Two drinks were heated to a temperature above their boiling point. On the above sent

[middleage S]

Two drinks were heated to a temperature above their boiling point.

On the above sentence, is it okay to use 'their boiling point'? Each of the drink have different boiling point.

 

[Yankee]

Yes.

 

[jutfrank]

Two drinks were heated to temperatures above their boiling points.

 

[SoothingDave]

The boiling points are different. Hence they were heated above their (individual, respective) boiling points.

 

[Rover_KE]

Two drinks were heated to a temperature above their boiling point.

In the above sentence, is it okay to use 'their boiling point'? Each of the drinks has a different boiling point.

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[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

Two liquids were heated above their boiling points.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think if a liquid is being used in some kind of science experiment, as is clearly the case here, it's incorrect to refer to it as a drink.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

To heat a drink above its boiling point, it needs to be in a pressure cooker. Otherwise the water in it would steam — a gas, not a liquid.

So why would you heat a drink in a pressure cooker?

 

[GoesStation]

To heat a drink above its boiling point, it needs to be in a pressure cooker.

If you handle it very carefully, you can raise a liquid above its boiling point at atmospheric pressure without causing it to boil. This is called superheating.

Supercooling is the complementary phenomenon of chilling a liquid below its freezing point.