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What is the definition of shrapnel?
Shrapnel: noun:metal pieces from an exploded bomb, shell, or mine.metal fragments scattered by an exploding shell, bomb or mine.
What did Henry Shrapnel invent?
the explosive shell
What is the name of the pieces of a bombs shell?
shrapnel?
What is sharpnel?
Shrapnel are splinters and fragments thrown out from a hand-grenade, exploding bomb or artillery shell. The shrapnel is designed to scythe through, maim or kill anyone within the blast area.
What is the etymology of shrapnel?
Major-General Henry Shrapnel was the English inventor who changed late-18th century artillery with the shrapnel shell. It was a normal artillery shell with a second charge that shot bullets or balls near the end of its flight. Soon, any hard projectiles formed by explosive fragmentation (like from an anti-personal mine or wall hit by a bomb) came to be known as shrapnel.
How do you use the word shrapnel in a sentence?
"Shrapnel" means fragment of some military item, like a bullet, or a bomb shell, orsomething like that. You could use it like " As the bomb exploded, shrapnel flew everywhere" or "Asthe bullet made contact, it broke into shrapnel"
What does the word shrapnel mean?
Fragments of a bomb, shell, or other object thrown out by an explosion
What are metal fragments from an explosive device called?
Shrapnel,Named after Henry Shrapnel an English artillery engineer who invented an anti personel shell that shattered into metal fragments on detonation.
What is shrapnel use in World War 2?
shrapnel is bits of flying debris commonly mettal from exploding artillery shells when they explode the mettal cassing around the shell scatters everywhere and you are likely to be hit by shrapnel
What did shrapnel invent?
Shrapnel invented the type of artillery shell that has weak seams in between thicker sections so that when the shell burst it broke in the right places to form many projectiles. Prior to this the shells had uniform thickness so the number and size of the projectiles could not be accurately predicted before detonation. Basically it can kill more people because it has more projectiles when it detonates. For this reason most projectiles formed after detonation are called shrapnel in the creators name.
What are the effects of grenades?
Nothing (unless you're hit by shrapnel); the grenade is nothing but a small hand held version of an artillery shell. An infantryman's personal form of artillery.
What ia a shrapnel?
The word shrapnel describes a piece or pieces of artillery shell or bomb. The British army officer and inventor Henry Shrapnel made a hollow cannon ball filled with gunpowder and lead balls for use as an anti-personnel weapon, which was adopted by the British army in 1803. Ever since, his name has been used to describe fragments of explosive shells.
