Talk:Earthbending/@comment-64.121.96.54-20120322012653/@comment-75.101.1.190-20120328031034

No, probably not. For the same reason earthbenders can't make rocks into lava - it requires too much heat. Besides, metal benders aren't actually bending the metal, they're bending the impurites IN the metal.

"And does anyone know if skilled Earthbenders can turn solid rock to sand?"

Well, seeing as how Bumi did exactly that, yes we do. And we already saw a whole mess of sandbenders during the desert episodes. And Sandbending is just a varient of earthbending - there's no reason to think that it doesn't have much the same weaknesses.