The phrase "able to retard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the capability to slow down or delay a process or action.
Example: "The new software is able to retard the data processing speed to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "capable of slowing" or "able to delay".
"They've been able to retard progress and competition".
They may be able to retard the growth of copying on the internet for a time, but they cannot hold back the advance of technology altogether.
The mobility of U likely depends on whether the organic matter is in dissolved or solid form, with the latter able to retard U mobility.
The results also demonstrated that the untableted ZPG microparticles exhibited drug release profiles which were able to retard the release of ketoprofen in S.I.F.
Introducing artificial closure material into a fatigue crack has been shown to be able to retard the crack and give considerable life extension.
A solution to the problem was found in the incorporation of 10% v/v water into the ethanolic drug layering solution, resulting in the production of drug-loaded pellets with a smooth morphology which allowed the application of a coherent outer coating able to retard drug release.
On the other hand, the first increased trend of total soluble phenolic compounds might be also due to the other component in chitosan coating, cinnamon oil, which could be able to delay, retard, or prevent oxidation processes of phenolic compounds by reacting with free radicals, chelating metals, and acting as oxygen scavengers [ 37].
As shown in Fig. 7, cationic polymer micelles are able to fully retard the mobility of plasmid DNA in agarose gel when the N/P ratio is 15:1 or higher than 15:15
As shown in Figure 2, the nanoparticles are able to fully retard the mobility of DNA in agarose gel when the N/P ratio is 10 1 or higher than 10 1.
Our findings suggest that if we can manipulate the host-cellular factors that mediate viral evolution, we may be able to significantly retard viral adaptability.
The IGF1R inhibitor A-928605 was also able to significantly retard the growth in a model of neuroblastoma.
