[Zer0 (OP)]

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[Kryptid]

Yes. All you have to do is reduce the air pressure enough to lower it's boiling point to that of room temperature or below.

[Janus]

Yes. All you have to do is reduce the air pressure enough to lower it's boiling point to that of room temperature or below.

Which would be between ~0.0061 and 0.011 atm, assuming a room temperature of ~20C.  Below 0.0061 atm, there is no liquid phase of water at all, it goes directly from ice to vapor, in a process called sublimation.

[chris]

If the water was at absolute zero - implying no heating - then it wouldn't boil, would it?

[Bored chemist]

If the water was at absolute zero - implying no heating - then it wouldn't boil, would it?

You cam't get to absolute zero.

[Kryptid]

If the water was at absolute zero - implying no heating - then it wouldn't boil, would it?

At absolute zero there wouldn't be any energy available to knock water molecules free of the crystal lattice they are in, so no.

[evan_au]

If the water was at absolute zero - implying no heating - then it wouldn't boil, would it?

You can read this from the phase diagram of water.

It looks like there is no liquid phase below about 400 Pa pressure.

This graph bottoms out at 1 Pascal (1 Pa), where there is no vapour phase below -60C.
This is a very low pressure by Earth standards, but still a lot higher than interplanetary space, where the comets hang out...
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(data_page)#Phase_diagram

[Bored chemist]

Has someone changed the thread title, or do some people think 0K is "room temperature"?

[evan_au]

Has someone changed the thread title, or do some people think 0K is "room temperature"?

I think the conclusion was "Yes, you can boil water at room temperature, by reducing the pressure.".

It then evolved to a related question: "Can water sublimate at 0K?", to which the answer was "No".

...and then onto another related question: "At what temperatures can water sublimate?".

I haven't seen a good answer to this one... Is it around -75C, or does there exist a tiny probability that a water molecule will gain enough energy to jump into the vapor phase, even at 4K?

Would you care to enlighten us, BC?

[chiralSPO]

Yes, water can still sublime (not sublimate) at 4K (and even at temps approaching 0K, for which the primary mechanism of evaporating would be water molecules tunneling from the surface to some distance away, sufficiently far to not come right back). The process will be exceedingly slow, but still have a nonzero rate.

Here are some calculations of ice vapor pressures at fairly low temps:
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/chemistry/3_4/3_4_1.html

And here is a ref about heavy atom (molecule) tunneling (note that the rates are independent of T):
http://comporgchem.com/blog/?p=72

Below 150 K the Arrhenius curve begins to deviate from linearity, and below 20 K the curve is flat – the rate is no longer temperature dependent! Thus, at cryogenic temperatures, the tunneling rate far exceeds traditional crossing of the variational barrier.

[Bored chemist]

A sublimate is a material produced by sublimation, in much the same way that a condensate is produced by condensation.
The verb is "to sublime".

[jeffreyH]

0K is the room temperature in quantum hell.

[Bored chemist]

0K is the room temperature in quantum hell.

Cool!

[Yahya]

sorry guys not intending to make fun , but if it is at room temperature then it is not boiling and if it is boiling then it is not at room temperature , you can't combine the two.

[chiralSPO]

sorry guys not intending to make fun , but if it is at room temperature then it is not boiling and if it is boiling then it is not at room temperature , you can't combine the two.

Sure you can! Just not at "room pressure"...

Observe:

[Yahya]

sorry I did not observe"watch" the video, but if they have different pressures then it is not inside the room, it should be a container closed from absolute sides, if so it is another room by itself.

[chiralSPO]

sorry I did not observe"watch" the video

Experimental observation is one of the central pillars of the scientific method. I have to wonder what are the motives of someone who frequents a science blog, and makes an assertion on a thread, but has no interest in watching the first minute of a video that directly addresses the topic of that thread experimentally.

OP: "Can Water be boiled at room temperature without heating it?"
The video: "look at this water being boiled at room temperature without being heated"

but if they have different pressures then it is not inside the room, it should be a container closed from absolute sides, if so it is another room by itself.

Yes, that's precisely the point. But notice that there is a thermometer in the water, that clearly establishes that the boiling water is at roughly 22 °C, which is within the range that can be considered "room temperature."

Why does it matter that there is a chamber surrounding the water?

[Kryptid]

sorry I did not observe"watch" the video, but if they have different pressures then it is not inside the room, it should be a container closed from absolute sides, if so it is another room by itself.

You do realize that "room temperature" is not location dependent, right? It's just given that label for convenience's sake.

[Zer0 (OP)]

Q - Can Water be boiled at room temperature without heating it?
A - Yes.

*Answer based on subjective interpretation of data/info from the following sources.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_evaporation

Vacuum evaporation is the process of causing the pressure in a liquid-filled container to be reduced below the vapor pressure of the liquid, causing the liquid to evaporate at a lower temperature than normal. Although the process can be applied to any type of liquid at any vapor pressure, it is generally used to describe the boiling of water by lowering the container's internal pressure below standard atmospheric pressure and causing the water to boil at room temperature.

The vacuum evaporation treatment process consists of reducing the interior pressure of the evaporation chamber below atmospheric pressure. This reduces the boiling point of the liquid to be evaporated, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for heat in both the boiling and condensation processes. In addition, there are other technical advantages such as the ability to distill other liquids with high boiling points and avoiding the decomposition of substances that are sensitive to temperature, etc.

Thanks & Credits - Wikipedia.

Special Thanks to Factomania for showing the experimental demonstration.