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, the elongated triangular bipyramid (or dipyramid) or triakis triangular prism is one of the Johnson solids (), convex polyhedra whose faces are

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s. As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a

triangular bipyramid In geometry, the triangular bipyramid (or dipyramid) is a type of hexahedron, being the first in the infinite set of face-transitive bipyramids. It is the dual of the triangular prism with 6 isosceles triangle faces. As the name suggests, i ...

() by inserting a

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between its congruent halves. The nirrosula, an African musical instrument woven out of strips of plant leaves, is made in the form of a series of elongated bipyramids with non-equilateral triangles as the faces of their end caps..

Formulae

The following formulae for

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(

V

), surface area (

A

) and

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(

H

) can be used if all

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are regular, with edge length ''a'': :

V=\left(\frac\left(2\sqrt+3\sqrt\right)\right)\cdot a^3\approx 0.668715...a^3

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,
Elongated triangular dipyramid
from

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A=\left(\frac\left(2+\sqrt\right)\right)\cdot a^2\approx 5.59808...a^2

H = \frac\cdot a \approx \cdot 2.63299...a

Dual polyhedron

The dual of the elongated triangular bipyramid is called a triangular bifrustum and has 8 faces: 6 trapezoidal and 2 triangular.

References

External links

* {{Polyhedron-stub Johnson solids Pyramids and bipyramids