Sentence examples for a retardant from inspiring English sources

"But their work in Iraq has clearly been a retardant".

It facilitates cleanliness and sanitation in building and is a retardant to the spread of fire.

In the 1970s, when cigarettes were the main cause of mattress fires, polyurethane foam was itself seen as a retardant, because cigarettes don't make foam ignite.

Extending the chemical metaphor, if a catalyst speeds up a chemical reaction and a retardant slows one down, can there be a role for an architectural retardant?

It was observed that while PSD acts as a conventional chain transfer agent, PST acts as a retardant.

Overall, these observations do indicate that TPP (a retardant of hydrocarbon flames) reduces the flammability of UHMWPE by a gas-phase mechanism.

We had a brush fire in the area a few months earlier, which firefighters quickly put down with the help of a retardant-dropping helicopter.

Melamine is an industrial chemical used as a fire retardant and a stabilizer for plastics.

I would submit that for some the answer is yes, and that this phenomenon is a continuing retardant on a more civil society.

When is a flame retardant not a flame retardant?

They have low fire resistance (unless treated with a fire retardant) and a short lifespan.