This retardsthe ripening process and in extreme cases gives the cheese a salty taste.
Before rennet is added to the milk, it is diluted in about forty times its volume of cold water, which chills the enzyme and retards its action until it can be thoroughly mixed with the milk.
Knead well, let rise; it will require some time, as the fruit retards the raising process.
A low temperature only retards decomposition; it does not prevent it, unless very low and it is continued.
But the inertia of the waters prevents their instantly obeying the moon's attraction, and the friction of the waters on the bottom of the ocean still further retards its progress.
Where such a joint is made with pivots for its bearings, one pair of pivots are very liable to have more friction than the other, which retards the movement and causes the harmonograph to undergo a continuous change of axis.
Such a political economy, though it no doubt retards more or less, is not always capable of stopping altogether, the natural progress of a nation towards wealth and prosperity, and still less of making it go backwards.
The fundamental law to which we refer is, that all vital phenomena are accompanied by, and dependent upon, molecular or atomic changes; and whatever retards these retards the phenomena of life; whatever suspends these suspends life.
These experiments demonstrate that the exposure of hen's eggs to the influence of the vapor of alcohol, previous to incubation, retards the development of the embryo, and favors the production of malformations.
Therefore, while each dose temporarily reduces the fever, it retards the most important physiological processes on which the living system depends for resisting the effects of toxic agents; namely, oxidation and elimination.
Alcohol not only retains the cholera poison, but retards the action of the heart.
Hence, to say that an agent which retards tissue metamorphosis is in any sense a food, is simply to pervert and misapply terms.
A large city debt retards growth and in the end defeats the purpose of those who think by mortgaging the future to attract population and property.
This acid weakened, or vinegar, retards putrefaction, softens the bones, as well as the muscles, which are discolored by its action.
This same acid diluted retards putrefaction, but softens the bones, as well as the muscles, which are discolored by its action.
The plant is made to imbibe soda water and the growth becomes suddenly exalted some ten times; but a puff of tobacco smoke instantly retards the rate.
It should be noted that sexual precocity or vice retards the development of puberty, while healthful psychic stimuli are favourable to it.
Hence it was a right instinct that led us to give the name of sin and vice to what retards the normal development of life, and virtue and honour to what is favourable to it.
On the contrary, "Artificial feeding retards this doubling of weight in children, which is attained only by the end of the first year; so that the weight is not tripled until some time in the course of the second year.
All the paracentral errors and malformations are a physical burden which retards the perfectionment of man.
Illustration: Experiment to show that the skin of the potato (a stem) retards evaporation.
Vaupell further observes, on the page last quoted: "The removal of leaves is injurious to the forest, not only because it retards the growth of trees, but still more because it disqualifies the soil for the production of particular species.
It is not advisable to allow any of the bulbs of either Hyacinths or Tulips to seed, as it retards their ripening, and weakens the root, except where there are a few desired for new varieties.
If the days are mild and sunny about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, all the plants would be benefited by a gentle syringing, which retards the progress of insects, and accelerates vegetation.
The second class of critics is made up of economists, who believe that too much of the world's earnings is spent upon clothes, and that this universal spirit of extravagance retards marriage, and blocks the progress of the race.
That unavoidable waiting between trains which now and then compelled an old-time tourist to look at a cathedral or a chateau, by way of diverting an empty hour, no longer retards progress.
In support of this hypothesis we have the well-known fact that tobacco, like tea, coffee, alcohol and coca, universally retards organic waste.
The pressure of the air and of other vapours upon the surface of water in an open vessel, does not prevent evaporation of the liquid; it merely retards its progress.
Certain oils thicken and eventually dry into a transparent, yellowish, flexible substance; which forms a skin upon the surface of the oil, and retards its further alteration.
Exposure to a low temperature simply retards proteolytic action, doubtless in the same manner that cold checks or retards other chemical changes.
And this condition," he concluded abruptly, "retards the development of our future.
And there again is where your individual system retards natural progress.
Man's daily employment should be a mixture of both mental and physical labor, for all brain work strains the mind and weakens the flesh, while all bodily exertion over-taxes the frame and retards the growth of intellect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
