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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.
The hexagonal prism is the convex hull of the hexagrammic antiprism, first octahedron 2-compound, and hexagrammic prism.
The dual polyhedron of the regular hexagonal prism is the canonical hexagonal dipyramid.
The regular right hexagonal prism of edge length 
has surface area and volume
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