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A grenade is an explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a shell (explosive projectile) shot from the muzzle of a rifle (as a rifle grenade) or a grenade launcher. A modern hand grenade generally consists of an explosive charge (“filler”), a detonator mechanism, an internal striker to trigger the detonator, and a safety lever secured by a cotter pin. The user removes the safety pin before throwing, and once the grenade leaves the hand the safety lever gets released, allowing the striker to trigger a primer that ignites a fuze (sometimes called the delay element), which burns down to the detonator and explodes the main charge.

Here are some interesting ‘fun facts’ about hand grenades:

• The term “grenade” comes from the Latin, granatus, literally “filled with grain.”
• The first recorded use of the word “grenade” came in 1536, from the siege of Arles in southern France by French forces under King Francis I.
• The early grenades were made of glass globes, jars, kegs and firepots.
• A 1665 reference related that grenades were carried in a pocket called a grena-diere.

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