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When we prepare food in boiling water, we boil it. Eggs so prepared are boiled eggs.
Yes, we boil eggs, but eggs do not boil by itself, which is written in the OP.
The solidity of the egg depends on how long we boil them for.
We don't normally cook eggs. We boil/fry/poach/scramble/etc them.
At sea level, eggs are boiled at 100 degress Celsius.
I know that boil/fry/poach/scramble are the various ways of cooking eggs.
The point I was trying make is that water boils at 100 degrees and not eggs which boil at the temperature. Eggs do not need 100 degrees Celsius to get cooked; they could be cooked at a lower temperature.
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