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Body Heat Melts Wax to Form Hexagons

By Andy Carstens · Ask Nature · February 2021
Body Heat Melts Wax to Form Hexagons
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"Honeybees generate heat to mold cylindrical wax cells, then surface tension pulls the cooling wax into hexagons."

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