Shell may refer to: Animal shell, which includes sea shells Shell (projectile), an object fired out of a weapon Eggshell, the outer part of an egg Shell...

A shell is a hard outer layer, which has evolved in a very wide variety of different animals, including molluscs, sea urchins, crustaceans, turtles and...

A shell is a type of projectile used in weapons. It is filled with explosive or other things such as an incendiary device. It is similar to a bomb but...

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. Its parent is a multinational oil company ("oil major") of Anglo Dutch origins...

An electron shell, or main energy level, is the part of an atom where electrons are found orbiting the atom's nucleus. In chemistry and atomic physics...

the time, people such as Charles Samuel Myers called this condition shell shock. Shell shock is a reaction to bombardment and fighting. Soldiers who were...

An operating system shell is a user interface that enables the user to interact with and access the services offered by the operating system. The user...

A Unix shell, also called terminal or console, is a program that accepts Unix commands from the keyboard and executes them. These commands can be installed...

name "scallop" comes from the Old French escalope, which means "shell". Their shells can be up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) across. 1. Their ability to...

Razor shells, also called razor clams, are bivalves with the shape of an old-fashioned cut-throat razor. They use their shells to work into the sand and...

A Web shell is a script that can be uploaded to a web server to enable remote administration of the machine. A web shell can be written in any language...

A shell keep is a type of fortification in the medieval era. Shell keeps are stone structures circling around a raised area of the ground, called a motte...

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company. It is a publicly traded company. They are headquartered at Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom...

Secure Shell (SSH) is an Internet communication protocol used mostly to allow users to log into other computers and run commands. It lets people exchange...

Classic Shell is a discontinued computer program, that was created to restore Windows XP and Windows Vista features for later versions of Windows. "Classic...

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊, Kōkaku Kidōtai) is a Japanese franchise of different media. It was originally published as a manga series, written and illustrated...

Cowry shells (or cowrie), are marine snails of the family Cypraeidae. They are found chiefly in tropical regions. There are about 200 different species...

Man in a Shell (Russian: Человек в футляре) is a 1939 Soviet drama movie directed by Isidor Annensky. It stars Nikolay Khmelyov, Mikhail Zharov, and Olga...

Shell Lake is a city of Wisconsin in the United States. It is the county seat of Washburn County. This short article about a place or feature in the United...

Abalone are known by their colorful "pearlescent" inside shell. This is also called ear-shell, ormer in Guernsey, abalone in South Africa, and pāua in...

pelecypods. They have a hard calcareous shell made of two parts or 'valves'. The soft parts are inside the shell. The shell is usually bilaterally symmetrical...

official state shells for States of the USA that have chosen one as part of their state insignia. These are seashells. They are the shells of various marine...

The solvation shell or solvation sheath is the group of solvent particles that are coordinated or otherwise attached to a particle of solute. These particles...

Turtles are one of the many reptiles on earth. They have a hard shell, which is useful for camouflage and protection from other animals. There are two...

Shell Rock is a city in Iowa in the United States. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia...

restricted.[1] Conches have spirally constructed shells. Depending on species (or aberrant growth patterns), shell growth can be sinistral (left-handed) or dextral...

"Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)" is a 1980 song by British band Squeeze. It was taken from their third studio album Argybargy. It went to number 44...

have electrons in the first two electron shells. The first electron shell is always full. The second electron shell (valence electrons) fills when atomic...

only has to get rid of one electron to make a stable 3s shell, the new valence electron shell. However, once you've moved past the first ionization energy...

cephalopods who have an external shell. This is an ancestral or basal, feature. The animal can withdraw completely into its shell. It can then close the opening...

The Shell Rock River is a tributary of the Cedar River in Iowa and Minnesota. It is 102 miles long. It is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...

shotgun shell. The gas from the burning gunpowder pushes whatever is being fired out of the barrel (usually a bullet). Originally, a shotgun shell would...

Oysters are a family of bivalves with rough, thick shells, the Ostreidae. Some other types of shellfish are also called 'oyster'. Many species are edible...

of cone snails, cone shells or cones. Shaped, as the name suggests, like a cone, many species have colorful patterning on the shell surface. Conus snails...

The Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle, Hoan Kiem turtle or Red River giant soft-shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) is a turtle that lives in Asia. Very few...

outside the mother's body. They are always in some kind of container, a shell or covering. Reptiles, birds and monotremes lay cleidoic eggs: bird eggs...

because it has a sweet, juicy, acidic taste. It has a hard purple shell. Inside the shell, there are white segments, just like an orange. This short article...

hard shell. They use old shells for protection. They especially like old whelk shells. When the hermit crab grows in size, it finds a larger shell. The...

mollusc which has no shell, or just a small internal shell. Slugs belong to several different families which also include snails with shells. Snails are gastropods...

and a hard shell with the seed or nut inside. Shelling almonds means removing the shell to get the seed. Almonds are sold either shelled or unshelled...

If a cannon is fired, its shell will follow a certain path depending on how much gunpowder was used, how heavy the shell is, and the angle up and down...

variety than their ancient rivals, the brachiopods. Most molluscs have shells, but some groups do not: octopods, slugs, and the gastropods known as sea...

electrons in the first three electron shells. The first and second electron shells are always full. The third electron shell (valence electrons) fills when atomic...

name for a kind of mollusc. The term is used for a gastropod with a coiled shell. Their fossil records extends back into the Carboniferous period. Land snails...

distance. These layers are called shells. The first layer (or shell) has up to two electrons. The layers (or shells) after that usually contain up to...

about 170 shells at Yeonpyeong. The shelling damaged the island greatly. It killed four South Koreans and hurt 19. At this, South Korea shelled North Korean...

surround the nucleus of the atom, e.g. Hydrogen has 1 electron in outermost shell. An electron can also be separated from any atom through Ionization energy...

A shotgun cartridge, or shell is the standard type of ammunition for a shotgun. It is fired after being loaded into the chamber of a shotgun. The cartridge...

is the name for the teeth of elephants Scaphopoda, which are called tusk shells in English is a class of marine molluscs. The name of the class can be translated...

names are sea cradles or coat of mail shells They have a single shell that sticks to rocks, like a limpet. The shell is made of 8 hard plates that fit tightly...