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• The teams use Remington 700-class bolt-action rifles, equipped with .223 - and. 243-caliber ammunition that is extremely frangible, meaning that the bullets break up inside the deer's body and don't pass through, possibly endangering a human nearby. Berks county news
• It is available in nine calibers - two rifle and seven pistol - and features Longbow non-toxic frangible bullets and non-toxic heavy metal-free primers.
• Bismuth Cartridge Co. has taken its non-toxic technology and applied it to frangible handgun training ammunition.
• When we say that the blood circulates, that the air is weighty, that the rays of the sun are a bundle of seven refrangible rays, it follows not that we are of the sect of Harvey, of Torricelli, or of A Philosophical Dictionary
• While the original designs were somewhat too frangible on big-game, this is no longer true with excellent big-game bullets being offered across the board from 6mm through 9.3mm.
• It was shown that the merest trace of soluble haloid would reverse an image by the extraction of bromine from it, and the fact that the most refrangible part of the spectrum was principally efficacious in completing this action showed how necessary it was to avoid falling into error when analyzing photographic action by the spectroscope. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
• The guns have special kind of frangible bullets that are designed not to pierce the skin of an airplane. CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005
• The calculation may be related to Edward Hussey Delaval's work on this subject, read at the Royal Society of London in January 1765 and published as a pamphlet later that year. 6 In that paper, Delaval related color to density, as specific gravity, suggesting that greater density should reflect the more refrangible rays. reference The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• The flatbread was a ritzy variant on pizza with a thin, frangible crust held together by a liberal serving of melted Brie, and sensibly strewn with cubes of smoked salmon and capers.
• Results may be useful for design and manufacture of light frangible fly through diaphragm cover for missile launch canister.