Shot, piles

Huo quiang), which were tubes, 0.8m long made of 16 piled sheets of strong paper charged with an incendiary mixture and porcelain fragments. On ignition the flame shot no less than 3 meters (Ref 66, p 17)... 

On reaching the edge they were shot with automatic weapons (German edition with machine guns). At the end of the day the bodies were covered with a thin layer of soil. Extra time needed for removing the piles of bodies and for covering with soil ... 

Shot shat n. (1) One complete cycle of a molding machine. (2) In woven pile floor coverings, the number of filling yarns per row of tufts. (3) Imprecise. Syn shot weight. 

Dalton then discusses the results in terms of particles pressing on piles of shot. 

By considering a square pile of shot Dalton concluded that the single particle at the apex distributes its pressure among all the shots in a low er layer, and so the particle of gas distributes its pressure equally amongst every successive horizontal stratum of particles of water downwards till it reaches the sphere of influence of another particle of gas . The numbers of particles in successive layers of the pile are, i, 4, 9, 16,... i.e. i, 2, 3, 4. .. . Suppose one particle presses on the surface of the water and let the distance of the particles of gas from each other be to those of water as 10 to i ... 

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