A cone is no manifold

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I have the following problem:

Show that the cone $x^2+y^2=z^2$ with the subspace topology isn`t a manifold.

If it would be a manifold it would be $2$-dimensional. So there should be for every point in the cone a neighborhood, so that there is a homomorphism from that neighborhood to $\mathbb{R}^2$, right? But for the point $0$ there shouldn't be such a neighborhood. My problem is how to show that. Can someone help me please? Thanks in advance.

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If you delete the point $0$ from a neighborhood of the cone which contains it, you're left with a disconnected set.

If you delete a point from an open set in $\Bbb{R}^2$, you are not.