Word: shrapnel
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...fields with men and shrapnel littered...
...British battleships Nelson and Rodney each have about 500,000 lb. of nickel in their 34,000 tons of steel. The French light field pieces, the famed 75's, each contained about 50 lb. of nickel. But there is no nickel in rifles, sabers, bayonets, bombs, shells or shrapnel. In 1934 Nickel's officers estimated that not more than 5% of nickel produced was used for military purposes, whereas 20% was going into automobiles. But in any wartime period Nickel's business would obviously take on a more martial air and last week Mr. Stanley conceded that...
...your Sept. 9 issue under "Italy" there appears: ". . . when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis...
...Shrapnel is a form of ammunition named for the English army officer who invented it. It consists of one-half inch in diameter lead balls hardened with antimony which are fired from a forged steel case by a charge of black powder exploded by a time fuse when the shrapnel-filled-case is about ten yards above the target on its way down to earth...
...other words shrapnel does not splinter. High explosive shell (termed simply H. E.) is what splinters on impact and causes splinters to fly in every direction. Present war tendencies favor H. E. shell over shrapnel, which is effective only against animals and personnel in the open. Shrapnel bursting charge blows the soft brass fuse from the head of the case and sprays the balls in an elliptical pattern over cone-shaped paths...