Table 1.
Shapes and Color
Type of Shot
Balloon
Shape
1.
Color and Characteristics
Spherical
Black specks,
glassy, transparent.
Many bubbles on surface, melted.
Cream opaque, semitransparent,
melted, slightly bubbly surface,
grey-green inside, olive green,
interior bubbles and black
specky material, transparent
perfect sphere, mottled amber,
clear in spots, perfect sphere.
2.
Opaque yellow-brown, melted
bubbly surface projections.
Cylindrical
White opaque, melted bubbly
surface projections. Cream opaque,
melted bubbly surface projections.
Clear transparent, hollow or
tubelike.
3.
Cream opaque, glassy smooth
Beanlike
surface with cracks, melted
surface.
Mottled amber with
clean spots, melted bubbly
surface projections.
4.
Disc with
Opaque rose-grey, rough disc
jagged edges
shape, melted bubbly surface.
5.
Rough ellipsoidal
Sandy semitransparent, melted
bubbly surface, unmelted interior containing black specks.
White opaque, melted bubbly
surface, green-black interior.
Amber opaque, melted bubbly
surface.
6.
Angular
White semitransparent, quartzlike, jagged edges, smooth melted
surface.
Sandy opaque, melted
bubbly projections.
Cream sandy,
no indications of melted surface.
Cream-brown opaque, melted
bubbly surface. Rose opaque,
slightly melted.
Amber and milk
colored, broken particles, air
bubbles inside.
555
Yellow opaque.