Molecular Combustion

**Category:** | Offensive Power

**Molecular Combustion** is the ability to make molecules speed up to the point that causes an explosion.

## Description

User can accelerate molecules of target, increasing heat and friction to the point of combustion/explosion.

With a simple hand gesture, users can blow up both living and artificial beings. However, some beings can reconstitute themselves after having their molecules separated. Despite its destructive effect, some beings are completely immune to the power; for example, the power doesn't always work on upper-level demons, as evidenced on multiple occasions; many upper-level beings can only be knocked back a few feet or have certain body parts destroyed. Some beings can regenerate said body part.

### **Limitations**

* The user might require the use of their hands.
* Some beings may be immune to this power.
* People with the ability to reconstitute themselves will blow up but they will form again afterwards.

* Piper Halliwell

**Piper**: "*Leo, why are my powers so wonky?*"
**Leo**: "*They're not, they're advancing. Uh, turns out your powers work by slowing down molecules, and apparently now you can speed them up as well*"
— Leo explaining how Piper's powers advanced

Piper developed this power nearly three years after her powers were reawakened. She activates it by pointing her hands in the direction of the thing she wants to blow up.

When Piper first developed this power, it alternated unpredictably with her freezing power, especially after the death of her sister, Prue. The reason being her emotions were off balance, causing her powers to be highly unstable. After she recovered from Prue's death, and as time went by, she relied less on her anger to activate it. As she became more comfortable with her power, she found that can selectively target individual body parts on a demon. She also learned to control the strength of her ability varying between destroying a single target to creating tiny explosions.

When Piper gets emotional she loses control of the power, as seen when her and Leo were having marital difficulties, as the power is heavily tied to her emotions. When Leo walked away from her during an argument, she unintentionally destroyed the door he had just walked through. Though, the more emotional Piper gets, the stronger her power grows but also the more uncontrollable it is, when she blew up the door unintentionally she used one finger that shows the magnitude of power is greatly enhanced when she is overwhelmed with a lot of emotions.
## List of Users

**Original Power**

* Piper Halliwell

**Temporary Power**

* Leo Wyatt

## Notes

* This power is usually referred to as Blowing up. It has also been called Blasting and Explosion.
* Piper does not have to be directly in front of an object to blow it up, she just has to see it. However, her hands must move in the target's direction. Leo pushed Piper away from blowing up Kyra and her hands missed the target, blowing up a picture instead.
* Piper has been shown to be able to cause great destruction with her powers. The largest objects she blew up were most likely a warehouse door and a car.
* Although Piper needs to use her hands to use this power, her heightened emotional state during the full moon allowed her to use this power without any hand gestures.
* It has been used to vanquish more demons than any other individual power.
* The strength of Piper's ability was shown when even small and with their powers weakened she was able to blast a demon in the face hard enough to knock him off his feet.
* Piper created a potion in mid-2001 to replicate this power after the Source stole her active powers.
* Tuatha's Wand was a formidable magical weapon, able to speed up molecules to the point that they combust. Those in possession of it could activate it by simply lifting up the wand with both hands and pointing it at his or her target.