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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 1

  1. Are scientists not telling us everything?
  2. Need to see parts of a pig
  3. Non-quite-black snake in central Florida?
  4. Need Bird Expert
  5. Refererencing
  6. Why does wintergreen oil dissolve plastic ?
  7. Do Horses and Zebras have more in common than Humans and Chimps?
  8. Shuttle SRB exhaust composition
  9. Word jumble
  10. what is water resistance
  11. Pholidota
  12. What are the most distantly-related animals that have successfully been interbred?
  13. snakes in mt holly nc
  14. Feline Behaviour

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 2

  1. Battery Life in Hybrid Vehicles
  2. what is the three intrinsic property of a pure substance?
  3. If stars can't fuse past iron...
  4. liquid water versus water
  5. Very strange pigeon picture....
  6. redox
  7. measuring fecundity
  8. Compressed hydrogen car
  9. Number one exporter of potassium
  10. DREAMS
  11. Burr oak
  12. thin film book
  13. Nutritional information Aquafina Alive Satisfy water - specifically, what substance is the fiber?
  14. Propeller aeroplane under water
  15. Mercury poisoning
  16. Toy helicopter
  17. journal article without subscription
  18. Liquid state of water
  19. Benzodiazepines and barbiturates at the GABAa receptor
  20. strobe lights

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 3

  1. Better name for 'africanization'
  2. Inverted icicle mechanism
  3. Serious question about masturbation
  4. Platypus and falsifying the nested hierarchy
  5. Is wikipedia a conscious entity?
  6. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 3#|]]
  7. birds and current
  8. greenhouse effect
  9. How do Fleas find their hoasts?
  10. About career options
  11. Colleges near Mumbai
  12. how do u fit a knife in2 an electric sokket?
  13. Order
  14. Oil crisis and food crisis, the next 50 years.
  15. New Guinea forest wallaby
  16. Food/drink to help your memory
  17. Do Marsupial mammals have placentas?
  18. ??Lightning
  19. Glyceryl Trinitrate and Phlebotomy
  20. Zits
  21. Drixoral
  22. US upcoming analog to digital TV change over
  23. Color variation in the mallard duck
  24. Red-winged blackbirds are seen quite frequently on mile marker posts, and along rural highways...why?
  25. Find out who cited an article?
  26. Biomes by latitude
  27. Photodissociation
  28. Alien life and falsifying our current theories of evolution

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 4

  1. Electromotive Force and Potential Difference?
  2. mental health
  3. ears
  4. Can you plug a 115 volt appliance into a 110 volt outlet?
  5. Animal behaviour
  6. I cut the skin on my knee
  7. Parachute for rock climbing
  8. Quantum mechanics and wave functions
  9. Vehicle Fuel Economy declines by 10% for every mile per hour over 60 mph. Is this true?
  10. Why aren't pygmies considered a separate species or sub-species of Homo Sapiens?
  11. Baby seagulls
  12. Escaping from a falling plane that is going to crash
  13. Electric Motors
  14. Ants smell
  15. Lidocaine and a couple of other questions
  16. Dust from old books
  17. Why electricity 60Hz in some countries and 50Hz in other?
  18. Nuclear weapons underground (forgot to give this a title, sorry)

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 5

  1. What is the latest scientific understanding of the relationship between dietary cholesterol & coronary heart disease?
  2. Unknown Equation
  3. Bodybuilders
  4. research resources for the history of the discovery of anaerobism in bacteria
  5. Asteroid
  6. Celluar Biology
  7. Brain
  8. Possessions
  9. Social-dependance on alcohol
  10. Inner workings of the package that Edge shaving gel comes in
  11. Open access - self archiving

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 6

  1. Ballpoint pen ink
  2. Huge Problem
  3. Another Unknown Equation
  4. Holographic projection...
  5. Yeast and brewing
  6. effect of overly large stimulus
  7. flowers
  8. Hypothetical Suicide only
  9. Diagnosticians
  10. BACILLI MICROORGANISMS
  11. Largest molar mass
  12. Phthalate
  13. Natural occurence of dry ice?

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 7

  1. Stones in trees in Yellowwood State Forest
  2. Phobos (moon)
  3. Threshing and winnowing?
  4. Hybrid car mileage
  5. A possible method for superluminal travel
  6. Reduce voltage drop through a diode
  7. United States Of America
  8. Cancer stage vs grade
  9. Stopping earth quakes
  10. Phenylketonuria
  11. Why is LSD illegal?
  12. Toothpaste toxicity (fluoride)
  13. applied sciences
  14. Synesthesia

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 8

  1. Suppose that we discovered a large-ish asteroid on a collision course with the earth...
  2. Looking into the past
  3. Lunar Module Ascent Stage
  4. help please
  5. Cancer screening
  6. Weather forecast
  7. Wing layout
  8. How do astronauts commit suicide?
  9. Garbage into oil?
  10. The worst case of food allergies and religious food laws
  11. Rubber
  12. Strange hypnagogic sensations

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 9

  1. Prevnar vaccine
  2. Tooth restoration
  3. Psychological concept of your perception of others
  4. Enzymes that remove pet urine odor

