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Hexagonal
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hexagon.
Gallery of natural and artificial hexagons
- The ideal crystalline structure of graphene is a hexagonal grid.
- Assembled E-ELT mirror segments
- A beehive honeycomb
- The scutes of a turtle's carapace
- Saturn's hexagon, a hexagonal cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet
- Micrograph of a snowflake
- Benzene, the simplest aromatic compound with hexagonal shape.
- Hexagonal order of bubbles in a foam.
- Crystal structure of a molecular hexagon composed of hexagonal aromatic rings.
- Naturally formed basalt columns from Giant's Causeway in Northern 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.
- In French, l'Hexagone refers to Metropolitan France for its vaguely hexagonal shape.
- Hexagonal Hanksite crystal, one of many hexagonal crystal system minerals
- Hexagonal barn
- Władysław Gliński's hexagonal chess
- Pavilion in the Taiwan Botanical Gardens