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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 1

1. Can lithium batteries and oxygen be used to make an impovised explosive device to blow up a cockpit door?
2. What is real the difference between VF and IVF?
3. Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
4. Drosophila melanogaster
5. Research reports
6. Are there any studies as to what happens if you extract an embryo and inject it into someones blood stream?

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 2

1. Is Interpretivism Opposed to Using Mathematics in Understanding Social Reality?
2. Potassium iodide as an radionicleotide preventative
3. Arby's trans-fats
4. Malassezia yeast commensal frequency of occurence
5. Frozen coffee
6. MosFet voltage drop
7. How does relative permittivity work in homogeneous mixtures?
8. What percentage of the contiguous United States are completely undeveloped?
9. Could the ability of people savants exceed the functional capacity of the computer?
10. Looking for an interpretation of QM
11. If the Neanderthal man had not gone extinct, then would it be put in a zoo?

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 3

1. Hentriacontane molecular conformation
2. Intermediate taxa
3. Food science question -- evaporation
4. Referencing
5. What is "hydrogenated vegetable oil" ?

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 4

1. Blunt trauma and delayed death
2. Is sexual attractiveness distinctly physiologically and phenotypically different from physical attractiveness?
3. Feeding variac with 240 VAC at 110 VAC point
4. The Rotation of the Voyager Space Probe
5. The difference between mutation of gene and genome

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 5

1. What kind of psychometric test is this?
2. Air Pollution Maps
3. trees
4. Female sexuality
5. Jet aerodynamics of sound
6. kettles in the bath

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 6

1. Electric bath warmer
2. regrowing fingers
3. Turning into a skeleton
4. "Physicist's guide to life" book?
5. sleep deprivation
6. Losing weight
7. Addiction
8. Can an animal genetically engineer itself?

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 7

1. microwave
2. How long do LED, CFL, etc bulbs stay "on"?
3. Modern medicine / human evolution
4. Engineering and design - constructional systems of the USSR
5. Flat loudspeakers
6. Squeezing a very round head inside an oval helmet?
7. colleges for message therapy
8. Discovering an asteroid
9. Who realised that whales and dolphins are not fish?
10. Can a human body creates toxins by itself?

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 8

1. Material for heaviest bat possible
2. Women's buttocks and handicap principle
3. calorific value of carbon monoxide
4. Orgasm

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 9

1. Gravity in conditions of the planet Earth
2. Capacitor
3. Prototypes of computer
4. Pressure reducing valve question
5. Reservoir storage
6. Radio question 1
7. Radio question 2

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 10

1. Is there any hormone which exists only in human males rather than female, or opposite?
2. Allura Red AC
3. Metallic-like organic compound?
4. Is there any relationship between limescale and nephrolithiasis or bladder stones?
5. Higher atmosphere= More homogenized Earth?
6. Can a rectovaginal fistula lead to pregnancy?
7. How many cell types does the heart have?
8. Chemistry
9. Drag in Le Sage's theory of gravitation
10. Earthquakes

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 11

1. Frog eyes
2. How is the opposite of the cardiomegaly called?
3. Injecting a substance into the veins with the tongue.
4. Spectroscopy of molecules and atoms
5. Space: digital or analog?
6. selective mutism

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 12

1. Palm tree
2. Why do your ears pop when you go over a hill in the car, but not when you go up several stories in an elevator?
3. Effect of cold on human body
4. Earth's magnetic field

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 13

1. Definitions
2. Chimp evolution driven by interaction with gorillas?
3. Highest area of the sky covered by moons of a terrestrial planet?
4. Tomato-based products on clothes vs. containers

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 14

1. Eutectic systems
2. Can one use air-conditioning equipment to manipulate different forms of energy (apart from heat)?

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 15

1. stability of neighboring orbits
2. Lithinase

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 16

1. Please Explain Why This (Presumable) Crank Is Wrong...
2. Plastic noodles test
3. Soreness

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 17

1. Space having mass

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 18

1. Raw meat
2. Rotating reference frame
3. Effect of an astrophysical jet on stellar bodies
4. Health effects of mixed triglycerides
5. 36 miles of cycling - time?
6. CNC Router Table build material

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 19

1. Effect of varying dark matter density on the Solar System
2. Why is Tonsillectomy so common in the United States?
3. hydraulic mechanism
4. Possible to observe the motion of the planets as a motionless observer?
5. Can drowning cause bleeding?

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 20

1. Average bloke time-travelling

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 21

1. Color of Eggs in Supermarket
2. Does anything, besides crude oil and petroleum products, get cleaned if spilled at sea?
3. thermal expansion
4. Seeing Hubble from 6,000 miles away
5. Do the cells of multicellular organisms "think" collectively as one?
6. Crops by parameters
7. Circuit boards
8. Lordosis

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 22

1. What's the brain size requirement for a life form to be intelligent?
2. Faster than speed of light

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 23

1. asperger's syndrome and autism: how do they relate to schizoid and schizotypal
2. Superathlete

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 24

1. What came first, the chicks or the chicken?
2. What are the signs that there's a sinkhole beneath the ground you're on?
3. meteorology vs aerology

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 25

1. Drilling holes and magma

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 26

1. Aircraft propeller design
2. Bum hair
3. Dying from eating too many eggs
4. Does the size of the right ventricle indeed equals to the left ventricle size?
5. N¹⁵
6. surface temperature versus satellite measurements

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 27

1. Rollerball & Ballpoint mechanical differences--any?

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 28

1. Parrots and chillies (probably about the 15th question on this topic)...
2. Dolphin rape
3. Boiling
4. Where can I find a good skeptical review of the "quantum magnetic resonance analyzer"?

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 29

1. Mourning dove sounds
2. Race and outgroup homogeneity
3. Predation in human history
4. Why does water moving inside a water pipe make noise?
5. Major earthquakes distribution

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 April 30

1. Amazon
2. Is e-diesel/blue crude a feasible fuel?
3. Scientific studies on good diets to gain a lot of weight?