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Bomb
in ordnance, the same as a BoMB, in ordnance, the same as a bomb shell; a hollow iron ball, spheroid, sion fuse. It is fired from a mortar or of Naples in 1434. Mortars for throwhowitzer. Bombs were used at the siege ing bombs were first cast in 1543. of Naples in 1434. Mortars for throwing bombs were first cast in 1543. Modern political upheavals have in- These terrific agents of destruction have been used with murderous effect in the BOMBA larger European cities: Petrograd, Madrid, and Paris; also in Chicago. The anarchists have regularly established factories for the production of the missiles. The usual method of construction is to fill a hollow sphere with some high explosive together her with pieces of scrap iron, nails, bullets, s, bullets, or an anything that will wound. The explosives used are generally nitroglycerine, fulminate of mercury, etc. The most deadly of all the agents, however, is a bomb made with chlorate of potash and picric acid.