Quote from: Allpointseast on April 18, 2019, 04:25:05 am NO, Saturn does not have that shape. But there is a weather system in the part of Saturn's atmosphere around the planet's north pole which does have that shape. There is carbon compound known as the benzine ring. It is composed of 6 carbon atoms in a hexagon formation, joined to hydrogen atoms facing inwards. Chemists like to draw this molecule as a simple hexagon with a circle inside of it, because the electrons in carbon atoms are shared equally between the atoms. Benzine has a strong aroma and its derivatives are sometimes called aromatic compounds. It's a carcinogen. My chemistry teacher told me this at school. As regards hexagonal cells in a hive, that shape is structurally very stable. The same is true of triangles, but here my knowledge runs out.Amateur chemists and those still in high school.Once you get to your first semester of chemistry at uni, drawing benzene with a ring in the middle will get you a big fat zero. This is because benzene, as you said, is an aromatic compound and is incredibly stable. One main reason for this stability is that benzene has an alternating sequence of C-C and C=C bonds. The electrons don't stay put and are constantly moving around the ring, thereby causing the C-C and C=C positions to shift back and forth by one position (hence the ring + circle).As shown below:As a chemist either at uni or post uni, you are expected to draw benzene showing its single and double bonds, so you can work out its reaction mechanism and demonstrate the movement of electrons and changes in bonds/polarity. In such cases, you only need to draw one version of the molecule.
NO, Saturn does not have that shape. But there is a weather system in the part of Saturn's atmosphere around the planet's north pole which does have that shape. There is carbon compound known as the benzine ring. It is composed of 6 carbon atoms in a hexagon formation, joined to hydrogen atoms facing inwards. Chemists like to draw this molecule as a simple hexagon with a circle inside of it, because the electrons in carbon atoms are shared equally between the atoms. Benzine has a strong aroma and its derivatives are sometimes called aromatic compounds. It's a carcinogen. My chemistry teacher told me this at school. As regards hexagonal cells in a hive, that shape is structurally very stable. The same is true of triangles, but here my knowledge runs out.
As regards hexagonal cells in a hive, that shape is structurally very stable.
There is carbon compound known as the benzine ring. It is composed of 6 carbon atoms in a hexagon formation, joined to hydrogen atoms facing inwards.
Quote from: Allpointseast on April 18, 2019, 04:25:05 amAs regards hexagonal cells in a hive, that shape is structurally very stable. Mentioning that bees deliberately create honey cells hardly equates to a 32000km-wide cloud formation with its own matching jet stream formation. Quote There is carbon compound known as the benzine ring. It is composed of 6 carbon atoms in a hexagon formation, joined to hydrogen atoms facing inwards. So? A vague comment about benzine is totally unrelated to a massive and constant weather formation that is unheard of on any other planet or body in the universe.
Quote from: Cyanea on April 18, 2019, 11:38:19 pmQuote from: Allpointseast on April 18, 2019, 04:25:05 amAs regards hexagonal cells in a hive, that shape is structurally very stable. Mentioning that bees deliberately create honey cells hardly equates to a 32000km-wide cloud formation with its own matching jet stream formation. Quote There is carbon compound known as the benzine ring. It is composed of 6 carbon atoms in a hexagon formation, joined to hydrogen atoms facing inwards. So? A vague comment about benzine is totally unrelated to a massive and constant weather formation that is unheard of on any other planet or body in the universe. Yet they all fit the “little known fact” theme of this thread.
All numbers are interesting; and this can be proven with a negative example: if there were even a single number that had no interesting properties, that fact in itself would make it unique and interesting.
Koalas have one of the smallest brain to body ratio in the animal kingdom, partly due to the lack of nutrition they get from eucalyptus, which is a reason why they sleep a lot. (I didn't know this, until I read the text today on next week's test paper)
Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on April 22, 2019, 03:19:56 pmKoalas have one of the smallest brain to body ratio in the animal kingdom, partly due to the lack of nutrition they get from eucalyptus, which is a reason why they sleep a lot. (I didn't know this, until I read the text today on next week's test paper) That ratio only applies to mammals though.Reptiles and all the other lower orders cheat by not bothering to develop a number of the brain lobal stuff that mammals are forced to.
okay Dr Dolittle!!
Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on April 23, 2019, 07:19:04 amokay Dr Dolittle!! I rather Dolittle than Knowlittle.
From the time Pluto was first discovered until the time it was reclassified as a dwarf planet (73 years) it still hadn't completed a single orbit of the sun (orbital period = 248 years).
Ha! That's what you get for being slow Pluto. All the other planets did it in time, while the Sun football coach watched on with his whistle ready. 'Get a move on Uranus or no shower for you!' 'Pick those legs up Mars!' 'Hey Saturn, my mum can orbit faster than you and she's only a Quasar. Don't tell her or else she'll go supernovae on me!'