Can airbenders bend sound?

It was developed by Avatar Aang. Aang remains the only known individual capable of Soundbending, as he is the only known Airbender. Aang realizes that sound can pass through anything but it is mostly travels through the air.
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What else can airbenders Bend?

This is most often visualized in the form of wind: airbenders can create strong gusts, propel themselves, and create balls of compressed air to use as projectiles. Other than classic airbending, some airbenders can also manipulate clouds, because they're composed of mostly air.
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Does airbending have a sub-skill?

@senshin it is a sub-skill. Also its revealed that combustion and lava bending are rare sub-skills. I wouldn't be surprised if this season (3) they show us an Air subskill since its kind of about airbenders and the Red Lotus (most of whom have unique skills) have an extremely skilled airbender (Zaheer).
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Can airbenders Bend mist?

Each element has its own airbending-like technique. Earthbenders can bend dust, waterbenders can bend mist, and firebenders can bend smoke, whereas airbenders can bend all three plus the air itself.
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Can airbenders create a vacuum?

Short answer, Yes. If we can take that each element has a refined form, earth->metal, water->blood, fire->lightning then the refined form of air is void. Also the philosophy of detachment that the Airbenders have fits well into the concept of void/no-self.
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Can airbenders bend lightning?

Lightning bending is one of the strongest abilities in Avatar: The Last Airbender, with Azula's lightning attack nearly killing Aang for good. It's also one of the rarest techniques, with only Ozai, Iroh, and Azula able to generate lightning on their own. Even Aang, the avatar, and Zuko could only redirect lightning.
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Can airbenders bend clouds?

"Airbenders manipulate the clouds in a different way. They bend the air around and within the clouds to reshape or move them. Waterbenders bend the water itself inside the clouds to do the same." Now it was Korra that looked glum.
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Can Firebenders Bend lava?

Yes they can bend lava just by its heat alone. Because Mud is made of earth and water, and lava is earth and heat. Firebenders bend heat and energy.
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Did Toph learn lava bending?

That's right, this means that Toph not only metalbends, but actually also learns lavabending! While this is technically not the first time lavabending has been seen within the franchise, something that is shown in The Legend of Korra, this is canonically the first time it is seen in the known Avatar timeline.
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Can airbenders bend water?

Water is part air, so why can't airbenders bend water? Couldn't the manipulate the air inside the water and bend it like that? And earth too, they could bend the air in the pockets of the earth to bend earth.
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What is the weakest bending in Avatar?

Earth is the weakest element in Pro Bending. With water, you have a large ammount (like a small river) right below you. ONce you bring the water up, you can contort it into any shape, and do any move.
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Can airbenders control temperature?

Heat regulation: Airbenders are able to warm themselves using proper breathing techniques, allowing them to thrive in frigid environments with relative ease. Aang first demonstrated this in the Southern Water Tribe, maintaining his body heat without the need for a parka or any additional layers of clothing.
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Can Earthbenders bend wood?

Simple Answer: No. Earthbenders cannot bend wood because it lacks a mineral content. The exception to this might be petrified wood since it is wood that has been fossilized and now composed completely of stone.
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Can non benders learn bending?

So when all humans were nonbenders, some eventually learned how to bend from watching the animals' or the Moon's capabilities, and then the ability started being born into the people from those first human benders.
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Can Firebenders bend plasma?

Now, not to say Firebenders can't create fire, as the Zuko v Zhao fight has their bending act like mere gas, rather, Firebenders are capable of superheating gas enough to create fire and superheating that gas even more to produce plasma, using their own body's energy.
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Which Bender is the strongest?

1. Iroh. The wise, tea-loving Fire Nation elder gets top pick as the strongest bender in the series. Iroh's (Mako S1-2, Greg Baldwin S3) strength comes not just from his bending, but his years of experience and profound wisdom.
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Can the avatar Lavabend?

The first known use of lavabending was by Avatar Szeto, who used the technique while in the Avatar State to cause the simultaneous eruption of four small volcanoes.
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Can Toph Bend platinum?

The difference between metals isn't just the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in them, is the number of free electrons in them. Platinum doesn't have a lot of connected atoms, that could be why they can't sense or bend it.
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What's the strongest element in the avatar?

Looking at all the abilities and sub abilities of the different bending arts I believe that Waterbending is the most powerful form of bending. Not only can you alter the form of the water from steam to ice you can also use waterbending to heal.
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Can Earthbenders Bend sand?

It is implied that most, if not all, earthbenders are capable of easily bending sand, but because of the loose shifty nature of sand, it is not an easy transition for the average earthbender. The sandbenders of the desert are especially proficient with it due to their particular habitat.
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Can Korra give non benders bending?

Aang and Korra are not Lion Turtles. Lion Turtles are the only beings who have been shown to grant bending abilities to non-benders.
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Can firebenders control smoke?

The generation of heat without producing flame has also made it possible for some firebenders to create steam, smoke, concussive force, and combustion.
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Can airbenders fly without gliders?

So a firebender just needs to keep pumping out the fire with enough force and they could fly all day. The key to Airbending is following the path of least resistance, so an Airbender would naturally fly with their staff on the air, as they don't generate their own.
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Can the Avatar bend sub elements?

Aang and Korra are some of the most powerful Avatars to ever walk the Earth. However, neither of them has been able to completely master all of the subsets of element bending.
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Can Earthbenders Bend bone?

Bonebending is a specialized sub-skill of Earthbending that allows an Earthbender to create and bend bone-like substances similar to bending regular earth. This skill is so rare that only two Earthbenders have been able to posses this skill.
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