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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 1

1. Medical terminology question
2. What are these engine parts? (Pictures included)

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 2

1. Why developed countries have more deaths due to Coronavirus
2. Viruses and bacteria question.

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 3

1. What species is shown ?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 5

1. I can't find anything about P15d / M5 / H6 bulbs

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 6

1. How did viral proofreader · NSP14 evolve?
2. covid-19 / quotients Y={X by inhabitants} and {Y by previous year's Y}?

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 7

1. Science
2. How does a respiratory tract infection spreads from the upper tract to the lungs?
3. How the coronavirus will die out.

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 8

1. genotype vs genome
2. Friction of interstellar medium
3. What makes a complex compound react with another complex molecule, but not with simple ones?

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 9

1. Getting group 12 elements in oxidation states beyond +2
2. Is possible to oxidate ethanol with hydrogen peroxide?
3. Effects of DRD4 7R polymorphism
4. ? per ? example

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 10

1. Do flu symptoms get worse late at night?
2. Will see you at Alpha Centauri

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 11

1. Covid19 test invasiveness?
2. azithromycin as antiviral
3. What constitutes a colonial organism?
4. Universe density without expansion
5. COVID-19 epidemiological models
6. Kinetic energies in a non-head-on collision
7. Coronavirus science
8. Possible stabilization of muons
9. Do fat people eat more?

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 12

1. What were those satellites?
2. Virus Movie

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 13

1. Is Homeopathy recognized by American, European governments
2. Can coronavirus be spread from humans to parrots?

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 14

1. Mechanism of hydrogen absorption by palladium

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 15

1. A single coronovirus
2. Social distancing effect on other viruses
3. Radio waves are not electromagnetic

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 16

1. Aviation / ADS-B / which parameters are sent?
2. tele video on camera phone

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 17

1. Whitcomb rule for cars?
2. What is the color of iron(II) selenate???
3. Why do some scientists keep calling the Warburg effect and aerobic fermentation "inefficient"?
4. Scientific evidence of possibility of lab theories (Coronavirus)
5. Could presession (rosette-shaped orbits) be explained by gyroscopic effects, due to the orbiting body's spin?

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 18

1. Is sidereal month constant?
2. charged particles emit virtual photons at each other? What wavelength/energy?

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 19

1. The definition of evolution in relation to humans
2. Virus Movie #2
3. Car air conditioning
4. High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) definition

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 20

1. Electric vehicles
2. Penetration by particles
3. Predatory Journals
4. What animal is this?
5. What is this metal object?
6. Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 21

1. What is this common insect (Sweden)?
2. RNA to DNA conversion

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 22

1. Unknown beetle
2. Coronavirus responses

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 23

1. Could Covid-19 have spread at multiple points from animals to humans?
2. Cats vs. dogs cleanliness
3. CNBC reports air pollution drops by 180%
4. Deducing vegetation types

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 24

1. Ocean swell or something else?
2. Lutheria bi-beatricis
3. Color of some cobalt compounds
4. Construction boundary between designer and construction organisation
5. Raft foundation
6. Medical wording: Reduction in lethality
7. Deep vein thrombosis and supercentenarians question

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 25

1. UV resistant germs
2. The Great pyramid of Giza: a question to Egyptologists

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 26

1. dish soap as solvent
2. Strains and sequences
3. Ringdown and no-hair theorem

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 27

1. Is all hypochlorite salts of transition metals are colorless?
2. Address of a medical machine
3. (52768) 1998 OR2 Asteroid

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 28

1. Some bird
2. Duplicate Wikidata items?
3. Higher/lower voltages with respect to fire safety

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 29

1. Planets
2. What exactly does it mean for a photon to have an amplitude?
3. Rooibus

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 April 30

1. Weider weight bench
2. Light sail