boiling point

“It was just a boiling point for me,” says Bonney, 25, who couldn’t save money after paying his bills— even while living with his parents.

He made the calibration process more accurate by simply using the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level—no more salt mixture requiring its own measurements, à la Fahrenheit.

He developed a high-pitched screech like a teakettle announcing its boiling point that was quelled only by leaving the confines of our little house.

In principle we can use the fundamental physics we know to calculate the boiling point of water to immense accuracy—but nobody has done it yet, because the calculation is hard.

Folks over here are sick of it,” said one Senate GOP aide who added that Republicans were “reaching a boiling point with him” as Mnuchin “gives and gives and gives and gets nothing in return.

It was the boiling point of tensions that Nigeria had seen bubble over for years.

It is unpasteurized and unfiltered, and the wort reaches the boiling point but never boils.

The Iranian and Hezbollah intervention in Syria this spring has exacerbated the tensions to the boiling point.

But it was an unleashing of many tensions…and things came to a boiling point.

The author Malcolm Gladwell defined a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point."

Into this song she weaves all the abuse which long experience tells her will lash her husband up to boiling-point.

At the top the water is still 39 from its boiling-point, and even at the bottom it is 19; but at D the deficiency is only 4.

In that of Fahrenheit, which is chiefly used in England, the freezing point of water is 32, and the boiling point 212.

When the thermometer was sunk a few inches into the clay, it rose generally to within a few degrees of the boiling point.

In that of Reaumur, which is chiefly used abroad, the freezing point of water is 0, and the boiling point 80.