Bicone

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A bicone or dicone (bi- comes from Latin, di- from Greek) is the three-dimensional surface of revolution of a rhombus around one of its axes of symmetry. Equivalently, a bicone is the surface created by joining two congruent right circular cones base-to-base.

A bicone has circular symmetry and orthogonal bilateral symmetry.

Geometry

For a circular bicone with radius R and height center-to-top H, the formula for volume becomes

V = \frac{2}{3} \pi R^2 H.

For a right circular cone, the surface area is

SA =2\pi R S\,   where   S = \sqrt{R^2 + H^2}   is the slant height.

Related polyhedra

A bicone can be seen as a polyhedral limiting case of an n-gonal bipyramid where n approaches infinity. It can also be seen as a dual of a cylinder as an infinite-side prism.[1]

Family of bipyramids
Polyhedron Triangular bipyramid.png Square bipyramid.png Pentagonale bipiramide.png Hexagonale bipiramide.png Heptagonal bipyramid.png Octagonal bipyramid.png Enneagonal bipyramid.png Decagonal bipyramid.png
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Tiling Spherical digonal bipyramid.png Spherical trigonal bipyramid.png Spherical square bipyramid.png Spherical pentagonal bipyramid.png Spherical hexagonal bipyramid.png Spherical heptagonal bipyramid.png Spherical octagonal bipyramid.png Spherical enneagonal bipyramid.png Spherical decagonal bipyramid.png
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