# How does a grenade work?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-grenade-work/166842
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 6, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-grenade-work/166842 "2003-04-06T09:19:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@CelraySoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelraySoda)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-grenade-work/166842/1 "2003-04-06T09:19:17Z")
Pull the pin, release the lever and after a few moments, it explodes. From what I think I know, it’s made of a high carbon metal that shreds easily when it goes off sending shrapnel everywhere. What causes it to delay the explosion? What kind of moving parts are in there, if any? And are they the same kind of grenades the troops have been tossing since WW1 or have there been many technological advances in the science of grenadology?
-M
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-grenade-work/166842/2 "2003-04-06T09:45:12Z")
[How grenades work.](http://people.howstuffworks.com/grenade.htm)
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### Author:  [@CelraySoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelraySoda)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-grenade-work/166842/3 "2003-04-06T11:47:13Z")
Pretty good, thanks.
(But I could definatly do without the Internet Explorer Script Errors and the pop-ups everytime I go to the next page. That’s why I try to stay away from that site.)
-M