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Pellet
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Pellets are small particles typically created by compressing an original material.
Pellet or pellets may refer to:
01People
- Alain Pellet (born 1947), French lawyer
- Gustave Pellet (1859-1919), French publisher of art
- Laurent Pellet (born 1970), Swiss judoka
02Science and technology
- Nurdle (bead), or the pre-production plastic pellet
- Pellet (ornithology), regurgitated by birds
- Pellets (petrology), a carbonate sedimentary structure in limestone
- Pellet (steel industry), a processed form of iron ore
- Pellet fuel, mostly as wood pellets used as biofuel
- Pellet (software), an OWL semantic reasoner
- Pellet stove, to burn compressed wood or biomass pellets
03Weapons
- Airsoft pellet, projectiles used specifically by airsoft guns
- Pellet (air gun), non-spherical projectiles fired from air guns
- Shot (pellet), projectiles for shotguns or other weapons
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