Here is an image of a shape that I'm sure you all immediately recognized as a hexagon due to the six sides and six vertices. But if I were to show this image to a chemist, they wouldn't call it a hexagon. They would say that this is cycllohexane, a chemical compound made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms.The hexagon is a shorthand used in chemistry to simplify drawings of molecules. This is just one example of how someone with expertise in a discipline perceives the world differently than someone outside of t ...