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When we were driving through hot summer day, coconut oil was melted while being in the back of vehicle. Once we got home, the oil was put away. Today we opened it and found out that oil solidified, resulting in neat hexagonal shape.
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ooh I love the pentagon shape ❤
really dont mean to sound like a debbie downer, but you should really add a Trypophobia warning, for those people that fear a bunch of small holes, i could see how this could easily send someone into a panic, but aside from that, THAT LOOKS SO FRICKING COOL
hexagons are bestagons
What’s interesting about that is that is quite likely related to the rate at which it cooled down. The crystallization of lipids, like with other molecules, can be influenced by how quickly the system loses energy.
Isn’t it usually solid anyway??? That’s how I’ve seen it at the store
Never seen coconut oil do this
must be some bees wax dissolved in there
I thought this was r/dabs and was really confused on why it looked so cool with the hexagons, lol. I was like, “Damn, that’s some white ass wax.”
These are likely a consequence of fluid thermodynamics! I think it specifically might be due to a process named Rayleigh–Bénard convection
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93B%C3%A9nard_convection
Convection is one of the fundamental processes for how heat (thermal energy) can move between two points in space over time. It is characterized by the physical motion of matter that carries the thermal energy in its bulk state. If A is “hot” and B is “cold”, then if “hot stuff” physically moves from A to B while “cold stuff” moves from B to A, then A will “cool down” and B will “heat up”.
How convection occurs depends on the thermal and fluid properties of “the stuff”: viscosity, thermal conductivity, etc… as well as the physical properties of the system: depth, gravity, turbulence, etc…
If the material properties are right and the bottom of the liquid is flatish / smoothish / uniformish and there aren’t any external disturbances, etc… then the warm liquid will have a lower density than when it’s cool, causing it to rise due to buoyant forces, displacing the cooler fluid, which sinks, and this will occur just so as to produce columns of rising fluid bounded by it’s falling, cooling counterpart.
The hexagons are an emergent property of close packing cylinders in a plane, and they form as the material cools and solidifies. There are many examples of this happening in nature, and while I’m not certain (I’m not a geologist) I am reminded of the structures you see in cooled igneous flows such as
The Giants Causeway
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway
The Devil’s Tower
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
[hexagons are the bestagons](https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY?si=QyCkxlTKJoLM0ydz).
That’s what happens during recombobulation
Bees in Indonesia be like
Cymatic frequencies O_0
r/trypophobia
Edit: huh, looks like that subreddit is no more
You have bees.
You should check your oil. You might have bees