Shells can also be divided into three configurations : bursting, base ejection or nose ejection.
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Base ejection smoke is usually white, however, coloured smoke has been used for marking purposes.
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The most modern is base ejection, which was introduced in World War I . Both base and nose ejection are almost always used with airburst fuzes.
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Zeppelins, being hydrogen-filled balloons, were targets for incendiary shells and the British introduced these with airburst fuses, both shrapnel type-forward projection of incendiary'pot'and base ejection of an incendiary stream.