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How to pronounce“retardant”in English

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In natural English speech, "retardant" appears in contexts such as: "It's called technical bulletin 117, and now there's an amendment in 2013 saying you don't have to have the same sort of flame retardant properties in your furniture. And so now it is legal to make furniture that doesn't have added flame retardants.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/rɛtærdænt/

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It's called technical bulletin 117, and now there's an amendment in 2013 saying you don't have to have the same sort of flame

retardant properties in your furniture.

And so now it is legal to make furniture that doesn't have added flame retardants.

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Definitions of “retardant”

adjective

Serving to impede (slow down) the action of something

noun

Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something.

“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 the risk.”

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