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Example sentences for: cannonball

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Let us modify the device such that the cannonball, after hitting the paddle wheel and setting it spinning, is deflected downward onto the ground and digs a long shallow groove in the dirt, with high sides due to the displaced dirt.
Figure .a exhibits a cannon, clearly marked “cannon,” firing a cannonball, clearly marked “cannonball,” that hits the ground some distance away, creating a hole, clearly marked “hole.”
Obviously, in Figure .a, most of the energy carried by the cannonball is dissipated as heat, random molecular motions induced in the particles of dirt.
Note the linking of spontaneous and nonspontaneous processes the arc of the cannonball imparting energy that winds the wheel and lifts the water-filled bucket.
The pulp of the fruit of the cannonball tree ( Couroupita guianensis ) is rubbed on the infected skin of mangy dogs.