GRENADE (from the

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• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French word for a

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• POMEGRANATE

pomegranate, from a resemblance in shape to that

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• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

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 .