Talk:Firebending/@comment-75.194.18.96-20120311025002/@comment-4888161-20120412113305

In all substances, the molecules/atoms have natural movement that can't necessarily be seen with the naked eye. Molecules/atoms move at different speeds depending on what form it is. They move fastest for gases and spread out the most making it less dense. They move slowest for solids and contract to become more dense. The speed and distance apart is somewhere in the middle for liquids. Now this doesn't just happen for water, but all matter. And that is elementary school level physics.

You may remember that waterbenders can control movement of water, and water molecules are the smallest pure particles of water. All any waterbender needs to do is make the molecules move slower for a solid, and contract and become more dense. Now water is in solid form, or ice. '''Any excess heat gets forced out in the process because the molecules are too densely packed to retain it. '''So the heat doesn't effect the freezing ability of this technique.

Again, that is elementary school level physics.