Thus a body may be indefinitely preserved for a sum less than the price of a leaden coffin furnished by the undertakers, a coffin which accelerates the putrid decomposition, in place of preventing it.
The sun accelerates and retards as no clock could be made to accelerate and retard.
If the board is going fast enough, the wave accelerates it, and the board begins its quarter-of-a-mile slide.
Similarly, spongy platinum accelerates the oxidation of sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide, in the commercial manufacture of sulfuric acid.
This is the reason why the entire prevention of access of air hinders these transformations,[48] and an increased supply of air accelerates them.
It is not alone in stimulating the eliminative function of the skin that exercise has a blood-purifying effect; it accelerates all the functions of the body, it stimulates greater activity of the lungs and of the kidneys.
It accelerates the circulation, and seems to arouse the vital forces of the body, but does not require such an expenditure of energy as to prevent the brain from being exceptionally active.
Travelling accelerates the progress of nature, and completes the man for good or evil.
Far from awaiting it, he accelerates it; he stirs his blood to a premature ferment; he knows what should be the object of his desires long before those desires are experienced.
The organic matter created there increases nutrient availability and accelerates the breakdown of rock particles, further increasing the creation of organic matter.
Its presence in soil steadily feeds a healthy ecology of microorganisms important to plant health, and whose activity accelerates release of plant nutrients from undecomposed rock particles.
The compost tumbler is a clever method that accelerates decomposition by improving aeration and facilitating frequent turning.
Running dry leaves through a shredder or grinding them with a lawnmower greatly accelerates their decomposition.
Any fertilizing substance with a C/N below that of stabilized humus, be it a chemical or a natural substance, accelerates the decline in soil organic matter.
As useful as tilling rock powders into soil may be, the intense biological activity of the compost pile accelerates their availability.
Composting artificially accelerates the decomposition of crude organic matter and its recombination into humus.
In proportion as movement accelerates societies consolidate, and as societies consolidate they pass through a profound intellectual change.
It is called a linear accelerator because it accelerates particles in a straight line.
The Bevatron, a modern offspring of the first cyclotron, accelerates protons to 99.
Launderers know that an application of a certain amount of soda or alkali accelerates the scouring action and gives to the liquor a certain softness which is rather misleading.
Acts like codeine, but weaker; induces large secretion of saliva, and accelerates peristalsis.
The exercise of the jaw, while fashioning the mouth and head, brings along with it the flexion of the neck, and accelerates the getting the horse in hand.
The rider's employment of force, when properly applied, has a moral effect also on the horse, that accelerates the results.
The precipitate movement of the rider's legsaccelerates also the piaffer.
In place of preventing or retarding its exhaustion, it rather accelerates it by causing the increased crops to consume more abundantly, and within a shorter period of time, those substances which it contains.
The person should therefore endeavour to ascertain whether long or short steps suit his muscular powers best; generally speaking a moderately short step, quickly repeated, accelerates motion most.
As a snow mass falls it not only becomes more consolidated, beginning at the plane of impact, but also gives a shock to the mass upon which it falls that either starts it in motion or accelerates its rate of motion.
Also a new force--plucking--is called into action when ice is present, and this greatly accelerates the rate of erosion.
In such a case a slight blow might cause extensive hemorrhage, but as that which accelerates causes, death, even though it might sooner or later have occurred in the same manner without injury, is due to the injury inflicted.
It is known also that a wound which accelerates death causes death.
Maliciously accelerating the death of another is regarded as criminal on the principle that that which accelerates causes.
Percussion, which necessarily takes place in mixing the materials of gunpowder by stampers, no doubt accelerates the combustion.
In the second place, cold accelerates their respiration, and thus obliging them to inhale more frequently than the inhabitants of hot countries, increases the amount of oxygen which they on an average take in.
For although the progress of knowledge eventually accelerates the increase of wealth, it is nevertheless certain that, in the first formation of society, the wealth must accumulate before the knowledge can begin.
The figures it presents on the ice are small segments of very large circles; which enables the skater to diverge but very slightly from the right line of his course, and consequently accelerates his progress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accelerates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
