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can waterbenders bend oil can earthbenders bend glass can airbenders bend sound can firebenders bend mixtapes

pohlarbearpants

Yes, waterbenders can bend any water based material, as shown when Katara bends ink (Book 3, Chapter 16, “The Southern Raiders”) and soup (Book 3, Chapter 8, “The Runaway”). so as long as the oil is water based (baby oil, cooking oil, etc) then yes. If you’re talking about oil like for a car, then no, they can’t, because it isn’t water based.

Glass is made of sand and earthbenders can bend sand (Book 2, Chapter 10, “The Library”) and furthermore earthbenders can bend the earth particles in metal (Book 2, Chapter 19, “The Guru”) so it stands to reason that they can bend the sand particles in glass. There is a question of whether or not they can still bend it because it is a very purified form of earth and another pure form of earth, platinum, is unbendable (LOK Book 1, Chapter 7, “The Aftermath”). However, when the sand is turned into glass it becomes crystalline (sand is mostly quartz particles after all) and we know earth benders can bend crystals (Book 1 Chapter 5 “The King of Omashu” when Bumi bends the creeping crystal).

Yes, airbenders can bend sound. This is shown when Aang bends sound by using his Appa whistle and extends the range of the sound (Book 2, Chapter 15, “Tales of Ba Sing Se”).

Firebenders can bend heat (Book 3, Chapter 6, “The Avatar and the Firelord”) which leads me to believe that they can not only bend fire mixtapes but can also control how fire a mixtape is by making it hotter.

avatrashh

Damn, pohlarbearpants did the research

banal-adventures

what in the hell is a “water based oil”?? oil, by definition, contains no water. baby oil, aka mineral oil, is a petroleum distillate (LITERALLY THE SAME SOURCE AS CAR OIL), and is made up of alkanes such as decane:

NOT WATER. Cooking oils such as corn oil, olive oil, and rapeseed (canola) oil are pressed from oily plants or animals, and are mixtures of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids such as palmitic acid and oleic acid. They look like this:

Again. No water here.

If we’re talking oil-and-water combinations, water benders could bend emulsified oils like mayonnaise, eggs, and milk. If you add soap and water to oil, you could make a stable emulsion out of it and bend that too. Pure oil? No way. Oils by definition contain no water.

wetwareproblem

You’re not the first person to point this out, and my own research in confusion on that bit leads to two conclusions: 1. You’re right. No oilbending. 2. They can, however, bend most lubes.