What kind of reactions are taking place inside the barrel of whiskey to give it such a large range of flavours? |
- What kind of reactions are taking place inside the barrel of whiskey to give it such a large range of flavours?
- What are the downsides to donating a kidney?
- Why does the water retract from the shoreline before a tsunami?
- Why does having had a concussion make one ineligible to donate bone marrow?
- Why not hurl the Parker solar probe into the sun at the end of it's mission instead of letting crash into Venus?
- Does every celestial body (like Planets, stars, satellites, nebula etc) always rotate around their axis? Why do they rotate?
- Are Europa’s water plumes constantly active? Or do they have periods of being “off”?
- What mechanism is responsible for competition between different species of mosquito?
- What exactly happens when you're anesthetized?
- If earth was on a collision course with a planet 2x our size, would we (our bodies) get sucked up and get hurled towards the other planet due to it's gravitational pull as the planets got closer?
- Can phone microphones record frequencies higher/lower than what is audible to the human ear?
- What percentage of the U.S. adult population (18+) is currently on some type of prescription medication?
- Why is proton used in LHC in CERN?
- Why are atoms with full outermost shells more stable?
- Does gas from Earth escape through the hole in the ozone layer?
- What part of the light spectrum is correctly stored on a photo?
- If everything was the same, except 1 million years in the past, would we be able to view early universe as we do today?
- Why is the size of a particle collider important? Why can't they just keep letting it travel and speed up over the distance of a solar system, say, before letting the particles collide?
- How does air friction affect hypersonic flight? How does this relate to the maximum speed of the SR-71 if at all?
- How exactly does “losing” your voice work? What causes it/what is it?
| Posted: 28 Dec 2018 10:58 AM PST All I can really find about this is that "aging adds flavor and gets rid of the alcohol burn" but I would like to know about the actual chemical reactions going on inside the barrel to produce things like whiskey lactones, esters, phenolic compounds etc. Also, why can't we find out what the specific compounds are in really expensive bottles of whiskey, synthesize them in a lab, and then mix them with alcohol and water to produce cheaper, exact replicas of the really expensive whiskeys? [link] [comments]  |
| What are the downsides to donating a kidney? Posted: 28 Dec 2018 10:55 PM PST Does having one kidney work equally as well as having two, or is it slightly worse but still functioning? Also, are there are any other risks involved (i.e during operation or health complications afterwards)? [link] [comments]  |
| Why does the water retract from the shoreline before a tsunami? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 05:21 AM PST I get thet the water has to come from somewhere, but what force causes the water to move in the opposite direction of the wave before it hits? [link] [comments]  |
| Why does having had a concussion make one ineligible to donate bone marrow? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 07:13 AM PST |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2018 07:55 AM PST I know at the end of the mission, the solar probe is supposed to be crashed into Venus (or so I think). So, if it's just going to be trashed, why not hurl it directly into the sun and continually take measurements and send data so as to see how close to the sun the probe can actually get before all gadgets stop working; it might also give extra data being closer than the other flybys. I'm a chemist but not an astrophysicist, so I do have much education in this area. [link] [comments]  |
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| Are Europa’s water plumes constantly active? Or do they have periods of being “off”? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 04:54 AM PST |
| What mechanism is responsible for competition between different species of mosquito? Posted: 28 Dec 2018 11:02 PM PST Is there aggression? Do larval populations compete? Is the process merely passive or incidental? Do adult mosquitoes of differing species simply ignore one another? [link] [comments]  |
| What exactly happens when you're anesthetized? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 06:14 AM PST When they anesthetize you for surgery, what's the exact name of the chemical they put in you? It's not just called "local anesthetic" is it? Like is that its actual name or some kind of medical colloquialism? What does it do? To your brain? Your body? What does it feel like? As it settles in, during? After? Will one just feel like they're dreaming? I've heard it looks you're looking down at yourself. What could a person expect? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2018 02:08 AM PST What if the other planet was the exact same size as earth? Would we be off the ground but in suspension (floating) at some point? [link] [comments]  |
| Can phone microphones record frequencies higher/lower than what is audible to the human ear? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 03:48 AM PST |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2018 02:16 PM PST First question in title. I'm curious what percentage of the U.S. adult population currently has a valid prescription of any type (antibiotics, pain relief, SSRIs, etc.). Second question -- what percentage of the U.S. adult population has, at one point in their life, been written a prescription for some reason? (This obviously would be a larger percentage than the first question). [link] [comments]  |
| Why is proton used in LHC in CERN? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 02:12 AM PST In CERN scientists are searching for subatomic particles and they smash protons to analyze them. My question is why don't they smash neurons? Aren't there subatomic particles in neutrons? I know neutrons are neutral so it would be hard to accelerate them too much to crash. But are there any specific reason for it? Note: I am historian, so don't take me as Edward Witten while you are giving your answers :) [link] [comments]  |
| Why are atoms with full outermost shells more stable? Posted: 28 Dec 2018 11:05 AM PST It's always been a given that atoms which have their outermost shells fully occupied are the most stable- but why? What deters the electrons from being lost or gained or shared? [link] [comments]  |
| Does gas from Earth escape through the hole in the ozone layer? Posted: 29 Dec 2018 04:35 AM PST |
| What part of the light spectrum is correctly stored on a photo? Posted: 28 Dec 2018 05:19 AM PST Is the reflected IR and UV light from a photo the same as it would be observed in the real scenario, like visible light? Is there a significant difference in results between digital and analogue photo's? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST Hopefully this title wasn't too confusing, I'll elaborate. If we lived 1 million years in the past, everything the same as it is now with science and technology, would our telescopes be able to see the earliest stages of the universe's creation or would the light not have had enough time to travel to the Earth? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 28 Dec 2018 09:17 PM PST I've been reading several articles about hypersonic weapons as replacements for traditional intercontinental ballistic weapons and had some questions. I had the understanding that the the SR-71 was limited in speed due to air friction heat at about Mach 3. Scramjets are supposed to be able to push Mach 7 and hypersonic weapons pushing Mach 10. Does air friction play into this? Why or why not? If so, how is it designed against? [link] [comments]  |
| How exactly does “losing” your voice work? What causes it/what is it? Posted: 28 Dec 2018 07:37 AM PST |
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