Talk:Firebending/@comment-75.194.18.96-20120311025002/@comment-4888161-20120408013222

I think what Mysteria meant was that waterbenders can control the movement (of water molecules only) to slow down so that they could become freezing tempurature. When it is cold, molecules slow down. The freezing tempreature of something is when the molecules slow down enough for the thing being frozen to become solid. Ice is the solid state of water, so waterbenders can slow the water molecules down enough to put the water into it's solid form.

Also, waterbenders have to be able to control water molecules, or they wouldn't be able to bend water in the first place as the water molecules are just water in its simplest form. So it would make sense that waterbendrs can slow down and speed up these molecules to a certain degree. In this case, they can slow them down enough to solidly freeze things. They can also speed them up just enough to bring water back into it's gas form (steam/mist) but not further than that.