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Boiling vs Refluxing - What's the difference?

boiling | refluxing |

As verbs the difference between boiling and refluxing

is that boiling is while refluxing is .

As a noun boiling

is the process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

As an adjective boiling

is that boils or boil.

As an adverb boiling

is (of adjectives associated with heat) extremely.

boiling

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Verb

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    • Noun

    (wikipedia boiling) (en noun)
  • The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That boils or boil.
  • (of a thing, informal, hyperbole) Extremely hot or active.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
  • (of a person, informal, hyperbole) Feeling uncomfortably hot.
  • (of the weather, hyperbole) Very hot.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "boiling")

    Derived terms

    * boiling hot

    Adverb

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  • (of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely
    • He was boiling mad.
    English degree adverbs

    refluxing

    English

    Verb

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