Snowflakes come out hexagonal because of the way water crystallizes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hex_ice.GIF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hex_ice.GIF

Snowflakes come out hexagonal because of the way water crystallizes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hex_ice.GIF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hex_ice.GIF It has to do with the bond angles in water molecules. The bond angles are, in turn, determined by quantum mechanical wave functions. These quantum mechanical wave functions apply to all of chemistry, including benzene rings. So the shapes of snowflakes and the shapes of benzene rings are not totally independent events.