Hexagon - Hexagons: Natural and Human-made

Hexagons: Natural and Human-made

• Assembled E-ELT mirror segments

• A beehive honeycomb

• Isotropic compression structure

• The scutes of a turtle's carapace

• North polar hexagonal cloud feature on Saturn, discovered by Voyager 1 and confirmed in 2006 by Cassini

• Micrograph of a snowflake

• Benzene, the simplest aromatic compound with hexagonal shape.

• Crystal structure of a molecular hexagon composed of hexagonal aromatic rings reported by Müllen and coworkers in Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 1834-1839.

• Naturally formed basalt columns from Giant's Causeway in Ireland; large masses must cool slowly to form a polygonal fracture pattern

• An aerial view of Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park

• The James Webb Space Telescope mirror is composed of 18 hexagonal segments.

• Metropolitan France has a vaguely hexagonal shape. In French, l'Hexagone refers to the European mainland of France aka the "metropole" as opposed to the overseas territories such as Guadeloupe, Martinique or French Guiana.

• Hexagonal Hanksite crystal, one of many hexagonal crystal system minerals

• Hexagonal barn

• The Hexagon, a hexagonal theatre in Reading, Berkshire

• Władysław Gliński's hexagonal chess

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