shells
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TNT, the explosive material in artillery shells, is also scarce and Europe now has just a single factory that makes it, in Poland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Unlike coccolithophores, diatoms have silica shells and generally make the Black Sea appear darker instead of brighter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Walking along the railroad tracks, she watched Simon Rodia build the Watts Towers’ 17 spires from rebar, shells, tiles, mirrors, soda bottles and cement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
They lie in mud, shells, ice and rock - fragments of evidence from a time when the Atlantic appears to have changed with startling speed.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The long side has decorations: One man has shells, and the other has the whole wing of a bird dangling from his hair.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
