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fire retardants

fire retardants is the plural of fire retardant.

Meaning of fire retardant

Noun

fire retardant (plural fire retardants)

  1. Any of several substances used to delay or prevent combustion when used as a coating or component of a combustible material.
    • More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.2016 May 4, Nicky Woolf, “Fort McMurray: Canada wildfires force evacuation of oil sands city”, in The Guardian

Questions about fire retardants

What is fire retardants the plural of?
Fire retardants is the plural of fire retardant.

Words near fire retardants in the dictionary

  1. fire rainbows
  2. fire rake
  3. fire regime
  4. fire regimes
  5. fire retardant
  6. fire retardants
  7. fire ring
  8. fire rings
  9. fire roll
  10. fire rolls
  11. fire safety

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