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Definition of Retarders
1. retarder [n] - See also: retarder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retarders
Literary usage of Retarders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"Many " patent " retarders are also on the market, most of which are based on one
or more ... The retarders thus made were light green in color, possessed no ..."
2. The University Geological Survey of Kansas: Reports by Kansas Geological Survey (1899)
"USE OF Retarders. During the process of calcination, about one-half hour before the
... Sours and sweets form the worker's rule for retarders, and sorghum ..."
3. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture, Properties, and Uses by Adelbert Philo Mills (1915)
"Action of Accelerators and Retarders. The setting of plaster of Paris ahd other
gypsum plasters is a simple process of recombination of the partially or ..."
4. Steam-boiler Economy: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fuel Economy by William Kent (1915)
"3. The gases from the burning fuel combine more readily with the oxygen of the
air of combustion as the temperature of the fire increases. Retarders. ..."
5. Steam-boiler Economy: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Fuel Economy by William Kent (1915)
"3. The gases from the burning fuel combine more readily with the oxygen of the
air of combustion as the temperature of the fire increases. Retarders. ..."
6. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1899)
"USE OF Retarders. During the process of calcination, about one-half hour before the
... Sours and sweets form the worker's rule for retarders, and sorghum ..."
7. The Mechanical Engineering of Steam Power Plants by Frederic Remsen Hutton (1908)
"Retarders. A special form of boiler-tube has been used to some extent, which is
fitted with ribs lengthwise, or is thickened at several points of its inner ..."
8. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1896)
"It is therefore evident that retarders enable a boiler to be run as ... Retarders in
fire tubes of a boiler interpose a resistance varying with the rate of ..."
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