boiling point

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.