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accelerants

n. (plural of accelerant English)

Usage examples of "accelerants".

When accelerants are poured at a scene, they pool and flow as their vapors burn.

The origin of fire was a bathroom on the first floor, and no electrical arcing, no accelerants were detected.

No accelerants were detected, nor was there any explanation of what in the bathroom could have ignited a blaze that had shot up eight feet to set fire to the second floor.

There were a number of accelerants that would produce a very hot fire.

Athene aren't your usual VC, they're accelerants – they take explosive business plans and detonate them.

The blaze had been fierce and fast, fueled by accelerants, fanned by dry winds.

Within days, the time-delay device and accelerants were identified and traced to Casey Stonehart, twenty-three years old and clearly not that bright, as he'd purchased the materials in a town only sixteen miles away.