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What are some good science questions to ask?

NealIRC

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I'm at university this semester, asking science professors questions again.

What are some of your science questions?

I'll post some of my science questions I've asked going back the past 11 years.

Questions I asked chemistry professors.

-Is there any chemical or drugs I can take, that will increase my I.Q.?
-Is there any chemical I can eat or drink that won't make my urine smell bad?
-Can there be any strong acids or base that can dissolve metal? [Like for prison].
-What's a chemical I can use to remove the oil off of keyboards.
-Why do potholes form in the winter? (The answer is the freeze-thaw cycle of water, which explains why pipes crack in the winter.).
-If bombs are exothermic reactions, then what's the most dangerous endothermic reaction?
-Can chain reactions be endothermic?
-Strongest known metal bond?
-Acid-cleaners or base-cleaners better?
-Oily parking lots and garages, how to remove oil from concrete?
-The platinum in the catalytic converter of a car, is there any other metal that can do the same?

-Adding salt to water decreases the freezing point, and increases the boiling point. Is there something that I can add that will increase the freezing point, and decrease the boiling point?
-Adding alcohol to water decreases both the freezing point and boiling point. Is there something I can add that will increase both the freezing point and boiling point?
-How about increase/decrease the freezing point while boiling point the same, or increase/decrease the boiling point while freezing point the same?
(These are the basis by how roadsalt and deicers work.).

Questions I asked biology professors.

-Who kills bacteria and viruses better, acids or bases?
-Are there any acids/bases that kills bacteria and not viruses, or kills viruses and not bacteria?
-Oxidizing and reducing agents, are there any reducing agents that kill bacteria/viruses.
-Questions I asked on allergies and our immune system.
-What's the fate of dead bacteria, and is it safe to eat/drink dead bacteria?
-If all the viruses in the world died...if all the bad bacteria in the world died...
-There are bacteria that kill other bacteria, viruses that kill other viruses, and viruses that kill bacteria, but are there any bacteria that kill viruses?
-What % of bacteria are aerobic, and anaerobic?
-If we can get immune to the caffeine in energy drinks, then can we get immune to the nutrition in food?
-If you eat less oily food, does your body produce less oil?
-Brain came from sperm or egg? Or 50/50.
-If identical twin sisters reproduced with identical twin brothers, are their kids cousins or siblings?
-What’s more dangerous, 2 hot gases combine to form a cold gas, or 2 cold gases combine to form a hot gas?
-What happens when plans breathe carbon monoxide?

Questions I asked psychology professors.

-If I practice using my non-dominant hand, is there any benefit to it?
-If there is such a thing as an ambidextrous person (both-handed) can there be someone who is no-handed?
-Can someone be both a pedophile and an adult-phile at the same time?
-Is there such a thing as a geriatric-phile?
-Are cats and dogs also right-pawed and left-pawed, and the % distribution the same?
-How is it that our brains can learn something, but we can't delete something?
-What would happen if the electricity in our nerves went the opposite direction?
-Some people only need 8 hours of sleep, others 6, others 4. What’s the benefit/disadvantage, and is there a lifespan correlation.
-Is there an age too late to learn driving?

Questions I asked physics professors.

-Can you increase/decrease the voltage on a battery.
-What's more dangerous, high amp low voltage, or low voltage high amp? (Watts are amps times voltage, and that’s why out electric bill is measured in kilowatt hours rather than kilovolt hours or kiloamp hours.).
-If you can make motion sensors with IR detectors, what about with UV?
-Electricity are with electrons, so can you have "proton electricity?"
-If there are anti-particles, can there be anti-light? (Anti-photons.).

Thanks.
 
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