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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 1

1. Superconductor critical temperature graph
2. Plastic in the Sun

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 2

1. Enthalpy of formation
2. Will Ebola become a global pandemic?
3. Air conditioner settings
4. Iron as essential nutrient, rust, and water pipes
5. Why the hell haven't bacteria evolved to eat plastic by now anyway?

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 3

1. Mach's Principle
2. Flush survivors
3. Lost city of Ubar

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 4

1. Drone bees
2. Species
3. Job prospects
4. orang - chimp - human image origin
5. DIS1
6. Is there such a thing as leaf toner?

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 5

1. Name that beetle
2. Keratometers
3. Scheiner disc?
4. Largest research centers in the world
5. Witches and stakes...
6. Rocket launch sequence

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 6

1. Household LED lighting
2. People who are immune to addiction
3. Geomagnetism

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 7

1. Bird identification
2. Dried milk
3. Level of humidity and comfort/discomfort on the human body
4. ZrZn₂

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 8

1. Simple change to laws of Physics to reverse cup anemometer
2. Astigmatism
3. SLEEP STUDY
4. Biological taxonomy (history of)

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 9

1. Pulmonary embolism and COPD
2. Eczema herpeticum
3. Why is everything green through night vision goggles?

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 10

1. Pressure drag not symmetric?
2. The relation between diarreah and ear infaction
3. Night vision device

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 11

1. Chocolate caramel makes the eye(s) water
2. Cl₂O₅
3. What will been a more technically implex?
4. Is a mortar a type of rocket?
5. Public polls on naming recently discovered stuff
6. Soap and infection risk

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 12

1. Sleeping kitties
2. Condoms
3. High index lenses
4. Rows of transition metals
5. Conductivity of EMFs through stainless steel water bottles
6. Partial condoms
7. Spatial differentiation in the mammalian visual system.
8. "Medical" pot
9. Extra cost of launching satellites from Scotland

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 13

1. "Nutritional" Insulin Antagonists?
2. Solar roadways
3. Can you identify this yellow moth, seen in Yorkshire, UK, Yesterday
4. Hiv transmission

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 14

1. Digging instinct in children?

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 15

1. Gender-Specific Pulse Checking in Traditional Chinese Medicine
2. Can Dietary Fiber inhibit Dietary Fats absorption from the Colon?
3. kWh Maximum Demand
4. Wound healing process
5. Chemistry terminology
6. Is there any cells in the human body which have electric charge?
7. Dubin: heart's and frog
8. Complicated matrix to switch magnets on and off

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 16

1. Thermal conductivity of Invar 36 alloy (Fe+Ni)
2. Black iridescent duck
3. Battery
4. Metastability

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 17

1. Can Magnesium or Nsaid drugs inhibit muscle Metabolism?
2. Is osmium blue?
3. Rain power ?
4. What technically quest been bestly?
5. Electricity - Blue colour?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 18

1. Electron = black hole?
2. Experimental evidence for muscle microtrauma in exercise?
3. Were ancient oceans orange ?
4. "Eupleridae", meaning
5. Help identifying a feather
6. Disabling MANPADS
7. Identify a plant
8. thrombosis or sclerosis in the coronary veins
9. "Do that thing with your eyes"

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 19

1. May be all science always been humanitarian?
2. Recommendations for textbook on galactic astrophysics ?
3. Improvement to Cosmological Inflationary Model?
4. Chemical disposal of chemical weapons
5. Wave interference - What´s happen with their energy ?
6. How thick is the skin of a balloon?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 20

1. Pre-CPR resuscitation
2. Ca and K sorbates?
3. Number of employees at the Russian Federal Space Agency
4. Voltage divider - question about current
5. What do insect bites do to your skin tissues?
6. Salt poisoning
7. How can we know that electrons cannot be broken down into smaller constituent parts
8. What is the difference between ECG and Monitor?

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 21

1. Time loops
2. Some history questions about the ECG development
3. which is the top,best institute to get trained on "Telecom Protocol Testing" course in india?
4. Importance of Coking Coal
5. Strength training
6. Power source
7. Strength vs cardio training

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 22

1. Can anyone identify this bird?
2. Life flashing before one's eyes
3. Skyglobe replacement
4. Base hydrolysis
5. Identification of the species
6. Reaction
7. Inertia Simple expiation needed thank you.
8. Help identifying a dragonfly
9. Swarms of Antarctic krill

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 23

1. Are all spontaneous processes exothemic?
2. Natural Selection
3. can a clear substance become opaque upon electrical impulse?
4. G2 vs Sgr A*
5. Carbon auditing
6. Beer cans are easier to squeeze when half frozen. Why?

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 24

1. Question about Hawking's imaginary time
2. Is this a good image of a pediplain?
3. Origin of body heat when cycling
4. Alternate Fuel and Car Technology
5. Space suit color
6. Hmmm - so how does a wind-farm work?
7. Sadness and heart problems

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 25

1. Anti Armor Weapons
2. Hardening against coronal mass ejections?
3. An electromagnetic potential of Brownian motion
4. Odd cat behavior
5. MSF and Scotlands free ride
6. Would a "mirrored" human body work?
7. Mediterranean & South China Sea poles of inaccessibility?
8. Fusion > Fission?

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 26

1. quantum immortality
2. How Steroids eliminate Fungal infections or Hemorrhoids?
3. What kinetics?
4. Operations sector

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 27

1. Bubonic Plague
2. LAMI
3. Scientists talking outside of their area of expertise?
4. Does Newton's law of cooling apply to a hot car?
5. Aftermath of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius eruption

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 28

1. Ecological footprint awareness and self-esteem
2. How good is satellite image?
3. Rivers

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 29

1. Calculating the distance between two planets on a given date
2. Full body burns and infections
3. "Red" and "blue" stars
4. Amelia

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 30

1. Product
2. Species Name
3. Maximum hydrogen
4. Insanity test procedure
5. Non-dairy topping
6. 3.5mm audio input switcher?

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 July 31

1. Lobster behavior
2. Aircraft
3. Do nocturnal humans exist?
4. Propellantless thrusters