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boiling point

沸点,沸腾点,滚点

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Physics, Chemistry. the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid is equal to the pressure of the atmosphere on the liquid, equal to 212°F for water at sea level. Abbreviation: b.p.
    • : the point beyond which one becomes angry, outraged, or agitated.
    • : the point at which matters reach a crisis.

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  • “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.

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.