How I dislike everything that keeps me back, or retards me. Refrigeration and freezing retards the staling process. Enforced expression of ARF retards early 47S/45S rRNA precursor processing and inhibits 32S rRNA cleavage. Starch is quickly digested to glucose, but adding fat or protein retards digestion. HIV/AIDS also severely retards economic growth by destroying human capital. Inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis, retards or stops cell growth. This allows NSAIDs to result in PGI dominance that promotes circulation and retards thrombosis. Guar gum retards ice crystal growth by slowing mass transfer across the solid/liquid interface. This possibly retards the following luteinisation, which makes it impossible for female animals to conceive. Insulation greatly retards natural convection making conduction the primary mode of heat transfer. Afterwards, a protective surface usually forms on the inside of copper tubes that retards leaching. The firing impulse retards the forward movement of the slide and drives it back. In water treatment, it retards calcium scale formation. His parents were both retards of the Palmach, the elite strike force of the Haganah. The intake cam has mid-position cam lock mechanism that retards the continuously variable timing.