Toph is such a powerful bender she can masturfully bend metal. most people don't know this but Bone is made from calcium and calcium is in fact a metal. so it would be possible for her to bend bone
Toph is such a powerful bender she can masturfully bend metal. most people don't know this but Bone is made from calcium and calcium is in fact a metal. so it would be possible for her to bend bone
Heh, a lot of people do actually know that bone has calcium, man. Children and adults were always told to drink plenty of milk because it's rich in calcium (since calcium intake can strengthen your bones).
It could be debated whether or not metalbenders could bend calcium. Purified metals cannot be bent, so the question would how much earth is in pure calcium. This point is moot, though, since bone is actually comprised of a couple of calcium compounds and collagen.
So, can earth/metalbenders bend bone? Who knows for sure? It's certain, though, that even if that were possible, a good bloodbender could easily override their control over bone.
The way they use the term "metal" in Avatar, it always refers to things like iron, steel, gold, etcetera. If earthbenders couldn't bend any element classified as a metal, they wouldn't be able to bend very much.
I would say that, theoretically, a sufficiently advanced earthbender should be able to manipulate bone. Beyond that, it's hard to say what the limits would be.
If they were trying to move you like a puppet as opposed to just altering your bones directly.
It could be debated whether or not metalbenders could bend calcium. Purified metals cannot be bent, so the question would how much earth is in pure calcium. This point is moot, though, since bone is actually comprised of a couple of calcium compounds and collagen.
So, can earth/metalbenders bend bone? Who knows for sure? It's certain, though, that even if that were possible, a good bloodbender could easily override their control over bone.
I wasn't saying people don't know that bone has calcium in it. i was saying that most people don't know that Calcium is a metal. which is true. if you ask the majority of people they will not know that
this would be a super interesting thing to see, though if we look at other metal concentrations in the human bone, I think there's more copper and lead than calcium. Anyway, considering the fact that the bone would have to have earth in it it may seem really difficult to bend - even if the earthbender was really powerful. So the question is how much earth would need to be in the bone for an earthneder to be abe to bend it?
Bonebending would not be possible via metalbending. Bone is not pure calcium, but mostly calcium phosphate, which is not a pure metal needed for metalbending. Bonebending might be a subskill of Earthbending, but it would require techniques and an understanding of the bending arts that is different from metalbending.
metal benders don't need absolutely pure metals to bend. you have no proof that it would require some massively powerful bender. the only thing it would require is the bender to realize that calcum is a metal. in general they wouldn't need that either because the human body is made up of many things including basic earth particles
my point of view come frome two points:
1) Bone is not a metalic form of Calcium, and so far, metalbending is not shown to affect non-metalic forms of metals. If it can be done it hasn't been shown.
2) While Bone is like an earthly mineral, and could hypothetically be bent if the right techniques were correctly designed. The problem is that the body wouldn't absorb enough earth particles to relaibly contaminate bone composition. More than likely any bonebending technique would be more similar to bloodbending than metalbending - as both bone and bloodbending involve manipulating an organic form of the element found within the human body.
What I can't figure out is why you're referencing this in terms of metalbending. Yes, on the periodic table, calcium is classified as a metal, but there's no sign this is the context in which they're using the word metal. Any time metalbending is referenced, it's in the context of a substance like iron or steel.
Either way, I don't know why its lack of purity would be an obstacle, since that's the opposite of the rule given by the series: Metals require "earthen impurities" in order to be bent. As to whether or not bonebending is possible, I give a more detailed account of my thoughts here. Though even if it's possible, that doesn't necessarily mean anyone has learned it.