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The shrapnel

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An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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The shrapnel temporarily blinded him.

The shrapnel burns through his mother's torso.

"The shrapnel had cut my innominate vein.

The shrapnel had hit in the flesh of his eyebrow.

"The shrapnel wound was not necessarily fatal," Junger told me.

The shrapnel punctured his spleen and small intestines.

The shrapnel has been removed from his liver.

The shrapnel and pressure wave from the blast probably killed every man.

The shrapnel damage and bullet-holes, mutilated bells and mangled tubing add their own flavour.

The shrapnel damaged her neck and throat, accounting for two of her surgeries.

The shrapnel pierced holes through steel doors an eighth of an inch thick.

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