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 10

  1. Feisty baby gull...
  2. gravitational redshift
  3. Fans and heating/cooling
  4. Physics -- Force, Mass and Acceleration
  5. Gyroscope
  6. Neptune
  7. Physics
  8. Intelligence enhancing drugs
  9. Looking-glass protein
  10. Increased Gravitational Pull on Earth
  11. Jumping from big heights
  12. Cat spray / Territorial marking
  13. ball lightning?
  14. About mirrors, and short sightedness
  15. Photosystems and Primary electron acceptors
  16. Toenails
  17. Wierd Subconscious Dream

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 11

  1. Does MOND have problems with Newton's third law of motion?
  2. Beavers
  3. Phthalate
  4. custom parts
  5. Opening Boxes of Tablets
  6. Neutrino oscillation and conservation
  7. Blow job pregnancy
  8. Hypothetical Questions about Gravity and the Sun
  9. Rancid meat
  10. Why don't we have 4 seasons every 27 days?
  11. Sweating
  12. Cameras in rough times
  13. How come radio waves aren't stopped by walls and such?
  14. The Radius of the Earth
  15. Hottest time period in Earth's history
  16. Planet orbit question and the formation of our solar system
  17. Weight of human hair
  18. Flammable cleaning products

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 12

  1. Succession in Commmunities
  2. automatic sphygmomanometer
  3. Berembang tree
  4. Modeling a Body Moving in a Fluid
  5. Robotic spacecraft maintains air pressure?
  6. Martian North Pole
  7. Baseball
  8. Covalent Bond
  9. The most powerful earthquakes...
  10. Science do not solve all of man's problems
  11. blood
  12. Exponential equation, solve for I0?
  13. Magnetic monopoles and turning matter into energy
  14. Eye myopia
  15. Need Help in Finding an article previously found in Wikipedia

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 13

  1. Any ideas on how to create a concrete sign?
  2. Black hole confusion
  3. earth's magnetism
  4. How can I know if a telephone is also touch tone?
  5. raccoons
  6. Shovel-Shaped Incisors
  7. Big red ant!
  8. fruit contamination
  9. water pressure
  10. Addicted to you

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 14

  1. Flood stage and topographic maps:Cedar Falls,Iowa: A question touching on the sciences of mapping and hydrology.
  2. Ants native to the South Pole
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 14#|]]
  4. Question on atomic structure
  5. Eutanasia
  6. Ununoctium
  7. bread mold causing dancing
  8. Growth rings versus Wood grain
  9. Polyphenylethene residues

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 15

  1. Allergy medicine
  2. Physics-- Force, Mass and Acceleration
  3. Simple Inorganic Reaction
  4. Mercury
  5. polyatomic and monoatomic ions.
  6. Mass/Weight of a Pokemon in a Pokeball

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 16

  1. Course of the moon in the sky
  2. Using very short people as astronauts
  3. Blue skin on a Budgerigar's nose
  4. want to know how to figure out isotope half life
  5. Natural sleeping position
  6. special relativity
  7. How does a canon work?
  8. Noble Gases
  9. Autism
  10. Ants in my Car
  11. Driving Ms Smokesalot
  12. Speculative probe
  13. Theory of disease
  14. HIV+ People who don't develop the AIDS Virus
  15. Archaeopteryx / dromaeosaur scaly muzzle?
  16. dogs and cats
  17. Hot humid wet vs. Dry desert climate, overheating which more dangerous on the human body

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 17

  1. Male orgasm and analgesic chemicals
  2. Ibotenic acid
  3. Formation of peptides
  4. North
  5. allopathy
  6. Photons
  7. Safest, Richest Country in the World?
  8. future in biotech ???
  9. kidney transplant
  10. Einstein and the Atomic Bomb
  11. Coriolis effect and cyclones
  12. Enough Data?

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 18

  1. Metal detectors and gold
  2. Question about inventors/mechanical engineers.
  3. Bees & Orangutans
  4. I am searching for a circuit of blood pressure monitoring machine
  5. What is the SPF of hair?
  6. Vegetable oil in diesel motor
  7. reaction torque
  8. Male animals killing young
  9. Coefficient of restitution
  10. aircraft carriers
  11. Juniper Trees
  12. Catching seagulls
  13. Hydrogen cars

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 19

  1. Less moon near summer solstice
  2. why only rock salt prism is used instead of glass prism for obtaining infrared spectrum ?
  3. Why do dogs wag their tails?
  4. Soybean based Biodiesel processing
  5. Hemimetabolism vs Exopterygota
  6. Gene promoter prediction
  7. Reproduced embossed seals in diploma plaques
  8. sentient dinosaurs
  9. Bird population control
  10. measuring airflow
  11. Getting Kicked in the Testicles and its effects on the digestive system
  12. evolution/natural selection and complexity
  13. Does the nature need the primitive organisms to exist?
  14. How best to refute a common myth about central heating?
  15. Last surviving human artefacts?

