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A hexagonal prism is a prism composed of two hexagonal bases and six rectangular sides. It is an octahedron.

The regular right hexagonal prism is a space-filling polyhedron.

HexagonalPrismConvexHulls

The hexagonal prism is the convex hull of the hexagrammic antiprism, first octahedron 2-compound, and hexagrammic prism.

HexagonalPrismAndDual

The dual polyhedron of the regular hexagonal prism is the canonical hexagonal dipyramid.

The regular right hexagonal prism of edge length a has surface area and volume

S=3(2+sqrt(3))a^2
(1)
V=3/2sqrt(3)a^3.
(2)

See also

Hexagon, Prism

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Hexagonal Prism." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HexagonalPrism.html

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