Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Boiling \Boil"ing\, a. Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 [deg] Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96[deg]; for ether, 94.8[deg]; for mercury, about 675[deg]. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea.
Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser.
To be at the boiling point, to be very angry.
To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) The temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure. 2 (context idiomatic English) The state of being heated, with high aggression.
WordNet
n. the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "the brought to water to a boil" [syn: boil]
being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over; "after an hour of waiting I was at the boiling point"
Wikipedia
The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor.
The boiling point of a liquid varies depending upon the surrounding environmental pressure. A liquid in a partial vacuum has a lower boiling point than when that liquid is at atmospheric pressure. A liquid at high pressure has a higher boiling point than when that liquid is at atmospheric pressure. For a given pressure, different liquids boil at different temperatures.
The normal boiling point (also called the atmospheric boiling point or the atmospheric pressure boiling point) of a liquid is the special case in which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the defined atmospheric pressure at sea level, 1 atmosphere. At that temperature, the vapor pressure of the liquid becomes sufficient to overcome atmospheric pressure and allow bubbles of vapor to form inside the bulk of the liquid. The standard boiling point has been defined by IUPAC since 1982 as the temperature at which boiling occurs under a pressure of 1 bar.
The heat of vaporization is the energy required to transform a given quantity (a mol, kg, pound, etc.) of a substance from a liquid into a gas at a given pressure (often atmospheric pressure).
Liquids may change to a vapor at temperatures below their boiling points through the process of evaporation. Evaporation is a surface phenomenon in which molecules located near the liquid's edge, not contained by enough liquid pressure on that side, escape into the surroundings as vapor. On the other hand, boiling is a process in which molecules anywhere in the liquid escape, resulting in the formation of vapor bubbles within the liquid.
The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can change its state from a liquid to a gas.
Boiling point may also refer to:
Boiling Point, known in Japan as , is a 1990 Japanese film written by, directed by, and co-starring Takeshi Kitano. It was his second film as director and first film as a screenwriter. While Boiling Point is one of the weaker efforts from "Beat" Takeshi, it is seen as an important first step in his development as an editor and as a director.
Boiling Point is a 1993 American action film written and directed by James B. Harris, and starring Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich and Viggo Mortensen. The film was released in the United States on April 16, 1993. This was James B. Harris' last film-making, who was retired as a film director.
Boiling Point (2012) was a professional wrestling Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH) which took place on August 11, 2012 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
Boiling Point featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and story lines that played out on Ring of Honor's (ROH) television programs.
Boiling Point is the fifth EP by American rapper Tech N9ne. It was released on October 30, 2012.
Boiling Point is a five-part, 1999 Channel 4 documentary miniseries produced by Tim Graham and David Nath for London Weekend Television (LWT) and following Chef Gordon Ramsay. With each segment 30 minutes in length, the series was broadcast 25 February 1999 – 25 March 1999.)
Chef Ramsay is closely followed during eight of the most intense months of his life as he opens his first (and now flagship) restaurant in Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, which would ultimately earn him the highly prestigious (and rare) three Michelin Stars. It also covers his participation in the dinner made at the Palace of Versailles to celebrate the closing of the 1998 World Cup and features young chefs Marcus Wareing and Mark Sargeant at the early stages of their careers, as well as mentor Marco Pierre White.
Boiling Point was the first mass exposure of Ramsay to television audiences, revealing his highly driven, impatient and hot tempered personality which has become his trademark.
The series was followed-up in 2000 by a six-part LWT miniseries, Beyond Boiling Point, again produced by Graham (this time with Paul Denchfield and Lucy Leveugle) for LWT, which follows Ramsay as he copes with his celebrity status and juggles cooking with the ever increasing demands on his time from beyond the kitchen.
Usage examples of "boiling point".
Put all the ingredients into a pan, strain in the juice of the lemon and whisk over the fire until just on boiling point.
The mixed infusions are heated to boiling point, strained through flannel and evaporated until the liquid has acquired, when cold, a specific gravity of 1.
Certainly, either, not with the liquid hydrogen engines the Americans are working on today, the boiling point of -423 °.
We know of organisms three miles down in the ocean, living at pressures of two hundred atmospheres near vents of superheated water, and dying if the temperature drops too far below boiling point.
We're so deep into the second cloud deck that the outside temperature is rising to well over a hundred degrees Celsius: the boiling point, of water.
Hothouse Venus doesn't have a cold trap in its upper atmosphere: at the altitude where on Earth the temperature dips below freezing, Venus is almost four hundred degrees Celsius, four times hotter than water's boiling point.
To his right was a layer of crystallized rock salts that he suspected might only be a couple of inches thick and covered over a lake of water that was close to boiling point.
Bushka laughed at the quip, a laugh with a dry, cracked edge that set Twisp's anger near the boiling point.
In a geologically short space of time, the rocks had cooled below the boiling point of water, and now the falling rain no longer got turned back into vapour, at least, not much of it did.