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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 1

1. do soundcards produce voltages below 0
2. Langer VS Hamburger invention
3. Soviet spacecraft atmosphere
4. Why don't dogs and cats get sick from licking, tasting, and even eating everything?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 2

1. D5W is considered as isotonic solution?
2. DC choke
3. Heat transfer
4. If you bury a body, how long does it still generate heat?

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 3

1. Passage of time with altitude
2. Lysozymes (Lysosomal enzymes) and Veganism

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 4

1. Why does Gamma cell miss in the pancreas?
2. What's special in "Medical" oxygen?
3. What are the odds of being struck by lightning?
4. Human body as a capacitive sensor
5. Fanged deer
6. Would an EOD suit really stop bullets?
7. Stopping bullets with magnetic eddy currents

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 5

1. 7 or 10 listeria species?
2. Why does infusion bag need an expiration date?
3. the Oxygen in the tanks is in liquid or gas condition?
4. Man turns mobile off whilst committing crime?
5. How common are capacitors that can hold a charge for several days?
6. understanding the waveform representation
7. Black Holes, Dark Matter, General Relativity
8. How would Freud Interpret This Dream?
9. Can an healthy man use a medical oxygen for breathing?

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 6

1. filling an oxygen in the bottles from three others continuously
2. The relation between Pulmonary embolism and birth
3. Air permeability of glass
4. Sideeffects of Madras Eye
5. Oils and the Trachea
6. Kindle region restriction
7. How much oxygen liquid will be in the same tank

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 7

1. Sun/Star
2. Prestressed concrete failure
3. Organic chemistry question
4. Why don't new complex lifeforms keep on arising from microbes?

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 8

1. Illacme plenipes
2. "USE NO OIL" - why?
3. LED stovetop heating elements
4. Trees shedding leaves
5. Infinite space

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 9

1. Falling into a black hole
2. Bugs?
3. symbol of Diploma Supplement what does it say?
4. How complex is the brain of a common shrimp?
5. Bisulphate of baryta
6. Why does weather anomalies happen?

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 10

1. Efficiency of body at energy conversion
2. The value of the electron in the world of science
3. Are Mark 60 CAPTOR naval mines being phased out?
4. High humidity in refrigerator
5. Nearest-planet-to-Earth graph

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 11

1. Copper in homopolar motors
2. How fast would a spacecraft be travelling?
3. The end of Rosetta (spacecraft)
4. Magnets and heat

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 12

1. Bird identification
2. Where have all the slugs gone?
3. Laundry detergent as dish soap
4. petroleum engineers in USA
5. Transitional dipole moment
6. Schiehallion experiment — determining mountain density
7. Philae (spacecraft)

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 13

1. Mitochondrial DNA questions
2. Question About the Reversibility of Gene Therapy
3. The Lactose has a sweet taste
4. Thermodynamics properties of chemical substances
5. Gases and valence
6. cushing's syndrome
7. Looking for further reading on cosmic body physics particularly comets/soft bodies type and collisions
8. What is the farthest you can communicate with an unlicensed (and legal) radio?
9. Why are we able to see light from almost the time of the big bang, should it not have got passed us?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 14

1. All the different dimensions
2. Designing experiment to compare thermal clothing performance
3. Shear strength of soil
4. Why the DAF-2 gene is not extinct?
5. Uniqueness of Human Bones?
6. Dowel action

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 15

1. Questions about Coenzyme A

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 16

1. Width of gas lines.
2. Rosetta Orbital Period
3. Signals from UFOs
4. Plant respiration
5. Water on building demolition
6. what is the difference between potentiation and synergism? (pharmacology)
7. Proper adhesive

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 17

1. Just asked for a clarification at Uncoupling_protein
2. Soapy water
3. Gravitation / Relativity / Cosmology
4. the value of a 0.022K capacitor?
5. Properties of PE-HD (High-density polyethylene)
6. voltage divider looking to the load like two resistors in parallel

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 18

1. Why is Western Europe poorer than USA?
2. Visual illusion: red and blue text on black background
3. Is Quantum entanglement necessary?
4. Cohesion of soils
5. Powerful optical resonance in the optical fiber cables
6. What is a ductless gland
7. Is melamine specially expensive (and/or difficult to produce)?

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 19

1. Are African Americans ever included in the study of collectivist and individualist cultures?
2. General relativity
3. Spherics of Earth vis-à-vis other heavenly bodies

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 20

1. Can it be a case that diastolic pressure higher than systolic pressure?
2. Shape of the fauces at high- and low-pitched voices
3. In Python, where does the return output go, if you don't care about it?
4. Crying
5. Why does standing up for a long time cause low blood pressure?
6. Diapers

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 21

1. Small camera sensor formats
2. History of Guns in India.
3. Ultrasound hobby science project for middle-schooler
4. Silent Dog
5. Scientists with unexpected interests
6. Spin-able thingy at the bottom of bird feeders
7. The most popular work written on Paleolithic life expectancy
8. When is it possible to hear the sounds of the beats till o mm (Torr)

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 22

1. Dwarf Reproduction
2. Holographic rings
3. Do alcoholics have a greater genetic tendency to find alcohol pleasing to taste?
4. Car park structure
5. Is the Cascade storage system based on diffusion?
6. Does coating a boat in PTFE (or other hydrophoric substance) makes it more energy efficient?
7. What does carry the signal in a wifi?
8. Sunrise/sunset times not exactly correlated
9. Is Power supply a misnomer?
10. Oestrogen and womens' facial and bodily features

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 23

1. What charges faster?
2. Dutch Tears to eat
3. Is there any relation between Lupus and kidney stones?
4. Why no three legged animals and the such?
5. What are the odds of getting oral cancer from oral sex

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 24

1. Bio-Printing Live, Healthy Human Infants: Will This Eventually Be Possible?
2. Human Power Techniques
3. silly tank circuit question
4. How many times the water (liquid) has density compared to water gas (vapor)?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 25

1. Odd hummingbird aggression
2. Tip-of-the-pen phenomenon?
3. Inserts in injection molding process
4. Dry juice
5. Climate Change Explanation
6. Image blurring

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 26

1. Current in two circuits
2. Work hardening
3. Rescue dog awareness of selection and rejection?
4. What are the differences between Thimmamma Marrimanu, Pando, Armillaria solidipes in Oregon, Posidonia oceanica in Mediterranean Sea?
5. Von mises
6. 100 billion coincidence
7. Freezing temperature for water

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 27

1. Availability of phase change material fabrics
2. Von mises
3. Amylase Inhibitors
4. How does do he take the pure oxygen in the glass in his hands?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 28

1. Most viewed health topics on Wikipedia
2. What's the thickness of a clothing to prevent mosquito bites?
3. Sublimation and temperature change
4. Function generator design
5. Universe - universe = 0?
6. Question About the Elimination of Energy
7. NMR basic problem

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 29

1. What are the chances of getting hpv from oral sex?
2. Hydrogen roasting
3. Red Bull Stratos
4. Snow-resistant buildings
5. Can you mix ants of the same species but of different ant colonies?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 November 30

1. Human/Animal Crossbreeds
2. Orgasm Weapon (serious)