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A breaching round is a shotgun shell which is designed to blow off the hinges of a door without harming the operator or the occupants of the room to be entered. Typically the shell contains a slug of compressed zinc powder which will hit the hinge with great force but then fragment into harmless pieces.

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Breaching experimentIn the field of social psychology, a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine peoples' reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Erving Goffman's seminal study Behavior in Public Places gives some classic exampBreaching roundA breaching round is a shotgun shell which is designed to blow off the hinges of a door without harming the operator or the occupants of the room to be entered. Typically the shell contains a slug of compressed zinc powder which will hit the hinge with gr 
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