Balls
Pellets
Both words in one sentence
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The weapons can reflect bullets and shotgun pellets, which will damage the enemy instead of the player afterward; grenades, which explode normally and deal damage to everyone; and destroy acid pellets, toxic gas, rockets, and plasma balls.
Source: Parrying Bullets - Not by baseballs, not by BB pellets, but by pressurized water balls, which promptly decimates the landscape behind her.
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Portal and HL2 are set in the same universe, and use the same graphic effect and sounds for the balls, but they are referred to as "High Energy Pellets" in Portal.
Source: Energy Ball
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