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Demonstration of a German stick-grenade, 1946 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] venoft 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And where, exactly, does that "thin bodied metal" go when it explodes?

[โ€“] setsneedtofeed 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It does indeed rupture, but with the light weight it doesn't have much force behind it. You get possibly one or two pieces of metal detaching, rather than a fanned out fragmentation spread, with a large surface area but lightweight piece rather than small dense pieces that will go further and faster. Hence words like "minimal" rather than "none".