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- noun Plural form of
accelerant .
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Examples
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The insurgents are adding what they call accelerants to the IEDs so when they go off, they cause a fire, they cause maximum casualties.
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Cans of hairspray and old Stax records have been identified as accelerants in the fire, prompting the theory that it was sparked by an unsupervised Winehouse.
Camden Fire Caused By ‘Unattended Winehouse’ Push Jelly 2008
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Cans of hairspray and old Stax records have been identified as accelerants in the fire, prompting the theory that it was sparked by an unsupervised Winehouse.
Archive 2008-02-01 Push Jelly 2008
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Harwood said equipment upgrades at the lab over the past several years now allow for: fire debris analysis to determine what kind of accelerants were used in fires determined to be arsons; the separation of male and female DNA for the identification of possible perpetrators in sex crimes; and the identification of epithelial cell DNA from objects people have touched.
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Trained dogs are accurate in picking out liquid petroleum, or "accelerants," more than 75 percent of the time, he said.
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Shasta and her human partner, Senior Investigator Dan Young, have finished their training and are ready to detect "accelerants" or anything that an arsonist may use to start a fire.
Maine News Updates - Portland Press Herald, Sunrise Herald 2009
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Isn't that like giving bonuses to the arsonists who started a fire because they alone know what kind of accelerants they used to start it?
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Though we officially seek to extinguish terrorists, our actions abroad serve as obvious accelerants to terror.
William Astore: Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire: What It Means When We Say We Have the World's Finest Fighting Force William Astore 2011
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Though we officially seek to extinguish terrorists, our actions abroad serve as obvious accelerants to terror.
William Astore: Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire: What It Means When We Say We Have the World's Finest Fighting Force William Astore 2011
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And Secure Communities -- which the administration is attempting to deploy to every jurisdiction by 2013 -- is one of the accelerants in this supercharged enforcement effort.
Marshall Fitz: "Secure Communities" Should Not Undermine A Better Life Marshall Fitz 2011
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