  2. Comparing Heat Conductivities
  3. Blind Spot in space travel
  4. Algae on the Moon?
  5. "New form of LSD"

May 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 29

  1. Central Sleep Apnea theory contested
  2. Low frequency sound waves
  3. Refraction and entantiomers
  4. What evidence is there that DNA has a double helical structure in vivo?
  5. non-determinism and causality
  6. What is the nature of life
  7. How does the pressure-temperature diagram for refrigeration look like?
  8. Physics/Math Theory ... Flat Flexible Object ... Volume Mass Force
  9. Making Ammonium sulfate
  10. What kind of latch ?
  11. Color does not actually exists?
  12. Good or bad edit?

May 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 30

  1. Calories consumed during periods of intense activity
  2. Goethian Optics
  3. 2867 Šteins — common-noun nomenclature
  4. Polar oceanic climate?
  5. Birds that humans can ride?
  6. Woken up during non-REM sleep, i feel tired, why?, prevention?
  7. How to get hydrogen from electrolysis into a balloon?
  8. Moon tilting

May 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 31

  1. Animal bones
  2. For a skyscraper window washer, falling ....
  3. In E = Mc2, Why c?
  4. Reaction rate data for iodine recombination
  5. Do we need to detox?
  6. Which is More Buoyant?
  7. Transit of Mercury
  8. Is Scientific Investigation Ever Irrelevant?
  9. Neutron Spin
  10. How many fingers does a hand need?
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