Any agent that retards or delays or hinders.
1 And wool is naturally flame - retardant , without the need for any chemical additives.
2 The dense, oxygen-absorbing retardant blanket snuffed the fire out in three seconds.
3 The attack stuttered to a halt amid a snowstorm of fire - retardant foam.
4 Dust and vacuum often to get rid of flame retardant chemicals 3.
5 Together they work as a powerful detergent and another dissolution retardant .
6 Each sheet of corrugated cardboard is laminated for water resistance and is fire - retardant .
7 The aircraft crashed while dumping retardant on a fire on Thursday.
8 The natural secretions of the sponge acted as a retardant - not as an antidote.
9 All Bosch refrigeration appliances are manufactured with a flame - retardant back panel.
10 Ceiling-mounted fire suppression nozzles swivelled around, and squirted retardant foam at the blaze.
11 However, the materials used at that time were not fire - retardant .
12 He said more lines of fire retardant material would be laid by planes today.
13 An RNZAF Hercules is due to arrive today with fire retardant brought from Australia.
14 The fire retardant PBDE has been known to affect nerve development and hormone production.
15 Cygnus has an experiment testing fire on flame retardant material.
16 It was deployed yesterday to drop retardant on an out-of-control bushfire north-west of Adaminaby.
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