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What is a boilover?

What is a boilover? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil- or petrochemical-fuelled fire with water, generating steam which propels the burning fuel outwards.
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In the boilover of the round Grafton won their first game of the season against Southern Cross University in Grafton last Saturday.
Everything seemed to be going according to script when he won the opening set but the first hint of a boilover came when Safin won the second.
The Wallabies secured a shot at the title on Saturday with a victory arguably better than last year's World Cup boilover.
He hectored and brayed at the podium as if he had found himself unwittingly at some local council boilover.
The head and the heart say blue but the gut can't get away from the idea of a Queensland boilover.
Avoid spraying directly into open containers to prevent boilover.

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