By now, the major had gone well past the boiling point.

By the summer of 1864, the situation was at boiling point.

The boiling point of O2 is even lower than that.

This was not the case for the boiling point of water.

Yet only recently has the issue reached the boiling point.

In places, the ground water is well above boiling point.

Things seem to have reached the boiling point down there.

However, though things had reached a boiling point, neither side seemed able to take the next step.

Their business model is based on bringing people to the boiling point.

Its boiling point is likely to be somewhere in the range of 150-250C.