Sentence examples for close to boiling from inspiring English sources

Ingushetia itself is close to boiling point.

SIX weeks after the failed coup against President Hugo Chavez, unrest within Venezuela's armed forces remains close to boiling point.

3 Once the milk is close to boiling, slowly stir in the semolina paste with a wooden spoon.

Since four southerners demonstrating for secession were killed by security forces on February 21st, long-standing grievances have come close to boiling point.

In the wetlands, the world's largest mangrove swamp, unrest now seems close to boiling over, with sabotage against pipelines becoming routine and intermittent acts of violence.

In country after country, occasional eruptions of public passion will come close to boiling over, as they did yesterday in Britain.

"These guys bet against America all the time," said Mr. Biden, whose temperature was running close to boil for most of the evening.

Brazilian prosecutors have requested that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva be placed in custody in a move that pushes political temperatures closer to boiling point.

The fear of flying in Somali air space ReprintsThe mass closure of pro-reform publications and the scores of arrests and trials of the past year of editors, journalists, politicians and student leaders—have brought the process of reform to a standstill, and the atmosphere of confrontation close to boiling-point.

In fact, the boiling points of ethers are much closer to those of alkanes with similar molecular weights; the boiling point of pentane (C5H12, MW 72) is 36 °C (97 °F), close to the boiling point of diethyl ether.

In this paper, the wetting structure close to the boiling surface is identified using the experimental data from an optical probe, obtained during pool boiling of FC-72 on a horizontal surface, together with a mathematical model for the interfacial geometry based on two-phase flow averaging theory.