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 20

  1. Homework Question
  2. Retaining wall - construction
  3. Cells and Tissue
  4. Friction down an incline
  5. Pubews
  6. Sodium laureth sulfate
  7. Human Evolution
  8. Not voices in the head, but similar
  9. Related question to above question
  10. Aerosol Can
  11. Asperger Syndrome in Females
  12. Lab coats
  13. Rainbow frequency
  14. Color of birds' eggs
  15. Hawk-headed Parrot - undeserving of bad reputation?

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 21

  1. cheaper coffee - instant or ground?
  2. Trig
  3. sunburn
  4. the stereotype about women being scared of bugs more than men
  5. Question about neutron bombs
  6. how is sugar used to treat battlefield wounds
  7. Skin effect of jewelry
  8. Simple Demonstrations to Show the Faultyness of Human Memory?
  9. Blood types
  10. sports drinks
  11. alcohol based vinegar
  12. Heat transfer through different mediums

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 22

  1. Is there a name
  2. Psychology website
  3. Pain
  4. On hair loss
  5. Mould is a floater?
  6. Research alone
  7. If all parts of the LABURNAM tree are poisonous,when the petals fall and decay is the poison carried into the soil making it poisionous to other plants.
  8. Stanovoi Mountains vs Stanovoi Range
  9. Survival in depopulated world
  10. Creation of an organism
  11. Green stuff on fence

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 23

  1. Lobster
  2. Coffee
  3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 23#|]]
  4. Experimental Design vs Procedure
  5. Ground-effect birds
  6. Gold thesis
  7. Unconscious mind
  8. Bohr Diagrams
  9. Weird lights when rubbing eyes
  10. chemistry: acid's strength
  11. Cowry shell probabilities
  12. STD transmission from female to male
  13. water discharged by AC
  14. Human Cell division and Gravity
  15. Is paper really a good barrier against germs?
  16. Can I crush a Tramadol Pill and drink it in water instead of swallowing the pill whole?

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 24

  1. Can any microorganisms live in 8N NaOH?
  2. Albatrosses and seagulls
  3. Ice on Mars
  4. Science
  5. how much kerosene does a lantern takes to burn for 1 hour ?
  6. SEM's huge depth of field?
  7. Painting as therapy for mentally ill
  8. Psychology: When having children... Is it true that men prefer little girls and women prefer little boys??
  9. Weight of sails and ropes
  10. bumblebee behavior

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 25

  1. Icarus-style 'wings'
  2. progesterone intake
  3. Electromagnetic relay
  4. Nothingness
  5. Nordic walking, also known as ski walking, pole walking or fitness walking
  6. Rhesus macaque with a tumor?
  7. Should I be concerned about meeting with someone with hepatitis C?
  8. Medical profession
  9. What distance is travelled on foot by an average person between birth and adulthood?
  10. Natural In-Store Herbs that have the Similar Euphoric Effects of Dihydrocodeinone
  11. Frog on a lily pad (or ??)
  12. Hypertension medication
  13. Amine chirality
  14. Medical grades
  15. Parrots and corvines

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 26

  1. Weird "grass circles".
  2. Load leveller
  3. Germs on bar soap
  4. optimum size when maximising star lifespan
  5. Electrolysis of Saline Solution
  6. is this picture real?
  7. how much walking until adulthood?
  8. Applications of the theory of General Relativity
  9. Costly Projector Bulbs
  10. Negative Feedback Amplifier
  11. Calculating the horizontal force exerted by a 60 ton vertical press on an aluminum extrusion
  12. If that Mockingbird Don't Sing
  13. Flooding in the US midwest
  14. Wheelchair users exiting a high-rise
  15. ABO blood grouping+
  16. Death and spectacles...

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 27

  1. Neutron annihilation
  2. Nose
  3. what is this formula?
  4. Repost - Black holes and Hawking radiation
  5. Cilia
  6. Pubic hairs
  7. Options after completing MBBS
  8. Videos of adults or adolescents with harlequin ichthyosis
  9. Eating cancer cell
  10. What is this spider?
  11. Gun and bullets

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 28

  1. Why is spitting in someone's face considered to be particularly offensive?
  2. Cavy
  3. Heliostat
  4. AC Power - Generation, Voltage and Current
  5. Evolution in Physics
  6. Medical diagnosis
  7. EMF Transmission Dangers

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 29

  1. galaxy edge on
  2. Flying Mammals
  3. Medicine-Patella replacement.
  4. Human and agricultural uses of antibiotics, and the development of drug-resistant bacteria
  5. Inseminating Mars
  6. Starting out with electronics...
  7. SImple pendulum
  8. mars
  9. Amount of energy on earth remains constant.
  10. Space left by crude oil
  11. Insect

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 June 30

  1. Complexity and Self-organization in Thermodynamics
  2. artifact
  3. Why are the planets in that order?
  4. An "immortal" plant
  5. Identify this kelp?
  6. Volume percent
  7. Primates on the Moon
  8. CERN
  9. protein energy malnutrition
  10. Leap second
  11. Endorphin half-life
  12. Relevance of "Space, Time, and Gravity" by Robert Wald
  13. (Relative) Quantification of Human Genetic Diversity
  14. Nemesis
  15. Another quick question about my parrot
  16. Frozen heart
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