1.   The tightly packed pellets of a shotgun cartridge.

2.   Because a charge made out of aluminum slurry is so light, Taleyarkhan has been able to put four separate charges into a shotgun cartridge.

3.   Richardson called for the banning of a type of shotgun cartridge, the Chevratine, made by a French munitions company, MACC, based in the Congo.

4.   Police found three used shotgun cartridges at the scene, the Interfax news agency said.

5.   The Daily Mirror said the parcels contained video cassette boxes, inside each of which was a shotgun cartridge springloaded to fire as the boxes were opened.

6.   Parker could see shotgun cartridges from where he sat.