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Serving to impede (slow down) the action of somethingin-compoundsoften
retardant
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Level C2
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Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something.in-compoundsoften
- It took until last year for mattresses and furniture containing the highly toxic retardant deca-BDE to be banned, under European law, from sale. […] To make matters worse, far from saving us from fires, flame retardants appear to increase t