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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 1

1. Medical "treatment" of superstition
2. What is the best way to evaluate the purity of single walled carbon nanotubes?
3. What are all the easy and effective ways to separate single walled carbon nanotubes into metallic and semi-conducting?
4. If a female goat is lactating and the human mother does not, then...?
5. What's the highest octane rating liquid known? (AKI)

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 2

1. Maladaptive personality traits in nonhumans?
2. Fitting a glass frit filter
3. Atlantic hurricanes
4. 2 degrees of warming
5. Who makes the most oxygen?
6. Rice and beans

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 3

1. Term for the brain's ability to maintain stable vision?
2. Tr8x4(P2) Leadscrew
3. Israel Border Police equipment

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 4

1. Why males in animal species are considered the default variant instead of females?
2. Plant identification
3. How is H+ (aq) + H2O distinguished from H3O+ (aq)?
4. Particle, field interaction
5. What's the lowest air pressure Earth life can reproduce in?
6. Evolutionary pressure in mating

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 5

1. Surface-to-surface missile
2. Direct eye contact

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 6

1. How to determine electric and magnetic susceptibility
2. Mounting Hole Diameter for M1.5 spring pin
3. Flowers' identification help
4. Weight loss depression
5. Understanding temperature
6. What would happen if you brought a horse to a big pressurized lunar dome?
7. Wireless telephone in 1922

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 7

1. Hearing aid battery tester.
2. How hard of a hit to the testes would be needed to temporarily incapacitate a gorilla?
3. Pot with water, time to boil
4. Why was the helical structure of DNA such a big deal?
5. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 10-3 JPG. Lecture 10
6. Can biomass be sold in bulk to thermoelectric plants?
7. How much heat does a CCFL output?
8. Mystery caterpillars (San Diego)
9. Do scientists know what type of bugs are required to colonize the body for healthy living?

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 8

1. Escalators changing directions
2. Neuroscience question
3. Cooling a CCFL bulb without straining the glass
4. Lard diet
5. Ventricular fibrillation by palpation

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 9

1. timing belt idler wheels
2. Blindness to important information because of deluge of irrelevant emails
3. Antibiotic resistance by production of beta-lactamase
4. Which Gazelle species is this article referring to?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 10

1. Rapid spiderling growth
2. Shivering
3. Is there a phobia of being in a building much narrower than it's tall?
4. Mother of all arachnophobia
5. Formula for walking on gradients

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 11

1. Why do vanilla ice cream manufacturers have to color the vanilla ice cream?
2. Metabolism of high-fiber food
3. Eat fewer Calories to lose the weight or eat the same amount or greater Calories to build muscle and thus increase metabolism?
4. Is any new research still done with optical microscopes?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 12

1. Finding out the Map Projection
2. Language loss
3. Mottaphobia
4. Eye color and light absorption

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 13

1. Nicotine addiction
2. identify an insect
3. Pressure during gravitational collapse
4. Fat
5. Tunnel, sea
6. DIY crappy chokes for VGA cables?
7. Industrial uses of seawater

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 14

1. Trying to find a video footage of Albert Einstein
2. Is this clickbait real?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 15

1. How many hours after aphelion could "the moment of the year you're furthest from the Sun" be?
2. Electrical Engineering question, Therevin reduction
3. From genes to organelles, bones, organs, their parts and shapes
4. ketosis
5. power supply
6. Does "Absolute Colorimetric" intent do any good under uncontrolled light?
7. Are there any receptors that detect fat?
8. In quantum mechanics an electric current can move in opposite directions simultaneously. Where can I find the Wikipedia article?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 16

1. Can foil dissolve in stomach?
2. gluconeogenesis
3. Do computer weather models take eclipse insolation drop into account?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 17

1. From static electricty to current
2. Is duckweed edible?
3. The moon is moving away from the earth
4. Computer languages vs human natural languages
5. Metal dust versus metal shavings when breathed in
6. Hugo Gernsback and the radar

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 18

1. Low pressure and high temperatures
2. Safe not-quite-total eclipse viewing
3. Cloudy days and humidity.
4. Role of the client in large infrastructure projects
5. What is the ultimate cause of seasons?
6. Does relying on refined cooking oil explain why we cannot get EPA and DHA from plant sources?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 19

1. how do commercial capacitance meters (DMMs with capacitance function) work
2. Huge dandelion

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 20

1. Umbra speed on Earth's surface
2. Runway construction on estuary examples
3. LED bulbs and resistors
4. Saving wild animals like in Operation_Breakthrough

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 21

1. The Octaeteris and the Cycles of Venus
2. LED on mains power how is it possible
3. Does Wikipedia have an article on the territorial behavior of various animals, including humans?
4. Is it possible to have a total solar eclipse on a Full Moon instead of a New Moon?
5. Would a solar eclipse be visible from the moon?
6. Approximately what is considered a deep partial solar eclipse?
7. Solar eclipse: why did the sun still look round in direct images?

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 22

1. Male autism-spectrum correlations with homosexuality, bisexuality, fetishes and paraphilias?
2. Sunspots
3. Gluconeogenesis
4. Dissociation constant, Ph of water 'n' stuff
5. STDs that spread despite use of condoms
6. What causes red/green coloration in eclipse images?
7. Physical mechanism of leafhopper song
8. The Multiplication of Food Grains
9. Biological maladaptions of living too far away from homeland

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 23

1. Before a storm, do electrons turn from - to + or + to -  ?
2. Name for optical illusion?
3. What does it mean to have a mental age of 8 or 12?
4. Design and build construction contracts

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 24

1. How strong does a pipe of water have to be.
2. gelatin question
3. Light concentration of a lens with a plane side

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 25

1. Eclipse on other planets
2. Tree with the largest shadow
3. Insect identification
4. Study that involves babies that can chop long strings of gibberish into "words"?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 26

1. Walden Farms
2. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 12-5 JPG. Lecture 12
3. Perception through yellow sunglasses

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 27

1. Dumper railway cars in Hungary
2. Is it possible to speak chimpanzee if one is raised by a chimpanzee or a group of chimpanzees?
3. Virus surveillance

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 28

1. Could a non-cooling planet with 100% water clouds rain everywhere at once?
2. WP:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Architecting or Engeniering

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 29

1. Frequency dependent amplification?
2. While shepherds didn't watch their flocks by night
3. Aural boxing?
4. LM317 - conceptual difficulty

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 30

1. Today's featured picture of moss
2. chess and reasoning power
3. Tamping/ramming tool
4. hurricane water
5. Rail and highways projects
6. Shelf life of computer science books
7. drag coefficient and lift coefficient
8. Toyota alphard - first generation

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 August 31

1. Winds picking up at night
2. Bucket-spoon for cement
3. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 12-12 JPG. Lecture 12
4. Why was Hurricane Adolph added to the name list?
5. Are foot orgasms real?
6. Rocket consumption and energy
7. Is global sea level drop due to heavy rainfall events measurable?