The scatter of glass fragments on the tarmac told its own story.

It looks like it's been formed out of jagged glass fragments.

It was in several hundred pieces, many of which were stuck to the tea loaf mixture like glass fragments added to the top of a backyard wall for security.

Glass fragments smaller that 10mm across can not be sorted automatically, and are mixed together as' glass fines'.

Many substances that are generally regarded as unreactive, such as powdered steel, glass fragments, and asbestos fibers, are readily consumed by cold fluorine gas.

A metal fragment the size of a 50p piece tore through his neck, went down his windpipe and through his lung.

This can be due to something small and conductive having fallen into the socket - maybe silver paper, a metal fragment or even a small coin.

Food manufacturers utilize industrial metal detectors to detect and reject automatically any metal fragment.

The air bag inflators can explode with too much force and spray metal fragments inside vehicles.

Fortunately, the patients were all lying in their beds and the hot metal fragments embedded themselves in walls above their heads.

The chart-toppers, as always, were plastic fragments.

A third of the items were plastic fragments but scientists also collected plastic bottles, wrapping and litter from fishing boats.

Over time, pieces of the lip will break off, releasing plastic fragments into the cooling system.

Plastic fragments are found to outnumber plankton 60-to-1, and contributes to around 100,000 marine animal deaths, including birds, every year.

They found overturned slabs, toppled walls and discarded pottery fragments and tools.

Beautifully painted pottery fragments were extracted in large numbers.

Neolithic flints and pottery fragments have been found over the years, often being excavated by rabbits.

Pottery fragments have been found near the measured position, but no trace of the turret has been found.

It can be used to date stone tools, pottery fragments, and other artifacts.

The inner boundary of a weathering rind approximately parallels the outer surface of the rock fragment in which it has developed.

During the excavation, a portion of a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment was found which was radiocarbon dated at 28,000 years.

These can include grains which are sand-sized themselves (a granitic rock fragment), or finer-grained materials (shale fragments).

The term greywacke can be confusing, since it can refer to either the immature (rock fragment) aspect of the rock or the fine-grained (clay) component of the rock.

They noticed deposits of green molten rock fragments sandwiched between sandstones almost 1.2 billion years old.

But the shell fragment caused a twisting of the small bowel.

First, a shell fragment went straight through his shoulder.

The nucleus can be a shell fragment, quartz grain or any other small fragment.

A shell fragment struck him on the head and dropped him senseless to the ground.

While attempting to direct his troops, he was struck by a shell fragment.

Placing a tiny fragment of meat in a pipe and taping both ends, we dropped it into the middle of a large lake in the pouring rain.

Rather, the human experience and mind are themselves a tiny fragment of this truth.

Even tiny fragments pose a risk to satellites and spacecraft.

Eating chocolate in such a way that tiny fragments get on the sofa and melt.

The debris - which has accumulated since the 1950s - travels so fast even tiny fragments can rip into spacecraft, jeop-ardising missions and creating yet more pieces.