Is it possible to boil water at room temperature without heating it?
Yes, by lowering the pressure to far below atmospheric pressure, water can boil at room temperature. If you’ve never seen a picture of a triple point diagram (it might help make more sense of things) theres one in the wiki commons at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phase-… The reason for this is that as you decrease the pressure in the system, far less speed is required for the water molecules to break reach the escape velocity of the system. I hope this helps!
