Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4441317-20180306065027/@comment-25296247-20180306131134

Weell, lightning is an electric discharge, and it does produce quite hot plasma.

Objectively, elements like "dust" and "magma" and "storm" are quite nonsensical.

Dust is fine particles of matter, so sand is just rock in smaller parts. What's more, traditional dust we see in old houses and mostly every building, is accumulation of plant pollen, textil fibers and human skin. It doesn't seem like a good idea of an element.

Magma is just rock at very high temperature. It is composed of many elements and minerals. By this logic, you could heat up and melt/burn any random object and call it a new element, because of how different every molten/burnt object would be.

Same goes for snow/ice. That's just cooled water. If you cool down a metal, it doesn't change its properties, but by this logic, it should be called a new element, right? What about cold gases? Cold liquids? Is frozen brick an element?

And storm is definitely not made out of lightning, and not always made out of air. It can be any major disturbance in atmosphere, not just air, but also other planets' atmospheres and even the Sun, since it also technically has atmosphere. Also keep in mind that tornadoes, hail, blizzard, snowstorm, rain, heat bursts and even watersprouts. Applying your elemental logic, storm would be composed of AIR + FIRE + WIND + WATER + ICE + SAND.