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GRENADE (from the French word for a pomegranate, from a resemblance in shape to that fruit)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 579 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GRENADE (from the French word for a pomegranate, from a resemblance in shape to that fruit) , a small spherical explosive
vessel
  thrown by hand. Hand-grenades were used in war in the 26th
century
 , but the word " grenade " was also from the
S102. Al203. Fe203. FeO. CaO. MgO. K20. Na2O. Fl. B203.
Granite 70.17 15.07 88 1.79 1.13 1.11 5.73 2.69 15 tr.
Greisen 69.42 15.65 1.25 3'30 63 1.02 4.06 27 3'36 .59
first used to imply an explosive shell fired from a gun; this survives to the present day in the
German
  Granate. These weapons were employed after about 166o, by
special
  troops called " grenadiers " (q.v.), and in the wars of the 17th and 18th centuries they are continually met with. They became obsolete in the 19th
century
 , but were given a new lease of
life
  in the 20th, owing to their employment in the siege of Port Arthur in 1904, where hand-grenades of a
modern
  type, and containing powerful
modern
  explosives, proved very effective (see AMMUNITION,Shell). Hand-grenades filled with chemicals and made of glass are used as a method of
fire
 -extinction, and similar vessels containing a liquid with a very strong smell are used to discover defects in a drain or
sewer
 .


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